Epic Games Turkey Prices
Lihue Barken
So as you can see here pricing on the Epic Store is significanly cheaper than on DE's website. What's up with that? Shouldn't a third party taking a cut increase the price instead of cutting it by 1/4 - 1/3?
basically: games (and DLCS/purchaseable content) are cheaper or more expensive depending on your region because in for instance south africa, the average income is so much lower that the same price as US pricing would be way too much of a financial burden.
as an interesting comparison, the new destiny 2 expansion costs 80 euro's for the deluxe, but only 1039 south african rand (60,49 euro's). the most extreme example is turkish lira, this same game costs 299 lira or 18,76 euro's in turkey. that is 76.55% cheaper than the european region.
this is also why on steam, you can gift from a more expensive to a less expensive region, but not from a less expensive region to a more expensive one.
my guess is that the pricing is different because DEs website doesn't do regional pricing and displays in USD while epic does regional pricing and displays in SEK?
looking at the new war invasion pack on steam, it does also have regional pricing there. being 8,99 euro's but only 113,99 mexican peso's (4,96 euro's)
ye that's weird, are swedish kronor still used? i thought sweden used the Euro?
also, annoyingly, usually games are slightly more expensive in europe than in the US because of regional pricing, granted they do include VAT when in the US i think it doesnt?
Everyone basically knows that the auric cells price in the epic game store is less than steam, but what had me wondering is that the offers do not make any sense, in this screenshot we can see that the price of 500 Auric cells is 0.99$, but if we want 1100 Auric cells we have to pay 2.99$, if we take 0.99$ 3 times we get 1500 Auric cells.
I think that's the case and thanks to dbd because really, in game like lol having the same prices as eu or na doesn't make any sense since the countries like in north africa / some in asia or south america have worst GDP and means that some NA or EU are richer so paying the same as "rich countries" is a little frusruating.
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