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Australia's 10% import tax will increase the prices of their already high priced games.
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Australia's 10% import tax will increase already high game costs
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Doomslayer
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But not for the right reasons
Can I be on the same side of the bet as you :lol:
Doomslayer
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Couldn't have said it better myself, We know Labor will go along with it
Steam will never bring it AUD pricing Gabe is laughing his a** off at this government
Doomslayer
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TBH what is stopping these companies not to sell to people here, Companies know there away around these things.
Excalabur50
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BOHICA bloody Liberals raping us again
Doomslayer
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The good news is that the internet is so slow that you can't download too much taxable content
They'll probably use the money to implement the proposed ban on VPN's and helicopter flights home to the lodge for lunch.
True ^_^
AlienALX
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PC games have shot up in price recently. Thanks to piracy PC games were kept in toe for a long time, with devs only daring to ask around £30 maximum for a PC game. Now though? Dying Light is £40 and has been out for ages and IIRC Fallout 4 is £50. Prices are starting to creep up to console levels.
This is a massive wee take because there are no licensing fees on the PC, so it is sheer greed.
I always felt bad for my mate in the USA because PC game prices were the same as consoles, and I feel for you Aussies, this bends like a reed in the wind but tbh? the way things are going we're going to get it too.
PC gaming is on the up and more and more people are making the switch, so now it's wee taking time.
This is a massive wee take because there are no licensing fees on the PC, so it is sheer greed.
I always felt bad for my mate in the USA because PC game prices were the same as consoles, and I feel for you Aussies, this bends like a reed in the wind but tbh? the way things are going we're going to get it too.
PC gaming is on the up and more and more people are making the switch, so now it's wee taking time.
Doomslayer
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with Steam Australians have to pay in USD not AUD, not like you guys in England where you pay in GBP
AlienALX
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Friggin' mental prices.
I admit I caved and bought the Pip Boy Edition of Fallout 4 because the only box set I don';t have is the original Pip Boy clock edition of Fallout 3 and it was $400. I've seen the clock/Pip Boy sell for $600
I have the lunch box and Brotherhood of Steel editions and the New Vegas box set so yeah, the allure of the Pip Boy definitely got me. I will be buying the mini nuke collection set if that launches here in the UK too. September apparently..
But for that you do actually get something, even if it's over priced tat. I just love the games, and I get thousands of pound's worth of joy out of them so £99 doesn't seem so bad.
I also bought the GOTY versions of both Fallout 3 and New Vegas too.
Thing is most games do not last hundreds of hours do they? for example, COD MW2 (I think that's what it's called). I paid £35 for that and it lasted a grand total of about five hours. I paid £27 for BF3 and it lasted about seven hours. And that was it. Once I completed them I never ever went back for a second go.
So with Fallout 3 my quickest play through was around 40 hours with all of the DLC and by then I was doing it with my eyes closed. The first one took around 80 hours, I reckon all in all I have probably put around two thousand hours into it. That makes it worth whatever they want to charge tbh.
Problem is when they start charging £40+ for low fat games that have about as much content as a glass of water. I know the past seven years were not spent on making Fallout 4 look better because they already had the Skyrim engine, so the time has been spent on nothing but content (something they admitted they ran out of on Fallout 3, hence the quests that either do nothing (Three Dogg toaster) or have no real end.
I admit I caved and bought the Pip Boy Edition of Fallout 4 because the only box set I don';t have is the original Pip Boy clock edition of Fallout 3 and it was $400. I've seen the clock/Pip Boy sell for $600
I have the lunch box and Brotherhood of Steel editions and the New Vegas box set so yeah, the allure of the Pip Boy definitely got me. I will be buying the mini nuke collection set if that launches here in the UK too. September apparently..
But for that you do actually get something, even if it's over priced tat. I just love the games, and I get thousands of pound's worth of joy out of them so £99 doesn't seem so bad.
I also bought the GOTY versions of both Fallout 3 and New Vegas too.
Thing is most games do not last hundreds of hours do they? for example, COD MW2 (I think that's what it's called). I paid £35 for that and it lasted a grand total of about five hours. I paid £27 for BF3 and it lasted about seven hours. And that was it. Once I completed them I never ever went back for a second go.
So with Fallout 3 my quickest play through was around 40 hours with all of the DLC and by then I was doing it with my eyes closed. The first one took around 80 hours, I reckon all in all I have probably put around two thousand hours into it. That makes it worth whatever they want to charge tbh.
Problem is when they start charging £40+ for low fat games that have about as much content as a glass of water. I know the past seven years were not spent on making Fallout 4 look better because they already had the Skyrim engine, so the time has been spent on nothing but content (something they admitted they ran out of on Fallout 3, hence the quests that either do nothing (Three Dogg toaster) or have no real end.
Nah they need more money to spend on prostitutes, private jets etc.
realneil
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LOL! I snorted coffee through my nose when I read that!
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