I am and old battle-tech fan, started playing on sega and ps1, read some books, spent a lot of time in mwo, and you can imagine that i was waiting for this game since the announce, especially concidering that it's turn-based and made by hbs, who proven their ability to make good games with this combat system.
What i cannot understand - is a price on this game in my country. You should know that Russia and Ukraine sharing exacly same region-locked version of the game, but due to recent changes in steam policy my friend from Russia can't gift me copy of the game anymore because... they have different prices.
Russian version costs 725rubles, and that equals 333uah (or even 295, depending on exchance method). Ukrainian version costs 479uah, that is at least 146uah more for Ukrainian version, and i have only one question: WHY?
Average month income in Ukraine is way lower than in Russia. Some of the professions recieving 3x time less money than they would recive in Russia, yet people from Ukraine have to pay more? Where is the logic in that?
Games don't come cheap to me, my current month income is 1400uah, and even if we speaking about one of my favorite settings - i can't just throw money out. If price were equal to russian i would already pre-order it, but now i have to wait before sellers from Russia will start selling steam codes, and buy it from them (since both countries recieve same version of the game, it's 100% legal to do that).
I don't even ask you to change prices, all i want to know - is why did you do that? What is the reasons to charge more from the poor country, and charge less from the richest one, especially concidering that it has no effect since you can just buy a key from russian resellers? All it does is not allowing to pre-order, and forcing to wait until people will start selling keys instead of playing right away. Maybe i am missing something obvious that your marketing team can see, and i - do not? Then i hope it's not a classified sectet and you can explain, why it was done?
What i cannot understand - is a price on this game in my country. You should know that Russia and Ukraine sharing exacly same region-locked version of the game, but due to recent changes in steam policy my friend from Russia can't gift me copy of the game anymore because... they have different prices.
Russian version costs 725rubles, and that equals 333uah (or even 295, depending on exchance method). Ukrainian version costs 479uah, that is at least 146uah more for Ukrainian version, and i have only one question: WHY?
Average month income in Ukraine is way lower than in Russia. Some of the professions recieving 3x time less money than they would recive in Russia, yet people from Ukraine have to pay more? Where is the logic in that?
Games don't come cheap to me, my current month income is 1400uah, and even if we speaking about one of my favorite settings - i can't just throw money out. If price were equal to russian i would already pre-order it, but now i have to wait before sellers from Russia will start selling steam codes, and buy it from them (since both countries recieve same version of the game, it's 100% legal to do that).
I don't even ask you to change prices, all i want to know - is why did you do that? What is the reasons to charge more from the poor country, and charge less from the richest one, especially concidering that it has no effect since you can just buy a key from russian resellers? All it does is not allowing to pre-order, and forcing to wait until people will start selling keys instead of playing right away. Maybe i am missing something obvious that your marketing team can see, and i - do not? Then i hope it's not a classified sectet and you can explain, why it was done?
, best of luck to you.
