Reasonable? Unreasonable? Was originally looking for evidence that the local distributor (In Singapore) was levying a price increase to pay for servers here but found that the prices were more or less equal across the region.. except for Australia.
I'd say that's very decently priced, all-in-all. I paid more for fucking Street Fighter 4... which I guess just means I'm willing to spend more than I should, but the point is that they could jack up the price and fans would still buy it. And considering the post-release support it's going to get, I'd say that's a steal.
Brazil will also have the limited time option, like Russia and other latin american countries. But it will also be possible to buy the complete game. Do you have info on the complete game price for these countries?
In Portugal the game is 59.99€ if I'm not mistaken. The price can vary from store to store but it will be roughly that. PC games usually are 50€, maybe its starting a new trend going for the 60€ but that is generally the price for PS3 games and not pc.
Yup, PC games are €50 here too, where console games are €60. Hope not all games suddenly get more expensive as well, although it's been €50 for so long it was bound to change at some point.
Everyone will still just get it btw. I wonder about campaign 2 and 3 more though. Would the 6 month licence mean you can just get campaign 2 + 6 months after that again?
Why do Australians always have to pay so much for games? Is it some kind of distribution conspiracy? The reality of an Island far away from production? I've always been curious about this.
Got a friend to ship the US CE to Singapore, costs $123.13USD = $177 USD (6-10 day shipping) compared to the $200 for CE in Singapore. But some of the prices are pretty steep...
Australia has always had it up the ass. Its rediculous how much cheaper it is to download games if you can, you save like 50 aussie dollars sometimes, especially for new releases. But what are you going to do
Well,the game isnt even going to release here from what I've heard.
Most of my buddies are ordering from other sites. But...it almost surely wont be here on day 1
It'll probably take about a week to get it here,and it costs about 64 dollars on play asia. The sad part is computer games are normally very cheap when they officially release here. GTA4 cost 499 rupees (about 14 dollars) on day 1. and tahe orange box cost something like 25$ on day1. So I'll be paying about 3 times the amount and no day1.
On May 29 2010 22:06 ImSkeptical wrote: Australia has always had it up the ass. Its rediculous how much cheaper it is to download games if you can, you save like 50 aussie dollars sometimes, especially for new releases. But what are you going to do
Yeah, but you forgot that we're screwed either way because of our capped Internet plans. If we had a chart for Internet prices in Australia and the rest of the world, it'd probably be even worse than games.
On May 29 2010 20:57 nbMifu wrote: Brazil will also have the limited time option, like Russia and other latin american countries. But it will also be possible to buy the complete game. Do you have info on the complete game price for these countries?
And also, thanks for the statistics
I think we do have to buy the digital version from USA, which is $60, and I believe they wont be taxing that, so its R$110. Furthermore its in english, which should be much much better than portuguese version (Aldaris: construa mais postes LOL)
>$100?? Holy shit...and here i was convincing my parents that throwing $60 into another game would be worth it..and battle net isn't even that great >:/
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.
On May 29 2010 21:46 Razamataz wrote: Why do Australians always have to pay so much for games? Is it some kind of distribution conspiracy? The reality of an Island far away from production? I've always been curious about this.
Well there's two main game distributors, EB and GAME other than a few others and they basically hold a monopoly on distribution, they can price games at w/e they want.
In Australia, it's not $83 to buy the game, it's $100. Almost all new games that come out here are $100. Even a game like Left 4 Dead 2 which has been out for a while still costs $100.
Edit: nvm getting confused with the currency conversion.
I remember a youtube video I saw where Trent Reznor of NIN fame (of course we all know that duh!) told his Australian fans to steal his CD, because "they just don't get it." He asked his label why they were charging Australians so much and their answer to him was "because they will pay for it."
That's the jist of it... here's a link to the video I mentioned:
On May 29 2010 23:23 Coraz wrote: excuse me but what does full single player + an amount of time mean
In markets where piracy is highly dominant due to the low income of the populace, such as Russia and Brazil, Blizzard is providing special versions of the game with singleplayer and a limited amount of time they can play multiplayer. Once that time has expired, the one who purchased such a copy can either pay a subscription fee to extend the period or they can upgrade to a full version with unlimited multiplayer. However, they can also just bypass that and purchase a regular full copy right off the bat.
