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iCanada
Canada10660 Posts
I think everyone is just better off purchasing in USD, personally. It's actually less confusing and more fair to purchase sobering in USD and have the conversion rate fluctuate based upon your bank then to have riot arbitrarily decide when there needs to be currency based pricing adjustments. Frankly, I don't expect the currency based adjustments to be timely at all. | ||
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Jek
Denmark2771 Posts
On March 07 2015 01:08 iCanada wrote: I think everyone is just better off purchasing in USD, personally. It's actually less confusing and more fair to purchase sobering in USD and have the conversion rate fluctuate based upon your bank then to have riot arbitrarily decide when there needs to be currency based pricing adjustments. Wouldn't this add a hidden fee in the form of exchange rate costs, or is was it only in the past we had to pay this when buying things online? | ||
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iCanada
Canada10660 Posts
On March 07 2015 01:47 Jek wrote: Wouldn't this add a hidden fee in the form of exchange rate costs, or is was it only in the past we had to pay this when buying things online? Depends on your bank / credit card provider. | ||
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
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RaphaelSanzio
United States150 Posts
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AlterKot
Poland7525 Posts
Sufficiency can finally rest. | ||
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Goumindong
United States3529 Posts
On March 07 2015 00:55 Ketara wrote: Euro might still be stronger than the USD, but the value of the Euro is going down, and it's going down quickly. When the value of your currency goes down, the prices for imported goods go up. Riot is a US company, RP cards are an import. That's just how the world works. We should get Goumindongs opinion on this! That is correct as currency prices goes down import prices go up. Though I don't pay too much attention to currency prices and movements lately so your guess is as good as mine on that part. On March 07 2015 03:28 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote: Well, I guess it's time for Viktor nerfs even though he has been this strong since his rework? I have been really unimpressed with viktors performance in LCS games. He is still far sub 50% in ranked so I don't think he will get many changes. | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
On March 07 2015 04:48 Ansibled wrote: Is virtual currency really an imported good? Technically, the vast majority of currency is in virtual form anyway. Just a series of numbers in banking databases. | ||
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Goumindong
United States3529 Posts
On March 07 2015 04:48 Ansibled wrote: Is virtual currency really an imported good? Maybe. It depends on how the company producing it wants to look at it. Generally you would think that because digital goods are essentially zero marginal cost that the producing company would revenue maximize independently for each currency area. But the value of a currency would still effect that, probably in the same direction as if it were an import. In this case riot doesn't seem to want to do the legwork on maximizing (though they might do that for China and Brazil, not sure on pricing there) and so are behaving as if they're a competitive producer. Edit: import price changes are driven by the cost of production in the other country, which does not change and so in order to retain profit per unit prices have to increase (a drop in prices means that you fail to meet your cost of capital). It's not driven by money being physical. The reason that digital goods would not behave the same way is because digital goods have essentially zero marginal production cost and so their efficient pricing has nothing to do with the price level in the importing country. The reason you might see price changes follow would be responses to substitution effects (lower currency prices mean higher import prices which means substitution towards digital goods which means efficient digital good price increases but that is just back of the napkin I am not going to run the statics on it) | ||
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
On March 07 2015 04:20 Goumindong wrote: That is correct as currency prices goes down import prices go up. Though I don't pay too much attention to currency prices and movements lately so your guess is as good as mine on that part. I have been really unimpressed with viktors performance in LCS games. He is still far sub 50% in ranked so I don't think he will get many changes. even + Show Spoiler + faker going 10-0? not lcs i know | ||
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Slusher
United States19143 Posts
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Goumindong
United States3529 Posts
Sure but + Show Spoiler + Faker happens to be faker Viktor has been shit elsewhere. Even in the games he has won he hasn't been very impactful in either the LPL or the Korean leagues. He has been picked as a top laner in China right after the changes (or maybe Korea i forget which) and was unimpressive. Most of the time he has been picked in Korea its been pretty explicitly a troll pick (I.E. a much stronger team picking into a much weaker), and even in some of those games he hasn't performed decently (GE tigers for instance nearly lost a game due to vik having no presence on a troll pick) Its not going to be another Veigar situation where he gets played and then is subsequently bodied the next week. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
Are you saying Viktor is... MASTER ASIA? | ||
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Slusher
United States19143 Posts
The first Dragon fight in Kuro's first Vik game last week, he traps 3 people and combos them for like 3/4 of their health, bad team sure, but he looked really good in that particular game. | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
On March 07 2015 06:45 Goumindong wrote: Sure but + Show Spoiler + Faker happens to be faker Viktor has been shit elsewhere. Even in the games he has won he hasn't been very impactful in either the LPL or the Korean leagues. He has been picked as a top laner in China right after the changes (or maybe Korea i forget which) and was unimpressive. Most of the time he has been picked in Korea its been pretty explicitly a troll pick (I.E. a much stronger team picking into a much weaker), and even in some of those games he hasn't performed decently (GE tigers for instance nearly lost a game due to vik having no presence on a troll pick) Its not going to be another Veigar situation where he gets played and then is subsequently bodied the next week. I'm a bit disappointed. Veigar was on his way to turn the meta back to see hero kill hero rather than the 5v5 teamfight meta that it is today. | ||
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Goumindong
United States3529 Posts
With the way his stun was, it would be really hard to make him into a powerful mid, so if you're working on the stun, then that has to go. But at the same time they totally bodied him and totally didn't think they were going to. You can get some absolutely hilarious farm with his Q now, which you could not do before. But even with 1300 AP and +250+ Q farm you have a tough time killing people because you have to land a stun first. Maybe Morello->CDR boots-> Lichbane could work, and you just farm and hit towers and then eventually you have to much AP you don't need to land your skills you just lichbane someone for all their HP | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On March 07 2015 06:45 Goumindong wrote: Sure but + Show Spoiler + Faker happens to be faker Viktor has been shit elsewhere. Even in the games he has won he hasn't been very impactful in either the LPL or the Korean leagues. He has been picked as a top laner in China right after the changes (or maybe Korea i forget which) and was unimpressive. Most of the time he has been picked in Korea its been pretty explicitly a troll pick (I.E. a much stronger team picking into a much weaker), and even in some of those games he hasn't performed decently (GE tigers for instance nearly lost a game due to vik having no presence on a troll pick) Its not going to be another Veigar situation where he gets played and then is subsequently bodied the next week. GE is currently 4-0 on Viktor playing it against IM and Samsung. If any result is meaningless, those results are meaningless. | ||
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Goumindong
United States3529 Posts
On March 07 2015 07:41 cLutZ wrote: GE is currently 4-0 on Viktor playing it against IM and Samsung. If any result is meaningless, those results are meaningless. http://na.lolesports.com/lck/2015/spring/standings for people wondering what he is saying. IM is 6th at 3/4. And Galaxy is 0-9. You can go look at the most recent games against samsung, but the second one GE only pulled out by the skin of Pray being amazing and in neither of them did Viktor do much | ||
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sob3k
United States7572 Posts
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