Credit and Power Pack Confusion.

[Voodoovaj]

I'm actually astonished at the amount of people that press Buy through multiple pages without ever looking at what they're buying.

Genuinely shocking. I had no idea they even added this new MTX before going to buy the pack but I didn't buy it as I wanted the Power Pack and looked and clicked the thing that said Power Pack? Not something completely different?

I'm 100% in agreement.

Fire up the game, go to the giant pirate ship, and boom - Power pack. The credit pack has "5,000,000" emblazoned across it, so it's not in any way, shape, or form deceptive. The Power Pack says "Power Pack"...I don't know how much more obvious it could be.

 

[Famine]

then loaded the game to see it was apparently already downloaded in the time between me paying for it and getting into my game

The data is within Spec III (I assume as the previously mentioned 1.64, as part of 1.65). What you buy is basically a key to unlock access to it.

 

[Thorson1987]

 

[benjoi84]

I'm actually astonished at the amount of people that press Buy through multiple pages without ever looking at what they're buying.

Genuinely shocking. I had no idea they even added this new MTX before going to buy the pack but I didn't buy it as I wanted the Power Pack and looked and clicked the thing that said Power Pack? Not something completely different?

I'm completely unsurprised that a large multinational company has tried slightly misleading and morally dubious tactics to make people part with their money (and succeeded) in 2025.

Welcome to capitalism, folks!

 

[Thorson1987]

I'm completely unsurprised that a large multinational company has tried slightly misleading and morally dubious tactics to make people part with their money (and succeeded) in 2025.

Welcome to capitalism, folks!

What is misleading about it.

There is a clear and obvious difference between the 2 items, and if you got through multiple pages to confirm the purchase and still get it wrong that's on you.

 

[benjoi84]

What is misleading about it.

There is a clear and obvious difference between the 2 items, and if you got through multiple pages to confirm the purchase and still get it wrong that's on you.

I agree, I bought the PP through the boat on the main screen. Then when I returned to the PS Home, I saw the thing and thought "well, that's obviously intentionally placed".

 

[eran0004]

I'm completely unsurprised that a large multinational company has tried slightly misleading and morally dubious tactics to make people part with their money (and succeeded) in 2025.

Welcome to capitalism, folks!

It seems like a case of expectation bias - your mind tricks you into seeing what you expect to see rather than what's actually there. It's not that it's misleading in any way, but rather that your mind is taking shortcuts and interprets the information incorrectly.