XtraVision refuse to Sell to Xbox Ones without purchase of an additional game

JustAddWater wrote: »

They wouldn't give 2 hoots to the bad publicity if they weren't planning on being around much longer

They would in the few weeks before Christmas, their biggest sales period of the year. Christmas is 4 weeks from today, and most people will only properly be starting their Xmas shopping in the next week or two.

Regardless of whether they're planning on being around much longer after Christmas, they'll make a lot more profit doing their normal trade than pulling the same stunt again one week later, which would cause far more outcry and bad publicity, and potentially halving their Xmas trade. I'd be willing to bet that whatever profit they'd make from doing the same thing to PS4 buyers as they did to XBO buyers, it wouldn't come close to what they'd make from maintaining their usual Xmas profits.

Not only that, but they've already officially and very publicly stated that they won't be doing the same thing to PS4 users. Whatever hope they'd have of what they did to XBO users being found to not be illegal, they'd have no chance if they then turned around and did the same thing this weekend given their public statement and the fact the NCA will likely be monitoring the situation very closely.

Let's not go overboard, lads. XV f*cked over customers and were likely going to try and f*ck over more, but they've been slapped down publicly by the NCA and have had to backtrack and try to give some recompense to customers. They're not the Legion of Doom, sitting around a big table saying "Well how else can we screw customers out of their money?" while thunder strikes in the background whenever someone makes a suggestion.

I'm sure all the management want to do at this stage is try to make customers forget about it, get their Christmas profits without any more bad publicity, and then do whatever damage limitation (whether that be making all XVs into full HMVs, or trying to entice gamers back in or whatever) they need to do.