EU Commission Says Piracy Increases Legitimate Game Sales

[DonFerrari]

Ka-pi96 said:

Leadified said:

Discrimination, really?

Well whatever, if you wish to stick to a failing business model because it's "fair" then go ahead.

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.

Those Brazilian would be talking without knowledge.

SW price in Brazil is almost the same than in USA for Sony published (actually lower when dollar is over 3,5). And that is they making the price in dollar a lot less, and making a lot less money because of taxes.

The games that are much more expensive is the ones that are direct import instead of local distribution.

There were times when dollar was close to 4 that the price here was cheaper. And that is with our taxes being like 70% for games... so if taxes were around 15% we could possibly have prices at 20 USD or 30 USD and piracy would be certainly smaller... the problem is with region free that would make people buy here instead of other places.

 

But pretend not, prices are determined based on the purchasing power and demand of the population. The price of gaming in Europe have been higher than in USA since forever.