It’s time for people to realize that asking for regional prices isn’t for founder pack, stop with this crap, please.
When the game is released, people want to put money in the game to buy royal crystal too, and at this time founders pack isn’t available anymore.
The asking for regional prices is a long-term asking, not a founder pack request.
from time to time some people want to buy a royal crystal and with this disparity of currency, many people probably will leave the game, since, with actual prices in NA Server without regional prices, NA server is 3 times more expensive than the Russian server, at least for Brazilians.
Well, every single thread is talking about Founder’s pack almost exclusively (OP included btw). So I can’t agree with “it’s always about regional pricing of royal crystals”.
I can’t agree with your proposal of more IP blocking, IP banning and over all regional policing you are proposing any more then regional pricing. But that’s just my take on it. For me internet neutrality and equality should have had precense over all of that.
Russian server prices… if that was ever the case why would anyone (like really anyone) play on NA/EU if they could get their avatars in RU cheaper and that’d be the decisive thing?
on the other hand… outside the shop… your time is of same value as rich US whale time, so if anything you will also get 6x more value for your time in game. So it won’t feel that bad IMO.
@Elenoe is right, I am talking about the Founder’s pack, because I kind of expect and hope there will be no regional pricing for the ingame shop (cause there are so many problems that could occur with that).
Having said that, I do agree it really sucks for countries whose average income is super low. If they do decide to add regional pricing ingame; I would of course argue this should be added for as many countries as possible.
So I’m pretty much asking for regional pricing wherever AGS decides to implement it
Whether they should implement it or not; I don’t know. Probably not; unless they find a very good way of doing it.
I know I will not be spending much on the game if it’s not implemented , cause I can’t afford it. But at the end of the day, it is fundamentally a f2p play and I’m ok with that
In my Steam shows 100% of conversion from USD to BRL(Brazilian Real), this is a prohibitive price, the platinum pack is worth 2 times my mass effect legendary edition(with full price), with is the most expensive game I have been purchased in my almost 12 years in steam.
The price of the platinum pack here is the same as half the minimum wage salary in Brazil, it’s crazy this price.
It’s really simple. Within a region all prices - founder packs and crystals - must be the same, period. Otherwise it’s the same as the whole region having the lowest price, because who is gonna pay more when they can pay less. Turkey founder packs pricing mistake is just the proof, plenty of people abused it and Amazon had to correct the price.
Founder packs include tradable items and in-game currency. So regional pricing doesn’t make sense to begin with, because different countries play in the same region. Again, why would people pay more when they can pay less.
Asking for regional pricing is asking for new server regions, which would split the player base and make several regions almost empty.
@Elenoe also mentioned an interesting side-effect. By being indexed on US $ / EU €, people with lower currencies will see their time more valued in game. 1 hour spent farming gold, to buy crystals, will be multiple times more efficient for them than a US or EU citizen doing it, because in 1 hour we would make, at minimum wage, 10+ bucks, which will probably be 1000 royal crystals …
It does for SA, you just need to make items bound to the SA region.
And don’t begin with “everyone will play on SA then”, because this game is heavily ping reliant, if it didn’t matter everyone would play RU version, because it is the cheapest, even cheaper than what it would be if SA had the fair pricing
This game econemy depends on people buying crystals so F2P can get access to cash shop stuff, if no one considers it worth or just a few, the price will be absurd and Gold <> Crystal exchange will be impossible for F2P. For SA to work they have to either:
Make Crystal <> Gold exchange global (since price is the same for crystals anyway)
Make SA prices fairer, but lock the use of items purchased with regional pricing locked to SA. Tree of Savior does that, they have both packs, one that can be used globaly and one that is locked to SA with localized pricing
You read me too fast. I said prices must be the same within a region. If SA gets its own region, of course they should get their own prices.
Make Crystal <> Gold exchange global
I don’t agree because the in-game gold doesn’t have the same value when it comes from different regions with different regional pricing.
PS : I think we don’t talk about the same thing when we say “region”. A region is a group of servers restricted to a geographical area. People can play cross-server within a region but not from / to another region. Same for the AH.
If SA gets its own region, of course they should get their own prices.
I think we don’t talk about the same thing when we say “region”. A region is a group of servers restricted to a geographical area.
We already been confirmed to have our own region, it will be NA, EU and SA on release, unless you consider only different clients a “region”
That is why I said “bind it to SA region” because we will have our own group of servers, I never asked it to be inside NA or EU group, that is exactly what my example (Tree of Savior) does, they have special packs that can only be claimed in servers in the SA group of servers with regional pricing
the European single market does not mean prices are the same everywhere though. " The single market seeks to guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people" it doesn’t have anything with that
well, this has been happening forever and right now you need to have your steam account set to the region you want to buy from, you need to have a VPN set to that region I think and you also need a credit/debit card from that region.
yea man, that has been happening with Turkey’s prices. That’s why I said it may not be a good idea. However, my request was that if AGS decides to implement it anyways; to do it for more countries - the problem wouldn’t get worse lol
every thing you say they “can’t” do is already being done for countries from the European Union. Look at Poland for an example. I don’t get why we are arguing about this lol. (read the previous replies, this has already been talked about)
I still don’t think that’s how it works. it’s about allowing EU members to access markets from any EU country. It doesn’t mean that the same product won’t have very different prices in (using your example) Germany vs Romania. Because that does happen quite a bit. We do get different prices for the same stuff if we buy from our country (sometimes it’s cheaper, sometimes it’s more expensive)
But yea, you’re right; it does seem like Valve shouldn’t be able to block EU members from getting the same prices as the lowest price in EU. But it’s happening anyways. Weird
