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[antique_nova]

Anyone got any suggestions, because the price difference is just ridiculous as these are the prices that I have found so far:

UK
Game: £69.99

US
Amazon: $79.96 = £49.13

If anyone can find cheaper alternatives for UK buyers, i would appreciate it.

Modifié par antique_nova, 25 juillet 2011 - 10:44 .

[Eudaemonium]

To be honest, if you're getting PC or even PS3 it might be cheaper to import (though with the latter you have issues with needing to create a new US PSN accoutn to download DLC). But you'd probably end up waiting a good couple of weeks for shipping unless you paid an exorbitant amount that wouldn't make it worthwhile.

But yes, if anyone here has found a cheaper alternative for UK buyers, please state!

[Pulletlamer]

I'll have to pay more, so don't worry. Consider yourself fortunate.

[Squidbreath]

I may be wrong, but I think it's probably the shipping.

[sephiroth199127]

It just means EA won't be getting my money for it . I'll just buy the standard edition. Australia will have a more expensive price.

[Plogg]

Swedes pay £97.62 for CE

[sponge56]

Indeed other countries such as Australia have to pay more. However people are wondering what the price mark up is for, not moaning that 'my country has to pay more than your country'.

[exskeeny]

this thread again.

please use the search function and find a thread that has been replied to by Bioware regarding this.

[Dariuszp]

Are you talking about Mass Effect 3 on PC ? If yes then order the game in Poland.

PC: 120PLN == 27£ == 42$
XBOX/PS3: 200PLN == 44£ == 71$

More or less. It's PC standard edition. Don't know about ME 3 but ME 1 and ME 2 had english and polish language included.

[bleetman]

Because in this era of primitive locomotion and isolated, disconnected countries with limited communication, equipping and fielding an expedition into the Hinterlands beyond the shining bastion of civilization that is the United States is no easy feat.

Look on the bright side, have you seen the differences in cost between countries for the SW:TOR collectors edition? £40 extra in the UK, more so for other countries? No, no thank you.

Modifié par bleetman, 25 juillet 2011 - 11:28 .

[Dariuszp]

Well price is calculated based on economy condition of the country. So here in Poland where people earn less money - we pay less for that stuff.

In UK where you earn earn more money (i was doing programming stuff for one UK company and in 3 months I earn money that I would earn while working 1 year here) so you can pay more and you pay more.
USA is poor country so they pay less than you but more than I.

Just look on their public debet of USA :-D 14,300,000,000,000.00$ :-D It's around 47.000$ of public debet for every citizen. So if any country like china etc want their money back - every citizen must pay 47.000$ in theory. Practically they would star another war just like always. And if they will keep things going - their debet will rise to 23,000,000,000,000.00$ around 2015.

It's something like that. Your country is in better condition. Just like citizens. Simple as that. So yeah. You pay more because it's UK :-D It's like you are helping USA to get back on their feet.

Greating from Poland.

Modifié par Dariuszp, 25 juillet 2011 - 11:56 .

[Pulletlamer]

Dariuszp wrote...

Well price is calculated based on economy condition of the country. So here in Poland where people earn less money - we pay less for that stuff.

In UK where you earn earn more money (i was doing programming stuff for one UK company and in 3 months I earn money that I would earn while working 1 year here) so you can pay more and you pay more.
USA is poor country so they pay less than you but more than I.

Just look on their public debet of USA :-D 14,300,000,000,000.00$ :-D It's around 47.000$ of public debet for every citizen. So if any country like china etc want their money back - every citizen must pay 47.000$ in theory. Practically they would star another war just like always. And if they will keep things going - their debet will rise to 23,000,000,000,000.00$ around 2015.

It's something like that. Your country is in better condition. Just like citizens. Simple as that. So yeah. You pay more because it's UK :-D It's like you are helping USA to get back on their feet.

Greating from Poland.

I live in Spain and earn a very limited for not saying terribly low salary and I still have to pay 60, 70 and 80 € for games. So I don't see your point, with all due respect.

I don't know the exact details but GAME seems to be the one to blame since they have very high prices. Bioware doesn't earn as much money from the sales as the average user thinks.

The franchises are the ones that put the prices so high.

[Para Pett]

You can't just take a straight price conversion from one place to another. You've got to look at it all, wages, taxes, shipping, etc etc.

[Blarty]

beefcake 85 wrote...

You can't just take a straight price conversion from one place to another. You've got to look at it all, wages, taxes, shipping, etc etc.

You are of course right, but the increased size and weight of the Collector's Edition (for shipping) is not comparable to the 75% markup that's being requested from the standard edition. Game at the moment are the ONLY retailer showing the Collector's Edition in the UK, they bumped the price up from 54.99 to 69.99 when E3 occured.

And to be honest, if Game could get away with taking out the EA 'Cerberus Network' cards out of the packaging and then charging you for it on top, they would.

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Modifié par Stanley Woo, 26 juillet 2011 - 12:22 .

[Dragoonlordz]

I doubt they use any higher mathematics or economic financial debates. They probably have three people in a room guessing random prices. A bit like..

