Summary
There have already been a lot of RPGs this year that promise to occupy plenty of your time,Persona 3 ReloadandFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthamong them. Thankfully, the industry didn’t thinkStrauss Zelnick’s misunderstood commentson people paying for their games per hour was a trend worth chasing. A mistake on the Xbox Games Store on Tuesday night might have had some thinking 505 Games was giving it a try though as Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes was listed for $1999.99.
Wario64 spottedwhat was almost certainly a mistake, and it wasn’t one that was corrected right away. More than 30 minutes later, it was still possible to pay $2,000 for Hundred Heroes onXbox, althoughthe game’s listingappears to have returned to normal this morning. The most entertaining thing about the mishap was the deal on Hundred Heroes for Game Pass that dropped the price to $1799.99. In almost any other scenario, $200 off a game would be one most people would bite your hand off for. A particualry bad deal for Hundred Heroes though since it’s free on Game Pass.
Usually when a pricing mistake like this one happens, you’re able to figure out how the mistake was made. A sale going live early with a decimal point in the wrong place or something along those lines. In this instance, I’m struggling to see what exactly Xbox was trying to do. The Hundred Heroes option that had its price briefly ramped up to $2,000 is listed as a bundle, but the game isn’t bundled with anything. The option is still live, just without the lofty price tag, and simply reads that it can’t be bought separately.
$2,000, Or $1,800 On Game Pass
The standard and deluxe versions of Hundred Heroes are currently on sale through Xbox, so it’s likely this was a mistake that was made while 505 Games' RPG was having its price reduced in the back end. How that resulted in the game being listed for $2,000 remians a mystery, though. Some questioned whether Xbox would have issued refunds if you bought the game while it was listed for 40 times what it usually sells for, citing companies scrambling for refunds when it’s the other way around and an item is listed for less than it should be.
Items being listed for less than intended is more common than what has happened to Hundred Heroes. Last year the Red OLED Switch, which was brand new at the time,was briefly listed for a penny on Amazon, and in April Microsoft’s $250 James Bond collectionwas accidentally reduced to $4.99. Far more recently GameStop was selling theHyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamitybundlefor the bargain price of $14, down from its usual $80. Suffice to say it wasn’t available for more than 80 percent off for long.
