Heavensward CE preorders not being released in AUS???

[Arthen_Fushichou]

Type-0 HD CE was only around $200AUD in Australia via EB Games. I'd assume it was going to be around that price for Heavensward.

For here in New Zealand Type-0 HD ended up being $259 from EB Games as an Exclusive only and A Realm Reborn coming in at $159. Plus you have to consider you are getting a statue, Which would probably end up selling for $50'ish with of course the fancy display box.

[Stumpedify]

Plus you have to consider you are getting a statue, Which would probably end up selling for $50'ish with of course the fancy display box.

Maybe if it was a good size statue, but it's only a tiny miniature that fits in the palm of your hand. I've got a few dragon statues I've purchased over the years that are far larger than the CE miniature and even they weren't $50 each.

There is no possible way that miniature justifies spending $379NZ when you can get the digital CE for $70NZ.

In the US, the physical CE is $129.99US, with current exchange rates, that converts to $170NZ, which while still expensive, is far, far less then what they are charging. Somebody is being extremely greedy and putting an exorbitant mark up on the price.

It also seems to me that SE forgot to take different currencies into account, either that or deliberately abused them:

UK -- £129.
US -- $129.
Australia -- $379AUD.
NZ -- $379NZD.


Why the same price when every currency has different buying powers...?

The problem starts with them cheating the UK players by not adjusting the price of the EU version to bring it in line with the currency exchange rate and then being the only MMO developer to force the oceanic players to purchase the EU version instead of the US version like every other MMO -- at least that I know of, and I've played a lot of MMOs. £129 is $253NZ... add taxes and import costs, markups, we end up with what we have here... $379