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Kasz216 on 03 January 2012
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Panama said:
zarx said:
Panama said:
Nothing quite says the gaming industry hates you like our prices here in Australia.


Yea it's pretty annoying, I was so happy when I saw that I could get the USA price of Shogun 2 here in NZ I just had to grab it. $7.49 US instead of the insulting $22.49 for AUS, worst is Activision even discounted 25% MW3 is $74.99! fucking appalling, just another reason for me to not buy COD, not that I really need another...

Luckily Gamersgate were selling the steam copies of Shogun 2 for $7.50 also. I fail to see why steam still charges us a premium for digital distribution. You just know publishers are running out of excuses when even digital copies of games are overpriced here.


http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/05/why-does-the-witcher-2-cost-more-in-australia/

Explains it pretty well.  The short of it is.... Publishers demand it to be so.