The 12 Deals of Christmas!

Would of preferred a deal on the Premium Edition / Season Pass. Ah well, two deals down – 10 to go!

Really?!?

I don’t complain much on this blog. If I see something I don’t like I just don’t make a comment but……

Who came up with this little doozy??

You must have known that 95%… No actually 100% of the responses to this will be negative?!

You MUST know that people can pick this up for less than 20 quid these days?

Hell, even GAME have a lower price than you for this game and that isn’t in a massive Xmas sale!!

*slow clap*

Battlefield 3:
Was: £59.99
Now: £29.99
Amazon: £20.00

Dear PSN and SCEE staff

Please read the followingn carefully.
A “DEAL” is where you give us an opportunity to buy something at a price that is LESS than the NORMAL PRICE. If you ask us to pay £9.99 MORE than it costs at NORMAL PRICE, then IT IS NOT A DEAL.

really?! poor show

Just to clarify, publishers decide the discount price. This game’s from EA, so SCEE doesn’t really have a say in the matter.

That doesn’t mean the deal isn’t hilarious though, haha.

Why is it that you are all (nearly all) expecting 12 deals that you want?

OK, so this is expensive compared with elsewhere, but you don’t have to buy it do you? For God’s sake cheer up and if something like this makes you moan like it has some of you, you really need to get out more and look at real life to find something real to moan about!!

Come on people. Yes the deal is awful, Chris himself was probably embarrassed enough to post it, cut the dude some slack. The first deal was superb, this one not so much, just look forward to the remaining 10. Yeah some will most likely be terrible too but I suspect there will be better than this one.

seriously, it’s insulting knowing you think we’ll actually accept your continuously ridiculous sales.. we’re not idiots, wake up and show some respect for ONCE, just ONCE give us a real sale.

I just bought Saints Row 3 for $6 on Steam.. it’s $60 on PSN.

No thanks. It’s a boring game.

After the dissappointment of last year’s deals and the summer sale I knew this was gonna look like this. Only retail games, which are so expensive in digital copies, that even after discount, they are way overpriced. Wouldn’t be too surprised if all the deals were like this one. Seriously, I don’t know what a sucker one has to be to buy digital versions of retail titles.

On a positive note, thanks Chris for posting every deal on this blog, that was something I wanted to see since last year. It’s way more faster and convenient for me to check the deals here.

better get used to useless ‘deals’ like this. rumor has it with the ps4 when you play a game it locks to your game, making it so you HAVE to buy games for sony’s ridiculous prices.

For an extra £10 you can buy the Premium Retail release that includes the game + all DLC!

I hope the other 10 deals are far greater than the first 2!

@ Carnivius_Prime

You forgot to add ‘in my opinion!’

Also, are you ever satisfied??

SCEE sales… it’s not just a rip off… it’s an SCEE rip off

WHF? Prima Aprilis shuldnt be in April?

DEAL 2:
BF3 psn: 169 PLN.
BF3 DVD/Blu-ray: 99 PLN.

“Was £59.99/€69.99″ This is the starting price, now (before this “deal”) is should be about 40EUR.

That´s a bad deal even with the PS Plus discount i can get the retail version for 19 Pounds NEW, you really should not give us more thrash deals like these.

I would love to have Journey, Unfinished Swan, Okami or The Walking Dead…please, something of that!

Deal 2 – not for me thanks….nuff said

Thknking about it they must mean the premium edition. Makes more sense to me. Still not interested though, never really liked anything dice did.

this is all very well but will Vita content be included at any point? SCEE do want Vita to have a merry Christmas as well right?

The only way i can see Vita being included is if it’s a multi format game. Otherwise people will be complaining.

What are you talking about guys? This is a great deal!

…For EA. Why charge less when you can charge more?

Battlefield 3 price sure is a joke. Always thought GAME was the rip off store but here’s some prices for ya.

HMV = £25
GAME = £23(new) £15(pre-owned)
Amazon = £20
Shopto.net = £19.85

Anyone want to get this game as brand new for Christmas, buy from Shopto.net. I would recommend that store. They have good service.

Unless it comes with some dlc, then it’s not a good deal at all considering that BF3 was £19.99 (£17.99 for PS+) in the Summer sale.

Hopefully the other deals are better.

Pathetic day 2 deal.

I don’t know where to ask so I’ll have to do it in every blog.

Hi Chris and staff,
I read that Milestone has released free DLC for their WRC 3 game on the playstation Vita but I can’t find anything in the store. I am accessing the EU/Greek store. Is there any information on the subject?
Will it be available?
Thanks

What do people expect its EA, Thats why i never buy there games

Sorry but deal #2 is no deal
You can buy a boxed version of €18,- here in Holland.
Really hoped to see some real nice deals…………

I dread next Gen ‘if’ all games are downloadable only :-/ That will be the death of gaming i think(with dreadful prices like £59.99??? & you know Microsoft will double that to so it will be even worse for the Xbox’ers):D

Ignoring the fact that as deals go this is not attractive in the least, I would like someone from SCEE to comment why the euro price is not €34.99 (half-price like the UK.)

