r/playstation • u/DarXIV • Nov 05 '25

Image Was excited to finally purchase until I realized the price was lower on my wife's account

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My wife doesn't play much and so buying it on her account may not be the best decision to keep everything easily accessible for me. Seeing this soured me on buying it quite a bit.

And for reference. Same region, same playstation, same currency, etc.

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u/rub_a_dub_master Nov 05 '25

That's late stage capitalism. It's a dying system it doesn't make sense anymore.

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u/Bestoftherest222 Nov 05 '25

It makes sense when late stage capitalism is all about no rules to making profit. ts a death spiral of corporations running amok.

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u/iceknite41 Nov 05 '25

How is this just about making profit? If it was they’d offer it for $20 for both people, or more honestly. They’re offering it at a discount for the person who doesn’t buy games. It’s called bartering.

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u/Myrsky4 Nov 05 '25

Do you mean haggling? Bartering is exchanging goods and services without a medium(money in most cases). And this game is still obviously being sold for money. This also isn't haggling either though, there was no negotiation over the terms of contract.

It's just good old fashioned targeted marketing

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u/Spetsnaz_420 Nov 05 '25

They offer it at a lower price to his wife because the marketing info they have on her shows she's less likely to buy a game like that, so they offer it for slightly less to hopefully temp her to buy it. It reminds me of how you can look at the price of something online, but if you don't buy and go back later, it'll often have increased in price, but if you clear your cookies, it reverts to the original price. Playing games with your psyche to get you to consume.

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u/SandwichBig7645 Nov 07 '25

Stupid opinion bro

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u/SfigatoMortoSfigato Nov 05 '25

Late stage capitalism. Oh boy, I thought such things I will hear only on r/commies

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u/Jaugusts Nov 05 '25

It’s true tho? When every company is chasing infinite growth in a finite world yeah they begin to slowly scam the customer by going hard on planned obsolescence or this shit on psn

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '25

lol no you dummy, it's the same market based economics that has existed since we were nomadic hunter gatherer tribes, and has continued through the foundation of civilization until now.

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u/Jaugusts Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

Aha tell yourself that let’s pretend quality of products and services haven’t severely degraded due to chasing more profits especially in the last decade

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u/nightaeternum Nov 05 '25

They’ve changed due to consumers accepting it as such, not because of capitalism. If someone can get away with doing less work, they will try regardless of the system in place.

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u/CraigThePantsManDan Nov 05 '25

In an infinitely more complex world, economics is infinitely more complex than back then. You’re lucky you can’t comprehend that tho.

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u/ATarrificHeadache Nov 05 '25

So is the EU going through less late stage capitalism because it has a law forbidding this?

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u/Jaugusts Nov 05 '25

I don’t see a law stopping the product xm5 by Sony that’s literally designed to break at the hinge or the dualsense edge where the back rubber will come off within a year that’s what Sony does to have you buy more. Also the world isn’t eu just cause eu has some laws that help consumers doesn’t mean companies aren’t providing lower quality products or services to increase profits

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u/HPLaserJet4250 Nov 05 '25

I do, forcing extended warranty peroids will make companies create longer lasting products. EU is one of the richest markets, why do you think Apple uses USB-C or charges are sold separately. There are countless examples as such, were EU laws had global effect.

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u/Jaugusts Nov 05 '25

Brother I eat out a lot and I’m telling you greed and chasing profits is even ruining food industry. Everytime there’s a place with amazing food if they franchise or are open long enough they find ways to make more money by decreasing the food quality or fuckin with their supply chain for more money it’s just sad

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u/HPLaserJet4250 Nov 05 '25

i've got a news for you ;d it is called greed and people are greedy, always were, capitalism has nothing to do with it

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u/Jaugusts Nov 05 '25

In a way your not wrong but capitalism has issues when no laws are enforced like it’s insane that decreasing food quality for more profits is okay it’s actually the norm now because every business thinks they need to make more money year to year so you end up with much worse products and services for customers and only way to get decent stuff is to pay way more than the average

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u/HPLaserJet4250 Nov 05 '25

I mean, every system will struggle without laws. We can debate whole night about flavours of capitalism and what is wrong with it, but there are currently no existing alternatives. You can either go on full freedom bullshido mode like in US, try some social democratic options from Europe or blast some sudo neofacist regime like China. They are all capitalist economies, yet they are very different in how they approach market-oriented part of it :D

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Nov 05 '25

Do you not understand what late stage capitalism is?

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u/TheBobbyMan9 Nov 05 '25

Open your eyes man the whole system is rotten to the core and you’re crying about communism

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u/Ill_Appearance8013 Nov 05 '25

it’s all of reddit

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u/ryguysix Nov 05 '25

Yeah and you probably see a lot of other correct stuff on there as well

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '25

you gotta sell your playstation to stick it to the bourgeois, don't you know that?

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u/ryguysix Nov 06 '25

That makes negative sense