Collectors box pricing GBP

$130 = £87.95,
£130 = $192.15

so paying £42.05 more..............

Can we please get an answer if this is a mistake or as intended?

9/10 its intended, every game developer likes to over charge the uk :c

I assume it's because of taxes and such.

Born free, taxed to death. Welcome to the UK.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

I assume it's because of taxes and such.

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£42 worth of taxes? I don't think so.

Either, it's a mistake on SE's part and the prices should have been converted but haven't. Or perhaps someone figured "oh, they won't notice if we just keep the same digits and change the currency symbol".

I have no issues with the cost being a little different to account for any import/export costs or whatever, but ~40-50% more than what US$129 is in £ is just excessive. I'm incredibly hesitant to purchase simply out of principle. It's not like my game experience is going to be affected, but my appreciation of what I'm buying is.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

I assume it's because of taxes and such.

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It's just them charging more. Even the Digital Version. $60 games usually have a RRP of £40 in the UK, most shops end up selling them for £33-35. Digital CE on SE Store? £45.

The price for the Physical CE un Euros is also €130. So the "conversion" they did was converting the icon. That's all.

Well they are moving the EU servers over there sometime in 3.0 so maybe they added a charge per copy of expansion to help with this? just spit balling ideas here

in EU we always pay wayy more :mad: , isnt UK only

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Originally Posted by Toeol

$130 = £87.95,
£130 = $192.15

so paying £42.05 more..............

Can we please get an answer if this is a mistake or as intended?

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US prices don't include sales tax because that's different depending on the state. UK all prices include VAT that is at 20%.

The price for NA includes the 10% sales tax.

Yeah this was very odd for me, SE trying to get that extra cash from us. Still, this must be a mistake because they didn't even convert it and in theory its over charging how much we are meant to pay.Any other game has converted to the actual UK price but SE is always and oddball.

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Originally Posted by Saccharin

US prices don't include sales tax because that's different depending on the state. UK all prices include VAT that is at 20%.

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While i understand the are factors such as VAT and import tax on anything shipped into the EU, the numbers still dont add up in a sufficient way.

Even with VAT added on, that would still only be £87.5 x 1.20: £105.

It doesnt look as there has been any conversion whatsoever, just a straight $=£ even though the dollar is trading at around $1=£0.7

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Originally Posted by Fluffle_Kamei

The price for NA includes the 10% sales tax.

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Sales tax is a state by state thing. Some have it some do not. My state Oregon does not have sales tax. That $130 price is without any sales tax on anything. But if you go to Washington or Calafornia its like around 10%.

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Originally Posted by Toeol

While i understand the are factors such as VAT and import tax on anything shipped into the EU, the numbers still dont add up in a sufficient way.

Even with VAT added on, that would still only be £87.5 x 1.20: £105.

It doesnt look as there has been any conversion whatsoever, just a straight $=£ even though the dollar is trading at around $1=£0.7

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Yep, it's just a straight 1:1:1 conversion, price in € is also 130, and although that's a lot closer than the GBP pricing, it's still off.

I'd really like to think it was a mistake, that amount of a price increase is absolutely ridiculous. Even account for VAT and shipping costs, there is no need for that.

It's not just sales tax.
Things shipped to the UK are taxed more. (directly and indirectly via fuel tax)
Profits made in UK as a business entity are taxed more.
Employees paid in the UK are taxed more.
So yes it makes sense.

Not to mention the demand is lower, and when demand is lower price is higher.

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Originally Posted by Staris

It's not just sales tax.
Things shipped to the UK are taxed more. (directly and indirectly via fuel tax)
Profits made in UK as a business entity are taxed more.
Employees paid in the UK are taxed more.
So yes it makes sense.

Not to mention the demand is lower, and when demand is lower price is higher.

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If that was the case it would happen with all games. But it doesn't, every now and then a publisher does it, then they get called out on their bullshit every time. Not even the other Heavensward packages have the bs conversion, they have better conversions. Only the Physical CE is 1 to 1.

That being said, the other packages are technically rip offs too. $60 Games always RRP here for £40, and retailers end up selling at £35 or so. The $60 Digital CE, £45 in SE Land.

I'll just pass on the Dragon figure and get the digital one from a retailer that doesn't rip me off.

Yup UK is always about taxing more ...

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Originally Posted by Staris

It's not just sales tax.
Things shipped to the UK are taxed more. (directly and indirectly via fuel tax)
Profits made in UK as a business entity are taxed more.
Employees paid in the UK are taxed more.
So yes it makes sense.

Not to mention the demand is lower, and when demand is lower price is higher.

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Except with things like the type-0 collectors edition it was converted perfectly...............

Everyone is talking about UK here, what was the price in Euro? or does it just show as £'s?

I only got on the site for a very brief moment, and I think I saw the prices in Euro, but I could be wrong... If it was in Euro, it was much cheaper than in pounds for sure...

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Originally Posted by Craiger

Everyone is talking about UK here, what was the price in Euro? or does it just show as £'s?

I only got on the site for a very brief moment, and I think I saw the prices in Euro, but I could be wrong... If it was in Euro, it was much cheaper than in pounds for sure...

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I only managed to glance the physical CE pricing, but it was €130 as well.

^ If that is the case and it was 130 euros converted to GBP that is £92...

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Originally Posted by Fluffle_Kamei

^ If that is the case and it was 130 euros converted to GBP that is £92...

