Square Enix statement

[Tiggy]

That's a good question and still doesn't completely eradicate my point or suggest what I'm saying isn't part of the equation. I'm not a master of the details of your tax system for imports. That doesn't change anything about taxes or tariff's and how they factually work or the reality that this is an imported good that is absolutely subjected to tariffs.

Keep insulting me though. I'm sure that will continue working out for you. Hypocrite.

You're just turning me into your hate mascot because I'm offering possible explanations. Am I Square? Did I set the price? No. Deal with my opinion. Deal with the realities of tariffs. Deal with the realities of complex economies. You railing your anger at me achieves nothing at all especially when it's clear you DON'T have enough information to even tell me I'm factually wrong (seriously the school insults? Lol) or even explain why you think so other than further opinions. People are assuming Square is being lazy. They are assuming Square is being money hungry. All things said without a shred of proof and were said only out of anger and frustration. Meanwhile I try to suggest an actual legal reason this might happen and all I get is anger back in my face. God forbid I try to bring some knowledge and reason to a thread clearly steeped in anger.

Do I KNOW tariff's are the explicitly cause? No. I offered it as a possible explanation. One that is relevant and in part should raise the price at least a little unless Square chooses to eat that cost.

[Shaone]

Keep insulting me though. I'm sure that will continue working out for you. Hypocrite.

Stack Overflow: Infinite Recursion Error.

Let me ask you, if they decided to lock world transfers and charge everyone on Balmung 50% more for the expansion pack, would you appreciate people telling you this is justifiable, because ERP causes higher GM costs?


EDIT:

Also since you keep mentioning tariffs I did a check:

http://www.dutycalculator.com/hs-loo...n-disc-format/

For game imports, the UK/EU tariff rate 0%, for the USA 2.7%.

[Snugglebutt]

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Your not adding knowledge to the debate since you have no idea about our tax system or our tariffs...your just making wild assumptions while at same time complaining that other people are making assumptions about SE's reason for pricing it the way they did. I am telling you from within the country I live in aka the UK, that neither of those things make up for the discrepancy between the EU version and the UK version so stop using that specific excuse because it is not a valid one.

Anyone who thinks SE made the UK price what it is because of anything more than laziness, greed or incompetence is in my opinion very likely wrong because even if it was based on the tax, customs, delivery, NMW, our trade agreements with the EU and our currency strength or whatever excuse come up with then it would not equal exactly the same price in each country aka pretty much 130 GBP/130 EUR/130 USD.

It is blatantly obvious to me they just put same figure for all and simply swapped the currency symbol on each with no regard for actual economic differences. If they took the economics into account and regional difference in tax rates, import or export fees, NMW or whatever other excuses have been given here then it would not equal the same price in each country no matter which excuse you use. Our country actually gives huge discounts to the gaming industry both in terms of tax and tariffs compared to a lot of other EU nations.

I am not mad at you by the way, I am not even mad at SE...I am disappointed in SE and do not care much either way about you. I am however telling you that your excuse is not valid because if it was valid then there would not be such a huge discrepancy between the EU and the UK price in real terms. This thread is attempting among all the others to get an answer and justification for the price difference on the UK physical CE from SE. Any discussion or arguing among each other is nothing more than tangents, the threads goal is clearly getting an answer from SE and not other players.