Why the price was increased in Brazil? There's no macroeconomics reason for that. Yesterday the price was $79,90 like the others expansion packs, now it's $149,90, almost twice the normal price. The others packs remain with the normal prices. Is it a glitch?
I was going to buy it tomorrow, I'm not going anymore. A lot of other Brazilians neither.
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I have all packs and I bought them in pre-sale or in the release dates. I'm disappointed that I won't have this one as soon it releases.
I know I could buy it yesterday and pay almost the half, but everybody here is focused on studies due to the college exam we're having here. It's like SAT, but we have it only once a year, and it's very stressful.
This price is impracticable in Brazil, 1/7 of the monthly minimum wage of a country is not a good price for an expansion.
All macroeconomics aspects are favorable. Nothing justify that.
Maybe @SimGuruDrake can shine some light on what's going on here?
I think it's definitely a glitch. No reason for them to double the price. Do you Twitter? Maybe you can tweet one of the Simgurus?
EA has gone crazy in South Africa as well. The stuff packs are still a R100 and Game packs R200. However pretty certain somebody had developed the insane trait for the expansion packs. Cats and Dogs are the same price as base game at R600. I see there is a bundle pack at R950. The other three expansion packs are R650, Have they gone absolutely insane? Never have expansion packs been more than the base game. If EA thinks I'm sinking R1000s into this game which has less game play value then previous, they are crazy.
Hopefully it's a glitch.
I'd contact customer service. I think it was an error.
Support already update us saying they're investigating.
@catloverplayer
I completely understand the dissappointment and hope this issue can be resolved soon.
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> Very sad about this. The support is inefficient too and don't make nothing unless be rude with us. I wish bought the EP yesterday but i'm quite, not more nothing about The Sims 4 for me.....
The suport is also very contradictory. I hope they give us a answer soon !
We wait the whole year for it, and now they do it with us. >:(
I am not trying to argue with you or anything, because I understand that you are just trying to comprehend what happened here as well, but "Maybe the person who jacked up the price also did it before they were fully awake?" would be fine if we were talking about the price of a bag of peanuts at a corner shop, but EA is a global company, so I'm going to go with no.
I am also not trying to argue this is a human rights issue, as no one needs a video game to survive, it is just plain - let's say silly, for the sake of censorship - to hike prices in this matter, when you take the local economic circumstances into account and the fact that TS4 has a rather young target audience. Parents are not going to spend this kind of money and players overall are going to be very upset. Who wouldn't be upset about an 88% increase?
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For information, I live in Norway.
Sorry, the awake thing was a (clearly bad) joke.
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