gamesfreak64: true, but one member already explained that the difference using exchange rates arent that big... so i dont get the fuss about all that.
one of the many currency converts on the internet:
this one is:
http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=10&From=USD&To=EUR 10.00 USD = 9.19747 EUR
US Dollar ↔ Euro
1 USD = 0.919747 EUR 1 EUR = 1.08726 USD
Convert again EUR/USD
Mid-market rates: 2015-03-06 15:54 UTC
Klumpen0815: The difference was way bigger at this moment in time.
thats right, it was, but i been around for a while and in my time there was never >5 bucks difference, so i still dont get the leaving... usually it was 1 or 2 bucks at most.
That would make a game back then to 11 dollars and maybe 10 or 9.1 guilders or the way around, thats not much,
besides, suppose they abandoned the regional pricing and 15 dollar game be 15 euro game, even then they still cant ask absurd prices cause changes are low that anyone in his right mind would buy them no matter how good the game is.
Thing is that usually older members still compare it to boxed prices ( which had all kinds of physical extra which allowed for asking a high price for a game, like keyhangers, treasure maps, a nice paper manual (pdf costs lost of inkt to print)
We had a topic about that a while ago; pillars, i mean these prices are skyhigh for a virtual download
Today retail stores (shops with sales man not online shops)
do offer mosly a virtual download but, ofter tehre is still a nice box, extra, a map, keyhanger or any other extra, physical things.
If a game that i like would be 60 euros and it had extras (things i can touch and collect) and only a digi download i would buy that sooner then forking out that cash for a digitalbuy only with no physcial extras like thsoe i mentioned.
I guess the younger public the ones that dont know what a vinyl record was without googling first, that dont know that we had guilders when their parents were kids, used a tape to play and record musci instead of flashdrives and mp3 players and memorysticks,
this youth doesnt know better and are more used to how things are now, cause these kids dont know better.
The older generation does . and thats a bit harder to adapt that fast.
So the current population of kids these days are ready to pay much sooner then the older people do.