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Sony's also guilty of this, when ps3 launched, they deliberately had the majority of the ps3's put into a warehouse instead of sitting on store shelves, so people would think they were actually getting something for thier $600, when you could build a computer with 2x the power for that price.
Greed? Nobody's forcing you to buy it. Those who do buy it obviously feel it's worth it.
It's a famous IP with a huge amount of die hard fans. They could sell the CE for twice as much and people would by it all the same.
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
Do you know what Greed means?
Socialism doesn't work. See: Ludwig von Mises.
yup but I would recoment not to buy it tho, you can only get the digital versions in the EA store and they scam you :P (conversion rates) either buy a CE from the US and make it ship , amazone is cheaper then ordering it in Europe or do the same for the regulair version , tho prize diference between regulair US and EU versions is ofc minimal due to the lower prize but still about 1/4th of the prize reduction.
if they dont manage to make one world wide stable price ...to hell with them
i was keen to play this game but if this is true i wont ...im not getting screwed
Got my 4 CE copies paid for from amazon.com.
yeah you posted that on the other thread too...glad youre rich ...but there are mortals here that have to work
for that money. And making EURO and $$ nearly 1:1 is redicule
know what its not even available in my region so screw it .
EA will turn this into a desaster
It's not greed. They set a price the market will bear. It's basic capitalism. They are running a business, not a charity, not a non-profit, not a not-for-profit. As a consumer, you have rights - you have the right to purchase it at the listed price, buy it later for a reduced price or not buy it at all. This isn't a required staple like food. It's a collector's item edition of a video game. That alone ensures a premium price.
Then don't buy the collector's edition - it's not for you. It's for people who can are are willng to pay for it. Don't be angry because you can't afford it - it's not like you "need" it. I want a Ferrari, but I can't afford it so I stick with my Kia. You don't see me bitching about the cost of Ferraris and how it's so unfair they're priced out of range of good, common working folk.
@rhinok But people want things they don't earn. Isn't that why we're having the current economic crisis? People bought 400+K homes and made 40K a year.
If someone was given the choice: here is a CE or here is a regular edition both the same price, they would take the CE. The game then becomes how MUCH higher can you price the CE til people don't feel it's worth it. That's the price you start with and lower it just a smidge to keep people happy.
At the end of the day, if they priced a collector's edition lower they wouldn't call it COLLECTOR'S edition it'd just be DELUXE. If you think it's too expensive or aren't willing to get it, that's cool. But crying about it because people have to work to earn money, well, that's capitalism for you.
no but i dont smear it into other ppls faces ...
and its not that i cant afford it ..but he braggin bout gettin his 4 copies on 2 different threads ...nvm.
im not angry , i find its pricing policy redicule. besides your metaphor is as old as it is lame...so i invite you not to interact with me on this matter any further
Exactly! I have shipped containers around with stuff before and there is no way to use shipping as an excuse to overcharge one tiny box by so much. It is not like they are sending them by couriers one by one.. And like other posters said - there are cheaper places in Europe.. So yes they ARE screwing Europe.
To the other poster who asked about the (proof of price) price. I originally saw the 1250 DKK price at game.dk - it disappeared quickly though. Not sure if it was sold out or what. Gamestop on the other hand insists you go down to the store to get it.. 2011 and you can't order it online.
A third website that has it - though unofficially is CDON: they charge 1299 DKK (250 $). See here!
I have a screenshot if need be. Also on Facebook you can see Danish references to a price at Gamestop for 1200 DKK (231 $).
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SO did YOU buy the CE or not?
I think Euro zone is QUITE overpriced. The CE here is sold for 150 Euro, thats outrageous given it would be 104 Euro only by the actual Dollar-Euro conversion, EVEN with the tax thats only 130 Euro at best. I guess it bites the Danish addtionally because they still have their own currency, the Danish Crown.
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Yea 1250 DKK (Danish Kroner) is 168 Euro.
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Oh you misunderstood... that was a generic 'crap' - as in... 'anything.' I wasn't referring to the quality of the game. And, of course, if you comprehended the rest of the post you'd clearly see... I'm not mad, at all.
EA can charge whatever it wants to charge - you can decide if you want to pay.
Well... to be fair... if you want facts, look at Draccan's post history. 15 total posts since November, 2010, and every single one of them was 100% negative, no matter the game. 10/15 were about SW:TOR.
So questioning whether this is nothing more than a poor troll'ing attempt is quite valid.
