Square Enix statement

[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.