Price.... (In our Region)

@classicgamernl Yea the game in the US is $59,99 ($76 AUD) so somehow another 33 AUD is getting slapped on ($25 USD), I have never seen such a jump in price, like I just pay USD on Steam games and it costs me the same. I am almost buying 1 and a half games in just AUD.... like WHAT! How is that fair at all.

Not to mention CDKey websites have it at $76 AUD... So I would pay the same as US, is Microsoft just cutting a huge cut on the game or what.

$79.99 CAD (Canadian Dollars) and still worth every penny.

Oh don't think I am bashing the game, nor do I think its not worth the price, I am sure it will be and I will be getting it regardless of the price, I am just trying to make sense of the difference in cost, since I use steam a lot for my games its just a conversion, so whatever the USD cost is, I just pay that in AUD... No difference in price.

Like I guess taxes would push it up but by that much?? can't possibly be, especially since its digital... I don't even get a physical item. Like what is all that extra money going too if the majority of the population isn't paying it? We don't get our own servers (unless this has changed), so what is the extra cost in our region actually going too?

Anyways I will be getting it :) and it definitely looks like its worth it.

It has pretty much easy answer. Xbox is popular in USA. In Europe console gaming is much lower than pc gaming also xbox is generally less popular here than PS. So Microsoft decided to keep their biger portion of consumers happy while milking other regions as much as possible even though wages in USA are MUCH higher than wages in Eastern/Central EU.

Many people claim it's because taxes, well let me tell you that taxes have nothing to do with this. If you have a look on steam, generally all new games sell at 60$. Now for every copy sold these developers must pay taxes - like Microsoft and on top of that give 30% from each copy to Valve.

Also I think that crossplay is just an excuse to sell console priced game to PC users.

It seems more people should be spending thier money on taking some world history, economic, and government classes rather than video games.
This topic has been discussed to death and most people understand why.

@crusaderjesus said in Price.... (In our Region):

It has pretty much easy answer. Xbox is popular in USA. In Europe console gaming is much lower than pc gaming also xbox is generally less popular here than PS. So Microsoft decided to keep their biger portion of consumers happy while milking other regions as much as possible even though wages in USA are MUCH higher than wages in Eastern/Central EU.

Many people claim it's because taxes, well let me tell you that taxes have nothing to do with this. If you have a look on steam, generally all new games sell at 60$. Now for every copy sold these developers must pay taxes - like Microsoft and on top of that give 30% from each copy to Valve.

Also I think that crossplay is just an excuse to sell console priced game to PC users.

Your logic is so flawed that if people like you ran governments the world would collapse in a month. Im sure youre used to holding a sign your teacher gave you hating on the 1% ers as you call them but the fact that you lump " taxes" as one generic term shows you know zero about reality.
It would take pages to tell you how wrong you are and you still would believe its all some conspiracy against you by a boogyman lol.
This topic has been talked to death and all intelligent, rationable people know why the prices are what they are WHERE they are...smh.

@misterdoomed You are so funny calling people out with zero claims. Sure it would take pages because your education is so superior to common human and you of course have no time to do so and educate local peasants, we all know it. It's kinda funny how people who flex the most about something are in 100% of cases quite opposite.

So according to you I could charge 100€ for this game in Ughanda because it makes sense to "intelligent" people? Let me throw this little red pill down. "Intelligent" people are also in charge of EA. mindblown

Funny you should mention that, I currently study Economics at University... Well not economics directly but Commerce with a Finance Major and too me it still doesn't make sense... You could easily say that parallel import restrictions stop anybody from undercutting retailers but even then, higher operating costs within our country, volatile exchange rates, transit costs, marketing etc but all of these should not account for such a hike in price... Especially since most of what I mention doesn't apply on a digital product.

We have some pretty BS regulation costs here in Aus, plus our ratings play some weird balancing act with costs and market size, playing havoc with games which are deemed more "violent" by our standards.

I understand it isn't just the game appearing on the shelves from thin air and it costing a decent amount of money to get it from point A to point B, I just don't understand why most games I purchase here are a very tiny margin off what it costs someone in the US, yet a game like this is asking for another $25 on top of the US price.

