Ka-pi96 said:
How is it not discrimination? Changing prices based on supposed (not even accurate) income of people is absolutely discriminating against them based on that. And how is charging everybody the same price a failing business model? If anything there's more evidence to suggest that regional pricing is more of a failing business model. I'm sure you've seen plenty of the posts from Brazilian users here saying how insane prices are in Brazil (not because they're the same as everywhere else, but because they're priced much higher) and how that affects game sales there. Then what about Japan? I'm sure you've noticed the decline of their console gaming industry, right? Perhaps you've also noticed that games there are priced much higher than in the US. Maybe, just maybe, if they priced things the same in both countries (ie. the lower US price) the Japanese games industry would look much healthier than it currently does. |
It has to be determinal to you to be discrimination. I'm still using less of my income proportionally to buy a game compared to a Mexican, how am I being discriminated?
Steam games (not sure about others) are cheaper in Brazil than they are in the US, so your example doesn't work there. Do you have any evidence to suggest that the decline of Japanese games has anything to do with game prices and not the economic and social situation in the country? Anyways, if you check SteamDB you can see that Japanese games either match, lower or higher than the US price. Again, I'm not sure about consoles but I can't imagine it's much different.
