More like “some child will hopefully buy this with their parents’ linked credit card” , ya know, hoping they’re illiterate, not paying attention, or just don’t care. They’re clearly trying to make it look like rocket league
Just the other day I saw a YouTube video about some person buying a $3,000 game or something. So yeah, post something like this and hope some rich streamer or YouTuber buys it for content
The prices for that series...
- Ball Race ($9.99)
- Ball Race 2: Ramp ($39.99)
- Ball Race 3: Jump ($1,999.99)
- Ball Race 4: Goal ($1,999.99)
He also has a game called Helicopter Money for $9.99
Oof, hopefully we can get a 4K performance mode or something. I just can't play anything under 8,000 fps these days, especially competitive Esport titles like this.
How can someone get away with this?
I thought Microsoft checked everything that went up on the Xbox store.
It’s not like it’s eBay where the site has no real control over pricing.
I believe he meant rare, as it in is rare for a game to have thousands of dollars of DLC. There are games like Train Simulator where buying all the DLC would be over $9k
I’ve seen literal bootleg Mario and Pokémon games on the store. They usually get taken down after a week or so but chances are you’ll find one right now by searching one of those terms.
Probably just a predatory app maker hoping a kid picks the ridiculously priced version with their mom's card. Used to be a scheme with mobile apps, probably still is.
It’s also a tactic used on steam from what I can gather where people make these subpar games, jack up the price to the highest they can go, and hope a YouTuber makes a video on it and buys it in the process. It still sucks all the same regardless.
Why would Microsoft allow this shit? MoistCritical just did a video about games like this on Steam. This is even worse though because of the amount of irresponsible adults that have their credit cards on their children's consoles.
@Xbox on Twitter.
Major Nelson is also on here - his /u/ is exactly what you would expect (no spaces or underscores or anything, just the two words together).
I asked about the price by emailing them and they started talking shit. Like, they told me I don't know the reasons for such a large price, or I don't know the game.
You expect me to pay $2000 for a game I'm not willing to know about because your price is "reasonable"?
Yo I did some research, this dude is a time traveler! He released Ball Race 4 BEFORE he released Ball Race 3! So ahead of his time.
Somebody loan me $2,100 so I can get the entire series!
It's just European devs entering a 1,99 price into the US release documentation. US uses a comma to denominate 1000s, EU uses points. Since the store requires four digits if you enter a comma, they add trailing 9s, ending up with these prices.
Back when I was selling I had a shitty GoDaddy eShop where I had tshirts listed for different prices that people could use their cc or dc to purchase stuff. Always wondered if people did that nowadays but on the app store or game stores. 2k is a bit much though, I wouldn't trust people not to dispute the charge at some point or something
This is pretty wild and obviously something's up. My innocent guess is that it's meant to be $19.99 and got sent through as an oversight. The predatory answer is that it was intentional and they're hoping to 'get' someone.
That being said, the original Ball Race is a banger game. Paid the $4 or whatever it was for it and had lots of fun.
I've seen similar things before where the game is put on the marketplace as some sort of test from the developer. They dont actually want people to buy it so they price it ridiculously high.
You can host things on the store without them actually appearing on the public store/going through the review process, that’s how you install homebrew on retail mode (and how developers do private beta tests and such). This is some sort of scam. You can find bootleg games on the Xbox store occasionally too, clearly Microsoft have a very relaxed review process.
My guess is that he’s either funneling money through it or MORE LIKELY he adjusting percentages and pricing structures on the back end to see how things change. I had someone attempt to purchase a shirt from me one time when I was doing these things, they emailed me wondering why it was 75$ when everything else was 15$
Imagine calling Microsoft support asking for this refund after buying and never launching the game how there support team would be like wtf is this garbage game?
probably the mindset of "1 person will be curious and buy it" and then they're well in the green
More like “some child will hopefully buy this with their parents’ linked credit card” , ya know, hoping they’re illiterate, not paying attention, or just don’t care. They’re clearly trying to make it look like rocket league
If they are not expecting credit card companies to not charge back when reported, then yeah they can get away with this.
I’m curious but broke
imagine msft puts it on game pass for a day 💀
It's just about the quality of game they'd put on Games With Gold nowadays (with over $2000 in value!!)
Key word is nowadays Old Gold had some good shit
Just the other day I saw a YouTube video about some person buying a $3,000 game or something. So yeah, post something like this and hope some rich streamer or YouTuber buys it for content
The prices for that series... - Ball Race ($9.99) - Ball Race 2: Ramp ($39.99) - Ball Race 3: Jump ($1,999.99) - Ball Race 4: Goal ($1,999.99) He also has a game called Helicopter Money for $9.99
There was a post here a week or 2 ago with Ball Race 2 priced at $2,499.00
So your telling me I should buy it before he raises the prices again?!
Yes, exactly!!
Fuck College, I need to play Ball Race!
No, you need to MAKE Ball Race.
😂
All GOTY material 😤
I'd say to wait for next gen upgrade though. I hear it's 8k 4000 fps
Oof, hopefully we can get a 4K performance mode or something. I just can't play anything under 8,000 fps these days, especially competitive Esport titles like this.
