UBI passes Epi filter debacle cost onto customers?

[Letum]

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

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

Originally Posted by Baron

Paying 50 euros for CoD if u live in Russia would be the same as u paying some where around 200 euros where u live now.

thats beside the point.

[Wurschtie]

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.

[BRIGGBOY]

Originally Posted by letum

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

lol.

[Shrike_UK]

Originally Posted by Creelers

You will be able to install from the disk, then patch it.

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 . 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

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

Originally Posted by Wurschtie

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.

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

[Vevster]

Originally Posted by MD_Wild_Weasel

thats beside the point.

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.

[Shrike_UK]

Originally Posted by md_wild_weasel

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

lol

[Vevster]

Originally Posted by MD_Wild_Weasel

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

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