Imagine Amazon tried to pull something like this:
I buy a new HD TV from them, good price but cheaper than it used to be, I’m like “cool, nice deal, must be for Christmas or some special deal”.
The TV comes and it is an old TV from 2 years ago.
I contact support and say they delivered the wrong TV it is not the one I ordered.
They come back with:
“We put up flyers down the street from our Warehouse in Antarctica and sent an SMS to the 20 customers who bought a TV from us in the last week, the new TV is only for purchases from next week, so you are stuck with the TV we sent you. You should have read the flyers and made sure you bought a TV last week, then you would have got the SMS.”
They will have so many lawyers on their door, not to mention the bad press and losing loyal customers.
Now imagine a game does the same thing with children and people who do not read the forums at all, and saw a nice change in the battle pass value and then bought it.
But I guess you can’t really compare Disney and Amazon, Amazon is quite big…