Blizzard (the Battle.net team in particular) has been doing a lot of things wrong recently and I am seriously disappointed about that. However, I think their approach to these markets has been both fair and preety realistic given the circumstances that dominate in such countries.
well there's record low wages and record high taxes in US right now, clearly this explains all the DRM we're being assaulted with
I got my preorder for 40$ 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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
On June 02 2010 23:43 streamofhonour wrote: 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
Almost double the price for regular games in SG -.-" It's like buying 2 boxed games @ a shop. I already find MW2 quite overpriced ($78SGD). This pushes the limit tbh.
wow 3500?? damn it if it was 3k, i could afford but not 3.5k lolol guess i wont really be buying the game .. we are on a crisis because of people like Kotick
On May 29 2010 22:02 IrT4nkz wrote: Got a friend to ship the US CE to Singapore, costs $123.13USD = $177 USD (6-10 day shipping) compared to the $200 for CE in Singapore. But some of the prices are pretty steep...
And you get to play on the US Server, not with Korea. Thats also a plus.
On May 29 2010 22:02 IrT4nkz wrote: Got a friend to ship the US CE to Singapore, costs $123.13USD = $177 USD (6-10 day shipping) compared to the $200 for CE in Singapore. But some of the prices are pretty steep...
And you get to play on the US Server, not with Korea. Thats also a plus.
Are the CD-keys tied to a region? Beta keys now aren't..
IAHGames are ripping off the SEA/Oceanic region, it's so obvious. We're being charged a full $20-$30 bucks over the other countries, it's not even funny.
That and the substandard Bnet0.2, is more than enough to have me reconsider buying the game.
On May 29 2010 22:02 IrT4nkz wrote: Got a friend to ship the US CE to Singapore, costs $123.13USD = $177 USD (6-10 day shipping) compared to the $200 for CE in Singapore. But some of the prices are pretty steep...
And you get to play on the US Server, not with Korea. Thats also a plus.
Are the CD-keys tied to a region? Beta keys now aren't..
If someone can get a confirmation on this it would be great. We can just import the games and register on whichever region we wish to play on for cheaper prices versus local prices.
singapore/australia sales will be decent still but i cant imagine malaysians shelling out 250RM (thats ALOT in their currency) for a computer game. likewise for thailand/phillipines, how can these people with less purchasing power pay higher than US citizens - Especially new gamers who have never played starcraft before, it will just be an automatic skip
i was at the meeting too and i brought out how all these benefits they mentioned (low latency, localised live tournaments) are only going to affect a small handful of players ie the competitive/ top players, whereas they were going subject the vast majority to the price increase. yes casual players care about lag but its not that much of an issue to CASUAL players. They rather have a 2 second delay than pay 60 bucks more. I however will pay the extra, and all hardcore blizzard fans will obviously still buy starcraft 2, but they will still have that uncomfortable feeling that they are paying too much for something they shouldn't be.
And 50% of the players who buy starcraft just play the single player and are done with the game, so the number of sales is going to drastically drop as these players who dont benefit at all(latency nonissue they dont go online, no tournaments etc) are not going to pay 109$ just to play the game, so there goes a huge portion of new players. Also, 16 year olds arent going touch this at all, they will probably just buy 60 games on their iPhones, a new one every other day, instead of saving 4 months for 109$. Even when they do, they wont have friends playing it cause its too expensive, and those who do may have ordered the US version. The blizzard rep mentioned this is something they will look into.
The main justification for the high price was that it was all ultimately about the game expereince. they wanted to create a perfect gaming expereince for everyone, even the dota players who kept dying because of that 1 second delay in lag, and FOR ME the price tag is justified. im not agreeing 100% with this but i do have an open mind. i mean if i picture myself a few months down the road, where bnet2.0 is fixed, sc2 is the best game of all time and im having a blast and know i will continue to do so for a long time to come. Like how we enjoyed SC1/TFT for years, way beyond the game life of all those non blizzard games that we payed 60 bux for and stopped playing for 1 month. Thinking back to this thread, would the price be worth it? I belong to the group where the benefits increase my gaming expereince so ill say yes.
I do however, think they gotta do a massive rethinking on their prices/pitch to the casual players. If i put myself in the shoes of a 16 year old/ recreational gamer/ single player dude / person living in 3rd world country(no disrespect, just the purcashing power issue), these benefits arent as important to me and isnt justification for the high price tag so i simply wont buy the game.
