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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Regional prices. To not abuse regional prices, and to make it work, they have to lock it. Otherwise some regions would have extremely expensive games. But because they could not afford the games otherwise, the regional prices takes this into account and sell the games for cheaper in those regions. If everyone outside the world could buy there, they would. Then it would be pointless for the publisher, because the cheapest price is then the normal price.

  So regional prices is not here to make it expensive for you, but more like make it affordable for those, who wouldn’t otherwise able to buy. At least that’s the idea as far as I understand.

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think you’ve answered your own question

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, I didn’t understand people who ask “Why do this thing that makes money if it inconveniences the customer?” as if the customer ever mattered to them in the first place. The only reason they ever catered to us is because we used to simply collectively not buy things from companies that didn’t. As soon as they convinced us to spend indiscriminately, any reason to give us anything we want over something more profitable went out the window.

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    • CallMeAl@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This poster nearly, but not always, always answers their own question. Its rather strange activity.

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• BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People in different regions are able to pay different amounts for a video game. You don’t want to sell a game for €40 to someone willing to pay €80, you also don’t want to miss out on the €40 from someone who’s only willing to pay that amount.

  This is also why there are artificial tiers, like an ‘ultimate edition’ and shit like that.

  Same goes for things like internet speeds. A 1gbit connection is actually slightly cheaper to sell than a 100/100 connection, but they offer different price tiers to extract the maximum amount someone is willing to pay.

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• eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To maximize profit

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• bookmeat@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Digital product under capitalism: artificial scarcity.

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