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[sponge56]

Hathur wrote...

The answer is elementary, my dear Watson..

They will charge whatever they believe people are willing to pay. Don't like it? Don't buy it. If enough people do the same, they might get the message (though in reality people won't do this.. they'll just buy it anyway).

It's the same reason PC game prices have jumped $10 in the past year. PC games used to be $10 cheaper than console games because there was no licensing fee to pay to release a game on PC (unlike releasing a game on Nintendo, PS3 or Xbox, publisher is charged a licensing fee by the maker of the console).

However, publishers realized they could jack the price of PC games up by $10 to match console game prices. Why? Because they know PC gamers will pay it regardless.. even if we b!tch and moan about it, we still buy it.

The problem is that many people in the UK (and it also sounds like Austrailia and NZ), including myself, simply can't afford the Collectors Eddition. As a student I dont have that kind of money to spend on a game, which is a shame because as its the final one I want to get the collectors eddition. However if they were being sold at US prices, or similar to US prices then I and many other people could afford the collectros edition.

Modifié par sponge56, 27 juillet 2011 - 11:05 .

[Anakronist]

At the minute I can only find one shop with the collectors edition here in Denmark, and they want 145$ or 88.7£ if that is your thang.

It is 749DKR and the usual price for a game is about 349-399DKR, so it is double the price, I am not even sure that that is reasonable. I think I will wait and see when we get closer to the release date, hopefully more shops will be selling it, and that will push the price down.

[Eurhetemec]

Soooooo, I see InviolateNK hasn't got back to us to let us know what this mysterious "other shop" which was selling the Collector's Edition in the UK is.

Well that's a big surprise eh?

Modifié par Eurhetemec, 27 juillet 2011 - 05:03 .

[tvr321]

The Twilight God wrote...

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? 

Yes, glad we didn't switch to the euro at the moment

[bucyrus5000]

This situation clearly shows what has been going on in the world economically. Europeans have traditionally had to pay more for goods for years (due in part to their tariffs and taxes), but at the same time poor parts of the world have to pay substantially less. For example, prescription drugs in Africa cost pennies to the dollars Europe and North America have to pay (at the consumer/common citizen level). By capitalist standards, businesses charge what they can get, according to supply and demand, but like prescription drugs, software is not a mined or farmed resource. There aren't twenty different companies out there growing farm raised copies of ME3. The supply is controlled. So ordinary capitalist paradigms really don't apply here. Still they charge what they think they can get. Having friends and family in Europe, I know the situation a little. Most college students are broke as hell (England, Germany, Poland, and Romania are where my friends and family are from and tell me this). People with jobs can surely afford the extreme price, still the cost is similar to a new hard drive.

[Canned Bullets]

Because you British people have had it too good for too long with your Universal Healthcare.

[sponge56]

Canned Bullets wrote...

Because you British people have had it too good for too long with your Universal Healthcare.

Except that really a universal healthcare system is seen as normal and nothing out of the ordinary in Europe and the UK, but for some reason people in the US seem to want to continue paying up front for their healthcare . And people in the Uk pay for the NHS out of our taxes, which is entirely different to complaining about crazy price rises such as whats happened with ME3 in the UK and other palces.

[Eurhetemec]

sponge56 wrote...

Canned Bullets wrote...

Because you British people have had it too good for too long with your Universal Healthcare.

Except that really a universal healthcare system is seen as normal and nothing out of the ordinary in Europe and the UK, but for some reason people in the US seem to want to continue paying up front for their healthcare . And people in the Uk pay for the NHS out of our taxes, which is entirely different to complaining about crazy price rises such as whats happened with ME3 in the UK and other palces.

I think he's joking, dude

The trouble with all these "economic" explanations is that they fail to explain why the non-CE is effectively the same as the US price, but the CE is a huge amount more than the US price (about $112 as compared to about $80).

But my "monopoly" explanation explains that perfectly and simply. So I think Occam's Razor and just basic logic supports me here.

[Garrus.Vakarian]

I saw the UK price for the CE from Game and I preorded the SE from Amazon.co.uk for the PS3. Here's my suggestion:

Don't buy the CE. Preorder your copy (PC, PS3 or Xbox 360) from Amazon.co.uk then purchase a £25 Playstation Network Card from Zavvi.com and wait until they release all the DLC's for ME3 and buy them with that card.

By doing this, you will still have something like £5 left over if you buy the 360 or the PS3 version or £15+ if you buy the PC version.

It's the most efficient way to save money and still experience the FULL game (including the DLC's). Unless of course you really desire the physical extra content you get from the CE, which I don't care about tbh.

[azerSheppard]

We don't even have the collectors edition over here, so don't be too mad, atleast you have the option, we don't.

[Suspire]

azerSheppard wrote...

We don't even have the collectors edition over here, so don't be too mad, atleast you have the option, we don't.

Same here, had to order from Amazon and hope they deliver to Brazil, taxes are up to 60% of price, all in all I'm paying about $120... first CE I'll ever own.
But that's ok because a regular xbox game here is about R$250... not that much difference.

Modifié par Suspire, 01 août 2011 - 10:57 .

