So, earlier today marked the start of the Epic Mega Sale on the Epic Games Store. This is a sale that, by all accounts, is a fantastic deal for all who want a good game on the cheap. I’ve already bought six titles myself. If you’re interested, which of course you are, these are:
- Ashen
- Operancia the Stolen Sun
- John Wick Hex
- Detroit: Become Human
- Heavy Rain
- Beyond Two Souls
But, this isn’t a tale of anything good, with there seemingly being a number of titles having been removed from the store upon commencement of the sale. This was originally pointed out by Lewie Procter on Twitter and it can be verified by simply clicking on certain – now dead – links to games that were on the Epic Games Store before the sale. One such title is Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 as well as Oxygen Not Included. For other titles, a little digging could be useful to find out.
Now, this isn’t the most sinister of issues regarding the sale. The titles have been removed, that is a fact. As for the reason, we’ll have to wait and see. The other issue, again as pointed out by Lewie Procter and seen by myself, was that Hades by Supergiant Games was listed at £5.49 here in the UK and an equally lower price elsewhere.
This is but one of the tweets mentioning said price with Supergiant Games responding with an explanation of a mistaken discount being applied to the game during the sale.
The price point you saw earlier today was offered in error. We apologize for any confusion this caused and hope customers who got the deal enjoy the game. The corrected sale price is still a 25% discount off of the original price point.
— Supergiant Games (@SupergiantGames) May 16, 2019
Now the issue here is that while a discount was applied, the math doesn’t actually add up. Using the current US base price of $24.99, you would reduce 25% from that giving $18.74 or $18.75. Subtract the extra $10 and you have either $8.47 or $8.75. The math is equally flawed for prices here in the UK, which seemingly opposes the reply by Supergiant games.
One other thing that is not in favour of Supergiant, nor Epic, is archival methods found on IsThereAnyDeal. This link featuring the Hades Price shows that the game was priced at £15.49 in the UK from January 11th until after this sale began, actually contradicting the statement by Supergiant Games.
Rising the base price of an item during a sale, to then discount it is illegal here in the UK and in other countries. Should this be the case there could certainly be ramifications. I am explicitly not stating that this is what was done by either Epic or Supergiant Games, mostly to cover my own arse, but the optics of this is certainly wrong. The base price of the game increased after the sale began.
Edit @00:38 GMT: Supergiant Games themselves have seemingly admitted to raising the price as seen in this screenshot (again, thank you Lewie Procter)
I have reached out to Epic Games and Supergiant Games for a comment on the matter and will get back to you when it is received.
Further Edit @00:52 GMT: This is the second posting of this piece. It was posted 20 minutes ago but then I removed it following a mistake I made on the WordPress backend, to then put it back up. Apologies to anybody this may have confused or inconvenienced.
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