AOE2 about the new DLC price

[Piu]

is it correct? It costs twice as much as other regular DLC (Brazil).
We had some price changes before where some games or DLCs came out with the wrong price and were corrected later. I wonder if that's the case

[Quintem]

Originally posted by Thor II:

Even with civs that I don't like, usually I would have bought the DLC at this point. But at this price it's impossible. Not that I can't dispose of that amount, I can, but it's immoral, unrealistic, illogical for a DLC to just double in price like that, out of nowhere.

However, recently another game I've posted the following news:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/230190/view/6789795183864415533?l=english

So in part this could be Steam's fault? Some countries are getting short end of the stick then. Regional pricing is important because it's helped with piracy and giving a fair price to all.

Clarification I said would be nice as it seems weird for the DLC to be more than the base game for some and not others.

[gio.bruno]

A dev has just wrote on the official forums:
"I’m forwarding this to our team that works on pricing, thanks for sharing."

Source: https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-mountains-royals-is-more-expensive-than-base-game/241235/7

Hope they fix this.
Anyway, I'm not buying it now. I'll wait for my next paycheck at the end of the month, the issue should be fixed or not by there.

[Thor II]

Originally posted by Quintem:

Regional pricing is important because it's helped with piracy and giving a fair price to all.

That's right, when I read this news about Regional Pricing for the first time, I thought "they're going to lower prices", I was shocked when I saw that they fight piracy by raising prices. I understand that there is inflation, that the Brazilian real is not worth the same as the dollar or the euro, but doubling the price is a bit much.

[Quintem]

Originally posted by Thor II:

Originally posted by Quintem:

Regional pricing is important because it's helped with piracy and giving a fair price to all.

That's right, when I read this news about Regional Pricing for the first time, I thought "they're going to lower prices", I was shocked when I saw that they fight piracy by raising prices. I understand that there is inflation, that the Brazilian real is not worth the same as the dollar or the euro, but doubling the price is a bit much.

Seems that it's being looked into. I hope that the prices can be fixed. As much as people like to think and meme corporations are money obsessed, I doubt it's intentional that their prices would jump up this much AND be out of whack with other regions.

[Bucherebis]

All the AAA publishers are dropping regional pricing altogether. In some cases, they even do a reverse regional price where it's more expensive in poor countries than in rich ones (Koei Tecmo).

The indie devs have also increased the prices, following the new recommended prices by Valve.

Regional pricing is a thing of the past unfortunately.

[PaulThreeSixty]

Rise of Rome was a conversion of AoE1 to AoE2 so I get the higher pricing. But thise seems like just another "normal" DLC. I will not be paying more than 10€ for that.

My guess is that they are trying to see how far they can bend the goodwill of the community that they have acquired through the other DLCs.

[Sgt. Osiris]

I was going to come in and say we're getting "three" new civilizations, with the Persia re-work being free for everyone to justify the price, but Dynasties of India comes with three civilizations and three campaigns and is $5 cheaper. I guess they're taking a page from Creative Assembly and increasing their prices because people will buy it anyway.

[KingKickAss]

It has no reason to be as expensive as it is. Its the same price as RoR while not having as much content. In fact, all the other DLCs are cheaper and have the same, if not more content than this one. If they were adding four civs, or at least three, it would be much more reasonable. But I guess the know people will buy it anyways.

Edit: Apparently its not correct and is being tracked by Microsoft? https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-mountains-royals-is-more-expensive-than-base-game/241235/4

[Pev]

In Indonesia, the DLC price is twice than previous DLCs. It is the same amount as AOE IV DLC i dont get it.

[Bucherebis]

Originally posted by KingKickAss:

It has no reason to be as expensive as it is. Its the same price as RoR while not having as much content. In fact, all the other DLCs are cheaper and have the same, if not more content than this one. If they were adding four civs, or at least three, it would be much more reasonable. But I guess the know people will buy it anyways.

Edit: Apparently its not correct and is being tracked by Microsoft? https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-mountains-royals-is-more-expensive-than-base-game/241235/4

What they will do is increase the price of the base game. This way the DLC cannot be more expensive than it.

[warrious]

For me:

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - 19,99€

Return of Rome - 14,99€

Lords of the West - 9,99€

Dawn of the Dukes - 9,99€

Dynasties of India - 9,99€

The Mountain Royals - 12,74€

[BirbNotBird]

After taking a look into why the is the pricing is so different in user ends experience, I have discovered a can of worms opening:

Basically we're kinda getting the short stick at the end due to Steam's changes in recommended price for the dev.

To my understanding, old system of currencies was "somewhat exact estimate exchange rate" from 1 currency to another.

This led to a loophole where a part of users using what can be called as "regional hopping". To add up, other country can gift a blocked purchase to an user who cannot make the purchase in their respective country.

Argentina and Turkey's economies were guilty of such loophole since people can buy game with lowest price possible. And their economy is totally f worded.

This hurted the game development, so Steam applied a new system that calculated the exchange rate with PPP and CPI. And boom, they recommended prices (not applied, it's different) to whoever setting up price on stores.

It's not a good way to fix everything magically, given most countries are being affected from the min of 1% to the maximum of 400%.

The best way for now is negotiating with developers to change the price. And you can see how wormy like I told.

I did looked up after most people complained the price, since Steam pricing changes only affected me in a small quantity. Regardless whichever side you are on, Steam opened a wormy can of chaos, which gives developers more power to combat "piracy" but at the cost of customer's purchases. It's debatable old way or this way of recommended pricing is better, but I would say, it's suck to live in the new recommended pricing.

[James3157]

Brazil is not a first world country, but a third world country. So that means pricing might be different from Brazil in comparison to second world and especially first world countries. The biggest issue I think is not the price, but apparently for unknown reasons this dlc costs more for Brazilians than basegame.

[Devang]

In India it's also costing more than the base game, and equal to the previous DLCs minus Rome

Base game = INR 529

Mountain Royals = INR 899 (base)

Lords+Dukes+Dynasties = INR 879

Rome = 499

[wetbandit1986]

another DLC another whining about price. its cost less than fckg pizza. get a JOB