£130 =/= $130

[SongJoohee]

See this guy has the right idea. Not to sound rude but the people SE are aiming for are those who will just buy without really thinking about it. They know they will get people who are just like "Oh collector's edition, insta buy" There are numerous people like that. I just hope physical CE doesn't sell so SE can learn their lesson.

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.

[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.

[Eidolon]

Maybe the EU sets come with a VR headset from Log Horizon.

Complete with being sucked into the game!

Or sleuth will pop out and data drain you.

(Not making any SAO jokes here. Disliked that series )

[SongJoohee]

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 s mart business in the pay to play industry you never say how many active subscribers.

They don't. Last we heard there was 500k~ active subs when there was 2.5m registered accounts (not including the Chinese version - different publisher/business model)

[Eidolon]

Skeith* God damn it, SKEITH!! Autocorrecting phones ftl

[Remus]

Maybe the EU sets come with a VR headset from Log Horizon.

Complete with being sucked into the game!

Or sleuth will pop out and data drain you.

(Not making any SAO jokes here. Disliked that series )

Oh no, All the SAO fans will attack you now for disliking it :P plus saying Log Horizon is better which i fully agree lol(im with you man i dislike it as well)

[Eidolon]

Oh no, All the SAO fans will attack you now for disliking it :P plus saying Log Horizon is better which i fully agree lol(im with you man i dislike it as well)

Not saying one is better than the other! They both have their merits. But I love LH so much more :3

[Remus]

Not saying one is better than the other! They both have their merits. But I love LH so much more :3

I commend you for your crowd control(hehe) of the SAO mob by saying both have their merits. *claps*

[Reinfeld]

Forgive my Ignorance but the symbol the OP is using is for Euros, am I correct? All the currency converters I checked out says 130 Euros is only $138. Are these sites all wrong or am I missing something?

[Reynhart]

Forgive my Ignorance but the symbol the OP is using is for Euros, am I correct?

It's the symbol for Pounds, aka, UK currency.
And some people have stated than 130£ is 192$
The price in € is technically a little higher than $, but it's nothing compared to the huge difference for UK.