Wondering how often people go out of their way to purchase from somewhere else because of bad pricing in their region.

In my case, physical console games get some really bad taxes on top of them here in my country because of some antiquated tax code, but the same antiquated code doesn't tax digital purchases at all. As you might expect, the digital stores, even though they pay no tax on their product at all, pair their price with the physical release, they pocket the difference and we can get fucked.

As a result, I just bought a $60 US PSN gift card from Amazon to purchase FF15. Even though the dollar has gone up in the past month, it still ends up being about 20% cheaper than buying it at the local PSN.

Can you do this on GOG? I hear russia steam is dirt cheap.

I don't think so, but on console you can.

I watch zero punctuation and he's always vocal about how much it sucks to play games in australia.

No.

Could be worse I guess... we could be Germany... >_>

Still - we're pretty bad... >< - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia

From the still currently banned list I have

Hotline Miama 2: Wrong Number
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Manhunt
Postal
Postal 2
Phantasmagoria
Risen
Saints Row IV (Uncensored)
State of Decay (Uncensored)
South Park: The Stick of Truth (Uncensored)
Syndicate
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Uncensored)

I'm acutally going to take this one step further.

Eventually, my dream is to live in a hut in Siberia to take advantage of this mythical Russian pricing I've heard so much about.

I'll marry a seal and subsist on fermented reindeer milk. My entire plan hinges on one last, small detail however. Getting a wireless internet connection that doesn't involve icicles vibrating at a perfect resonance frequency... I haven't been able to get that one to work yet...

No. I am not really buying physical games anyway and I guess ordering such from Russia would just yield me some Russian-translated versions. The only phrases I know from Russian are "hospoti pomiloi" and "rukiveer!".

With digital games, nah, I don't feel like trying to trick GOG or Steam or whatever with VPN or somesuch. I just wait until the price of a game goes so low on my region that I can agree with it, and THEN I buy it. I don't care that much if Russians or Chinese can buy it even cheaper. Yay for them I guess.

If the Russian govt introduces a tax on digital purchases, I'll be "moving" to Ukraine. But just for the tax. The twats who hate the interwebs don't deserve to profit from it.

I don't know how to buy games from other regions.

No tbh, but I am tempted at times.