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SteamSeraph
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I bought a cash card at Best Buy when I bought the Sims 3 and, when I tried to redeem it, had to pay 'taxes' on the points after buying the piece of plastic itself for USD $10.
I now have only 1,938 Simpoints and I am not pleased. If $10 does not equal 1,000 points as was implied, then I am not spending any more money on the online store.
Is this intentional? I sincerely hope it isn't. Not even iTunes is this price-gougingly happy.
I now have only 1,938 Simpoints and I am not pleased. If $10 does not equal 1,000 points as was implied, then I am not spending any more money on the online store.
Is this intentional? I sincerely hope it isn't. Not even iTunes is this price-gougingly happy.
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I will not be buying any sims card and spending more money then the game to buy 5 new items.
But on your subject, that is lame.
I think the sims people are starting to get like the world of warcraft crap. Paying every month to play a video game? LOL
Paying 10$ for a new living room set? haha.
And considering people spend hours upon hours upon hours playing it, and would be willing to spend 15 dollars for a two hour movie ticket, your cost for entertainment in games is relatively low. Not that I'd reccomend spending 40 hours a week gaming but I DIGRESS.
The tax thing is ridiculous lol. I could see paying tax at the store as you ring it up, I suppose, but I can't believe they can take it out of your POINTS...
I'm sorry... they are running their new glitz awful shoddy. Don't think even WoW would make it charging 15 dollars for a sword with the very tip lopped off for tax.
Okay. Maybe WoW would.
You know, it probably h as to do with them not wanting you to have an even number of points. If you think about it, since all the costs are 0 or 5 increments, odd numbers like that wont be spent. "I already have 73 points and this thingy is 75... I'll buy a new card."
e.e
But yeah, I agree. They should sell the card like $10.50 and the 50 cents is for taxes, $ 10.00 is the points itself.
This means they lied, 10 bucks=/= 1000 points, 10 bucks= 938 points.
WoW=/= powerup for money game, WoW=Monthly Subscription game.
Or 15 or.. whatever it is..
See, there! We should be thankful we don't have to pay for transferring our sims from one neighborhood to the next!
To be totally fair, if you tick off your guildies so much you need to change servers AND your name, your guildies would probably be more than happy to pay the cost, just to see you go. XP
On that same note, you don't HAVE to transfer servers or change names. It's not required. You could always start a new character somewhere, which, really, it doesn't take all that long to level up a new character. I've done it. And it was free.
My problem with taking the taxes out of the card points is that it isn't conspicuously stated anywhere that they plan to take the taxes out like that. On top of that, seriously, round the numbers to increments of 5. What the heck.
The only additional charges associated with WoW are things like server transfers and name changes. The reason for the cost associated with them is again, the resources involved, and also to discourage abuse. They don't want people server hopping willy nilly and changing their names on a whim, so the costs help to keep the actual transactions to a minimum.
If at some point people were having to pay real world money for additional in game items, you can bet there would be riots. Saying that the Sims Store is in any way modeled after WoW is just blatantly misinformed. I am not thrilled with the Store prices at all, by the way. I agree with the person who suggested that all prices should be cut to a third of what they are now or one penny should buy you three Sims point instead of just one.
;D I was only using that as an example, mind you! I was so beloved they gave cutting my ethernet cord in half a second thought.
I'm trying to imagine what would happen to itunes if, when you clicked buy song and it said 99 cents, it turned into '103 (tax)' when you clicked again for confirmation...
Kray - ahh, it wasn't meant to be literal, at least on my part I was joking around. A lot of simmers won't get the point of WoW, though, and to them virtual chairs might be more or less the same as a subscription. What I do find somewhat telling though is how quick people are to defend WoW and how generally praised Blizzard is for it's business practices... I wonder if that's something EA will be able to boast after too long, now :P
There is a reason they have over 11 million active subscriptions. They are doing something right!
11.5 million subscribers is not equal to 11.5 million active players, that being said... Comparing it to the Sims is like... comparing The Sims to WoW. lol
Actually, it's more like itunes only giving you 90% of the song for 90 cents rather than making you pay $1.05. It makes sense since it's $10 but she is getting $9 worth of simpoints.
I pity you, and most of all I pity EA for making the stuff so freaking expensive. A chair that I cannot sit on is not worth my 75 cents, mind you. It's like selling ice to eskimos.
Usually when you buy merchandise online from anywhere, you get charged tax for it. I can't imagine why EA would go through all the trouble and paperwork of charging tax for their merchandise if they didn't have to.
Generally a simpoint is worth one penny (here in the U.S.), but if you buy a large simpoint bundle then you are paying less than a penny per sim point and the larger the bundle, the less the individual simpoints costs. It would be a nightmare for EA to try to charge tax for individual store purchases because a 50 simpoint shirt may work out to have only cost you 48 cents in real money because of the simpoint bundle you purchased. So would they charge you tax on 50 cents or 48 cents or what? That's why I think they charge the tax on the bundles. If you buy $20 worth of simpoints, you're basically paying tax on the $20 worth of stuff you intend to buy with the simpoints.
I'm sorry you felt taken advantage of, but I hope this explanation helps you to feel better about your purchase.