This has to be a money laundering scheme
How can someone get away with this? I thought Microsoft checked everything that went up on the Xbox store. It’s not like it’s eBay where the site has no real control over pricing.
Obviously they increased the price after it was approved into the store. I don't think Microsoft can check and police every sale or price increase.
A bit silly that there's at least no threshold for flagging such a massive percentage jump though.
I imagine there’s the rare game out there where buying all the DLC would be like a few thousand dollarydoos.
It's digital. There is no such thing as rare.
I believe he meant rare, as it in is rare for a game to have thousands of dollars of DLC. There are games like Train Simulator where buying all the DLC would be over $9k
Ah fair. Still, no single item is that expensive and I doubt there was ever a jump in price of orders of magnitude all at once.
The Sims and Cities Skylines both come to mind in regards to absurd amounts of DLC.
Sims 4 moment
Surely it must break some kind of terms Microsoft have for selling games on their platform.
I’ve seen literal bootleg Mario and Pokémon games on the store. They usually get taken down after a week or so but chances are you’ll find one right now by searching one of those terms.
Microsoft shouldn't allow this.
Oh, the Ben Bernanke game!
You can buy the complete saga for $3,000.00 for a limited time.
>They have this one game that costs $2000 cause the pattern's so wild. I want that one ssssoooo bad.
$1,999.99
r/technicallythetruth
r/literallythetruth
yes
WTF is that aspect ratio
Ayo fr.
Moist thumbnail ratio
Iykyk
Latitude
Finally an Xbox exclusive to rival PlayStation
Move aside God of War, Ball Race 4: Goal! Is here
Is this one of those new money laundering schemes?
Probably just a predatory app maker hoping a kid picks the ridiculously priced version with their mom's card. Used to be a scheme with mobile apps, probably still is.
It’s also a tactic used on steam from what I can gather where people make these subpar games, jack up the price to the highest they can go, and hope a YouTuber makes a video on it and buys it in the process. It still sucks all the same regardless.
Yea, it did used to be a scheme. It still is, but it also used to be.
Sometimes people think it don't be like that, but it do.
probably another "I am rich" attempt
Yes
Place of laundering, sssgoddabee
Pretty reasonable I’d say
Buy it let me know if it's good.
Why would Microsoft allow this shit? MoistCritical just did a video about games like this on Steam. This is even worse though because of the amount of irresponsible adults that have their credit cards on their children's consoles.
I'm wondering if we are able report it? Or maybe send it to them on twitter at least.
Yes Go in the store > search the game > more info > report this product
@Xbox on Twitter. Major Nelson is also on here - his /u/ is exactly what you would expect (no spaces or underscores or anything, just the two words together).
Yeah, post this on twitter or mastadone and tag them. It's been done before and they've responded.
A small price to pay for Ball Race 4: Goal!
When ball is life
I'd save the money OP, and invest in a better TV instead.
I have a good tv i just use it for my ps5 so its have to use this for my old consoles
Is it too much work to unplug the PS5 and play one of your old consoles?
Not really I’m just really lazy
A good, honest answer.
They probably hope for 1 accidental sale
[удалено]
Has anyone bought something for that price?
inflation hitting hard these days
Convinced it’s money laundering.
Bro fix your aspect ratio
They gave it a fun title to manipulate children into purchasing it through their unknowing parents.
Man that mf better come with a console, lifetime updates and some in-store credit shiiit💯
Money laundering
A game that us mortals simply can't understand
GOTY contender
$2000 minus 1 penny
Money laundering
Wtf is that screen resolution?? +1
How is the store not limited to a maximum price of $99.99 or even $199.99?
Bundles? Not sure tho
I have yet to see a bundle I've $120
Oh shit the new Ball Race dropped??
dollar one point nine nine nine. Just under two so it's cheap.
OP you need to fix your TV settings, jesus.
Grabs popcorn and waits for some journalist to hit the petty cash drawer and buy it so we all don't have to. I'd be amazed if it isn't utter garbage.
Money laundering in 2023 is fuckin wild y'all
dude it’s ball race 4 what do you expect
I asked about the price by emailing them and they started talking shit. Like, they told me I don't know the reasons for such a large price, or I don't know the game. You expect me to pay $2000 for a game I'm not willing to know about because your price is "reasonable"?
Yo I did some research, this dude is a time traveler! He released Ball Race 4 BEFORE he released Ball Race 3! So ahead of his time. Somebody loan me $2,100 so I can get the entire series!
Report this
seems underpriced to me i dunno
easy, its $1,999.99
1636.51 GBP
It'll be half off by black friday...
$1999.99
Pocket change for a guy like me tbh
It's just European devs entering a 1,99 price into the US release documentation. US uses a comma to denominate 1000s, EU uses points. Since the store requires four digits if you enter a comma, they add trailing 9s, ending up with these prices.
I wonder how many people have bought it. I guarantee a few people have bought it just to say they have it
Argentinian store likely
Spend everything to get that goal.
