£130 =/= $130

[Jamein]

Had this discussion the other day, everyone was trying to guess how much it would be via exchange rates and I had to point out that FF just became SE's little cash cow, so doesn't surprise me they are throwing rates out of the window and trying to get more out of it.

Hopefully the backlash they've recieved here and on other outlets will cause them to reconsider that pricing.

[dark494]

dark494, I'm not sure what your purpose here is. Do you work for SE? I'm not trying to argue with you, because at the end of the day I hope that you're right and the price was a mistake but realistically I don't see that being the case at all. And among the tirade of angry fans in this topic, you're the only one spouting this idea.

Someone's gotta play the voice of reason. This community goes apeshit too easily sometimes.

*Reads 8 Pages of this stuff*

Well, guess there's only one thing for it. Gonna go to the Waking Sands, get a cup of tea and wait for all this to blow over.

This guy. He gets it.

[MeiUshu]

can you give me the site please where you can subscribe for pre-orders ? because on SE I do not find it at all nowhere is available lol

Mei

[ShadowHulk]

Can't remember why, but I've tried this in the past on the S-E site. If you try to purchase from an EU version of the store, it won't give you the option to deliver to the UK.

Ah yeah I thought it might be the same as the US store. Shame.

[OtakuChrash]

I sure as toffees don't agree with the price point here in the UK, but what concerns me even more at the minute is that regardless of the price I can't flippin' pre-order at all because the site is screwed up!!

That said, Why is it that the CE is so expensive?! I was expecting it to be around the £80 mark, but £130 is just ridiculous. Sure, we get the added extras and the statue looks amazing but at almost an almost 50% price hike over the NA version, it's just pure extortion.

Regardless of the obvious discrepancies between the UK and other regions costs, I find the cost overall to be fairly expensive. The actual content included is the same as the ARR CE bar the model. The ARR CE however gave us 30 days of game time which is worth about £9. If we're just looking at the UK prices, we're basically paying £70 more for a model.

[Freyah]

At which point they should fire their distributors and transport providers. $60 to transport a single item (forget that it'd be on a pallet with a bunch of others and transported for a fraction of the cost) from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world is a bit of a joke.

Even if we say it should be £100 factoring in VAT and a bit more so the SE shareholders can get a new yacht, we're still missing a big chunk of that price gouge.

VAT is already factored into the total price. Personally I'm stuck waiting for the steam version to appear. I can understand the sheer annoyance of being asked to shell out and extra £30-40 Quid just coz reasons which we'll make up later. I think they went with the euro price as I think they didn't want to clutter the page with various other non euro using countries ( I don't think Norway uses the euro as well as the U.K. )

Amazon u.k. doesnt seem to have the physical ce edition yet ?

[ShadowHulk]

Regardless of the obvious discrepancies between the UK and other regions costs, I find the cost overall to be fairly expensive. The actual content included is the same as the ARR CE bar the model. The ARR CE however gave us 30 days of game time which is worth about £9. If we're just looking at the UK prices, we're basically paying £70 more for a model.

Will registering the content code not give us free 30days? It did when I added my PS4 version.

[Rikudou87]

I sure as toffees don't agree with the price point here in the UK, but what concerns me even more at the minute is that regardless of the price I can't flippin' pre-order at all because the site is screwed up!!

That said, Why is it that the CE is so expensive?! I was expecting it to be around the £80 mark, but £130 is just ridiculous. Sure, we get the added extras and the statue looks amazing but at almost an almost 50% price hike over the NA version, it's just pure extortion.

If Square Enix converted the price properly it should have been around £90, at the very most £100.

[lacrimosaangel]

I bought the ARR CE on ebay for £30 new and unsealed at Christmas, got really lucky with finding it, but yeah, totally agree it's a stupid price point. £70 for a model is ridiculous, something I'd expect from AC or Bloodbourne, not a FFMMO. Even the dark souls 2 CE that came with a 12" statue was a heck of a lot cheaper than this!

How is the early access going to work with the physical editions? Are they going to ship out early and actually have the servers up and running, or is it only the download only that get the early access?

[Kaldaka]

Obviously, otherwise this whole topic wouldn't have happened in the first place. I'm not denying there's no such thing as a £129.99 price tag, or saying that someone imagined it and spread a rumor about it.

You previously asked for proof of it's existence I just pointed out where it was.
However, the cache is being altered and will be gone soon. So time to grab the popcorn, sit back and watch.
Regardless of how we think, people will still be angry. SE hasn't screwed us yet, I can't imagine them starting now. Plus, backlash from the EU could have a negative impact on their EU service migration after all. However, another post has an SS with customer service, stated that the site is managed by NA.
It confuses me as to why NA are managing EU store though, but they likely copy and pasted over all the info and didn't think to alter the price when they changed the currency symbol, ya'know?