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Biotic_Warlock
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Edit: The released price of the Game Pack in GBP is now £15. Still more than $20, but it's a massive saving compared to the £20.
I am sure most of you are aware of the upcoming 'Game Pack' confirmed for released at an unspeified time during Janurary 2015.
It has been confirmed to cost $19.99, however, on the news page it is being shown that the cost is £19.99.
This is moderately disheartening to me, as a UK player. For a pack which would, under standard conversion rates, cost around £12, we are being charged nearly $31 for this. I am not sure how the pricing has been set elsewhere.
There has seemingly been no word as to why this pricing is so, but some official word would be better than nothing at this stage. It is quite outrageous treatment of non-US consumers. This isn't the first time that DLC prices have not been true to general conversion rates, but it is the first that I can recall where the conversion has been so significantly reduced. For example, with a more recent DLC package released for an EA game: 'Omega' for Mass Effect 3 costs $14.99 and £11.99. This doesn't follow proper conversion either, but it's still 3.00 cheaper (about 20%).
Will we have to expect to pay the same way for upcoming expansion packs? $40/£40? Supposing there will be any.
Even 🐸🐸🐸🐸 Turpin wore a mask
The censored word is supposed to be the short for Richard, which is a name so... I can't be blamed for an over sensitive censor.
I am sure most of you are aware of the upcoming 'Game Pack' confirmed for released at an unspeified time during Janurary 2015.
It has been confirmed to cost $19.99, however, on the news page it is being shown that the cost is £19.99.
This is moderately disheartening to me, as a UK player. For a pack which would, under standard conversion rates, cost around £12, we are being charged nearly $31 for this. I am not sure how the pricing has been set elsewhere.
There has seemingly been no word as to why this pricing is so, but some official word would be better than nothing at this stage. It is quite outrageous treatment of non-US consumers. This isn't the first time that DLC prices have not been true to general conversion rates, but it is the first that I can recall where the conversion has been so significantly reduced. For example, with a more recent DLC package released for an EA game: 'Omega' for Mass Effect 3 costs $14.99 and £11.99. This doesn't follow proper conversion either, but it's still 3.00 cheaper (about 20%).
Will we have to expect to pay the same way for upcoming expansion packs? $40/£40? Supposing there will be any.
Even 🐸🐸🐸🐸 Turpin wore a mask
The censored word is supposed to be the short for Richard, which is a name so... I can't be blamed for an over sensitive censor.
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I am in Australia, so goodness knows what we will be paying for it.
It's been nearly two days since the announcement of the new pack and no statement seems to have been given so far about the pricing. Of course the gurus chose a good time to both announce the new pack and go on vacation, so it is likely we will not hear anything until New Years... Maybe later.
I am really thinking that this is an error with the UK pricing. Probably done in a hurry and no-one has re-checked it before rushing off to the office Christmas Party.
If not an error, that's a big rip-off.
Bit weird how nobody apart from in the U.S./UK has had 'confirmed' prices.
We don't have the full details yet, so I can't judge whether or not it is 'worth' twenty pounds. It does feel expensive to me though. I do like to have a lot of content, and may well want much of what is being released for TS4. However, £20 each time would be way too much for me. I think if the packs were 10-15 pounds I could probably talk myself into it more easily.
I just checked a currency converter that equated $20 with £12.80. That sounds a much more reasonable amount to me. I do hope it is a mistake.
Like the OP points out, it would be like asking US simmers to pay $31 for the pack.
Funny thing is it's digital so there are no shipping fees or discs, cases, manuals. It should be cheaper.
As written above, it's digital, bought from the same place, so the usual and customary conversion amounts really should apply.
Hahaha the nickname for Richard got plumbed out? I had the same luck with the first word for cyberMonday where it stands alone.
I mean it's a real word, and although it used to mean .... well, who does that any more?
Eriesee
It's definitely not just due (or possibly at all) to taxes.
When TS4 was initially sold, it was only £38 for the limited edition.
Also we are talking about digital content and not shipped goods.
Added Euro to topic.
European players being asked to pay approx. $30 (25€)
Edit: or apparently 20€ in Germany. Will get a source link to confirm which was correct.
(I don't have the "Pound" symbol)-- so 38 is exactly, as converted, what I paid for TS4 Limited Edition as a Data-DVD from the brick-and-mortar retailer. About 59 bucks. (calculates to $58.xx on the Currency Converter which isn't even the consumer-level exchange rate)
The state taxes were calculated and charged separately.
I'm still hoping the 20 pounds, 20 dollars 20 Euros is just a cut 'N' paste oversight.
So... I believe they (the seller) must itemize the cost of the product separately from any taxes they may be collecting for the destination (buyer's) country.
Internet sales within the USA are not taxable except where a seller has a physical presence in the buyer's state and that state has a sales tax. --The government has been trying to close that loophole since 2002 with no luck so far.-- I don't see where merchants even can collect taxes due another country. I had thought reporting and paying VATs, duties and all that rested with the buyer.
And that this would be a downloaded product makes the much-higher charge even less understandable.
At any rate, I support this thread and am seriously considering not buying EPs or other enhanced Sim paraphernalia until they can justify this steep price differential to their customers in England, Australia, and the Euro community-- actually anyone abroad who stands to get hosed on the sales price.
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