I guess I don't purchase many hard copy games, used too a digital copy which is like $40-$60

@crusaderjesus
Well AGAIN you are just making assumptions and guessing at things.
I never claimed to be " vastly " superior in my knowledge than anyone. A basic 8th grade economic class will be enough to know youre comming at the price thing wrong.
And AGAIN i see how little you know about anything outside of a cardboard sign.
See if YOU go to Uganda ( wierd you picked that country ) and set up your shop to sell games at 100 bucks to the poor people there cuz youre so smart.....well the people in Uganda would look at you , the pricen the product and thier needs and then laugh in your face and move on.
You would go outa business in a week then go back home and blame rich American corporations for your failure.
Probably have a sign for it too lol.
Please instead of rage and ignorance learn about things. Pleas4.

@spunkus-skunkus said in Price.... (In our Region):

Hey @spunkmyers (Great name btw)

Nobody ever gets the reference of my name and whenever I meet someone that does I just love it :p One of if not my most favourite film.

@spunkmyers
Well at least you understand then whats behind it. When people just say " its not taxes" then justify it well....
Just like where i live a pack of something cost 4 dollars, if you drive 1 mile across the state line the same product cost 9 dollars. Obviously world markets are not that simple but it shows how massive price swings even in the same country happen all due to fees,taxes,tariff, sin tax, transportation fees, and on and on.

@misterdoomed said in Price.... (In our Region):

@spunkmyers
Well at least you understand then whats behind it. When people just say " its not taxes" then justify it well....
Just like where i live a pack of something cost 4 dollars, if you drive 1 mile across the state line the same product cost 9 dollars. Obviously world markets are not that simple but it shows how massive price swings even in the same country happen all due to fees,taxes,tariff, sin tax, transportation fees, and on and on.

Something I find VERY interesting is the Big Mac Index, never knew it was a thing until I started my study, basically a Big Mac costs a different amount from location to location and this is true, even in my city different shops will have a different cost. Has a direct correlation with average income in that given area, very interesting index indeed.

I was kinda shocked when it came up to nearly 100 bucks Canadian. All i can say at that price i expect more from the developers. Over the next few years i want to see the map expand, more types of ai. ai pirate ships you will have to fight or flee from. As you venture out farther the more threats you will come across. The point im trying to make is at that price i dont want to feel like the game is dead after six months nor do i want to be hit with paid dlc to keep it reliant.

@dennis-box
Its been explained over and over and guys like him and others choose to believe its a boogeyman ceo ripping them off so Americans can pay less .
Anyone so ignorant would never believe anything anyone tells them if it doesn't fit thier agenda.
Heck his response was so off target it shows he knows nothing about it. Its not my job to spend my time looking up all the cost factors built into supplying goods to his country and how many different fees,fines,taxes,shipping cost etc all go into the equation.
Im just letting the OP know its not a conspiracy by rich people to take his money at gunpoint. If he really wants to learn it he can look it up.

You should see the price of this game for us in Brazil... having to pay R$200,00 for this is an outrageous, I've never seen a game costing that much around here, and even though our economy is far from being good right now, still... that is too much.

@spunkmyers said in Price.... (In our Region):

@misterdoomed said in Price.... (In our Region):

@spunkmyers
Well at least you understand then whats behind it. When people just say " its not taxes" then justify it well....
Just like where i live a pack of something cost 4 dollars, if you drive 1 mile across the state line the same product cost 9 dollars. Obviously world markets are not that simple but it shows how massive price swings even in the same country happen all due to fees,taxes,tariff, sin tax, transportation fees, and on and on.

Something I find VERY interesting is the Big Mac Index, never knew it was a thing until I started my study, basically a Big Mac costs a different amount from location to location and this is true, even in my city different shops will have a different cost. Has a direct correlation with average income in that given area, very interesting index indeed.

Here the same products can ( not allways ) have huge price swings.
Not only do you have federal taxes or fees but each state has taxes,each county or town can have its own taxes or fee or FINE depending on the item.
And yed because of supply/demand and lower standard of living some poor areas can pay less for things but in turn generally make less.
When people say its a greedy ceo taking thier money it shows they dont even know basics and to get deep into a countries tax system you have to look at ALL things taxed from every inch of the way and it isnt always a blank tax, it could be fines levied for " fill in the blank " reason ( here they claim its to educate people on the product ) and all the cost of transportation to get to where youre taking the product. Transportation cost is MUCH more than the cost of fuel so its not just that.
I work in the transportation field and see all the things tacked on to shipping from each state. All those add to costs.
It would take forever to loom up all the things that go into cost but one thing i know its not is a fat evil rich ceo making you pay more so some other person doesn't.

