The 12 Deals of Christmas!

LOLOLOL SONY COME ON

I can buy Battlefield 3 in shops/online in the Netherlands around 20 to 23 Euro.

This isn’t a Christmas deal, this is Christmas rape by a bad digital price…

No one should buy this and go to a shop to get it. And then you can even resell the physical copy if you don’t like it.

What a bad deal.

Not for me, this one. Am I angry? No. Am I upset? No. Am I disappointed? No. Can we exercise a little more maturity, people? That was going to rhetorical but I guess that’s a no as well in reality.

@Coody-Baroody; I’m glad you pointed that out. Just because the opinion on this blog says rip-off, doesn’t mean it is one. I don’t personally think it’s a great deal but ya gotsta chill.

@Voodoo341; You finally got your Plus discount, buddy! Oh, wait… you still aren’t happy getting what you asked for… Um… This is awkward…

UK gets 50% off while rest of EU get 43%? off. What’s up with that? Is that better Mr Moderator?

If there’s a nice discount for Unfinished Swan then I’ll be totally on it, fingers crossed that it’s one of the deals.

Brilliant deal Its almost equal to price of game on release day.

Wasn’t there a 12 Gifts of Christmas for plus subscribers as well? I’ve been logging in everyday but I can’t seem to find the gifts.

Appreciate its the publisher that sets the price Chris but £29.99 is too much. End of.

£14.99 would have been a more attractive price, especially now that Black Ops 2 is out.

Dont pretend to know how getting reductions on the store works but if EA said “Yes, you can have BF3 on the store for £29.99″ I would have told them “er, thanks, we’ll leave it”

Im sure you agree its too much (but not as a reply on the blog though!)

@ Vortexrange

“Posted on 3 December, 2012 at 1:35 pm by vortexrage
Wasn’t there a 12 Gifts of Christmas for plus subscribers as well? I’ve been logging in everyday but I can’t seem to find the gifts”

That is the extra discount on the normal PSN deals. Like the 10% discount on the current bad deal. Which gives you still a bad deal, just a bit less bad lol.

It seems Santa turned into Scrooge this year

Maybe Sony learns from todays non deal that the remaining 10 deals will be fixed, who knows…

@ Vortexrange..

There is no 12 “Gifts” of Xmas this year for us Plus subscribers mate. That was last year but the service wasnt as good last year really was it? Cant see the publishers of AAA games letting us download them for free again if we missed them 1st time around.

As TheMART said above we’re just getting a further discount on the items in the “sale”

@Coody-Baroody
Thanks for clearing that up!

Awful…just just awful… for all the reasons already stated.

Really have to wonder why SCEE didn’t stick to giving discounts on digital only games. They’ve never shown any ability to match retailers for discounts so stick with the games that don’t have retailers. Not really rocket science! Now they’ve lots of angry customers and another bad PR session. Well done!

SCroogEE

It’s tragic that a digital copy of the same game can cost more than in retail. Regarding Battlefield 3 (though I’m not interested in FPS games), I could buy it for €30-35 in retail (new copy) instead of the Deal’s €40 price. I am pleased by PS Plus, that’s for sure, but price tactics like this contradict the PS Vita’s price strategy, where the digital copy of a game is actually cheaper (even if it is by a margin of a mere €5) than a physical one.

when I bought my ps3 back in 2010 – the sales at that Christmas were fantastic. Last year, yes it was nice to pick up some plus titles that came out before I had a ps3, but the sales were a disappointment.

Personally I think the 12 deals of Christmas promotion is a bit poor, you have people awaiting a deal and it just leads to disappointment. If you listed all the deals in a sale at once would be much better, that way people would be more inclined to look. As it stands the store isn’t for browsing which is something most shops do (have sales to get people in the door and allow for easy browsing to incur further purchases.

In 2010 I spent lots of money in the Christmas sale, in 2011 I spent none…at this rate it looks like 2012 will be a repeat of last year.

