£130 =/= $130

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Originally Posted by Meridian

I really do think this thread deserves some kind of response.

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Like many others but they don't.

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Originally Posted by Meridian

I really do think this thread deserves some kind of response.

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Community devs tend to stay away from hot issues like this until they have all the information.

Can't blame them really.

Well, there was an anouncement posted on steam regarding pre orders ( if you own the steam version )

http://steamcommunity.com/games/3921...27248392952369

£100 extra for a toy dragon, some pretty pictures and in game helm/flying mount that everyone will have is pretty ridiculous. I'll stick to the normal £30 edition.

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Originally Posted by DisappointedMan

I wonder if they expect me to pay for this.
Do they expect me to pay for this?
Because I'm not paying for it.

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Username related.

Do you want people to not buy your product SE? Because this is how you get people to not buy your product. No way will I be getting the boxed CE, and I'm having doubts about getting the digital one if SE are doing a similar price gouge for UK players.

Which is a shame, because I was really looking forward to that Hippogriff.

The digital price is fair. It's pretty generous really.

This price for the physical though is atrocious.

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Originally Posted by TheFolant

The digital price is fair. It's pretty generous really.

This price for the physical though is atrocious.

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$59.99 vs £59.99

The digital edition isn't particularly fair either. We are paying $90 for an expansion that doesn't require any shipping or a physical box. It's despicable.

The fact that its been over 8 hours since we were supposed to be able to pre-order and no real acknowledgement/update on the situation is really poor imo.

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Originally Posted by TescoBag

$59.99 vs £59.99

The digital edition isn't particularly fair either. We are paying $90 for an expansion that doesn't require any shipping or a physical box. It's despicable.

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I believe it was £44.99 the Digital CE. It's not a perfect conversion, but way more reasonable than the physical CE currency conversion.

Digital CE was £45 when I checked before the site was taken down.

Unless I was mistaken.

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Originally Posted by Rikudou87

I believe it was £44.99 the Digital CE. It's not a perfect conversion, but way more reasonable than the physical CE currency conversion.

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Correct it was £44.99, physical was ofc £129.99. So that's £85 for a small Dragon statue, art book, soundtrack and a blu ray "Making of" of Trailers. Oh and the box.

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Originally Posted by Owenz07

Correct it was £44.99, physical was ofc £129.99. So that's £85 for a small Dragon statue, art book and a blu ray "Making of". Oh and the box.

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Lol don't give them too much credit. The blu-ray is not a making of. It's a compilation of all the ARR trailers.

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Originally Posted by SongJoohee

Lol don't give them too much credit. The blu-ray is not a making of. It's a compilation of all the ARR trailers.

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I stand corrected.

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Originally Posted by TheFolant

Digital CE was £45 when I checked before the site was taken down.

Unless I was mistaken.

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I stand corrected!

This is still very expensive for an expansion though.

Well, that was the CE. The stand-alone was much cheaper.

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Originally Posted by Owenz07

Correct it was £44.99, physical was ofc £129.99. So that's £85 for a small Dragon statue, art book, soundtrack and a blu ray "Making of" of Trailers. Oh and the box.

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Can I just ask for those in the know.

Do you still get all the same in game items with the Digital version, IE mount, armour/accessories and mail chocobo ?

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Originally Posted by Jinko

Can I just ask for those in the know.

Do you still get all the same in game items with the Digital version, IE mount, armour/accessories and mail chocobo ?

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Yes you do. The only CE items you won't get with the digital version are the physical ones (statue, book etc.).

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Originally Posted by Jinko

Can I just ask for those in the know.

Do you still get all the same in game items with the Digital version, IE mount, armour/accessories and mail chocobo ?

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Yes - you get all the in-game items. You just miss out on all the physical tat.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

Can I just ask for those in the know.

Do you still get all the same in game items with the Digital version, IE mount, armour/accessories and mail chocobo ?

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I got the digital CE of ARR and got the Coeurl and everything else, so I'd venture to say yes.

That's good, very little reason to get the physical one in that case.

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Originally Posted by Owenz07

Correct it was £44.99, physical was ofc £129.99. So that's £85 for a small Dragon statue, art book, soundtrack and a blu ray "Making of" of Trailers. Oh and the box.

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I don't think the Heavensward Collector's Edition comes with a soundtrack. xD

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Originally Posted by Jinko

That's good, very little reason to get the physical one in that case.

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I bought ARR on Steam so I don't even really have the option. I'll have to get Heavensward on Steam too. Even if I could buy the physical CE, I sure as hell wouldn't pay the extra $90 for some silly trinkets. :|

Ignore this lol. Was going to try and come up with some way to buy the game for cheap.

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Originally Posted by Arkista

Today $130 (USD) = £122 (EUR), £130 (EUR) = $137 (USD).

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Whats your point ?

People are talking about dollars and pounds.

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Originally Posted by Arkista

Today $130 (USD) = £122 (EUR), £130 (EUR) = $137 (USD).

