£130 =/= $130

[Talia_Hailwind]

How many of us stuck to our principles and didn't buy the physical CE.

o/

[Natsuno]

How many of us stuck to our principles and didn't buy the physical CE.

o/

Also, I forgot to post this:

BBC Digital Single Market report

I know someone in the thread had commented on this before, but I just thought I'd post it as to say things are now in motion. I would of posted it sooner, but I can be quite scatterbrained at times.

Now, will SE lead by example, or leave it until the very last minute in order to gouge the UK for every last penny it can?

[Remus]

I didn't buy the physical collector's edition, but I did buy the digital one.

[Stormrider]

I find this discussion interesting and feel bad that people are getting gouged. In Canada a few years ago the dollars was higher then the US. Prices are generally cheaper in the US for many reasons. So tack on exchange rate and the prices become astronomically different.

Now this might be the relevant part to people in UK. Many companies stated the policies they follow do not include exchange rate pricing. So this ment if they set prices for a market they would not adjust it. Now we live in a digital ordering age. You say why don't you just order from the US. The same companies to protect pricing profits or policies. Refused to sell saying if you wanted the product you would have to order from the Canadian branch. Eventually after some government chirping(nothing done). The companies adjusted some pricing for fear of regulation.

So while you may feel validated on the forums. These companies were willing to risk losing actual sales in a recession. The real work about pricing has to come for governments companies are willing to risk the lost sales for the increase profit. I work for a company that would rather make 60% and sell less then make less then 60%.

[Natsuno]

Problem is, that we're part of a single market. A part of the EU. The only thing that should dictate a difference in price between the UK and the main land, especially when the item is being shipped from the UK, is the exchange rate.

People may be going online to get a better price, but when you want to buy an item from one EU country when you live in another, you should not be blocked from doing so or be redirected to another site run by the same company just so they can squeeze some more money out of you based just solely on the fact they can get away with it at present. The initiative I linked in my previous post aims to tackle (amongst other things) this whole behaviour of companies that are going against the spirit of the Single Market by putting up artificial walls when selling goods online.

[Caiera]

This sucks, I have refrained from buying the physical ce ps4 copy due to major overpricing in the uk, I am however still waiting for the digital ce ps4 to make an appearance, with only 3 weeks to go before early access begins i am starting to think that a) I won't be getting early access and b) I won't be getting and pre-order bonus items either

[CrimsonThunder]

Bumping this up.

Paid the £130 assuming they'd done the standard practice of converting, boy was I wrong. I thought the price tag for a glorified key and some cheap things was a bit off, now I feel ripped off.

I hope they address this issue at some point, don't go quiet fellow Brits!

[Hyrist]

This isn't the place to be having this discussion really. This is a Marketing department problem - that would be SE corporate, not the FFXIV development team. You'd be better off contacting customer support in the Square Enix store and tell them how they're losing CE purchases due to price discrepancy.