Clarification for Australians subscription payment please?

I just logged into Mog Station to check my subscription options and found the prices are in Euros???

We are grouped with EU because we are PAL systems here but your going to have a riot on your hands if you want Aussies to pay in euros.

As far as I understand it anyone not in NA is considered to be EU. Actually, I think I may have even heard of Canadians having some trouble with this as well. But yeah - pretty sure it's not defined by whether your PAL or not, but whether you're NA or not.

Why isn't the Euro price equivalent to the USD price then? That would solve any issues.

Unfortunately this is the problem when they don't charge one rate.
These days every bank converts currencies. They get extra $$ from you in Euros.

...and when the US$ improves, we'll be better off paying with Euros. Meh.

Did you use a EU CD key to make your account? If so, you would be charged Euros instead of USD or JPY. CD key affects your billing and future expansions as NA does not accept JPN or EU CD keys as most have already noticed from the EA access codes, same thing applies to EU and JPN codes.

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Originally Posted by Maplekoya

Did you use a EU CD key to make your account? If so, you would be charged Euros instead of USD or JPY. CD key affects your billing and future expansions as NA does not accept JPN or EU CD keys as most have already noticed from the EA access codes, same thing applies to EU and JPN codes.

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EU cd keys are not just limited to Euros as you say. What about GBP????
Just the difference between Aus = Euro vs GBP can be anywhere upto 44aud a year.
Why not give all countries a set currency payment.
Or maybe make everyone convert to yen?

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Originally Posted by PrinceEpyon

EU cd keys are not just limited to Euros as you say. What about GBP????
Just the difference between Aus = Euro vs GBP can be anywhere upto 44aud a year.
Why not give all countries a set currency payment.
Or maybe make everyone convert to yen?

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Yea sorry, I had forgotten about pounds, but I do know if you own a EU account you have to pay in either pounds or euros. Not entirely sure how it is being defined but my point was that if you had used a EU cd key, your account will be billed accordingly to that country's currency not because of PAL systems.

Yes it would be much easier for us if everyone paid in one currency as well as remove the region restriction on CD keys. In 1.0 my NA account simply refused my card as it was not from a NA billing address, I had to beat around the bush and purchase Crysta.

I am wondering also. Considering when I played with conversion rates yesterday we'll be paying up to $30 more to match with the Euro prices at 180 days. Gamecards are out of the question too as EB Games are selling them at $40 per 60 days, making it even worse than the conversion rates...

Checked it last week, and the conversion actually works out better for us than paying the USD price. Remember that we are paying the 'equivalent' of the price, since our credit/debit cards are in AUD.

"Going to a riot on your hands"? Yeah, righto mate.

Play asia will be selling the game cards for 33.26 (current conversion from 29.90 USD) for EU servers... with free shipping.

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Originally Posted by AyaAkali

Checked it last week, and the conversion actually works out better for us than paying the USD price. Remember that we are paying the 'equivalent' of the price, since our credit/debit cards are in AUD.

"Going to a riot on your hands"? Yeah, righto mate.

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Not sure what prices you were looking at, but 12.99 USD over 180 days is only $87.34 AUD, versus $98.52 with the Euro option.

I agree it's not a huge number but that still ends up being another month of paid time.

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Originally Posted by AyaAkali

Checked it last week, and the conversion actually works out better for us than paying the USD price. Remember that we are paying the 'equivalent' of the price, since our credit/debit cards are in AUD.

"Going to a riot on your hands"? Yeah, righto mate.

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How do you figure that? $1 AU is equal to $1.50 Euro, or $1.12 US.

Yeah, I'm a Brisbanite and this bugged me even in the days of 1.xx. I think we're physically closer to NA and have a much closer currency to USD but instead we get overcharged Euros..? Doesn't make any sense at all to me...

Fellow Aussies! You can get it at 15.50 AUD at the link below :)

http://www.fishpond.com.au/Games/Fin...FU4F4godURcA6g

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Originally Posted by MortalWare

How do you figure that? $1 AU is equal to $1.50 Euro, or $1.12 US.

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Originally Posted by Trenma

Not sure what prices you were looking at, but 12.99 USD over 180 days is only $87.34 AUD, versus $98.52 with the Euro option.

I agree it's not a huge number but that still ends up being another month of paid time.

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You're both absolutely right, my apologies. But I still stand by my point about the upcoming riot.

So Aya Akali, your fine with the extra cost maybe? cost I for one am not.

We need to push this to their attention, and make them change the billing rate.

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Originally Posted by Jonnara

So Aya Akali, your fine with the extra cost maybe? cost I for one am not.

We need to push this to their attention, and make them change the billing rate.

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The company has a right to set it's fees. We're paying the same as people in Europe pay - why should we be especially privileged more than Europeans? If you don't like the fees, then don't pay them.

That being said, if anything they should just base it on one currency - the Yen. Of course that'll get the US players up in arms since it seems their fees are cheaper than even the Japanese fee.

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Originally Posted by Kahri

The company has a right to set it's fees. We're paying the same as people in Europe pay - why should we be especially privileged more than Europeans? If you don't like the fees, then don't pay them.

That being said, if anything they should just base it on one currency - the Yen. Of course that'll get the US players up in arms since it seems their fees are cheaper than even the Japanese fee.

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The Europeans are earning their money in there own currency with cost of living and economy of scale factored in to the gaming and entertainment cost of that region.

Gees I know this is a first world problem but we are not paying the same price as are as we lose out in the exchange rate.

You can't say to me with a straight face that this type of billing is not outdated and we need to move the motion for change.
Btw I can't find the cancel subscription option in the Mog Station, anyone can help?

edit - NVM found it, have now canceled my sub, will try to source R6 retailers for game cards. Good luck to the rest of you guys.

29.95 for two months now!

http://www.fishpond.com.au/Games/Fin...FU4F4godURcA6g

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Originally Posted by Jonnara

The Europeans are earning their money in there own currency with cost of living and economy of scale factored in to the gaming and entertainment cost of that region.

Gees I know this is a first world problem but we are not paying the same price as are as we lose out in the exchange rate.

You can't say to me with a straight face that this type of billing is not outdated and we need to move the motion for change.
Btw I can't find the cancel subscription option in the Mog Station, anyone can help?

edit - NVM found it, have now canceled my sub, will try to source R6 retailers for game cards. Good luck to the rest of you guys.

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You do realise that exactly one year ago, with our dollar as strong as it was, that we would have had by far the cheapest sub cost, right? It might be higher now, but could just as easily be lower later.