CAD / AU price WHINING has gone TOO FAR

[Coils of Light]

Steam price / average monthly salary

Canada $94.99 + tax / $4,942
AU $108 AUD / $7000-9500+ AUD
EU €64,99 / €2,302

you make on average approx. more than twice and around four times as much respectively and pay the game less than twice as much, yet somehow the forum is flooded by people complaining about how unfair the CAD/AU regional prices are...

Check your privilege

[Kai]

1 Million Canadians using food banks is a record high you know.
EDIT: Actually make that 2 million, the numbers are always lower when reported by the mass media to downplay it.

I could possibly get DD2 and Rise of Ronin maybe, it will definitely mean making the most out of the existing games, or I can just skip them entirely since there's probably going to be bigger issues around the corner that Canadians hasn't foresee yet.

The government ain't done with screwing with people yet, that's for sure.

[Coils of Light]

Kai の投稿を引用：

You realize Canada has a employment crisis right? Good luck competing for minimum wage jobs. Also employers are playing a referral game and ending up hiring uneducated and poorly skilled immigrant workers that can't even figure out a microwave, probably aiming for cheap labor so they can cut corner and get money from DEI organizations.

Average minimum wage is roughly $1800~2000 a month, half of that could be going to your rent and/or utilities, the other half to trying to maintain your basic expenses to live and go to work (if you own and drive a car).

The minimum annual amount a Canadian needs to thrive in Ontario now is 80k a year.

Frauss79 の投稿を引用：

the average salary in Italy is 1600 euros gross, but on average young people earn 1000-1300 euros net

about the same situation in Spain and Portugal, even worse in Greece....do you think people live in the EU rent free or don't have to pay utility bills???

then you have

Anclaphoenix の投稿を引用：

Argentina average usd 380 game price usd 70 T.T

Power の投稿を引用：

The game here costs more or less 1/4 of the minimum wage of my country.

so yeah, write me another essay about how you're the one who's getting screwed over with these prices

Jeez Louise

[Wazii]

Coils of Light の投稿を引用：

Kai の投稿を引用：

Frauss79 の投稿を引用：

the average salary in Italy is 1600 euros gross, but on average young people earn 1000-1300 euros net

about the same situation in Spain and Portugal, even worse in Greece....do you think people live in the EU rent free or don't have to pay utility bills???

then you have

Anclaphoenix の投稿を引用：

Argentina average usd 380 game price usd 70 T.T

Power の投稿を引用：

The game here costs more or less 1/4 of the minimum wage of my country.

so yeah, write me another essay about how you're the one who's getting screwed over with these prices

Jeez Louise

And what? He can't be having a hard time because someone else as a harder time out there? His point is valid, You make 2000 a month, pay 1200 in rent for a single bedroom home in the poorer parts of the country, 180$ for internet + cellphone, 200$ for water, 300$ for electricity and you got 120$ left for food and entertainment. Canada, like the USA as a debt problem for a reason.

[Coils of Light]

forgive my self-quotation, but I'm frankly tired of typing the same thing over and over and over

Coils of Light の投稿を引用：

Those who complain about the price could buy cheaper keys elsewhere as well or even wait for a discount but you know that would actually make sense, it's much more productive to make new threads every day

[Wazii]

Coils of Light の投稿を引用：

forgive my self-quotation, but I'm frankly tired of typing the same thing over and over and over

Coils of Light の投稿を引用：

Those who complain about the price could buy cheaper keys elsewhere as well or even wait for a discount but you know that would actually make sense, it's much more productive to make new threads every day

Voicing objection to things you don't approve of is common sense. They're complaining the cost is to high on their favored store front (steam) But have you considered that if they where buying the key from 3rd party sites already, then what? their cost went up too. 15% off 70$ is still more then 15% off 60$ That the bigger issue is the lack of regional pricing now. Regional pricing was something that started a long time ago to fight piracy, it turns out people bought products when the prices where reasonable instead of pirating them.

And don't say "Oh but the cost of making games went up" That BS excuse too, companies like capcom have been making record profits for like 10 years in a row now. It just gets difficult to keep up the momentum to please investors and stop their stock bubble from popping. Huger market, better tool that greatly lowers the workload combined with double and triple dipping with micro transaction all adds up to massive profit margins that doesn't stop growing, The extra 10$ USD and removing regional pricing are just tricks they're doing in hopes of increasing the profits even higher because they hope their 'invincible" Anti piracy will force the guy in the philipines to spend half his monthly pay on a single game.

