Square Enix statement

[Risvertasashi]

Living costs in the US are on average cheaper then the UK after doing some quick google searches, our average house price is in USD if converted around $264,773.14 across England and Wales. The average house price in the US is $199,600.0, the average monthly disposable salary across the US is $2,970.53 and the average in the UK is in USD around $2,522.33. Unemployment rate current in UK is around 5.7%, in the US around 5.5%. Now these figures are gained from multiple sources but obviously might find other sources with different results. So maybe the US should be the ones paying almost $200 for their version since they seem to be in a better position financially based on national averages.

If you take a statistics course, you'll find that averages really do not tell the whole story, and as mentioned, there are different government services available in each country. Median might be a better consideration here, but it's moot. The entire US and UK population (holistically) are not SE's demographic, which is what really matters. Rather, it's a subset, and we would need numbers for that subset to really get a meaningful answer. SE's accounting/marketing isn't going to share that, however. I think it is a fair assumption that a number of XIV players are at or close to minimum wage, and someone already did the math on that.

[Snugglebutt]

If you take a statistics course, you'll find that averages really do not tell the whole story, and as mentioned, there are different government services available in each country..

Of course it does not tell the whole story but given you tried to use the NMW which falls into the same pitfalls of not telling the whole story either, my statistics are as relevant as your original argument justifying the price difference using NMW. The other person made a blanket statement assuming average US customer is worse off, my statistics merely showed it is the opposite based on national average.