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.

 

[Wannablackbee]

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?

Even Super GT did buy the 5 Million credits by mistake live on stream last Thursday while waiting for the maintenance period. I remember checking for Power Pack pricing and the first thing the ps store screen showed me is the 5 Mil MTX. I had to search and look for it to find it. And it is 39,99$ here in Canada.

 

[SPDN Stefano]

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?

Tbh when buying video game dlc it is not always spelled out completely what exactly you are buying. "Power Pack" is also a rather meaningless term. So I can understand the confusion.

There is no reason why a 5 million credits dlc pack should be the "highlighted dlc" on the PlayStation dashboard instead of the Power Pack that also includes 5 million credits.