Oh dear….this offer is a fail. Hopefully the next 10 days will ACTUALLY see some good deals on digital only products ( personally i would like to see Okami & Journey reduced) rather than putting the overpriced items at a slightly less overpriced price for 2 days.

What’s the next deal ? Assasins Creed 3 Gold Edition for £70 ? Of Orcs & Men for £39.99 ?

PMSL

Come on peeps – “Don’t miss out on some great one-time offers – take a sledge ride over to PlayStation Store and treat yourself to a few extra presents this festive season. Enjoy!”

there were a few deals last year that seemed to be a bit high compaired to retail but there were more good than bad in the end up.

so hold fire guys things will start picking up.

great, the second deal in the “amazing” 12 deals of xmas costs more then the ultimate edition cost me RETAIL 8 months ago, some great deal that is sony, great work, still costs more then retail….i bet they will fly out the door

wouldnt be so bad, but, the first deal was all about making sony more money and not really an actual deal for customers, yes ok its cheaper then it is normally but so what it doesnt make it more appealing, or better

ironic though, if i went for deal 1 then id get deal 2 at a better discount then if i only bought deal 2

i can see these deals all being an absolute load of garbage, bring back the psn that was up till the end of 2010 i say…used to get GOOD deals, every single week….now it seems i have to pay for those deals by means of ps+

sony, you are a rip off and i will not be buying anymore consoles as its a sinking ship that you keep charging more and more for, for less and less

Haha i think the term “deal” was used very loosely on this one.

Seriously that’s not a deal in the slightest SCEE Fail once again *slow clap*

Oh my, these “deals” keep getting better and better (not) haha you’re a joke of yourselfs mr. sony.

The best part is the fact that the first blog entry about the deal got 130+ comments and you didn’t even bothered to answer a single post, nothing new and/or that we aren’t already used to. But damn this second entry has already 120+ comments and you still don’t give a fck?

You sure work hard to satisfy your costumers indeed /s

Good luck with those so called “deals” LOL

You guys always nag about this kind of deals, do you even think that a game can be activated in two different consoles? So you can buy this game with a friend? Never think about that? Well, just bring Youtube to PSVITA and ill be happy. OHHHH, Counter Strike GO, btw.

@xixa10

i see where your coming from there but thats classed as gamesharing and its not the reason for the 2 activations.

What complete ad utter crap.

Can get the Premium edition in stores for less than this ‘sale’ price, and if want Premium digitally then that is another £40 more on top of this £30 ‘deal’.

So £20-25 ins tores vs £70 on PSN, and the PSN is on sale…

I don’t care if publsher sets price…you set what the 12 deals of christmas are, find a nother publisher with a deal that isn’t utter crap.

What angers me is that Sony blames the Publisher, Sony set the rates for Publishers and it’s up to Sony to get the best prices for us the customer. Sony need to lower there fees/charges…

Lets all hope the PS4 doesn’t solely rely on digital content :/

i just love to get ignored

Why does anybody expect a reply on this? Do you think you deserve an apology? If so, why? An offer’s been made. Take it or leave it then move on. There’s actually nothing more to it.

@ Shavers007

the ps4 or orbis or whatever its going to be called wont be 100% digital.

console companys still need retail channels to much at the moment and id personaly say we are at least 1 full generation away from home consoles being 100% dd.

calling it now.
the next playstation Will use bluray
you will still be able to use second hand games.
it wont be backwards compatable with ps3 retail games.
possible will be b/c with psn titles.

thats just my guess.

TRUTH TO BE TOLD HERE:

we all love Sony because they make great hardware & software plus the company takes risks all the time to bring us new innovations so full respect to Sony for all of thier brilliant work & we will always be loyal fans in return BUT one thing must be said here,SONY is probably the most butt tight company in the world. Sony & Bargain are 2 words that will never be seen in one sentence. getting a bargain from Sony is like getting a blood out of a stone.

