I wish to complain about the cost of the petrol I needed to buy to drive to the shop and buy the game.

thats beside the point.

This is normal. It's about the average income in a country. prices are adapted to that. But it's kind of ok. Customers pay less, companies earn less, but the people paid by the companies earn less to. It's about scale. Don't compare apples with oranges disguised as bananas.

lol.

Thank you!

@Stanford, thanks for the tip on that ISP. Im currently changing career (from being a senior software developer to something much less stressful) so i will eventually be able to get myself back on uncapped internet. I'm not a treehugging vigilante :D. I just have no spare cash available, and dont see why i should meet the cost for poor management of the publishing side of things.

Of course, if i was not so skint i would prob just say oh well never mind, but its only when your skint that you really realise whos paying what in this world and how the economics works.

Well, i'm for one , very releived if i can find it in the shops, saved me a few bob. pardon the pun, haha

Oh i see, so ubi needs to stick a "fair trade" sticker on the box then?

No, it perfectly answers your question.

The price of games is not a price calculated from expenses incurred.
It's a market price. "Acceptable by the customer" price, if you wish.

All games are far from having the same development & other direct (marketing for instance) costs. But in the same country, they have similar price. Only the retailers make it vary much by adjusting their own margin.

lol

So do Apple, NVidia, AMD, Intel, ASUS, Mercedes, BMW, Ford and countless others....