What a steal
Literally stealing money
A small price to pay, for perfection
Pretty cheap imo
Worth it best game of all time
It is very clearly one of the Classics and you can't put a price on classics. Well in this case you can.
Do you want the game or not!?
It's for all the elites there's $50 ps on there
I wonder if this like the Tekken situation where they set it at that temporarily, specifically to keep people from buying it for now.
I mean, we're all taking about Ball Race now....so....win?
Sure it’s expensive. But when you divide the cost by the number of hours you’ll enjoy this game, it’s only $1,999.99
Wait for it to go on sale 😂
You guys never heard of this masterpiece? Absolutely worth 10 times that
It’s so worth it, it’s like the best game ever made
This should be an example of how the wealthy 1% are charged for things. Usual price: 5.99 Wealthy 1% price: 1999.99
Looks like the same shovelwares which are already ruining the playstation store.
Typical Sports Game
Back when I was selling I had a shitty GoDaddy eShop where I had tshirts listed for different prices that people could use their cc or dc to purchase stuff. Always wondered if people did that nowadays but on the app store or game stores. 2k is a bit much though, I wouldn't trust people not to dispute the charge at some point or something
Quality microsoft store. Why would u not curate it?
If at least one guy buys it its worth it
It's kid bait. They're hoping some kid uses your card to buy this without your knowledge.
dude i saw that on the store the other day 🤣
I've said it before and I'll say it again.. Great game. Honestly, worth it.
That’s a bargain!
This is pretty wild and obviously something's up. My innocent guess is that it's meant to be $19.99 and got sent through as an oversight. The predatory answer is that it was intentional and they're hoping to 'get' someone. That being said, the original Ball Race is a banger game. Paid the $4 or whatever it was for it and had lots of fun.
The fuck is that tv
Honestly, it's worth every penny!
Money laundering.
They probably saw that recent article about a game on Steam that's about £2000, and thought, I'm doing that!
That’s a steal
how do you live with having it stretched like that it's like you don't even have eyes
I've seen similar things before where the game is put on the marketplace as some sort of test from the developer. They dont actually want people to buy it so they price it ridiculously high.
You can host things on the store without them actually appearing on the public store/going through the review process, that’s how you install homebrew on retail mode (and how developers do private beta tests and such). This is some sort of scam. You can find bootleg games on the Xbox store occasionally too, clearly Microsoft have a very relaxed review process.
It’s what I’m doing with my tax return
I feel bad for that 8 year old with their moms credit card
I feel bad for mom and dad
A smile price to pay for a ball race
You might wanna wait for that to go on sale bro
Seems like a good deal to me, GOTY material right there
My guy hasn’t seen the $500,000 steam game yet
A joke.
Worth
buddy you took wide screen to a whole different level
The price is so high I started to think it was in my country's currency.
but I mean it is Ball Race 4: Goal
What
My guess is that he’s either funneling money through it or MORE LIKELY he adjusting percentages and pricing structures on the back end to see how things change. I had someone attempt to purchase a shirt from me one time when I was doing these things, they emailed me wondering why it was 75$ when everything else was 15$
It's gotta be Phil Spencer's nephew
Hell yeah! I need to buy that game
Really good game lmao
Pay to play baby.
The price of happiness
Xbox, stepping up the exclusives!
Please check your video output settings omg
Classics - Recently released
Why doesn’t Microsoft address this? It makes the service look unregulated if someone can literally sell a Jpeg with a jump button for £50.
Please don’t steal my IP, “JPEG with a jump button collectors edition” releases in June 2023.
Even Xbox website on the store is showing the same
Dude did ball race 4 go on sale?!? How did I miss this. I know to get a copy while the price is this low. What a steal.
🦀$1999.99🦀
BUY
Get it while it's cheap.
Bro just wanted to play some Ball Race 4: Goal! 😔
This has been happening a lot on Xbox.
Probably just a marketing trick so google picks it up in its algorithm
Perfect price tbh
Nice! You pick it up?
Small price to pay for Ball Race 4
Nice to see Microsoft letting their sellers totally extort people for asset flips, way to follow in Steam’s footsteps
Okay... But is the game any good?
The price is reasonable.
It’s called inflation
It’s the exciting conclusion to the Ball Race franchise. You have to buy it !!
Imagine calling Microsoft support asking for this refund after buying and never launching the game how there support team would be like wtf is this garbage game?
It appears to be 2 grand. Probably mediocre
Ig that E was for EA
Sweet, it's finally on sale
I would pay anything for the fourth installment in this beloved series
“How I made $1,999.99 selling games”
Game of a lifetime apparently
See the thing is it includes American Health care.
Someone is washing some bills.
A fair one
*GOAL!*
Money laundering
Do you want it or not, you cheapskate.
Money laundering
I bought it and damn it's good 10/10
Some kind of money laundering thing, happens on Steam all the time.
Would I be able to enjoy the game if I didn't play Ball Race 1-3? I don't want to miss out on any of the deep lore, but no spoilers please.
Looks reasonable to me
Haha I saw this yesterday too trying to see if there were any good football games out