£130 =/= $130

[Remus]

What I'd really like is for someone to ask Yoshida or a developer straight up, what on earth is the justification for this price gouging. It wasn't long ago that we were told that FFXIV ARR had 4m subscribers, so its not as if this hasn't been a resounding success, I couldn't imagine that SE is financially hurting as a result of the assets spent on this game (from what I've read, the opposite is true).

I was not able to attend the fanfest last year, but I will definitely be at the next one, and I will ask him this question if it hasn't been answered by then.

I don't believe they have 4 million subscribers. These are most likely registered accounts but not active. At best i think they have maybe 1-2 million. Why do you think in the trailers they never say 4 million active adventurers and only 4 million adventurers worldwide. They do this so people will be like "Wow 4million!? I gotta join!" If you are a smart business in the pay to play industry you never say how many active subscribers.

Yep me too, already cut my purchase down from the Physical CE to a normal version from a third party shop in the UK, saved myself £110 minus w/e the digital upgrade to CE will cost... What irks me most is that they put these disgusting prices on us and then make the Digital CE/Physical CE Square Enix store exclusive in Europe/UK so they have literally no competition that can force them to put the price down to a reasonable price point.

They know the moment someone like Amazon has it the collector's edition price will most likely be around 80-90. they want to avoid this and try get as much money as possible by making it exclusive to them so no one can change it. It's a smart business decision i must say for a "BUSINESS", on the customer stand point its stupid.