what kind of joke is this?

rainbowheart · April 2013

the package says to cost 199.9 usd

but when i trying to buy it it swap to euro

so the cost turns from 199.9 usd to 262.84

..... so what kind of marketing is this?

pansapien · April 2013

VAT maybe?

berserkerkitten8 · April 2013

Welcome to the wonderful world of MMORPGs. Where the Euro is worthless and EU players get ripped off.

krubar · April 2013

Price for the hero pack is still the same for you but you also pay for VAT which cryptic has no control over. If you dont like the VAT then get in touch with your government. :P

doowie1982 · April 2013

The extra amount, which increases it, is the VAT that your country applies to online stares. When I go to do an online order of the 200$, it's give to me for 190euro

kilo418 · April 2013

Paying VAT has nothing to do with the game at all, except it's "Location"

Blame the EU.

jetah · April 2013

switch to the german/french language (if you can) and those prices will be in Euro.

randomdispalynam · April 2013

berserkerkitten8 wrote: »

Where the Euro is worthless and EU players get ripped off.

.....by agreements made with the EU by their Governments.

VAT, excise tax and currency fluctuations are in the extra cost.

zovya · April 2013

Wow, that's high. Oppressive taxation FTW! Right?.... No?

inkedbear · April 2013

Will the plugin mediahint work? Lets you watch US netflix in EU etc. Hides your location

fotzik · April 2013

randomdispalynam wrote: »

.....by agreements made with the EU by their Governments.

VAT, excise tax and currency fluctuations are in the extra cost.

Countries that have agreements with the EU to not have VAT taxes nor use their currency still have to pay these ridiculous prices from pwe, how do you explain that?

vatasha · April 2013

Time for you Europeans to have a Boston Tea party......now dress as vikings and throw your computers into the ocean

mechafall · April 2013

first time ever i actually find this expensive tax, never been this expensive. (sweden)

klangeddin · April 2013

Highest VAT in Europe is 27% in Hungary.
Today 1€ is roughly equal to 1,3$

So, In Euros the price would be 153,7805

Now, add the 27% tax on that it's 153,7805*1.27=195,301235

Reconvert in Dollars... it's 253,873$.

That means there must be something else in addition to VAT, since it's higher than it should be even if you were from hungary (and you're probably not? :P)

infi321 · April 2013

with p2w shop and no real endgame, why bother?

Im so laughing at the incomming whine threads of "how bad the game is" after a few weeks when people realise theyve ben conned.

gertona2 · April 2013

Vat is 25% in some countries, where did the extra 12.84$ come from?

We Europeans have to learn to live with VAT, but adding more than the VAT for an online product is just being a tool. And some countries don't even have VAT and STILL have to pay those extra dollars, that's just scamming people.

synfoola · April 2013

What's even sadder was that I was going to purchase a decent amount of Zen during the discount special...until I realized that, due to the wonders of being out here in the Nickel & Dime'ing EU, I'd end up paying more money for less Zen than I would back in the US.

The VAT and other forms of price hiking on this side of the pond are a cruel joke that people are just "used to". Kind of like Arthritis.

what kind of joke is this?

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