Per this post Gaijin uses US-based pricing for their in-store purchases, where we, regardless of location pays US rate for their products.
I think this need to be addressed, as there is part of the community that doesn’t hail from “$15 an hour minimum wage” countries and actually can’t buy anything from WT unless it’s on the sale period. even then for some of us it’s still in the “expensive” ballpark after currency conversions and fees imposed by payment methods.
By implementing regional pricing and reducing the prices by even 70% of it’s current price in countries with low purchasing power like the Asia, Central Europe, Balkan, South America and even Mexico there will be more user that buys WT products even without the existence of sales, this will net gaijin more profit in the longer run as they can still expect sales from richer people in said country and almost guarantee spike in purchases during sales instead of only having the sales as the sole opportunity to buy things.
$10k+ per month is above average pay for an engineer in USA, but your point still stands. $70 for pixels is still highway robbery, no matter where you live.
awesome tbh, like unironically the only time i tried this to buy a game for me and my friends steam just didnt work so i have never done it thus far lol (also apparently like 90% of what i say is against every guideline that gaijin has but im mostly fine apart from the 1984 silencing cause i hate plane people)
Not everyone in Munich is an engineer earning 5000€ per month. Regional pricing just further disadvantages the lower paid in mid to high wage countries where they already struggle with the local cost of living.
Minimum wage is about $15/h and that on the high end here. And even then you barely make enough to live much less to spend a pixels.
Regional pricing would help so much. (If it works like how I understand it to).
Like there is no justification to spending $90 on a tank.
If I understand regional pricing right it would make it so if I had to pay $70 American I’ll also only have to spend $70 Canadian over what we have now. Or this would be the case if I understand regional pricing correct.
There is some data that shows regional pricing promotes the game to more regions and also generates more money.
Blizzard was selling World of Warcraft for like $5 USD in some South American countries and those regions ended up being some of their biggest areas of profit.
I think it would be good for Gaijin and fair to other countries with a lower GDP than the US
they wont change pricing since all players from all regions can play all servers, this means any1 with a brain can use a VPN to purchase extracheap. They would need to implement region only accounts then.