The retail price for Deadpool is $49.99, which is exactly $10 less than what it was offered on the PS Store. Sony will be giving back $10 in PSN credit to everyone that purchased the game before the fix.
There's an interesting brawl going on in the Destructoid comments, mostly between a moderator and a general commenter, on all sorts of topics such as Sony "breaking the law" by doing this.
No, Sony didn't break any law, nor was this any sort of price gouging. It was a simple mistake on their end that they thought it was at standard retail price, but in legal terms a store can charge the consumer anything.
Hell, Sony could charge $5 for Deadpool today if they wanted to, but they would be losing money for both themselves and the publisher that made the game, and said publisher would demand to either take the game off or charge it at a higher price.
While Sony could simply shrug and go, "Whoops," they actually went out of their way to credit gamers so they wouldn't feel ripped off and it wouldn't leave a bad image on the company. Sure, it'd be nice to be able to get that credit back on whatever form of payment the consumer made, but I highly doubt that anybody that was okay on dropping $60 in the PS Store would never drop $10 more for the rest of their life.
Just remember, before bitching about losing $10, realize you'll lose a lot more than that after dinner with the girlfriend and she finally cheats on you with the next door neighbor. And it's not hard to look up prices on a game -- cheap asses like myself have been getting away with it for years.
[Source: Destructoid]
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