Can someone explain to me the €80 price please

[The Traveler]

I really don't get it. it is a digital product, the euro still more expensive than USD, yet they priced it $70 for the US and €80 for Europe???? WHY?!!!! this killed my excitement for the game, I was waiting for the weekend to buy it to get shocked when I saw the price of the STANDARD edition is a freakn €80!!!

[Krazy Wallet]

Two reasons from my understanding:
1. US does not include sales tax in the store price but is displayed at checkout.
2. Europe has VAT which generally makes most things more expensive comparatively.

Basically, different tax policies for different regions, as well as different ways of displaying products. You see a price, and that's what you pay. I see the price and know I'm going to be adding around 6-10% depending on state and local tax laws. However, VAT is higher in general based on the different elements it feeds into, which you can probably educate better than I can since I don't live there or know the policies as well.

Hope that helps

[The Traveler]

Originally posted by Krazy Wallet:

Two reasons from my understanding:
1. US does not include sales tax in the store price but is displayed at checkout.
2. Europe has VAT which generally makes most things more expensive comparatively.

Basically, different tax policies for different regions, as well as different ways of displaying products. You see a price, and that's what you pay. I see the price and know I'm going to be adding around 6-10% depending on state and local tax laws. However, VAT is higher in general based on the different elements it feeds into, which you can probably educate better than I can since I don't live there or know the policies as well.

Hope that helps

That's absolutely not it. All the other games priced at US $70 are similarly priced at €70 in the EU and £70 in the UK. You're forgetting the currency exchange, which makes absolutely zero sense since no physical goods are being sold. Since they're an American company, they convert all those currencies to USD and profit from the currency difference. They could just sell it for $70 worldwide and be done with it. Also, why does half of the world pay more than $70? I know for %100 certainty a couple of countries with no extra than %15 VAT, yet the game sold at a much higher price! why?

The amount of nonsense gaming companies get away with is insane! But they have a wide audience of illiterates who frankly don't give a damn, so why not? Milk them more, I guess. I'm just shocked at the prices, especially since we're still processing the initial shock of the $70 price tag to begin with.

And people, no one will give you fake steam points. There is no reason to answer if you have no idea. Why do so many people feel the urge to respond without knowledge or get involved when they have no stake in the matter?

[Gear]

get married , then you can really whine about where where you money gets spent poorly, lol

[Krazy Wallet]

You can calm down, chap. You asked a question, I googled it, this is the answer I got. Sorry if it's wrong, that's just what I read online. Maybe try googling it yourself and see what you find. I just won't help you in the future, have a nice day.