Price Raise before sale

i see it all the time, though mostly for crappy ios games. I would generally take it as a warning that the game isn't good enough to stand on its own if the devs are sinking to rigging the %dropped to get higher on lists. The same applies to a distribution site doing such 'sales' simply to make a name for themselves. Still, I'm sure there's idiot pr people out there that think that they can get away with such a thing.

War Thunder publishers did this prior to the Summer sale.

I remember there being a huge thread about it on neogaf and reddit.

Deponia games always get a price increase prior to their sales. That's why there's a "bug" that turns what is usually 20p to 100p at times. So Wreckfest is being conservative. haha

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Activision is guilty of this in every motherfucking sale, this one not excluded. Their business plan involves releasing shitty games and then giving them a price hike before the sale to cheat potential customers. I'm sure there are others like that in this sale too. Some of those prices look really weird.

i think coz that game is in early accces which sometime the price is raise

Its an early access title. Early access games raise their price as they get closer to release all the time. Now if the price drops again after the sale has ended then you can call them out on their fishy schemes, but until then its just business as usual with a wary eye.

a lot of indies did that for halloween, stuff that was worth $5 went up to $10, then back to $5 (cv difference was noticeable).

of course, valve doesn't care.