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On May 30 2010 00:57 Tom Phoenix wrote:Show nested quote +On May 29 2010 23:23 Coraz wrote:
excuse me but what does full single player + an amount of time mean In markets where piracy is highly dominant due to the low income of the populace, such as Russia and Brazil, Blizzard is providing special versions of the game with singleplayer and a limited amount of time they can play multiplayer. Once that time has expired, the one who purchased such a copy can either pay a subscription fee to extend the period or they can upgrade to a full version with unlimited multiplayer. However, they can also just bypass that and purchase a regular full copy right off the bat. Blizzard (the Battle.net team in particular) has been doing a lot of things wrong recently and I am seriously disappointed about that. However, I think their approach to these markets has been both fair and preety realistic given the circumstances that dominate in such countries.
well there's record low wages and record high taxes in US right now, clearly this explains all the DRM we're being assaulted with 
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whats up with the + time period?
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I got my preorder for 40$ on amazon. It was 50, and I had a 10$ coupon from buying a different ps3 game. Not sure why it is 60$ all the sudden, but that blows.
Game prices for computer had been around 40-50 for many years though... I think we will see a trend upward in prices. Inflation never goes away after all.
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not the produkt makes the price. the willing of the buyer makes the price...
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@wwiv : About Singapore's price ... there's IAHGame's price ?
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Preorder prices have gone up. In march I pre-ordered at play.com for EUR 38.99 and now pre-order is EUR 45.49!
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On May 30 2010 00:57 Tom Phoenix wrote:Show nested quote +On May 29 2010 23:23 Coraz wrote:
excuse me but what does full single player + an amount of time mean In markets where piracy is highly dominant due to the low income of the populace, such as Russia and Brazil, Blizzard is providing special versions of the game with singleplayer and a limited amount of time they can play multiplayer. Once that time has expired, the one who purchased such a copy can either pay a subscription fee to extend the period or they can upgrade to a full version with unlimited multiplayer. However, they can also just bypass that and purchase a regular full copy right off the bat.
Really? That's actually quite sensible of Blizzard.
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Guess that's the solution to the Austrailian problem no australian gamers no problem.
Slightly stupid question: Is the Austrailian one after tax? (I know that Britain has a VAT too so any VAT tax increase would probably already be in both prices... but you never know.)
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I got a little pissed to find out that the local set I've been waiting for cost 78 USD (Singapore) only to realize Australia pricing was much worse...
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in argentina is 30$ because we will have to pay subscriptions every month... i would prefer to buy the US version and have the game allways free.
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On May 30 2010 05:02 RoMarX wrote:
in argentina is 30$ because we will have to pay subscriptions every month... i would prefer to buy the US version and have the game allways free.
But you have the option to buy the full game I believe. In addition, your subscriptions eventually gets you the full game.
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On May 30 2010 05:08 holy_war wrote:Show nested quote +On May 30 2010 05:02 RoMarX wrote:
in argentina is 30$ because we will have to pay subscriptions every month... i would prefer to buy the US version and have the game allways free. But you have the option to buy the full game I believe. In addition, your subscriptions eventually gets you the full game.
As far as I know the monthly suscription will not upgrade to the full game when you reach 60UsD of monthly fees, you have to pay the 60UsD after you bought the game for 30UsD if you want to use it without monthly fees, so if you are thinking in playing multiplayer buying the US Full version is the best idea.
Also I'd like to see if you buy a physical copy in EU if you can activate the game in the US server, if it's just a cdkey then it should work, if that's the case I think I'll buy it in the UK or Sweden as they are the cheapest countries, of course I would need someone to buy the physical copy and send me the key, but that can be arranged.
Every dollar I can save it's actually 4 Pesos, so 10 UsD is a huge difference around here, our currency has less value but we also earn much less in UsD, minimum wage is about 350UsD, average is about 450-550, a game that costs 60 is a huge piece of the cake in the end, that's like two weeks of food.
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On May 29 2010 21:05 Grend wrote:
i got d3 and sc2 for 80 bucks shipped combined
Diablo 3 wont be out for at least another year lol.
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On May 30 2010 03:25 foxj wrote:
@wwiv : About Singapore's price ... there's IAHGame's price ?
Yes, that is the pre-order price being charged by IAHGames here. They are actually the regional distributor for the game. And its quite annoying that for the first time in gaming history an emerging market area is being charged a higher price then developed markets.
To clarify, the time period is the length of subscription the player would have access to battle.net 2.0.
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On May 30 2010 04:49 Sabu113 wrote:
Guess that's the solution to the Austrailian problem no australian gamers no problem.
Slightly stupid question: Is the Austrailian one after tax? (I know that Britain has a VAT too so any VAT tax increase would probably already be in both prices... but you never know.)
Australia has a 10% sales tax, and that price looks like it has the tax included.
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This is just plain ridiculous. we have to pay twice the amount compared to the US people just for buying the game? For heaven's sake, they priced WoW, Diablo , Starcraft, Warcrat 3 at reasonable prices and now they want to rip people off who want to buy the game by increasing to more than twice the amount in the SEA region?
Seriously blizzard, stop being such an idiot and wise up. For goodness sake, sack all the sub-standard employees who even had the audacity to suggest region pricing
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I dont think it's blizzard increasing the price per region it it local taxes and stuff that do that.
Either way I pre-order SC2 for £25.99 at the start of the year 40USD / 32Euro , SC2 then went up to £30 about a month ago and its £35 now. LOL!
EDIT: I guess all that extra money the Aussies pay go into paying for their Great FireWall of Aus.
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Don't forget to multiply the price by 3, there'll be two full-priced expansions (right?).
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hopefully those are not 60 bucks...
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NZ has regular retailing for 130nzd [88usd] and collectors for 200nzd [135usd].
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