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^^^^ This

I thought I saw it as 130 Euro too, which is A LOT cheaper...

They think we don't understand conversion...silly SE we are smarter than you think :P

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Originally Posted by Craiger

^^^^ This

I thought I saw it as 130 Euro too, which is A LOT cheaper...

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For people living in UK, they get £ prices. For people living in Europe but not UK, they get € prices. I asked them back when I wanted to pay my subscription in £ instead of € cos it would be cheaper, and I have neither of those currencies here so it's not like there wouldn't be a currency conversion either way. They said it was automatic depending on localization. I assume the same goes for the SE store (though I could be wrong).

(I just feel sorry for those who happen to have EU game and not live in EU, as they can't order from SE store and EU CE version will only be available from SE store "for now".)

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Originally Posted by Toeol

$130 = £87.95,
£130 = $192.15

so paying £42.05 more..............

Can we please get an answer if this is a mistake or as intended?

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The UK has always been a sort of treasure island to technology, consumer electronics, home video and video game makers. I can't remember any time when the prices in GBP were significantly different (numerically) from the USD prices for goods in any of these categories.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

The UK has always been a sort of treasure island to technology, consumer electronics, home video and video game makers. I can't remember any time when the prices in GBP were significantly different (numerically) from the USD prices for goods in any of these categories.

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UH. Almost everywhere?

If a retailer were to post a 60$ game for £60 in the UK they would get destroyed for doing so. $60 games always have a RRP of £39.99 and generally sell on retailers for £35 or so.

A couple of years there was a few issues with a lot of publishers trying to price gouge the UK like SE are trying today and they got called out on it and stopped. SE is the first publisher I've seen do this for a while, at least a year.

Weird thing it's only the physical CE on the store that had this price gouging, everything else is converter properly.

Got to be a mistake purely because EVERY SINGLE GAME online (Amazon game Tesco etc) shows the right price as in its convertion against American online shopping sites. they must be fixing the prices. I bet £89.99 incoming

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Originally Posted by SongJoohee

UH. Almost everywhere?

If a retailer were to post a 60$ game for £60 in the UK they would get destroyed for doing so. $60 games always have a RRP of £39.99 and generally sell on retailers for £35 or so.

A couple of years there was a few issues with a lot of publishers trying to price gouge the UK like SE are trying today and they got called out on it and stopped. SE is the first publisher I've seen do this for a while, at least a year.

Weird thing it's only the physical CE on the store that had this price gouging, everything else is converter properly.

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Go back over the last couple of decades and track the MSRP prices for games, consoles, DVDs etc, when they launch there is almost always price parity in purely numerical terms between USD and GBP. It's total crap, and exploits UK consumers, but it's been that way for as long as I can remember. The Net, and online retailers have helped somewhat, but the point still stands.

Just for fun, here's a link....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...re-Island.html

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Sales tax is a state by state thing. Some have it some do not. My state Oregon does not have sales tax. That $130 price is without any sales tax on anything. But if you go to Washington or Calafornia its like around 10%.

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The funny thing about sales tax in California is that it also varies by county, sometimes even by city. In Kings county sales tax is 7.5% where as in San Joanquin county sales tax ranges from 8% to 9%.

They've said on their twitter it's £129.00, sadly.

adding this from another post.

This has royally...me off. im a loyal uk customer who orders on SE website. not retailers. for 20 years ive always bought the CE's for their games. i buy their merchandise, (moogle. cactuar plush etc) i even have the delivery moogle on pre order. i have all the blu-ray OST's. both ffxiv 1.0 and 2.0 CE and PS4+3 versions. but this is where i draw the line. I will NOT pay coming up to double the US equivalent of the same game, to lets be fair. the majority of the ffxiv fanbase, just because i live in a different country. we usually have to pay £1-5 more on most things coming from japan. games are always more. but is is taking the cake.
Its ridiculous when CE and standard versions are such a huge difference. compared to other currencies.
Where does it stop? will we have to pay over the top for future games aswell just because we are in the UK and they dislike converting currencies to make a disgraceful profit?
tell me why i should carry on supporting them from the UK when they do this?

Edit - Just adding to this.

Square Enix Store - Delivery Moogle
USD 39.99
EUR 31.99
GBP 27.99

Square Enix Store - FFXIV Heavensward CE.
USD 130.00
EUR 130.00
GBP 130.00

Something is amiss. maybe they should change ALL of their products on the website

Seems we can confirm SE being greedy for that money :P

I know this doesnt help but was told EU gets free shipping(not sure if true) NA has to pay well for me standard shipping was over 20 dollars. Guess the 100$+ dollar free shipping doesnt apply to pre order. So im jumping on the SE is greedy train! CHOO CHOO!

What possible reason could there be for 1 single country to have a higher price?

There has to be some weird reason for this, because I doubt they would just do this to one country if they had a choice...

I mean, I know the EU store doesn't ship to UK(*sigh*), but you could basically get it shipped to northern France and just pick it up from there... I doubt there are any difference between UK accounts and EU ones(again *sigh*, UK is in EU..)

Also, this kind of thing usually happens the exact opposite... UK usually is the first country in EU to get stuff, and also the cheapest many times.

I feel for you UK people

I'm just going to put this out here

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens...s/index_en.htm

Euro is the same. Although currently, 1 Euro - $1.06