Anyway, I can't really comment intelligently on the CE price in Denmark. I doubt that EA themselves set the retail prices in every country - rather I'd think they sell for some flat wholesale rate across the globe, and then it's the retailers themselves who jack the price up to MSRP. So EA probabaly isn't being "greedy" here, but rather the retailers. Not sure though.
Boxes that will be sold in Europe are being made in europe.
Kind of related:if you buy a US car,you can send it to europe in a container on a ship,cost 1000$.
Now 1 container would fit 1000 boxes easily so hu hum do the math.
The EU does not recieve the game boxes from the US. The game is printed onto CD's in the EU region. No shipment cost.
I find this to be a major turn off. I can't honestly believe how they can charge us in EU insane amounts of money while US is way cheaper...
I think that Denmark might just be very expenssive when it comes to such things.
The Halo Legendary edition that also comes with a statue thing is almost the same price... 1150: http://www.coolshop.dk/catalog/product/62823-halo-reach-legendary-edition--for-x360
I wonder how much the CE with Modern Warfare 2 (the night vision goggles) and black ops (the race car) costed!
Considering that most of it has been about SWToR then yes it has been 100% negative. I see that what Bioware and LA is doing is a simple money grab and that was before their prices came out.
They have hyped this game so much and yet lttle to show for it. Recent reviewers have been negative from many sources. The game is on rail and touting story as a big thing and how many hours of (scripted) gameplay they have and not at all making it sound like something massive. So yes - I have been negative on this. And when you add that LA is sacrificising SWG (which I don't play) over ToR I found greedy and insulting to players. Why not let SOE expand on that game as well.
SWToR is EA / LA / Biowares golden egg and they have done all the right things tto hype this as much as possible.
That said I have followed many other games and I shall happily write some positive posts about GW2 and The Secret World and Age of Conan if you like. The first two I expect to blow Bioware out of the water and the last one is still very solid but not unproblematic. Would that make you feel better?
But truth is that the last few years is littered with MMO corpses. Rift is not going so well, CO was a disaster, DC Online was a disaster, Star Trek Online was a disaster, FF XIV was a disaster. Earth Rise is worse than a disaster so was MO. Darkfall only appeal to a very select clique. Jumpgate never happened. Stargate never happened. Gods and Heroes was a disaster. WAR was a butchering of an IP. APB had some stuff but rang too hollow. Aion beta bored me to death. Etc. etc.
So yes I do tend to focus on that. Right now GW2 and TSW are the only two games that really look good. Archeage too - but the avatars look crappy (early beta / alpha).
The sad thing is that I love MMOs but not much has happened since AoCs horrible launch. AoC at least was turned around. CoH is still a great game. Hell even WoW is solid compared with the above graveyard and I have no desire to go back to that.
But stop calling others a troll. I merely stated the price of the CE box in Denmark and called that greed. I like the was you can call me troll without a ban but if I say the Fa**** word I get banned.
Bleh
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Yeah that is one of reasons I am happy there is no euro in Poland yet. I mean common euro currency itself is very good idea, but many things priced in euro are aftifically overpriced, not only games. Besides I was living in Slovakia for few months in exact time when they were converting to euro (over 2,5 year ago) and prices went higher.
Okay I can understand diffrernce like 5-10% becasue vat is usually higher in Eu countries than us local+federal tax but common 1$ = 1 Euro or worse is really crap...
@fadis
Well first of all I wasn't aware you used is as 'generic reason' , miscomunication then
Sure I understand EA can put any price they want. Their product = their price. Well I can as customer whine about it if I ripped off as well, not to mention try to buy and spread info hwo to buy it from other source or/and country to avoid getting ripped off.
@Draccan
Well no company would leave such bit money in hands of retailers. EA is very aware that it is standard that 1$ = 1euro in games prices. Consumers might not like it but it is going on for years now so I very much doubt they would sell games to EU retailers at same price as US retailers.
Would any sane company allow profit of f.e 30$ (totally made up) for retailer in US and 120 $ for Denmark retailer. That would be diffrence in profit margin for retailers if EA sold SWTOR CE for same flat rate (lets assume 120$) to US and EU retailers and then US retailer sold for 150$ and Denmark one for 240$.
Would anyone believe that compamy like Ea would allow this kind of profit to eu retailer?
Ah HELLLLL no!
No I'm on the side of the people saying the price of the CE is silly, however I am enough of a realist to know that such ludacris price will not keep the CE editions from selling out as fast as the web sites can take orders. I never buy a collectors edition any way, will never buy a life time sub, and don't see the benefits of a preorder to be worth buying a game with an uncertain release date. (Vaporware, remember old bean?)
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