Not much of a deal unless its the Premium edition. Might be cheap compared to the normal store price but even the best titles depreciate over time and that should be reflected in the price regardless of whether its physical or digital copy. Normal retailers have this for around £20-25 for disc version and yet the ‘deal’ is more expensive even with an added 10% Plus discount and no resale value.
Its probably Sony’s biggest failing with the store in that by maintaining RRP’s for full titles even years after release on the store also means a potential lost sale if the consumer then doesn’t buy physical copy (and even then the majority of the profits then go to the retailer rather than Sony) that could create further revenue through dlc.
Pricing strategy seriously needs rethink
Also, I would much prefer all the deals listed in advance so I can add credit to my account in advance

Ahh.. just checked the PS Store and it would appear to be the normal edition.
So yeah, Sony dropped the ball on this one (even if EA is responsable for the price. This is Sony’s promotion and EA’s “deal” is just a part of it, a part which Sony should have declined in my opinion).

That having said, I am still optimistic for the remaining deals.
Hoping for some discounts on Journey, The Walking Dead and Batman Arkham City DLC.

lol notice there isnt a single positive comment in this whole page. hopefully that will show ‘em

Seriously, I can get BF3 for cheap price at Grainger Games.

@ supersmith2500

fps games are not my cup of tea hence the reason i never jumped on this when i saw it but when i was in morrisons i noticed its £15 in there.

they have loads of cheap games atm think there clearing there older stock out.

merry Christmas and happy next deal ;D

@hayzink:
You know, not every game has to be a major FPS such as Battlefield and Call of Duty and not to mention, not EVERYONE is a FPS fan. Other people also like RPG’s but those kind of games never been on sale once.

@hayzink:
Oh and sorry for the double post, Steam has much better deals on there. I’ll stick to buying retail for PS3.

@supersmith2500

i never said every game does have to be a fps title so im a little unsure why you reply at 137 makes it seem like i did, i have also said im not an fps fan so your reply has left me confused.com

id love a discount on disgaea 3 vita myself.

every time when people start to complain in comments, no one from sony answer on people questions

I don’t care for FPS games either, but if standard Battlefield 3 was like €10 or something, you could at least say “Even though this is not my cup of tea, the price is great and it’s a Merry Christmas for people who do like shooting things. Good job, SCEE and EA.”

There are still 10 deals left, we’ll see if we get better offers.

@ kan_lia

Which is dumb from Sony, as other customers read these messages too. And they see zero response from Sony.

So this will be double the bad marketing. First, the ridiculous price still for this game, it is no deal at all. Not even close. Second for no response given.

EA should be ashamed of themselves for the crazy digital pricing on PSN and $ony even more for allowing it to be one of their 12 days of xmas deals. Steam sales will get all my money this year and next.

@Wiipass. Quote. one thing must be said here,SONY is probably the most butt tight company in the world

Way off the mark there mate. These deals may be useless bit you can’t fault Sony overall in there PS+ endeavours.
Your mannerism speaks of greed and spoilt brst syndrome.

Crikey.

@ spagetti69

you sound like the typical sony …….

if or when Sony does give us a bargain then its done out of desperation not kindness.

try STEAM for geniune bargains sony boy.

@ Chris

LOL don’t extend this bad deal, it should be taken offline instantly.

Great Management, 150 posts commenting on the hugely out of touch price of this ‘sale offer’, ignore all of the posters and advise the deal will run for a further 7 hours… Fantastic!

UK Gamers, save yourself a further 50%, Go to Morrisons and pick up a brand new boxed copy of BF3 for 15GBP, their standard price, this is not a special offer.

I agree with TheMART.

And even if this would be a good deal, an extension by 7 hours would seems stupid. I mean, if the deals get usually replaced midnight and you leave it online for another 7 hours … don’t tell me you expect to do many sales in the night?

A lost evening, when everyone is around, gets replaced by a night with only a minority around to shop?
Is seriously SCEE’s wisdom that 7 hours in the night equal 7 hours of the best online shopping hours of the day?

Geez, with that kind of logic I’m not really surprised about several other letdowns.

And damn give us a comment edit function. I’m too lazy to check before I submit my comment. ^^