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Thats all well and good however the issue that UK players are facing is that our currency is stronger and thus worth more. I.e. 1 USD at Current exchange rate not including for taxes on conversion is worth 0.67 GBP; therefore the 130 USD that is being charged in America is equivalent to £87.80 GBP. Even if you were to add on a fee of 5% which would be the equivalent of the 1% paypal charge on bank transfer + 3.9% charged for payment by card fixed fee it would still only come to £92.19 GPB which is significantly (£37.81) less than we would have to pay in USD. So I think the best thing for us to do is find a supplier in the US, buy a whole load of collectors editions from them and then resale them in the UK for less than £130; bulk shipping of the copies would probably still come to less that the £37.81/copy difference in price!

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Originally Posted by Toodlepip

I don't think the Heavensward Collector's Edition comes with a soundtrack. xD

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I wouldn't be surprised, I just thought I heard them mention it in the stream on Saturday.

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Originally Posted by Igninox

So I think the best thing for us to do is find a supplier in the US, buy a whole load of collectors editions from them and then resale them in the UK for less than £130; bulk shipping of the copies would probably still come to less that the £37.81/copy difference in price!

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Unless they are regional coded, not sure if they are.

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Originally Posted by Eye_Gore

Unless they are regional coded, not sure if they are.

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Of course they are. Not coding by region would let people order things from across the world, and we wouldn't want that! >_>

Anyway ppl should wait until the store becomes available again to check for the "final" prices. If it's 130£, €, $ .. well.. who cares? In EU the customers always pay more for games, software, hardware and similar products and no one complains though it is clear the value of the product does not match the price. I don't care at least. I would pay even 150€ or more for it since I want to have it.

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Originally Posted by Kaylon

Anyway ppl should wait until the store becomes available again to check for the "final" prices. If it's 130£, €, $ .. well.. who cares? In EU the customers always pay more for games, software, hardware and similar products and no one complains though it is clear the value of the product does not match the price. I don't care at least. I would pay even 150€ or more for it since I want to have it.

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Apparently 20 pages of people complaining cares.

Not everyone is as eager to be ripped off as you.

And since you mentioned €150. The UK one costs the equivalent of €180+.

https://twitter.com/SQUARE_ENIX_EU/s...02094892134400

Hope is near...ish?

When it's something small like $40 -> £40 or $60 -> £60 I can stomach it. But $139 > £139 is just too much to write off. I could buy a whole other copy of the game with the money left over from that price hike!

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Originally Posted by SongJoohee

Apparently 20 pages of people complaining cares.

Not everyone is as eager to be ripped off as you.

And since you mentioned €150. The UK one costs the equivalent of €180+.

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Then they should just not buy it. It is not about being ripped off. Customers just need to understand that this is nothing special or any different from, for example, buying steam games in the eu and russia before the region lock was activated for all games. You just payed 50% more in the eu by default and most buyers did not even notice.

In the end, I still recommend checking the prices once the store is available again. Maybe they won't even be that high as many assume but I doubt it. Most ce's in my country start at 100€ and some even cost up to 300€. Ofc, that is still not as much as UK ppl might have to pay, but thats how it is.

Maybe I do not understand those who are surprised by the pricing but for me it seems fine the way it is.

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Originally Posted by Kaylon

Customers just need to understand that this is nothing special

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No, this most certainly is not normal. Other CE games are never priced gouged as much as this in the UK. They even took the effort to price the digital CE of Heavensward correct at £45, as opposed to $60 and €60.

You might be eager to get ripped off by SE, but we are not. We're British, goddamn it.

Worse thing, has any mod or PR talked about why its 1=1

I'm pretty sure S/E must be fans of The Pixies, they've probably been singing 'gouge away' for the best part of the day rubbing their hands at all us U.K. folk

https://youtu.be/QMHykYTomdo

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Originally Posted by Freyah

I'm pretty sure S/E must be fans of The Pixies, they've probably been singing 'gouge away' for the best part of the day rubbing their hands at all us U.K. folk

https://youtu.be/QMHykYTomdo

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i was more thinking LOADS OF MONIES

And there we have it, like I said: http://www.shopto.net/video-games/pc...iv-heavensward

UK-Based Store, this is the normal version, on sale for £22.85 with a RRP £30.

They don't have the Digital CE up yet, but I guarantee it'll be about £35, like every other reasonable retailer does.

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Originally Posted by SongJoohee

And there we have it, like I said: http://www.shopto.net/video-games/pc...iv-heavensward

UK-Based Store, this is the normal version, on sale for £22.85 with a RRP £30.

They don't have the Digital CE up yet, but I guarantee it'll be about £35, like every other reasonable retailer does.

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The boxed is limited supply, And i heard via reddit its likely to be only SE online store exclusive. Soon find out though. If push comes to shove, il just get standerd, which will upset me as i got 1.0 and 2.0 Boxed CE's One sealed one opened.