If thats the case why is NZ excluded from the price hike? There dollar is worse. By your logic when our dollar was strong and we were effectively paying MORE every month our sub price should have gone down.
The EU play less per month when you factor in conversion rates… why isnt their sub being adjusted to reflect this?
Theyve ignored the difference for 16 years and this comes hot on the heels of ActiBlizz announcing their most profitable year ever.
I would LOVE to see how US players would react if their sub price was suddenly increased by $15.
It basically is caused by our current government. They paint themselves as “good economic managers” but the facts say differently. Unfortunately their boss (Rupert Murdoch) has a near monopoly on the media in Australia. Also doesn’t help that one of our biggest free to air stations is owned by a prior Liberal MP (who was Treasurer during the Howard years).
So gullible people buy into the lie that the LNP coalition are “good economic managers” even though facts say otherwise.
During the GFC and for a few years afterwards (2008 - 2013), Australia had one of the strongest economics in the world (thanks to Labor). We are now one of the lowest preforming economics in the world and in the OECD.
Honestly how people can still believe that the LNP are “good economic managers” is beyond me.
and they are already paying more than us . Read the whole article as well , we have come off better in the battlenet balance . we are now getting $3 more for each token we buy off of the AH . We are also paying $2 more for token we want to sell for gold .
We also hit a low of 61 US cents per AU dollar for quite a while last year so we were getting a really great deal then . Adjustments are made , get over it
And that’s why Australians don’t go to American anymore for holidays. Btw I blame our government for this Bob Hawke and Paul keating when they floated our dollar and made millions of it first.
Posted this on the other thread. The Oz dollar has not gone down. It is stronger now than it was 6 months ago. However, it is likely to go down because the Au Reserve bank is engaging in quantative easing. We are getting less for more and have been for some time. The Treasure Goblin will keep screwing you while you accept the terms of reference. Hence, unsub.
Once our dollar was making more then the US dollar hence people going to America for holidays the exchange rate was up above there dollar not like now. Who would visit a country losing money on the exchange rate?
More then a few years ago try like 10 years cause I remember my Sister and her husband took their kids there for Disney World. Cause they got value for the buck. The Australia don’t go their now they prefer going to England even that has changed too now.
Ummm most people who travel overseas from Australia . In teh over 50 years that I can remember we havent been any where near parity to most countries that are popular to visit ( us and most European countries ) but they were always popular destinations
Because these are the same people defending a multinational billion dollar megacorp who use offshore tax exploits and fire workers when making record profit.
, wasnt 1980 only a decade ago