FIFA 23 is presently up for preorder astir the world, and is expected to beryllium a full-price retail release, but successful 1 peculiar marketplace connected 1 peculiar store, customers could get 1 hellhole of a bargain.

Last month, anyone browsing the Epic Games Store successful India would person seen that portion the modular variation of FIFA 23 outgo ₹3,499 (USD$44), the Ultimate Edition—which should person been ₹4,799 (USD$60) was alternatively listed astatine ₹4.80.

That is not a merchantability price, that is an error, 1 wherever the store has intelligibly enactment the decimal constituent successful the incorrect spot. ₹4.80 works retired to beryllium six cents, and arsenic connection dispersed astir the savings, users flocked to the store and bought the game. And not conscionable Indian gamers, either; erstwhile quality got out, fans were sharing crossed societal media ways for players extracurricular the portion to acceptable their accounts to the Indian Epic Games Store truthful they could get successful connected the mistake arsenic well.

Now, this benignant of happening isn’t precisely uncommon successful the realms of online shopping, but often stores volition cancel orders erstwhile the discrepancy is this great, truthful I don’t deliberation excessively galore radical would person been expecting to person really got clasp of the much costly mentation of FIFA 23 for six cents.

But they have! Via PC Gamer, EA Sports person this week issued a connection saying:

A fewer weeks back, we scored a beauteous spectacular own-goal erstwhile we inadvertently offered FIFA 23 pre-purchase connected the Epic Games Store astatine an incorrect price. It was our mistake, and we wanted to fto you cognize that we’ll beryllium honoring each pre-purchases made astatine that price.

That’s bully for anyone who managed to people the savings, but let’s beryllium real: EA isn’t truly missing retired connected overmuch here. While FIFA has ever been and inactive is simply a full-price sports crippled that features singleplayer modes, successful caller years the franchise’s Ultimate Team multiplayer mode has been making the institution billions, truthful I’m definite the mathematics connected “Money mislaid connected archetypal six cent sales” vs “Money made semipermanent done Ultimate Team” inactive worked retired successful the company’s favour.