£130 =/= $130

[Dyne_Fellpool]

forgive my ignorance -- if you are paying online can't you just pay in dollars? There is no physical currency being exchanged so why can't you just transfer Euro funds into dollars and pay in U.S. dollars?

[TessaJalloh]

forgive my ignorance -- if you are paying online can't you just pay in dollars? There is no physical currency being exchanged so why can't you just pay in U.S. dollars?

You have to use the currency and site for the version of the game tied to your account, for those of us in the UK this means we MUST use an EU key. SE have made it so we can't have the cheaper euro version shipped to us in the UK to MAKE us pay the £130.

As mentioned previously, this may infact be in breach of European Union law, which demands that all EU nation states get the same price for the same product in an online store, or the ability to purchase it from any foreign EU nation state. We don't pay import on goods sold within the EU as that's all part and parcel of the union. Fair trade laws ensure that no one nation in the EU can have it's prices jacked up without a strong and legal reason.

SE should probably give us that reason, before it ends up taken to court. There's a LOT of angry british right now over this.

[ExKage]

You have to use the currency and site for the version of the game tied to your account, for those of us in the UK this means we MUST use an EU key. SE have made it so we can't have the cheaper euro version shipped to us in the UK to MAKE us pay the £130.

As mentioned previously, this may infact be in breach of European Union law, which demands that all EU nation states get the same price for the same product in an online store, or the ability to purchase it from any foreign EU nation state. We don't pay import on goods sold within the EU as that's all part and parcel of the union. Fair trade laws ensure that no one nation in the EU can have it's prices jacked up without a strong and legal reason.

I never knew about this law. Unfortunately, I can't quite read 30+ pages right now but you seem to be able to detail this. I know that the Pound is different from the Euro so as I understand it, the price is "same" but when taken into consideration, exchange rates make the British Pound more expensive?

I know that there are certain British laws that make things much different in the way places do their practices. (For example a friend I know was able to get an account that wasn't in his name into his possession because he paid for it the whole time). This would not work as far as I know in the U.S.

[Skyl1n3]

forgive my ignorance -- if you are paying online can't you just pay in dollars? There is no physical currency being exchanged so why can't you just transfer Euro funds into dollars and pay in U.S. dollars?

If you pay in dollars that requires a U.S. Address to ship it to, if it were that easy SE probably wouldn't be charging so much for the UK version...