Next, the main reason why the SEA is priced higher is because of blizzard set up costs, they are setting up an office, new server in the region all from scratch. I disagree with the SEA players having to subsidise the setup costs when blizzard has more than enough money through WoW etc. Also, this set up cost should be seen as an investment choice on their part that will bring in more revenue for them in the future, and at the moment the big price tag will only hurt their sales and growth of the player base. Like i dont pay more for willy wonka sweets if i know they are researching a new flavour.
Lastly something out of topic - for the proleague if i recall correctly they mentioned something along the lines of creating a specialised server with dedicated bandwitdh etc to handle players from different regions.
Why not allow people to buy a digital copy of SC2 online? That should solve some higher pricing (which is no doubt from transportation costs and taxations and whatnot) in some countries.
On June 03 2010 15:46 HeIios wrote: Why not allow people to buy a digital copy of SC2 online? That should solve some higher pricing (which is no doubt from transportation costs and taxations and whatnot) in some countries.
Setting up new servers, hiring staff , paying for ISP charges etc...
On June 03 2010 15:46 HeIios wrote: Why not allow people to buy a digital copy of SC2 online? That should solve some higher pricing (which is no doubt from transportation costs and taxations and whatnot) in some countries.
Agreement with publishers IIRC, they'll eventually have it available from the blizzard store for download I'm pretty sure
Every time I read something new about SC2 and everything involved in it... It's like Blizzard-Activision doesn't want us to buy the game... Can't believe some of you are saying the prices are reasonable, don't forget that you have to pay those prices THREE times...
On June 03 2010 16:08 MetalMarine wrote: Every time I read something new about SC2 and everything involved in it... It's like Blizzard-Activision doesn't want us to buy the game... Can't believe some of you are saying the prices are reasonable, don't forget that you have to pay those prices THREE times...
On June 03 2010 16:08 MetalMarine wrote: Every time I read something new about SC2 and everything involved in it... It's like Blizzard-Activision doesn't want us to buy the game... Can't believe some of you are saying the prices are reasonable, don't forget that you have to pay those prices THREE times...
I won't purchase 3 copies. Speak for yourself.
What I meant was since its a 3 part game... Wouldn't you have to pay for it 3 times?
Preordered from Amazon when it was still £25, which they will honour, gotta love it.
What I meant was since its a 3 part game... Wouldn't you have to pay for it 3 times?
Except amongst a bunch of valid complaints, this is bullshit. What you are paying for is a full length campaign, just as you are with Wings of Liberty. If you don't think that's worthwhile, then don't buy it. Single-player wise, this is 3 games, so you pay for 3 games (they also stated that the other 2 would be expansion pack price, whatever that means).
What I meant was since its a 3 part game... Wouldn't you have to pay for it 3 times?
Except amongst a bunch of valid complaints, this is bullshit. What you are paying for is a full length campaign, just as you are with Wings of Liberty. If you don't think that's worthwhile, then don't buy it. Single-player wise, this is 3 games, so you pay for 3 games (they also stated that the other 2 would be expansion pack price, whatever that means).
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who think it's not worthwhile...
EDIT: I guess I was just trying to make a point that it's kind of bullshit that i have to buy it 3 times due to Kotick's greed.
This is extremely horrible marketing. Do they realize why Warcraft 3 RoC/ TFT was quite popular in Russia and countries nearby? Because each game cost $10 - yes, ten fucking dollars! There was plenty of private servers and the game had LAN too, but the people still were buying legitimate versions. I personally know many people who would never buy the game if it was $60 but bought easily for $20 (RoC+TFT). Personally, I don't care about the price, but I care a lot about crappy Bnet 0.2 and the general "milk them till they die!" direction ACTIVISION-blizzard is taking. I will not buy the game if it remains in its current state.
On June 03 2010 16:23 TotalBiscuit wrote: Preordered from Amazon when it was still £25, which they will honour, gotta love it.
What I meant was since its a 3 part game... Wouldn't you have to pay for it 3 times?
Except amongst a bunch of valid complaints, this is bullshit. What you are paying for is a full length campaign, just as you are with Wings of Liberty. If you don't think that's worthwhile, then don't buy it. Single-player wise, this is 3 games, so you pay for 3 games (they also stated that the other 2 would be expansion pack price, whatever that means).
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who think it's not worthwhile...
