In both physical & digital copies of video games: when I’ve visited an store, upon looking at the price tag (they range at 90 AUD or more for a copy, seriously?!) I’ve also browsed through their Steam store front which isn’t any better, 110-30 AUD for a digital license?! When you consider regional pricing, they end up costing more than USD (depends, like a +20% increase which is insane to me). To put it into perspective, games are cheaper in my country than they are in Australia.
Corporate greed and a weaker dollar.
Take a look at MS flight Sim 2024
US$70
AU$110
Actual conversion using xe.com says US$70 is only AU$101.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but US prices for some stupid reason tend to be quoted in pre-tax, whereas in Australia ours is including GST.
So in your example, it’s pretty much spot on currently?
As SaveTheTuaHawk said add gst
But also whilst the conversion rate on XE might be less you can’t convert currency at that price, once you add in conversion fees that will also increase the price.
Look to FlightGear, Opensource and free, and imho better for small planes.
Aussies on Lemmy who don’t understand their own economy… Austria has a GST of 10%.
10% of $100 is $10, $100 + $10 = $110.
Americans don’t have a GST or VAT, which is why they are $38T in debt.
If it were as easy as that every game would follow the expense route. But many games on steam are below the au/us conversion rate.