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Originally Posted by chilko
In terms of nominal value it is more expensive but the relative value is the same...
We tried to come up with a pricing scheme that will not only take into account the exchange rates but the purchasing power.
an example of other products:
An xbox 360 game system costs 300 USD in the States, and 300 Euro in Europe
PC GAMES that cost 50 USD in America usually cost 50 Euro in Europe
Same thing with mass market stuff like MacDonalds, etc
regards,
Chilko
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Regarding this, i have to give some precision:
-How do you evaluate the purchasing power of countries or continents ??
I'd love to see details about how you're evaluationg this. Specially that you have to come up with something that justify 50% diff between europe and US
-For Hardware; there is a law in europe that imposes 2 years of full warranty on electronics, im not sure it's the same in US, these off-course makes prices higher.
-Video games that are fully localised will cost more than the US version, that is due to the facts that they are localised and are delivered in your local country language, this include, content (texts, voices etc) and also the manual and most often the support aswell; this is why EA and others have to charge more for these versions. Now than this has been said, there's nothing that won't allow me to get the US version of the game for the same price as it is in the US as I always did (just get a decent distributor, they're all over the place)
-Mass market products are produced and/or sold by european ppl, who asks for european contracts and salaries. MacDonald don't pay theyr european worker the same than in some other countries. Plus McDonalds use local products as much as possible, making the production price higher here than say in the US.
All your arguments are very very poor.
There's is nothing i can find to agree with you, and i tried really really hard!
FYI: A few years ago, we had an issue in europe concerning DVD's pricing, indeed, all zone 2 dvd were twice more expensive than zone 1 , and it was not possible to legaly import zone 1 DVD according to theyr consortium. EU suited them and made this practice illegal in europe.
I love Regnum, I'd like to support this project with cash. But that's just not fair, i really wished i knew that before i created my account, now i'm screwed and i can change it, off-course ...