SCEE doesn’t favour the UK?

Pull the other one.

(By the way, I’ll actually be SHOCKED if this comment gets a response. Keep your heads in the sand, guys. We’ll go away eventually.)

On the first day of christmas Sony gave to me one ok deal.
On the second day of christmas Sony gave to me one silly joke.

the PS+ sub it is then! The 1yr would’ve been nice but can’t complain XD

Maybe Sony do have no say over the discount price and were embarrassed to put this up as a deal, Even if that is the case they should have just rejected it and discounted one of their own titles (Unfinished Swan, Journey, maybe a Pixeljunk game) at 10% or 20% off. It would have been a far more appreciated deal

a big discount on Journey would be an instant buy for me! I don’t feel good about paying 17USD on a 3-5hr game, but on discount I’m sure to get it as many others. Unless it’s in the plans to be a PS+ freebie of course

I am laughing at this deal ! Bring on Deal 3 please !

This deal it’s some kind of joke, right?

Also, not that I’m going to buy it, but incase someone is. The extra 10% for plus members isn’t showing up on mine

Battlefield 3 was offered for £19.99 + 10% off for PS+ subscribers justst a few months ago. Not really much of a deal now is it?

Dos anyone else know if this is the Premium Edition? Cant remember the game alone ever being £59.99 but the Premium Edition was.

It’s not the premium edition, That is still £59.99 on the store

Oh dear.

So where’s the 12 GIFTS of Christmas for Playstation Plus Members?

@ Grimmiy…

Ok and the basic game is now £29.99 Im taking it? IM just asking cos you know what Sonys like for updating the Store. You see, how can it BE the basic game if the Premium Edition IS £59.99? Thats the price it gives in the original post. So the basic game cant be the same price can it? Then discounted for this deal.

Does anyone get what i mean?

@ Coody-Baroody Yes i know what you mean. Either it is the premium edition or they made a mistake as to what the previous price was.

I know what you mean, The limited edition is £57.99, It shows a link to the offer now on the store but it takes you to the standard version for £29.99 and no Plus discount, Basically it’s a mess.

I know what you mean but I’m not sure Sony know what they mean..

@ Alan @ Grimmy..

Thanks lads, That is a total rip off. It never ceases to amaze me how the prices on the Store are such a joke. I know its a publishers way of guaranteeing we pay the full RRP that retail sellers can seem to get around but now it seems these publishers see that the US RRP is $59.99 so they just thought “I know, we’ll just swap that little $ sign and replace it with a £ sign!”

At the rate of currency conversion that would mean that for EA’s NFS Most Wanted & ubisofts FC3 it would be about $90 in he US!

If this IS the way next gen is going i am going to become a retro gamer exclusively.

But what REALLY gets to me though is the way that those 2 games i mentioned at £59.99 (!!) have a couple hundred RATINGS meaning that their are some people still buying them at that insane rip off price!

Things are never going to change if us gamers are buying these games at these prices. We have to speak with our wallets.

Rant over….thanks again for checking for me Grimmy & Alan2112, if it was the Premium Edition i was going to get it after work…Oh Well.

Merry Xmas to you too EA!!!!

@Voodoo341

Please stop MOANING about PS+ & Vita in every single blog post here. It’s getting old and frankly nobody is interrested in it. If you’d use your brain for at least a minute you’d figure out, that there might be some other PS+ members who owns only Vita and those are “sponsoring” your PS+ on PS3 so finally shut up and concentrate on something else …

Also UK gets 50% off while rest of EU get 43%? off? [DELETED] is this like?

@Coody-Baroody.
Exactly. These days people are either too stupid or too lazy and they are willing to pay 30-50% more for a game, just to avoid getting out of the house or (god forbid) stand up from the couch and pop that disc in. It’s the gamers’ fault that publishers do whatever they want.

BTW, stop saying it’s completely publisher’s fault. It’s Sony’s store. They should be the ones saying “Either make that price a real deal or someone else gets the Deal 2″. It’s Sony calling those jokes “Deals” so they take all the responsibility.

“Basically it’s a mess” is the understatement of the year Grimmy.

Deal #1, which couldn’t be discovered as a deal in the store if you didn’t know about it, was already an annoyance.

I’ll do a little list for Chris & Fred and they shall tell me then if I should be a satisfied customer.

1. I check the deals section under games. There is no “12 Deals of Christmas” section.

2. The deals of the week section in the german store is completely empty. No banners and ads as in the UK.

3. When I manually search for Battlefield 3, it doesn’t show me a price in the game section. I can chose between the Plus test version and a full version which is “for free”, while I never bought the game. That’s the old still unfixed issue where the test version interferes. It would be impossible for me to purchase the game.

4. The “deal” is already a bad one. But why the UK receives a 50% discount and the rest of Europe nit is beyond me. It leaves the impression that people just drop some numbers, that might look neat. If those prices make sense or can compete is the last thing seems to matter.

5. No replies, as already on the first deal. Leaving the impression that nobody really cares.

So, what is your verdict?