only in Brazil for now, commonly we pay everything in installments here, now you can pay a $70 game in 4x, for example 4 months of 17,50 (17,50x4 = 70)
PlayStation Store Brazil now allows to pay games in up of 4 installments
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If you ever find yourself wanted to use one of these…. I think you should worry about more important things lmfao. This is how you keep broke ppl broke
In Brazil it is pretty much cultural to buy things this way. Just like in the USA they seem to like stuff like rebate that doesn't seem to exist here.
Some banks (at least mine does) even allow you to pay all installments at once and get a small discount that way.
Very smart of Sony to do this for our market, someone at Sony knows what he is doing.
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it may be like this for your country where a game costs only $70, but in a country like Brazil, a game costs $350, the only way someone that receives $1.500 of minimum wage can afford a $350 game is in installments
Damn ngl that’s hella sad, that’s wild how it’s cultural. People more or less forced into debt…
It's terrible for people with little self control, it makes it pretty easy for you to spend a lot more than you should and if you ever get into credit card debt you are fucked.
For me, I just use it to get like a 1% discount. It used to be a lot more common to get 5% discount for paying all upfront but I feel like it's getting less common over time (all the fees of these "free installments" end up being pushed into the price regardless if you wanted them or not and then they say the option to pay in multiple installments is free
).People also do these installments in up to 12x or even 24x whit installments that are corrected and get bigger over time.
For Sony it makes complete sense to do it tho, everybody does it here, even Amazon, this will get more people to buy digital.
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They should offer this in all countries where people have lesser gross national product. Would be actually a smart move to reach new customers.
Imagine being so addicted to gaming that you need to pay for games in installments because you're broke.
At that point, just pirate.
At that point, just pirate.
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lol, making it easier for people to buy and be legal with their stuff is now wrong...
There's a line. Gambling crossed it when you could start gambling on your phone.
Gaming has crossed it with Fomo and psychological hooks to keep you playing.
If someone is so addicted to gaming that they must buy it on day one, and then split the payments, they should just pirate it, because they need the game more than the company needs the money.
Unless these corpos pushing the idea that a thief needs your car more than you do is no longer the case?
Games industry: piracy is illegal, you wouldn't steal a car.
Also games industry: let your car be stolen, someone needs it more than you, what they're doing isn't illegal.