Reconsider Regional Pricing, Please SEGA

[MegaApple]

Persona 4's regional pricing has been increased in a lot of regions.
Here is comparison with Bayonetta (also $19.99).

Currency	Persona 4 Golden	Bayonetta
Russian Ruble	1199 ₽	699 ₽
Indian Rupee	₹ 1039	₹ 665
Argentine Peso	ARS$ 1039,00	ARS$ 279,99
Brazilian Real	R$ 67,99	R$ 36,99
Indonesian Rupiah	Rp 259999	Rp 141999
Mexican Peso	Mex$ 319.99	Mex$ 184.99
Malaysian Ringgit	RM79.00	RM40.00

Source :
P4G : https://steamdb.info/app/1113000/
Bayonetta : https://steamdb.info/app/460790/

A lot of people want to play Persona 4, and we were excited as SEGA usually follows fair regional pricing.
However, these prices are prohibitive for lot of customers from differnet regions.

Please SEGA.
Please bring Persona 4 Golden's regional pricing back to levels of Bayonetta.

[Kurt Russell]

Sadly, SEGA has been doing this for a while. For instance, they increased the price of the Total War games (even the older ones) in Argentina. Would be nice if they finally saw the light and went back to fairer prices, since their current ones aren't really affordable here.

[MegaApple]

Kurt Russell a écrit :

Sadly, SEGA has been doing this for a while. For instance, they increased the price of the Total War games (even the older ones) in Argentina. Would be nice if they finally saw the light and went back to fairer prices, since their current ones aren't really affordable here.

Please do it so that we can encourage more people to buy from you.

[The Hermit]

Can you normalize this to USD?

[The Hermit]

Country	Persona 4 Golden	Bayonetta
Russia	$17.27 ₽	$10.07
India	$13.63	$8.72
Argentina	$14.90	$4.01
Brazil	$12.80	$6.96
Indonesia	$18.47	$10.09
Mexico	$14.15	$8.18
Malaysia	$18.51	$9.37

[The Hermit]

It looks like other countries actually pay less for P4G than the United States (i.e. they are all less than $20, some almost half price)

[Kurt Russell]

The Hermit a écrit :

It looks like other countries actually pay less for P4G than the United States (i.e. they are all less than $20, some almost half price)

Ah yes, the classic "oh, you actually pay a little less than the US, you are fortunate" post...
I'll give you an example of why regional pricing exists: A teacher in the US earns an average of at the very least, 30000 dollars a year. A teacher in Argentina earns an average of... US$3400 a year, and that's using the official dollar price and not the grey market price. See the difference? And the same thing happens in India, Russia, Brazil, etc.

[The Hermit]

Fair enough. I suppose Steam's Region Locking does prevent exploitation for marking down the price of games in some regions. Carry on.

[Viper]

Cheaper than US in all cases.$14 to $18. You have absolutely no room to complain. especially comparing it to an old game released in 2009. US almost always has the highest prices and we do not complain about it.

[Viper]

ex_beat a écrit :

Americans are as retarded as always, I see

we are paying $20. And you want to get it for like $5. I wonder why we would not agree that you should. You don't see me complaining that I have to pay the highest prices in the world do you..

[ex_beat]

Viper a écrit :

ex_beat a écrit :

Americans are as retarded as always, I see

we are paying $20. And you want to get it for like $5. I wonder why we would not agree that you should. You don't see me complaining that I have to pay the highest prices in the world do you..

Google -> search "average income by country"

[Viper]

ex_beat a écrit :

Viper a écrit :

we are paying $20. And you want to get it for like $5. I wonder why we would not agree that you should. You don't see me complaining that I have to pay the highest prices in the world do you..

Google -> search "average income by country"

So make more money. That does not make things less valuable..

[Viper]

I'm not going to sell my $35,000 car to you for $500 just because your poor. Things have intrinsic value.

[Viper]

Not everything has regional pricing. Only products where the cost to make more copies of that item is small like video games. Your certainly not going to find it on Electronics or anything where there is an actual substantial cost to make that thing. That would mean the company was actually losing money on the sale.

[Ghebero]

Viper a écrit :

ex_beat a écrit :

Google -> search "average income by country"

So make more money. That does not make things less valuable..

yeah, I don't understand why people are poor, like, just make more money or something lol

[Viper]

Setorus a écrit :

Viper a écrit :

So make more money. That does not make things less valuable..

yeah, I don't understand why people are poor, like, just make more money or something lol

Its not a companys fault if you don't have the money to buy there product. You cant expect them to lose money selling it to you. Nobody is putting down poor people. Just speaking of reality.