To those complaining about DS1 and the price of DS2

[WantedOne (Lrn2shoot)]

I see a lot of "I wouldn't pay more than $15 for this game, the last one was a PoS port."

People need to realize they didn't want to make DS1 on PC...they were begged to, and said it was their first port and they knew ♥♥♥♥ all about porting to PC.

This time around they actually planned for PC, and I would imagine know more about what they are doing.

Oh...and this is still cheaper than games like CoD and Rambo...both of which are trash.

[Luigi Bombolini]

+1

But what really sucks is the release date.

[WantedOne (Lrn2shoot)]

There are many possible reasons for this.

• Console deal for "exclusive" release - No extra competition for them, they get to gloat about how PS4 is better, blah blah.
  
• Extra time to do finishing touches on PC/the extra content like higher texures and the frame rate thing.
  
• W.e other reasons people can come up with

This isn't the first time something has a different release date, get over it...please >.<

[Conditional Love]

That is why we have outsourcing companies that port stuff for you. There were no excuses for releasing that piece of ♥♥♥♥ port to paying customers.

$90 USD is not cheaper than anything else out there (and nearly as expensive in many other countries).

I suspect that the publishers of Darks Souls & Demon Souls are deliberately try to screw people over. Maybe the difficulty of Dark Souls was born from a hatred of gamers?

[WantedOne (Lrn2shoot)]

(I am assuming you are from Australia)
$90 USD? Considering Australia gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by many games prices, does not mean this company is trying to screw you.

I see $49.99 which is lower than CoD. Blame AUS taxes and other crap, not the dev.

[Conditional Love]

WantedOne (Lrn2shoot) の投稿を引用：

(I am assuming you are from Australia)
$90 USD? Considering Australia gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by many games prices, does not mean this company is trying to screw you.

I see $49.99 which is lower than CoD. Blame AUS taxes and other crap, not the dev.

Yes I am from Australia. No, it is not an actual tax (if anything; the general goods tax is 10%). It is known as the "Australia Tax" with a wink and a nod: they charge it because they can. Australia has a history of being geographically isolated and has to pay more to physically import foreign goods. It still happens in the digital age by region locking to stop us importing a game with a steam download. Is this spiteful? yes!

Apple is notorious for this and will charge 200-300% markup. Apple introduced a local arm to Australia and region locked us to use their Australian digital store (tip: prices doubled on all digital downloads). Well, I will not put up with that, and many Australian gamers don't.


While I might be breaking Hanlon's rule, I think the publisher has shown their contempt for PC gamers.

[RustyRed]

Conditional Love の投稿を引用：

WantedOne (Lrn2shoot) の投稿を引用：

(I am assuming you are from Australia)
$90 USD? Considering Australia gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by many games prices, does not mean this company is trying to screw you.

I see $49.99 which is lower than CoD. Blame AUS taxes and other crap, not the dev.

Yes I am from Australia. No, it is not an actual tax (if anything; the general goods tax is 10%). It is known as the "Australia Tax" with a wink and a nod: they charge it because they can. Australia has a history of being geographically isolated and has to pay more to physically import foreign goods. It still happens in the digital age by region locking to stop us importing a game with a steam download. Is this spiteful? yes!

Apple is notorious for this and will charge 200-300% markup. Apple introduced a local arm to Australia and region locked us to use their Australian digital store (tip: prices doubled on all digital downloads). Well, I will not put up with that, and many Australian gamers don't.


While I might be breaking Hanlon's rule, I think the publisher has shown their contempt for PC gamers.

Lol. So true. I'm fine with paying 10-20% more but 80%? It's pretty stupid of people blaming Importing/Shipping and Goods tax and should learn to read directly from government resources (which are freely available) instead of stupid articles and blogs written by not-so-intelligent people. It isn't our law/tax system when it comes to digital goods pricing, a shame not many people realize that. Screw the Bandai Namco Oceanic marketing devision, it's not like they made the game. They're just another addition to the unnecessary amount of useless middle-men and I hope they become bankrupt from pirates. The good law abiding people are being abused from such ridiculous pricing schemes and I only wish no one here is stupid enough to buy at this price.

Don't forget, it's $90 USD so that's going to cost us ~$98 AUD for a digital copy! JB and EB are selling for less than that - both selling $79 for a physical copy with the same pre-order bonus. I expect steam version to be at least $5-$10 cheaper since we're not getting install discs, have to waste our internet usage, and time to download. This is total BS.

[Dimebag]

WantedOne (Lrn2shoot) の投稿を引用：

(I am assuming you are from Australia)
$90 USD? Considering Australia gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by many games prices, does not mean this company is trying to screw you.

I see $49.99 which is lower than CoD. Blame AUS taxes and other crap, not the dev.

There are no taxes involved on internet purchases in Australia under $1000, it is simply price gouging via region locking .

[Arkham IKnight]

The 49$ is not expensive when you talk about 50+ hours of gameplay . there is a lot of crap out there in the same price and it can't give you more than 20 hours for example Thief 2014 .