Pricing complaint

[pevergreen]

Hello, I have a complaint in regards to the price of Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword.

It is an expansion, basically.

Don't get me wrong, I bought it through Direct2Drive for about $10 AUD. And another copy through steam for about $12 AUD. (Australian Dollar is about 1.06 american dollars)

Thats great, happy with that price, yet I go into the local games store (EB Games, biggest games retailer in Australia, owned by Gamestop) and I see this:

On a good day that is $73.77 American Dollars.

I questioned the price, its set by Paradox.

Any comment?

 

[Qitbuqa]

I guess the DVD and a plastic casing adds to a price tag, but I agree that's pretty good plastic for such price.

 

[gigau]

Prices aren't set by Paradox. They give a suggest price... then the retailler or download portal choses the price (for example depending on transport). That's how you can had price differences between for example Gamersgate and Steam.

 

[TanksAhoy]

Videogame prices have always been a complete and utter rip-off in stores in Australia

 

[Terry68]

I had to check out this thread a pricing complaint?

Thats an outrageous price. I buy 99% of games through Amanzon, MBW cost me £14, and FS was £10. Both cheaper than downloads. I disagree that FS is an expansion. After all isnt an expansion meant to make the game better?

 

[Samilou]

I have a hard time believing this is fully legal.

 

[Nikolai II]

Looks expensive. Although by the looks of it I'd say they priced it at $69 to be able to offer an immediate price reduction of $20 and still turn a nice profit...

 

[COGlory]

Jokes on them, if they wanna sink themselves into oblivion, let 'em.

 

[postm00v]

That is absolutely outrageous. €50,- at first, but now only roughly €37,- .. Insanity.

 

[TanksAhoy]

That's a pretty standard video game price in Aus...
and the stores wonder why everyone is buying overseas

 

[COGlory]

They're probably trying to take advantage of the limited download bandwith you guys get.

 

[Comrade Chaos]

Is there some sort of tariff or is shipping that expensive.

 

[TanksAhoy]

Is there some sort of tariff or is shipping that expensive.

I've been told it's because of the high rent for physical shops here. Who knows though..

 

[unmerged(141839)]

That is a bit of a rip off. Then again, why buy a hard copy in this day and age when you can simply get the game on Steam, Impulse, GamersGate (and no doubt many, many more places)?

 

[COGlory]

Because Oceania has download limits.

 

[Qitbuqa]

Because Oceania has download limits.

But that game is rather small in size. Are those bandwith limits THAT harsh?

 

[COGlory]

I've seen some people say they have ~2GB a month. If that's the case, there goes 1/4th of their monthly web browsing right there.

 

[Qitbuqa]

I've seen some people say they have ~2GB a month. If that's the case, there goes 1/4th of their monthly web browsing right there.

If that's the case, it's pretty rad for a developed country.

 

[gigau]

If that's the case, it's pretty rad for a developed country.

Actually, when you look at the price of telecommunications and internet, you might want to consider that not everybody can afford more...

 

[Comrade Chaos]

I've been told it's because of the high rent for physical shops here. Who knows though..

I seem to be reading that there is loads of taxes on the shipping to Australia.