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NA/EU TP Prices... What is this shit?

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#168

I don’t think the price in Euro for 100 TP is too high (sth between 5 and 7 Euros would’ve been better but who cares).

But, I have sth against this kind of insane regional pricing with wrong assumptions about the player base. Ok, so the players on the SEA and SA servers pay only 60% of what players on the EU and in NA servers pay for the same things.

  1. It is highly unfair to charge different prices for the same service ( i.e. adding 100 TP to your ingame account). It is not about how much a human worker earns over here or over there. It’s the same publisher and the same game client, just a different server.

  2. You guys compare low income jobs and their economic power in different countries, but you seem to forget that poor people from 3rd world countries in SEA and SA simply can’t afford to play MMORPGs, they barely survive through agriculture and odd jobs. The people who play MMORPGs from those respective regions are people who have a decent amount of money and free time, they ain’t no poor beggars or rice peasants.
    Meanwhile, although the living standard[i.e. you pay for everything and get poisoned,tricked and robbed as a thanks for it] in Europe and NA is quite “high” in general, the most people who play MMORPGs in those respective regions are “poor”, meaning they have low till no income (students [hs&uni], odd jobbers, jobless people e.g.). Still, because of massive social pressure through high rent, utility bills, taxes, it’s hard to get by and yet we are called rich.

Come on people from SA and SEA, try topping having to spend 70% of your wages for rent alone, another 15% for health insurance and 30% for utility costs. Not to forget at least 30% for food. And yeah, it adds up to over 100%, it’s called parental support, because you can’t live on a 8,50 Euro job during your student days here in Germany.

Still thinking it’s fair to charge one more than the other for the exact same electronic transaction? Remember, we are not paying for access but ± converting our money into a virtual currency. I could understand that if we were paying for access, the prices would be different, but getting less TP just because I charge on a certain server has no justification if I get no real benefits from playing there(FPS dops [<20] =~ Ping lag). This will also have a huge impact on the Token prices, they will explode on the EU and NA servers and decline on the SA and SEA servers…

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#169

I think it is kinda sad, that a person would actually open such a thread… but maybe this kind of attitude explains why the “Trump Train” is so succesful.

With your logic you should boycott all the well known brands too, because hey… guess what they also use regional pricing… bragging about beeing part of a first world country and doesn’t know anything about economy.

#170

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#171

Lol… u made my day xD Are u seriously comparing the fact that you are still a student with 25+years (ignore this part if u are training to become a doctor), getting free education and support from the government, with a working person in a third world country?
you can get like 150euro childsupport, 480euro Bafög and that will leave you with more money then a middle class worker in a third world country.

It is really sad hearing such a bullshit from a person who is enrolled in a university.

#172

Lol this is not unfair at all
Even steam game are normally cheaper than na price by quite a lot

It just that when you compare thing side by side the problem arise

Edit: im in sea you get 10$ PER DAY here as the minimum wage

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#175

I’d understand the different pricing if it was managed by different companies. What IMC did was complete bs. Pricing based on wages? I don’t see other companies doing that.

#176

yeeaaah, right…

http://www.steamregionalprices.com/







it’s a common practice, you just didn’t know it because steam usually doesn’t show you other region prices.

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#177

@IMC:
To continue to denigrate your communities, you will lose players and money.

Regardless of the price difference, the problem is the prices!

We deserve to have your pack to -50%! We have supported during the beta and early access …

Stop wanting to generate money while we fix anything! 15 lines per patch notes.

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#179

The country-wide minimum wage is $7.25.
“None” minimum wage? That’s not a thing.
If they haven’t set through laws that increase it above $7.25, it’s $7.25.

Baffles me to see people trying to explain this to non-US posters and they don’t even know themselves.

#180

Let this guy glump all of your saltiness people, he loves salt btw :sparkles:

While me, on the other hand waits for MT for the game optimization before buying those tps.

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#181

none means they default to the country’s minimum.

your lack of comprehension baffles me.

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#182

you’re fixed it for ya dumby.

#183

Y’all are stupid as hell for missing the point. Why can a NA player simply roll on the designated-only-by-nametag SEA server and instantly get a huge discount?

This shouldn’t be possible. Prices should simply take the buyers location in to account and then it’d be less of an issue, but at this point it would make no sense for anyone to play on Klaipedia as opposed to a SEA server even if you are NA because of the massive discount you would get.

It just screams of shoddy workmanship on this game’s payment models.

#184

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#185

Ping sucks for me no matter where I play, I live in Japan :smiley:

#186

Holy ■■■■, please let this thread die. Mods, please lock it. I’m the OP. I’m done with it.

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#188

You do not read news in front page right?

At this moment SA server is in US cause problems with host in SA region.
It WILL go back there eventually then BAM lag/200ms ping and etc.
Don’t come complaim later.