£130 =/= $130

I am appalled.

The US CE costs $130 which is equal to £87.95

The UK CE costs £130 which is equal to $192.15

Therefore, we are paying £42.05 more for the Collector's edition. Is this a mistake? Are UK buyer's being offered something extra for £42.05 or is it pure greed?

They don't want your tea! *hurls crate of tea into the sea*

welcome in the gamin industry, where $ = € = £

You should have expected that (even though that's not really fair to us Europeans...)

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Originally Posted by OtakuChrash

I am appalled.

The US CE costs $130 which is equal to £87.95

The UK CE costs £130 which is equal to $192.15

Therefore, we are paying £42.05 more for the Collector's edition. Is this a mistake? Are UK buyer's being offered something extra for £42.05 or is it pure greed?

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Hopefully, you are paying extra for european servers.

You could attempt to VPN stateside and get yourself a deal.

This is really, really not cool. Even account for VAT and shipping costs etc, there is no need for that amount of a price increase. Blatant price gouging in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Kuwagami

welcome in the gamin industry, where $ = € = £

You should have expected that (even though that's not really fair to us Europeans...)

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Uhh...No? You rarely see this most games that have been released all done the convert of the prices.

Bloodborne: $59.96 / £49
Type-0: $59.96 / £36.85

So i believe this must be an error or SE is being greedy right now :P

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Originally Posted by Remus

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Is that so ? Then UK are a lucky bunch :p

Even when the dollar was "low", the €/$ conversion in gaming industry was 1/1. Because ain't anybody got time for a 114€ game when you could put it at 130€ (or 60 in place of the normal 55. duh)

(tbh, I really thought £=$ in the UK because last time I went there, games had the same price tags than in my country... except not in the same currency ;( It may have changed since then though)

It would be great to get as many UK players who are offended by the price gouging in here to support this point. We can't allow ourselves to be robbed blind like this.

I have no idea why UK is so angry when Aussies get it even worse.

I think it is just pure greed on their part now.
Yes aussies may get it worse but we are paying nearly £40 extra which means we are paying the equivalent of $192

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

I have no idea why UK is so angry when Aussies get it even worse.

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Because someone else being effed harder is no reason to not be angry when getting effed? >_>

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

I have no idea why UK is so angry when Aussies get it even worse.

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We are picky about money. We want to pay the correct price. XD

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

I have no idea why UK is so angry when Aussies get it even worse.

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Raise your voice, let them know that it's not acceptable. It's saddening that we have so little power as consumers. I'm sure we could get 100's of unhappy customers in here and it wouldn't affect a thing.

SE can't math this morning?

But yeah just switching around the currency tag is awful. I haven't got £140 to spunk on an expansion.

Is it not possible that they just haven't finished maintenance on the page yet?
From google it's permanently in maint, so I checked it via Cache. I'll check again later or in a few days to make sure they arn't truly ****ing us over this badly. Never known SE to do something like this before, so I'll keep a few days of faith in them.

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Originally Posted by Kaldaka

Is it not possible that they just haven't finished maintenance on the page yet?
From google it's permanently in maint, so I checked it via Cache. I'll check again later or in a few days to make sure they arn't truly ****ing us over this badly. Never known SE to do something like this before, so I'll keep a few days of faith in them.

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I was there waiting before 7:00AM. It went live for a while when they added the products. Then it broke for a while, then you were able to see the products and click Pre-Order as much as you like but it would say "Basket Empty" or something along those lines. This lasted a good hour before the site went down completely. All the while the CE was £129.99. Doesn't seem like a mistake. It's sad that people will still pay for this. It's just ridiculously over-priced and offensive to loyal customers of SE.

Dis bullshit.

Changing the tag from $ to £ doesn't justify the value of the items, the CE shouldn't have been more than £90, at most £100. Take the EU digital CE download for an example, it's actually been converted 'better' in comparison to the NA digital CE.

OP would you also like to pay for the subscription with euros too? ^^ I'm so lucky and I get to pay for my subscription at a higher price than JP and NA players. So awesome.

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Originally Posted by OtakuChrash

It's saddening that we have so little power as consumers.

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You literally hold all the power. Just don't buy it.

Never got collectors for the past game. Upgraded through the mogstation. But yh £130 for an expansion isnt the bestest of ideas SE have had.

Were very limited on the information. Yes where getting a figure, but is there any information who makes it? is it a play arts like the rest of Squares figures? or a 3rd party? How big is it the box and the figure doesn't give me a lot of detail.

Paying £130 means at least 4 versions of Heavenward normal editions. Yes I want the goodies like the artbook but £130 + my standing subscription isnt worth the price :mad:

The current pricing model that Square Enix has adopted is absolutely appalling.

Not just for Heavensward, but other recent games such as type-0 and KH2.5 remaster.

I can guarantee, with the price that was on the UK store this morning, a huge fraction of the people who had committed to buying the physical CE edition will now not buy it at all.

