I was looking at getting the new expansion and in particular I always get the collectors edition. I haven’t seen the physically prices yet but at the moment the prices are (Sorry I don’t know NZ values):
|
US $ |
DollaryDoos (AU$) |
| Standard |
39.95 |
59.95 |
| Collectors (Heroic) |
59.95 |
89.95 |
| Collectors + (Epic) |
79.95 |
119.95 |
As I was writing this I actually looked up the price and see with the exchange rate is terrible at moment (USD to AUD is $1.45) they are actually about right if not a little better on our side. But if the exchange rate changes shouldn’t the cost also change?
I know that it never has but it still bothers me somewhat that they take advantage of overseas people and not give an option to say pay in USD if that would work out cheaper.
I am also with NAB and get charged a Foreign transaction charge even though I am paying in AUD. Since I found that out I have been using PayPal so I don’t get charged extra fees.
We have already had an increase in prices of digital servies (See below). I don’t know if this is because they have to pay GST now but as a digital service I wouldn’t think there would be much cost difference to have it come to Australia (maybe some legal fees setting it up originally) but as they have GST in the US I don’t think that is fair on us.
Sorry Rant over. Feel free to ignore.
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Might factor in a lower ROI for server costs for having them hosted in Australia. OCE I think is only like 80k active players? Maybe more/less but it’s a much smaller proportion to US/China.
Would be nice if we could redeem US cards.
i think maybe you’re forgetting the mountains of red tape and bureaucracy that they have to negotiate to offer this stuff in Australia? we can thank, well, our own country, for that.
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Stop voting for liberal idiots who castrate us in the interests of a couple of Australian companies who refuse to take part in the global economy and need government help to keep standing up.
It’s like 10 people and their mates who benefit from our liberal government and for some reason half the country votes for them because ‘the economy’ even though they never accomplish anything.
Same crap in the USA with their republican oligarchs and an army of dimwitted (‘patriotic’) voters.
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I blame harvey norman. I know it wasnt just him but i seem to remember his face on the news complaining about not being able to compete with the US companies. After that all online computer games prices went up.
But still, was the government that wouldve made the change.
Pretty sure if I recall from when the prices were first changed (after us paying US prices for 10+ years) they did it to accommodate the taxation placed on money going out of Aus.
So because they were losing an additional 10% of their sales costs as taxes they ended up increasing the price to compensate.
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If you mean the sales tax then yep, could be a very likely reason.
It’s dumb because at the end of the day the cost goes to the consumer but I guess it’s a way to keep the money in Australia.
Also there might be some leeway just incase the exchange rate fluctuates.
The confusing part with all this is that the bank statement reads that when we purchase from Blizzard in AUD the funds go to BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT SCHIPHOL-RIJK Netherlands.
I am still salty at how Howard got a structural surplus from Hawk / Keating and the mining boom and somehow decided giving 90% of the mining boom money to his donors and then turn the economy into a structural deficit was “good economic management”. We had a once in a life time opportunity to be a massive economic power in the OCED, hell the world but no.
Remember when $1 AUD = $1.33 US.
I miss those days. The only major party that are the real economic managers are labor. Shame that the avg voter would rather listen to LNP lies than actual facts.
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You’d be surprised how many businesses do this. It’s how they work around tax and play with their stats and KPIs.
Don’t believe what you hear on the news about US politics. US Liberals hound the Republicans because they’re always lowering the corporate tax rate. People think this is bad. But every time, without fail, when Liberals jack up corporate taxes in America, the business start moving to other countries. When the Republicans are “in power,” they lower corporate taxes and businesses start coming back to the US. This is good for us. Additionally, it’s the Liberal politicians who have, almost exclusively, been responsible for the bureaucratic regulatory BS that afflicts US businesses. Republicans are not perfect with this either (which is why I’m Libertarian). Still, for the record, the Liberals in US politics are the most egregious offenders when it comes to creating bureaucratic “red tape.”
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Lolwat.
Other side’s just as terrible.
And i do feel a little bad for the Aussies. I got screwed too, Im charged in USD, converted to SEK at the bank, plus an international use fee.
Thanks. ><