[Borderlands 3 Also Removed from Purchase] Displayed Prices Change on Epic Games Store During Epic Mega Sale

This is a quick update on the current Epic Mega Sale, featured on the Epic Games Store. Following the undoubtedly flawed launch, where yesterday I covered the removal of a few games and the toll modification of Hades, there has at present been a new alter to the optics of pricing during Epic Mega Sale.

Now, I want to brand this clear, this is to hopefully allay whatever possible confusion. Some defoliation that I openly admit to having when I offset looked at the storefront this morning. The sale is yet there, as is the discount Epic is paying for you out of their own money but when yous kickoff look at the Epic Games Shop it will announced as though Epic accept removed the £10/$ten/€10 (etc) discount that Epic Games themselves were paying the developers and publishers on your behalf.

Let me make this explicitly clear, this is non the case. What has happened, undoubtedly in a response to the removal of titles like Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, is that Ballsy no longer display the price you will actually be paying on the main storefront, nor does it track on sites like IsThereAnyDeal.

Were I to guess why this has changed, and I will, certain publishers and developers did non want such a large reduction of their title showing up at this stage, with the possible perceptual issues and fifty-fifty possible legal issues (should they take a deal for toll parity in place) this may bring. The sale making it appear every bit though information technology was one whole discount rather than a base toll inverse with Epic paying a certain amount for the consumer could have certainly caused some issues.

On the fact of the cost for the consumer not having been reverted to the original, here we go. As I cannot requite an example from a game I have already bought, I will use the game Shakedown Hawaii, which I am just almost to buy both because I want the game and for illustrative purposes.

Shakedown Hawaii is currently listed as being £14.99 on the Epic Games Store front page. In addition to this, the current toll equally shown on tracking websites is also £14.99 - hither is the link to Shakedown Hawaii on IsThereAnyDeal. Once you lot get into the games page itself, you see the toll you will actually pay as being £4.99.

Call back, developers Vblank Entertainment are still getting the total toll of £fourteen.99, with them not actually having discounted the game at all. The game is actually still full toll. Hopefully, this will clear up whatever bug that any developers or publishers may have potentially encountered. Will we meet the return of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 to the shop, enabling consumers to buy information technology at a discount at no toll to Paradox Interactive? But time volition tell.

For the sake of description on the thing, I am at present reaching out to Epic Games, Paradox Interactive (Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2) and Klei Amusement (Oxygen Not Included) on further clarification equally to why the games were removed and the possible return of the games at present the eyes of the sale have inverse. I will also query Epic Games as to why they accept made this change without at least making a quick news piece informing the changes to the client.

This is a weekend though, I wouldn't expect a respond whatever time soon.

Edit @ 11:15 AM GMT: Borderlands 3 has also been pulled from the Epic Games Store. I will contact 2K regarding this.