Cities: Skylines Mass Transit is released!
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Why do people care so much about 1-2$ price difference? 
guys, the DLC is incredibly cheap already. Don't bother about a few cents.
Question, though - will it be available as a "hard copy" (the CD box) as well? Or just as a online key? (Asking for Germany, in specific)
All the other DLCs are available in CD boxes here (with a key instead of a CD inside), and I'd like to have one of Mass Transit for my collection.
guys, the DLC is incredibly cheap already. Don't bother about a few cents.Question, though - will it be available as a "hard copy" (the CD box) as well? Or just as a online key? (Asking for Germany, in specific)
All the other DLCs are available in CD boxes here (with a key instead of a CD inside), and I'd like to have one of Mass Transit for my collection.
Everyone's budget is different. Back when I worked for a living, I lived from paycheck to paycheck. Now that they pay me to play with computers, paying out money for games makes very little impact on my budget.
I can safely say the addition of intersection management alone makes this whole adventure worthwhile. (And yes, I know it's part of the free patch.) I spent all my pre-work time this morning re-routing traffic in my residential zones. Everything flows like a freshly plumbed pipe. Excellent, excellent, excellent expansion.
Ok, I love the road names from that free update there are nothing missing, but:
VERY SAD of that the less then the half Traffic manager president edition (missing: set the traffic lights for every single lane and see the lights) was include and the half of the routeplaner was included and the network edition 2 with all the needed streets not included
Also important: the Information extension mods for buildings and the move it mods for streets and buildngs are not included and the camera mods where I can see more far a distance
And the mod wich I can build my own signs the goals
VERY SAD of that the less then the half Traffic manager president edition (missing: set the traffic lights for every single lane and see the lights) was include and the half of the routeplaner was included and the network edition 2 with all the needed streets not included
Also important: the Information extension mods for buildings and the move it mods for streets and buildngs are not included and the camera mods where I can see more far a distance
And the mod wich I can build my own signs the goals
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It's not so much a matter of being able to afford it but rather an ostensible injustice. Why should I pay more than others for the same product just because it's another currency?
Well that I have little patience for. The world is not fair. We just have to deal with that. If you can do something to make it more fair without dumping on someone weaker than you, by all means forge ahead.
Well, thanks for discouraging me from buying this dlc. Demi Moderator, do you somehow speak for Paradox Interactive AB?
No. I'm just a volunteer who helps keep the forum friendly and sweet, with a penchant for having an opinion as much as the next guy. But don't blame me. You were already railing against injustice before I got here.
Well, the penchant you have does not seem to be limited to having an opinion. I wasn't railing, I was asking for a reasonable explanation. VAT btw seems to be the answer and serves as a logical explanation (after some research). Your contribution, however, was neither helpful nor enlightening.
Can't believe people are bitching about the price for the stuff in the DCL, it's ludicrously low for all the work, it's just the cost of a bottle of wine!
I think it's due to Steam(/Valve) taking a % of the profit. Paradox's cut of the price is probably £9.99. Although do take my answer with a pinch of salt.
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The EUR and GBP (and SEK, etc...) prices include the value added tax (VAT). In the EU, consumer prices must be given with taxes included.
The various VAT rates are set on a country-by-country basis. The rate applied to most items, including computer games, is the general rate, which is the highest one. E.g. 24% general VAT rate for Finland means that the amount of tax is 0.24 times the tax-free price of the good.
Companies within the European single market (EU/EEA except some regions) are also required to carry VAT from mail order/Internet sales to another country within the single market if the total sales to that country exceed a set limit (set by the destination country), or if the total sales the previous year exceeded the limit. The tax is paid to the destination country, following their rates.
So even though Steam's European operations are carried out outside Finland, Steam is required to carry VAT from sales to Finland, since the annual sales (tax-free) exceed 35,000 euros.
Having taken this into account, the math in this case becomes:
The US price, without tax:
12.99 USD = 12.03 EUR
versus
The European (Finnish in this case) price:
12.99 EUR (14.03 USD), including VAT 24%
VAT 24%: 2.51 EUR (2.71 USD)
10.48 EUR (11.32 USD) tax-free
VAT 24%: 2.51 EUR (2.71 USD)
10.48 EUR (11.32 USD) tax-free
So actually the Finnish tax-free price is 1.55 EUR (1.67 USD) cheaper than the US one! Some of this has to do with the publisher setting different prices regionally.
One thing to note is that (as far as I know), there is only one price for the entire Euro zone (that uses the euro currency), regardless of the VAT rate of the country, so the amount of tax and the tax-free price will vary accordingly.
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