Just ordered Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance off of www.gogamer.com for real cheap. It's part of their "48 hour madness" sale right now and is going for $19.99(50% off) It's the expansion for the excellent Supreme Commander RTS game.
Just ordered Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance off of www.gogamer.com for real cheap. It's part of their "48 hour madness" sale right now and is going for $19.99(50% off) It's the expansion for the excellent Supreme Commander RTS game.
That's still $44 US Dollars, not much of a deal by our standards.
44$ ? I bet that´s fucking expensive according to Russian standards.That's still $44 US Dollars, not much of a deal by our standards.
When it comes to games often the used currency ratio is 1 euro = 1 dollar. Just last weekend I was looking at the price of one paradox game and it listed the price as 24,95$ / 24,95€. From the forums I read that the earlier retailer of the game (strategy first) had tried to sell it for 24,95$ / 17,95€ but developers cancelled the deal with them (and made a new deal with paradox) because the euro price was too low.
44$ ? I bet that´s fucking expensive according to Russian standards.
Prices in EUR include ca. 20% VAT, dollar prices don´t.
I wasn´t talking about the exchange rate. You misunderstood me. Or you have no clue what VAT (aka. sales tax) is.Based on monthly average the last time euro was 1.20284 USD (20% VAT) was in march 2006. In december 2007 it was 1.45517 USD (45% VAT???).
Why should they have the same price in dollar and Euro? It´s more clever to take what you can get in each market.I guess they are just slow to take account the currency changes (its not like anyone forces them to do it). Perhaps once per year or two. I know one online shop in america that does it perhaps twice per year and the prices became real low during the last year (20-30€ for new games). Made me buy more than few of their games.
Only for the few days it takes a competitor to send you a cease and desist.Is this not the way on the Continent?
I wasn´t talking about the exchange rate. You misunderstood me. Or you have no clue what VAT (aka. sales tax) is.
The shop calculates a net price which includes his margin. Then the sales tax comes on top of it. The result is the final price which is displayed to end customers, for example 54.95 € for Hellgate London.
VAT in Finnland is 22%. It´s added on all goods and services which are used in Finnland or are imported into Finnland, apart from a couple of exceptions with lower rates.
The US prices usually do not include this sales tax. It´s added when you check out, if it has to be paid. So if you want to compare the prices you have to either add VAT to the US prices or deduct it from the Euro prices.
It was no explanation. It was a clarification that there is not as much of a difference as it seems at first glance.I know very well what VAT is and the fact that US prices doesnt include it (noticed it myself once when I ordered som stuff from there). The point is that it would have to be as high as 45% to explain the difference and thats way above the norm that is 20% - so it simply doesnt fly as an explanation.