Unified currency

[MakiMakaa]

I must have missed such announcement. Would you have a link to said post?
When I go to lodestone they still link to the (wrong?) post where it tells me it's $9,99.

[Estellios]

The thing is, those services advertise with exactly the currency you will be paying. On lodestone I'm being told I pay $9,99 for 1 month of subscribing, yet I have to pay €9,99 when I arrive at the payment screen. That is false advertising right there.

I think this is because of how Lodestone does its language settings. Some browsers have "US English" as a separate option from "English" so if "US English" is higher priority voila lodestone acts like you are in the US.

[Catapult]

When purchasing crysta from SE via paypal, the SE portal sends you to your local branch, so you pay in the local currency - Euro.

But the Ultimate Gamer Card seems available to you, and that's only available as an import online, which you do, and pay in the imported US$.

That's how your currency changed. I like how you found a way around that one.


On the Australia/NZ topic, the reason we are grouped with Europe is historic - we shared the PAL television frequencies of 50Hz, so in the old days our TV sets and applicable media (video games, video tapes, etc) were not compatible with the USA and Japan. That's why we were with Europe.

Of course with the rise of digital TV, the difference has become rather moot as both TVs and Consoles manage both types of signal now. Why don't they align AU/NZ with the US then? A very good question.

[Kuai]

Well America is the #1 country in the world so it makes sense that we pay the least.

[Zumi]

Basically they have to set a price because exchange rates are in flux all the time. Someone is going to have a higher price because of this. They don't want to have to go through and recalculate their monthly fee every time the exchange rates with various countries change.

[Vanguard319]

Sadly, a universal world currency doesn't seem likely to happen, not anytime soon at least.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/1...lobalcurrency/

[Eruantien]

this is just how everything is in the EU, they get screwed over on prices on the majority of imported products.

[Catapult]

this is just how everything is in the EU, they get screwed over on prices on the majority of imported products.

But for that they get better export prices. Australia, with it's strong currency, is having the opposite problem.

[Eruantien]

But for that they get better export prices. Australia, with it's strong currency, is having the opposite problem.

indeed as a supplier its great, as a consumer it sucks, I am just pointing out that its not SE its just the worlds economy working as its been set out.

[Catapult]

indeed as a supplier its great, as a consumer it sucks, I am just pointing out that its not SE its just the worlds economy working as its been set out.

Yep, and for things to improve it would require fundamental changes to international monetary policy. But if anything, policy is moving in the opposite direction right now... >_>