I understand it aint the big bad CEO stealing my money, I was more questioning why a Digital copy of the game has the same price as a hard copy. I guess people purchasing a hard copy of the game would be annoyed if we paid $20 less for the same thing, although its justified since we never see anything but a few numbers in an email.

I guess the cost of a digital is balanced out because of the overarching costs to sell a hard copy within the same country, since no doubt this game will have less hard copy sales then digital... It is costing them more to sell a hard copy. That is the only thing I can think of that would really push both the hard copy and digital's price up, a small market.

Isn't the pass just for xbox though? I am on PC

@spunkmyers
It bugs me too that i pay full price for a digital copy which is nothing more than them letting me dl a file off a server and others get a actual hard copy, case maps etc but its just the world we live in now i guess.
And yes i could imagine all the anger if digital dl got to pay way less.

@misterdoomed said in Price.... (In our Region):

@crusaderjesus said in Price.... (In our Region):

It has pretty much easy answer. Xbox is popular in USA. In Europe console gaming is much lower than pc gaming also xbox is generally less popular here than PS. So Microsoft decided to keep their biger portion of consumers happy while milking other regions as much as possible even though wages in USA are MUCH higher than wages in Eastern/Central EU.

Many people claim it's because taxes, well let me tell you that taxes have nothing to do with this. If you have a look on steam, generally all new games sell at 60$. Now for every copy sold these developers must pay taxes - like Microsoft and on top of that give 30% from each copy to Valve.

Also I think that crossplay is just an excuse to sell console priced game to PC users.

Your logic is so flawed that if people like you ran governments the world would collapse in a month. Im sure youre used to holding a sign your teacher gave you hating on the 1% ers as you call them but the fact that you lump " taxes" as one generic term shows you know zero about reality.
It would take pages to tell you how wrong you are and you still would believe its all some conspiracy against you by a boogyman lol.
This topic has been talked to death and all intelligent, rationable people know why the prices are what they are WHERE they are...smh.

Oh cmon dude. in evry thread i want read i read ur answer that is to much salty.
can you please answer factually, without stepping on anyone's feet? g******n.

you can also objectively answer, without someone speaking down because of his statement, or?

@shyguy80bln said in Price.... (In our Region):

@misterdoomed said in Price.... (In our Region):

@crusaderjesus said in Price.... (In our Region):

It has pretty much easy answer. Xbox is popular in USA. In Europe console gaming is much lower than pc gaming also xbox is generally less popular here than PS. So Microsoft decided to keep their biger portion of consumers happy while milking other regions as much as possible even though wages in USA are MUCH higher than wages in Eastern/Central EU.

Many people claim it's because taxes, well let me tell you that taxes have nothing to do with this. If you have a look on steam, generally all new games sell at 60$. Now for every copy sold these developers must pay taxes - like Microsoft and on top of that give 30% from each copy to Valve.

Also I think that crossplay is just an excuse to sell console priced game to PC users.

Your logic is so flawed that if people like you ran governments the world would collapse in a month. Im sure youre used to holding a sign your teacher gave you hating on the 1% ers as you call them but the fact that you lump " taxes" as one generic term shows you know zero about reality.
It would take pages to tell you how wrong you are and you still would believe its all some conspiracy against you by a boogyman lol.
This topic has been talked to death and all intelligent, rationable people know why the prices are what they are WHERE they are...smh.

Oh cmon dude. in evry thread i want read i read ur answer that is to much salty.
can you please answer factually, without stepping on anyone's feet? g******n.

you can also objectively answer, without someone speaking down because of his statement, or?

Nah man, that dude has a chip on his shoulder aye.

Also, i can confirm that the digital prices in Microsoft store are set to be generally flat numbers and not at all necessarily equal to other regions when exchanged.
My ex gf worked for MS for a short while and I actually asked her to ask a colleague this EXACT question!

In NZ at least, we are used to paying between 100 and 120 for console games, so they set games at that price if they are multiplat.
On occasion the pc one will be cheaper by 10 bucks, not sure why but I'd assume to appeal to those who otherwise may pirate it? Not sure.

In any case, the prices are set arbitrarily more so than to be equitable.

Since the game isn't Region locked, would a work around be to force the Microsoft Store to open in the US version and purchase it at the USD price? Just thinking out loud.