EDIT: I guess I was just trying to make a point that it's kind of bullshit that i have to buy it 3 times due to Kotick's greed.
You don't have to buy anything. What's the problem with buying an extra expansion that you didn't in starcraft? Don't have a heart attack now!
2500 baht in Thailand for a game is insane. For comparison: I have a friend there who has just finished medical school and is working as a resident in internal medicine, with a monthly salary of 8300 baht. (not counting shifts) Also my nephew is an endoscopy assistant and his salary is a little over 5500 baht/month, the rent for his appartment is about 2000 baht.
On May 29 2010 20:22 PobTheCad wrote: should probably be lower in thailand and the phillipines since their GDP per capita is alot lower than USA , Australia and even Malaysia
i like this suggestion!! the price here in the philippines show that the only ones who can afford the game are those people with jobs, meaning 21+ years and i dont know but it will not be famous here since all ages 18 below like to play MMORPG rather than RTS games. RTS games become boring if they cannot improve playing. and DotA is freakin famous here!!!!
On May 29 2010 22:06 ImSkeptical wrote: Australia has always had it up the ass. Its rediculous how much cheaper it is to download games if you can, you save like 50 aussie dollars sometimes, especially for new releases. But what are you going to do
On June 05 2010 00:53 Boonbag wrote: Okay I was living under a fucking rock all this time and completly missed the subscription thing.
What the hell?
It's a pricing model introduced to lower income areas. They can buy the SP + a subscription for cheaper than retail. They can upgrade (from the last I read about) to a full retail at a larger cost after the subscription to continue playing, or continue to pay a monthly fee. But if you're really interested in the MP experience, I guess it would just be cheaper to upgrade to the full retail. I believe they pay the difference between what they purchased and the retail price (so about 30-40 more USD)
It basically makes it so people aren't paying out of their asses in these areas if they just want to play the SP and try out a few MP games.
On June 03 2010 16:53 goszar wrote: This is extremely horrible marketing. Do they realize why Warcraft 3 RoC/ TFT was quite popular in Russia and countries nearby? Because each game cost $10 - yes, ten fucking dollars! There was plenty of private servers and the game had LAN too, but the people still were buying legitimate versions. I personally know many people who would never buy the game if it was $60 but bought easily for $20 (RoC+TFT). Personally, I don't care about the price, but I care a lot about crappy Bnet 0.2 and the general "milk them till they die!" direction ACTIVISION-blizzard is taking. I will not buy the game if it remains in its current state.
Was and still is. Its hard to comprehend but Wc3 is actually still quite big and is expanding in these kinda third world countries like Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Ukrain etc
Also, SC2 in Norway, preordered costed around 45 USD
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.
It is illegal to advertise a price for a product in Australia without the sales tax included - furthermore the tax amount is the same per state (which makes it easier for broschures, TV advertisements and so on - so companies don't mind) I think the US system of an item being listed at X price but you have to mentally add tax is frankly, fucking stupid.
That being said a lot of you guys can buy some things online without tax at all - that's pretty cool
A lot of Aussies import their games, I was going to purchase SC2 as it would be cheaper - when I found out that even if I buy a US copy - my Aussie pals who buy locally can't play with me - I decided I will not purchase the game at all.
Australia price should be more in NZ its $129.99. I figure US is half price than NZ because US dollar is much stronger.Most Xbox titles are around 130/134 over here with PC games being around $109. Btw our Angus Burger Combo at Mc donalds is around $10.00 to give some kind of a comparision. O don't know what $129.99 NZ is in US dollars.
If you buy retail then $90-$100 (AU) is pretty much what you pay for games in Australia, however most games through steam are way cheaper, they tried for a while to jack up the digital prices to match the physical ones but companies like Valve who kept their prices low ended up getting all the sales so now we get digital stuff pretty much as cheap as the US.
That said I paid full price for SC2 in order to get the beta, however I would say that Starcraft2 will be worth every penny.
Actually amazone dropped the prize to 44 € and I think this prize is very reasonable. I don´t have a problem to pay 60 € for an awsome game that was in developement for so many years while ea still prizes most of their stuff 50+ and some of them are like bad games to boring films produced in half a year.
I would really much like to buy the legitimate version but RM 248 and the amount of complaints on bnet2... I will wait and observe the response after the launch date and maybe an alternative pricing.
I would really much like to buy the legitimate version but RM 248 and the amount of complaints on bnet2... I will wait and observe the response after the launch date and maybe an alternative pricing.
