Re: How do developers decide the prices of products?
@Magurp, yep your correct, I'd also recommend Tapped In: How EA Combined The Simpsons with Video gam bling to Make $130 Million as a great read on these sorts of practices.
it's not just the game industry either. The other day Mrs. Dark and I ordered from Pappa Johns, and basically found that if we spent over £40, we got a %50 discount meaning we paid about what we would've wanted to pay were the prices of Pappa Johns not stupidly expensive.
So, Pappa Johns effectively charge too much and then have so called "sales" to make the customer believe that she/he is saving when in effect your just paying market price.
Can you say brain washing by operant conditioning?
Again all of this comes when the consumer has absolutely no power over the prices charged for products and companies reduce people down to the level of roar prophet generators in their production model, a trend which gets worse as monopolies increase, and individual consumer rights decrease ---- can anyone say Huxley?
Bloody hell we're a crappy species!
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