[Coils of Light]

People who feel strongly about something should take action to change things rather than lazily open the umpteenth complain thread on some online forum, that's common sense.
Find a better deal elsewhere, wait for a discount, boycott the game altogether or protest in front of Capcom headquarters, I don't care.
But don't think for a second that you got it worse than people who are actually worse off financially

[Seekrt]

JerBeware の投稿を引用：

Ebon Wolf の投稿を引用：

Mentals who pre-order are part of the reason for price increase.

That's a new one. Sounds like your tin foil hat may need replaced.

He is right. Pre-buy frenzies are certainly an incentive to maintain high prices. And it is a moronic practice to begin with.

[Seekrt]

Are you comparing gross and net income in the same sentence?

[Seekrt]

Coils of Light の投稿を引用：

gryphonv の投稿を引用：

Maybe it just shows Italians are a lot more chill.

I was under the impression that Canada has free health care and legalized weed, doesn't get any more chill than that

Not free. Nothing is free. It is paid with income taxes money.

[Seekrt]

Kai の投稿を引用：

Coils of Light の投稿を引用：

Steam price / average monthly salary

Canada $94.99 + tax / $4,942
AU $108 AUD / $7000-9500+ AUD
EU €64,99 / €2,302

you make on average approx. more than twice and around four times as much respectively and pay the game less than twice as much, yet somehow the forum is flooded by people complaining about how unfair the CAD/AU regional prices are...

Check your privilege

You realize Canada has a employment crisis right? Good luck competing for minimum wage jobs. Also employers are playing a referral game and ending up hiring uneducated and poorly skilled immigrant workers that can't even figure out a microwave, probably aiming for cheap labor so they can cut corner and get money from DEI organizations.

Average minimum wage is roughly $1800~2000 a month, half of that could be going to your rent and/or utilities, the other half to trying to maintain your basic expenses to live and go to work (if you own and drive a car).

The minimum annual amount a Canadian needs to thrive in Ontario now is 80k a year.

If you live around Toronto or Vancouver, you should buy a tent before they become out of reach pennywise.

[Zetka]

in indonesia is IDR 1.080 k/IDR 10.500 k. it took almost 10% of salary is it not worth buying. maybe when on sale. for a 40 hour main story for 1080k? vs elden ring 60 hour for 600k (no discount)? this is bad pricing. it is gonna hurt the sales.

[DaciValt]

Wazii の投稿を引用：

And don't say "Oh but the cost of making games went up" That BS excuse too, companies like capcom have been making record profits for like 10 years in a row now. It just gets difficult to keep up the momentum to please investors and stop their stock bubble from popping. Huger market, better tool that greatly lowers the workload combined with double and triple dipping with micro transaction all adds up to massive profit margins that doesn't stop growing, The extra 10$ USD and removing regional pricing are just tricks they're doing in hopes of increasing the profits even higher because they hope their 'invincible" Anti piracy will force the guy in the philipines to spend half his monthly pay on a single game.

Thank god someone said it.

Poor games companies and their ever soaring profits. They have no other choice than to reach into your wallets two or three times a game at least.

[Seekrt]

Zetka の投稿を引用：

in indonesia is IDR 1.080 k/IDR 10.500 k. it took almost 10% of salary is it not worth buying. maybe when on sale. for a 40 hour main story for 1080k? vs elden ring 60 hour for 600k (no discount)? this is bad pricing. it is gonna hurt the sales.

Gaming has become an expensive hobby. That much is for sure.
Just my rig cost me close to 3000$ 2 years ago. Plust the cost of software and games.
I remember in the early 80s when I pretty much could afford all the games that were out for the C-64. (No 'PC' yet at the time).
It's like the price of a ticket for a concert. I remember getting Pink Floyd and Bowie tickets for around 12$.
These days are far gone.

[a63ntorange]

Exchange rates are a ♥♥♥♥♥

[Coils of Light]

a63ntorange の投稿を引用：

Exchange rates are a ♥♥♥♥♥

for some more than others, and those who got it worse are oddly NOT the ones who are always complaining

https://imgur.com/a/Ly58Nog