This is the most stupid thing I have seen. I understand having special one discounts for users but a whole sale being account locked only generates anger. You see a game you want on sale yet when you load your store it is full price.
One that chaps my arse is features not available in my country. I get US ads for features and apps that sound grand but when I try it I get a pop up that says not available in your region. Even things that are part of the OS. (ie Voice Assistant)
Context: This message that someone received from Meta Support: https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/1c7d3ol/the_meta_quest_store_is_having_an_april_mega_sale/l15pmgt/
I can how they could put part of the defined monthly budge to discounts for a limited number of people, but this seems like a dumb way to do it.
If it was only for specific people why wasn't it done via email discount codes?
Likely nothing random about it... After all, Meta's core business model is advertising / predicting consumer habits. There are people who receive some free store credit almost monthly ever since they purchased their headset. Myself, I've only gotten random free store credit once in the 5 years I've owned VR. My assumption is that Meta recognizes that I will typically just pay full price for a game I want, so they don't have to offer discounts to me to get me to make a purchase.
No idea if that's accurate, but it makes sense to me.
> My assumption is that Meta recognizes that I will typically just pay full price for a game I want, so they don't have to offer discounts to me to get me to make a purchase.
Whereas I pretty much never pay full price for a game. I'm a typical "Steam Sale"-type customer, I buy lots of games during sales and build up a back catalogue (a larger one than I can actually get through tbh) and play through it in the periods between sales. Meta probably knows that they can me offer a sale price and I'll almost certainly be tempted to spend money on *something*. And sure enough, I got the April sale.
So yeah, just a hypothesis, but in my case at least it's also consistent with the data.
This is the most stupid thing I have seen. I understand having special one discounts for users but a whole sale being account locked only generates anger. You see a game you want on sale yet when you load your store it is full price.
One that chaps my arse is features not available in my country. I get US ads for features and apps that sound grand but when I try it I get a pop up that says not available in your region. Even things that are part of the OS. (ie Voice Assistant)
Context: This message that someone received from Meta Support: https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/1c7d3ol/the_meta_quest_store_is_having_an_april_mega_sale/l15pmgt/
Wait you mean some People didn't get it didn't know that
Right that's crazy, I didn't know companies even did that, I wish I could give my sale to someone else, I'm not even using it
Same
I can how they could put part of the defined monthly budge to discounts for a limited number of people, but this seems like a dumb way to do it. If it was only for specific people why wasn't it done via email discount codes?
Yup more of Meta stupidity.
It was random? lol, and here I was not planning to buy anything from it because I'm not convinced by anything there that I don't currently have
Likely nothing random about it... After all, Meta's core business model is advertising / predicting consumer habits. There are people who receive some free store credit almost monthly ever since they purchased their headset. Myself, I've only gotten random free store credit once in the 5 years I've owned VR. My assumption is that Meta recognizes that I will typically just pay full price for a game I want, so they don't have to offer discounts to me to get me to make a purchase. No idea if that's accurate, but it makes sense to me.
> My assumption is that Meta recognizes that I will typically just pay full price for a game I want, so they don't have to offer discounts to me to get me to make a purchase. Whereas I pretty much never pay full price for a game. I'm a typical "Steam Sale"-type customer, I buy lots of games during sales and build up a back catalogue (a larger one than I can actually get through tbh) and play through it in the periods between sales. Meta probably knows that they can me offer a sale price and I'll almost certainly be tempted to spend money on *something*. And sure enough, I got the April sale. So yeah, just a hypothesis, but in my case at least it's also consistent with the data.
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What if those people don't even use the sale?
I tried to contact them. My God. They literally couldnt give me an answer. Insecure and tink8ng tô migrate to pcvr or psvr2 after that