Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Zarabeth]

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.

I am in no way condoning what Squeenix did. I was simply curious about another country. I'm a nosy person and love information. I tried looking it up online but it didn't make a lot of sense to me, Your reply did so thank you. I don't pay fo0r my sub, a friend does because I can't afford the price of the sub each month. So, I do understand how upsetting this is.
One thing that is bugging me is all the comparisons to North America when the USA and Canada have nothing at all to do with any of this. This game is Japanese. The people running it are Japanese. You should be comparing to Japan or to the Yen.

[Rymm]

One thing that is bugging me is all the comparisons to North America when the USA and Canada have nothing at all to do with any of this. This game is Japanese. The people running it are Japanese. You should be comparing to Japan or to the Yen.

Because they are now charging us the equivalent of $15 USD, not ¥1,666.12 JPY. When SE starts charging us in yen and not dollars, I'm sure people will start making the comparisons.

[Zarabeth]

Because they are now charging us the equivalent of $15 USD, not ¥1,666.12 JPY. When SE starts charging us in yen and not dollars, I'm sure people will start making the comparisons.

You misunderstood what I'm saying. I see many comparisons to north America being better off than south America. While this is true financially (at least for some) it has nothing at all to do with this situation. I also watched the youtube video about this and again all the comparisons are to north America. SE is not an American company, it's Japanese.

[Ashbury]

You misunderstood what I'm saying. I see many comparisons to north America being better off than south America. While this is true financially (at least for some) it has nothing at all to do with this situation. I also watched the youtube video about this and again all the comparisons are to north America. SE is not an American company, it's Japanese.

It doesn't really matter what the target of the comparison is since SA still has less purchasing power than Japan anyway. The end resuit is the same.

I'm pretty sure the subscripton price is based having NA in mind though, being the same as WoW and all. I doubt SE looked at JP market when deciding how to price their sub model.