[ReveurIngenu]

Why do british people complain so much? You have some of the cheapest prices for games in all of Europe, so much so that the UK has become the preferred import country for many europeans (over US imports). All I hear is how the british feel that they are so cheated, how prices are so high, etc.

Why don't you try importing from any country in the Euro zone for once and see how much more it would cost you? Stop acting like you are paying the highest prices because you aren't.

[Bobad]

ReveurIngenu wrote...

Why do british people complain so much? You have some of the cheapest prices for games in all of Europe, so much so that the UK has become the preferred import country for many europeans (over US imports). All I hear is how the british feel that they are so cheated, how prices are so high, etc.

Why don't you try importing from any country in the Euro zone for once and see how much more it would cost you? Stop acting like you are paying the highest prices because you aren't.

I don't see anyone acting like that at all, complaining that the difference in price between the standard and CE is disproportionate compared to the price difference in the US, I do see that and I am in complete agreement with that complaint.

If the UK is the preferred import option for most europeans then complaining about the difference will also be of benefit to said europeans as well.

[adrewan]

trade a game in when you buy it, save up your loyalty points and you might saver about £20 at game.

[Garrus.Vakarian]

ReveurIngenu wrote...

Why do british people complain so much? You have some of the cheapest prices for games in all of Europe, so much so that the UK has become the preferred import country for many europeans (over US imports). All I hear is how the british feel that they are so cheated, how prices are so high, etc.

Why don't you try importing from any country in the Euro zone for once and see how much more it would cost you? Stop acting like you are paying the highest prices because you aren't.

I'm European and I complain about the UK prices being too high at times. So do my other friends from Europe. We always order games from UK retailers online so it really does matter to us. I would never buy games from my home country because they are far too expensive but I see the UK almost like my own country for videogames, so yes I feel cheated that things cost so much compared to the NA versions.

[TUHD]

All except for USD-based countries get ripped off majorly... UK is bad, Australia&NZ are getting ripped off too, and the Euro too in general (conversion course of 1 EUR: 1,2-1,3 USD, but they charge 59 EUR for a game which costs 59 USD... *sighs*)
And all US-based devs do that, sadly enough - besides the fact that if they develop an MMO, they all seem to think everyone on the world has an CC, the fools.

[NightAntilli]

Taxes maybe? I dunno.

[CaptainHydra]

The Big Bad Wolf wrote...

Because the UK sucks?

That's bloody outrageous mate!

[Merchant2006]

I've made a thread here about all of the retailers that do sell the collectors edition (well I'm trying my best to compile all of them) but so far the only places here in the UK that sell the Collectors Edition is GAME and GameStation. Other than that... I don't think I know of any other retailer that does deal with these.

If you do find any other retailers selling the game then do feel free to help me out as well, but unfortunately... nothing else for UK CE sellers so far :\\

http://social.biowar...index/7636043/1

Modifié par Merchant2006, 02 août 2011 - 10:58 .

[CaptainHydra]

Reveuringenu wrote...

Why do british people complain so much?

There's two things we Brits like to do on a day to day basis, and they are queueing and moaning! If we don't queue, we moan. If someone else cuts in in a queue, we moan. If we do queue, we moan. You get the gist. Since we can't queue to buy a game online, our default mode is to moan.

[EternalPink]

ReveurIngenu wrote...

Why do british people complain so much? You have some of the cheapest prices for games in all of Europe, so much so that the UK has become the preferred import country for many europeans (over US imports). All I hear is how the british feel that they are so cheated, how prices are so high, etc.

Why don't you try importing from any country in the Euro zone for once and see how much more it would cost you? Stop acting like you are paying the highest prices because you aren't.

I'm sorry maybe all us peeps in the UK blinked and missed the bit were two wrongs suddenly make a right.

So you get overcharged more than someone else, that makes being overcharged less than you all fine and dandy?

If thats the standing view where you live dude, pretty glad i'm in the UK

[Merchant2006]

@Reveur, Importing from other countries actually helps us save £1. Yes. I was thinking of buying something from the US or from another neighbouring EU country only to find that I would be saving a meaningless £2. And then theres the delivery. It would take about over a week or two. For a game. No thanks.

But hey, I suppose we're not having it as bad as the Aussies. Poor gits :\\

[Boiny Bunny]

Any and all explanations, other than perhaps tax, fall flat when you compare prices of digital download editions between regions. There are no shipping costs or any other physical considerations to take into account.

I live in Australia, and remember the days where the Australian dollar was worth around 0.5 US dollars. This was the point where gaming started to take off, and stores in Australia started selling games. With the exchange rate as it was, it made perfect sense for the US prices to be $50 for a standard game and $100 in Australia. The problem is, now the Australian dollar is worth more than the US dollar, and has been for some time, and we're still paying double.

Somebody once told me it is related to some kind of Australian government tax, but was unable to give any evidence or even name the tax. As such, until proven otherwise, I'm assuming it's massive price gouging by companies. They all do it, and nobody has been bothered to form a united front to stop them yet, so they can get away with it.

[Radwar]

Well, if you're on PC, just use the EA's digital download like me and you won't pay more.