I've submitted a ticket to the support desk that has been escalated to the tier 3 support team and I am expecting a response today.

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Originally Posted by Misu

Were very limited on the information. Yes where getting a figure, but is there any information who makes it? is it a play arts like the rest of Squares figures? or a 3rd party? How big is it the box and the figure doesn't give me a lot of detail.
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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BTZ6SKjYJng/maxresdefault.jpg This is a rough idea of the size of the box and figure

This is just a theory at best but I wouldn't be surprised if they are correcting the costing error; like others I was up at 6:45 to get my copy but whenever I tried it failed to even enter the basket, it seems that no one was able to commit to the original cost to my knowledge. Hopefully they are reviewing the cost and getting the site ready for us :)

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Originally Posted by VegaNovus

The current pricing model that Square Enix has adopted is absolutely appalling.

Not just for Heavensward, but other recent games such as type-0 and KH2.5 remaster.

I can guarantee, with the price that was on the UK store this morning, a huge fraction of the people who had committed to buying the physical CE edition will now not buy it at all.

I've submitted a ticket to the support desk that has been escalated to the tier 3 support team and I am expecting a response today.

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May I ask what your ticket is about and what is tier 3?

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Originally Posted by Deifact

You literally hold all the power. Just don't buy it.

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That's just not true though is it. Whether I personally buy it or not, SE won't be changing their pricing.

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Originally Posted by Awfun

This is just a theory at best but I wouldn't be surprised if they are correcting the costing error; like others I was up at 6:45 to get my copy but whenever I tried it failed to even enter the basket, it seems that no one was able to commit to the original cost to my knowledge. Hopefully they are reviewing the cost and getting the site ready for us :)

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^^^ THIS

I decided to pull an all nighter and having been up for work yesterday from 0600 i haven't slept in nearly 27 hours only for this to happen...

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Originally Posted by Fluffle_Kamei

^^^ THIS

I decided to pull an all nighter and having been up for work yesterday from 0600 i haven't slept in nearly 27 hours only for this to happen...

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Hope you don't have to go work anytime soon, cause that's insane to be 27hrs awake!

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Originally Posted by Fluffle_Kamei

^^^ THIS

I decided to pull an all nighter and having been up for work yesterday from 0600 i haven't slept in nearly 27 hours only for this to happen...

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Same, I've yet to sleep and was planning to stay awake until I've confirmed my order at 7am. It's almost 10am now, with no ETA on when pre-orders will be available. If I sleep now, I fear I'll wake up to find them all sold out.

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Originally Posted by Naliee

Hope you don't have to go work anytime soon, cause that's insane to be 27hrs awake!

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No, thankfully due to some health issues unrelated to lack of sleep i am off work for a month...

wish i could read that box ;_; but he looks smaller than the game cast and the same size as the blu-ray

Chill. Out. Everyone. This could very easily have just been a bug in their service and so they took it down for maintenance to fix it before anyone bought it for the wrong price. This can happen, coding is difficult when multi-regions are involved. Just have some patience.

^ Lol just saw that reply on reddit!

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Originally Posted by dark494

Chill. Out. Everyone. This could very easily have just been a bug in their service and so they took it down for maintenance to fix it before anyone bought it for the wrong price. This can happen, coding is difficult when multi-regions are involved. Just have some patience.

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Yes I just responded to you on Reddit. I think what you're saying is really unlikely.

£130? Really... converting that to € will be expensive as hell too... No way... I will have to wait and see because I am used to buy all games on amazon.uk.

Specially when £ currency got higher compared to €/$

I hope they fix that typo.

130.00 USD = 87.9186 GBP
130.00 GBP = 182.404 EUR

Based on xe.com at the moment. 182€.............! SE no comments... That is +50€ for europeans and +40£ for UK.

So we could expect to see in the stores at 88 or 90£ the best not that horrible 130£.

I'm in the US and I'm also not planning on purchasing the CE, but I think that SE really needs to see this thread so let's keep this up at the top, friendos.

It's expensive enough at the normal price, this type of thing is unacceptable.

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Originally Posted by OtakuChrash

Yes I just responded to you on Reddit. I think what you're saying is really unlikely.

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I've been in the regional UI-business, and developed a lot of code that had to account for regional pricing, symbols, and conversion rates. It is the biggest nightmare to deal with, and prone to errors. I would suspend judgement until someone can even confirm anything on the site once it's fixed and back up.

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Originally Posted by OnyxStrife

I'm in the US and I'm also not planning on purchasing the CE, but I think that SE really needs to see this thread so let's keep this up at the top, friendos.

It's expensive enough at the normal price, this type of thing is unacceptable.

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Thank you for your support, I've been sharing it on various other gaming forums trying to rally others who are bothered by the pricing.

Everyone right now we can just hope when the EU comes up "the price is right" :P