Quote Originally Posted by Zarabeth View Post
I'm really curious now, I like to learn about other countries.
The most illustrative example of the differences of the realities between US and BR I can give is this-
I am American and my husband is Brazilian. When I first met him I was going to college in a tiny city (~25,000 pop) in the rural midwestern US and working just under 40 hours per week as a cashier at Walmart. He was the head of I.T. for a decently sized tax agency located in the largest (and one of the wealthiest) cities in the entirety of South America, let alone his country.

Converted to raw USD, I was making about $200 more per month than he was. And this was ten years ago when the dollar was about x2 real, now it is x3.

I'm not even going to get into the argument of whether or not it's "fair" that the two countries should pay the same in USD but it really torques me off that they 1- never bothered to announce the change, 2- it took them two days to even acknowledge it to the community, and 3- dropped this on us immediately after the timer to refund the DLC expired. All this is especially galling coming on the heels of the debacle from a couple of weeks ago where there was a week+ where all non-NA players trying to log on to NA servers couldn't stay connected without a VPN. We got absolutely no customer support during that time and even getting SE to acknowledge us in the tech support forums was like pulling teeth.

I love this game, really I do, but my husband and I are going to have to sit down and think long and hard if we really want to give R$100 a month to a company that continually treats us like something they stepped in.