You can buy a digital version for $60 USD I believe.
On July 23 2010 01:04 GeminiOne wrote: well I ordered the CE of Starcraft 2 english (UK) Version at a german online shop like 3-4 months ago and I payed 144 Euro = approx. 185 US Dollar xD
@Australia (and New Zealand - $94 US ($130 NZD)). Activision originally tried to market SC2 at console game prices (figuring if they can get away with it for one platform, they can do it for all, or something) as the standard for all pricing everywhere. However in alot of places the plan was shut down due to conflict. But in the regions where they could pull it off without any issues, they seem to have still done so.
Ya we got boned this time.. but it's SC2, they get away with it cause they can.
In Hong Kong, Chinese version HKD$488 English (SEA) version HKD$499
Not much difference and SEA version could play in US server, definitely worth it plus the Chinese translation and voice acting is really weird, I will buy SEA version.
I bought mine from a uk online shop, where you could get it for 38-41€ (shipping included) instead of 50-60€ (italian shops i checked ask 60€ for a regular sc2 copy + 10€ for shipping). That's big enough of a price difference to wait a few days after release for the game to arrive, i mean 70€ vs 38€ for the exact same thing ? Something is wrong with our global economic system. They have already shipped it last week. I have no idea why games in UK cost less, but it seems their prices are the best globally.
German prices finally are getting in line with uk ones, that's good to know for future games, if there's a way around the german localization of course (should be easy for sc2).
Here in Lithuania the price will be 220Litas. Which would be $81.7. If you preorder, you can get it for 190Litas = $70.6. And we pretty much have the shittiest economy in Europe.
For anyone interested in the issue with the price discrepancies in Aus/Nz, it's pretty simple, but mind-bogglingly bogus.
Essentially, because all video games are foreign products (there are no Australian publishers; there are distributors with Aus/Nz HQ's, but none entirely and solely Australian) it basically means there is no local competition. No local competition means that prices can be set across the board as high as retailers want.
This was confirmed when a member of one of the larger gaming community websites actually contacted the Australian Competition and Consumer Commision (government body responsible for ensuring compliance with the Trade Practices Act) and discovered this. It's not a tax issue, it's not a distribution issue, it's simply that with no Australian competition such as local developers with local publishers to back them, we get charged through the nose. It's gone a bit ridiculous lately, with retailers like EB adding on an extra $10 every year or so to total prices, but as long as they're supplying competitive prices with other businesses, they're free to assfuck the entire Australian gaming population.
Oh, and a side note on the tax thing: all Australian prices for products are bound by law to state the total price, inclusive of tax. The price tag is the real price.
On June 05 2010 00:53 Boonbag wrote: Okay I was living under a fucking rock all this time and completly missed the subscription thing.
What the hell?
I'm sorry that I'm going to pick you out, but I always found it odd, yet awesome, when a foreign person speak good English, while incorporating slang and popular phrases. ----- Now to refer back to the topic. Yeah it's quite unbelievable that activision-blizzard is setting the price so high. I mean, Kotick does realize we're in a worldwide recession, right? Ah, what am I talking about, every time he opens his mouth, he talks about wanting more money.
I'm currently in Hong Kong and saw some places selling it for 760 HKD. which is nearly 100$ US! Feels bad man. Hopefully I can order it from my US account online like I'm still in the US, since I'll be playing on US servers anyway.
On May 29 2010 20:22 Wolfpox wrote: I'd say that's very decently priced, all-in-all. I paid more for fucking Street Fighter 4... which I guess just means I'm willing to spend more than I should, but the point is that they could jack up the price and fans would still buy it. And considering the post-release support it's going to get, I'd say that's a steal.
The price in Germany is less than stated in the OP. Currently Amazon.de offers it for EUR 38,99 and you can buy the game in big retail chains like Media Markt for EUR 44,00 if I am not mistaken.
AU = $69AUD from Dicksmith. i just walked into store and picked up box, didn't pre order, used digital download awhile back and so i already had everything installed/patched.
games in australia have always been ridiculous expensive. Even DS shovelware can cost $70+. Steam recently noticed many aussies were buying their games for much cheaper than retail, and majorly upped the price on everything
Not reasonable here. And the price might be similar in this region but it is US$20 MORE expensive compare to other region. This is price gorging, pure and simple.
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