Mr A "What about $50?"
Mr B "Hmm I think we can get more from them so lets try $60?"
Mr C "$60 sounds about right but lets throw in one more downloadable DLC or something trivial and push it to $80"
Mr A "Agreed ok so moving on what about the UK?"
Mr B "Well we always have managed to snatch more money from them and they keep lapping it up so add £20 on top of original $80 amount"
Mr C "Oki doki, sounds good to me what about you Mr A are we agreed?"
Mr A "Sure why not, I'm hungry so now thats settled whats for lunch?"

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 25 juillet 2011 - 12:42 .

[Para Pett]

lolz @ Philosoraptor, put please don't give them ideas.......

That's true, made me glad that I put in my pre-order before E3. It isn't right, or maybe EA increased there prices to Game, we can't just blame it all on them.............. Ok, yeah we can lol

[Dragoonlordz]

Just remember Bioware and or EA don't get that £60, they probably sell it to retailer for £30 and retailer mark up (especially with GAME which happens to more often than not be much more expensive than Amazon or Play etc) might mark it up by 200% before selling to you.

I think I truly have disdain for is digital copies costing more than retail product in box. Which happens a LOT with EA. for example where in retail it's say 35 they charge you 45 for digital download of it instead. This ticks me off given they aren't paying for the material, box plastic or card and discs and paper for manuals plus no delivery postage etc so should be cheaper.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 25 juillet 2011 - 12:57 .

[Dariuszp]

Dragoonlordz wrote...

I doubt they use any higher mathematics or economic financial debates. They probably have three people in a room guessing random prices. A bit like..

Mr A "What about $50?"
Mr B "Hmm I think we can get more from them so lets try $60?"
Mr C "$60 sounds about right but lets throw in one more downloadable DLC or something trivial and push it to $80"
Mr A "Agreed ok so moving on what about the UK?"
Mr B "Well we always have managed to snatch more money from them and they keep lapping it up so add £20 on top of original $80 amount"
Mr C "Oki doki, sounds good to me what about you Mr A are we agreed?"
Mr A "Sure why not, I'm hungry so now thats settled whats for lunch?"

Nothing like that. When I was working for small company as hired programmer (they hire me for specific task and we and our cooperation after they were finished), even their calculated amount of money, customers can pay in specific country.
How ? based on income of that country, prices and stuff. For example we take avarage bills you pay like telephone, cable tv etc and we compare it to our prices. Then we are focusing for competition. That they offer, for what amount of money etc. Then we check what competition don't provide.
And then we strike.

Trust me. Big players like EA have probably small room of people that thing about stuff like that. They try to find price that is between "it's so cheap" and "that price ****** me off".

They must do it for few reasons. For example, years ago here in Poland, prices of eastern games was VERY high compare to our incomes. So gues what. Piracy was higher than ever. Worst thing is that our law have nothing to fight with piracy because it was something new and fresh.
If you put too low price - you will not maximize your income.

Right thing to do is to find balance so someone won't try pirate things and he will pay nice amount of money. And they did it. I can say with clear conscience that I bought every game I own to support my favorite developers live Bioware. Even if they release crap like DA II 

[GaDaffy Duck]

In New Zealand the CE (360) is the equivalent of $140 USD, a full $60 more than the CE price of $80 USD, and our average wage is considerably lower than in the US. It's similarly bad for our Australian friends. What's fair is irrelevant. That said, shipping a disk surely doesn't cost that much. My suspicion is that it boils down to importers and distributors adding on large costs.

I'd like to think that Bioware and EA would be interested in this since it could reduce their overall sales, even if it is largely out of their control. I consider myself a die-hard fan, and I'm trying to think of reasons why one game is worth the price of two. Hell, it probably will be. But I can't get past the feeling that I'm being played for a chump.

[The Twilight God]

Dariuszp wrote...

Well price is calculated based on economy condition of the country. So here in Poland where people earn less money - we pay less for that stuff.

In UK where you earn earn more money (i was doing programming stuff for one UK company and in 3 months I earn money that I would earn while working 1 year here) so you can pay more and you pay more.
USA is poor country so they pay less than you but more than I.

USA is a poor country? Yeah, the dollar isn't worth what it used to be, but a millions dollars in pennies is still worth more than a 1000 dollars in gold coins. Anyway, people are still making money. The government's debt does not inherently equate to each citizen's personal wealth. I'm well off. The government's debt has had no effect on me.

The US price is based on the US prciing system. The UK price is based on the US pricing system. Maybe take off ten bucks and change the dollar sign to the euro sign and there you have the UK pricing model.


Does Great Britain still use the pound? 

[GHOST OF FRUITY]

Rip off Britain, usual story. It could be worse though looking at what the Swedes or Aussies have to pay out. Shocking prices.

[Blarty]

Partly it comes down to supply and demand, if supply is low, but plenty of people want it, they'll pay a higher price to get it, however the massive discrepancies between regions, and the current restriction to a single retailer, is awful. The question is whether this is just game getting a price in early or whether they have exclusivity over the CE.

That being said, even though I will be getting 2 of the Collector's Editions, I would feel happier IF i got it on the US release day, rather than waiting to the Friday.