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NIS America Finally Opens NIS Europe Store: It's not all rosy dood.
- Thread starter Faustek
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Well, at least it's not 1:1. But Persona Q seems pretty overpriced in the US already. I didn't know this was another $50 game (standard edition), is this now a common strategy by Atlus?
They'll keep doing it as long as people buy them. They're milking their core fans now because I can imagine people who don't regularly buy their games to be put off by this random game that for no reason at all costs $10 more. This is the Japanese approach to selling anime DVDs/BDs.
The Atlus Tax is real.
To be honest these prices are all ok. They aren't really that much more than I usually pay here in Sweden. When this much "loot" is involved.(not sure what to use here...and I refuse to use the word s
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But they are a fuck ton higher than I usually pay when buying from the UK -.-
But lets see what Fairy Fencer costs me on the US store.
75$ + 38(shipping)$ = 114$
The cost on the EU store
£70+£14(shipping)=£84
Now I don't know which courier they are using now that they are "based" here but the usual one had prima service. Always calling me the day before and scheduling a time to drop of the parcel. Heck it even went so far that I became first name basis with the dudes that delivered, even gave them the code to enter my place and offered them coffee and snacks because they where fucking awesome.
Anyway.
Do a little conversion(todays $ value) and it becomes 143$.. around 30$ more than what I paid before.
Now considering the VAT which is 25% of total cost here in Sweden which would amount to 114$x1.25=142,5$ now that isn't bad but then again we always pay more from what I gather. This is just me but I bet my ruddy ass NISA is actually making the LEs in the states(or outside of EU somewhere) and "importing" it themselves to sell and thus getting boned in some way....I hope else the silly increase just feels wrong....But for me it's a...well not a win but not a loss. FOR ME, I can't stress this enough but I reckon not every country in EU have such a high mark up on video games as we do. Well not on everything but on LEs and those fuckers are rare when they show up -.-
Yepp, lowering that shipping helped a little but its still silly that without import fees,
And bloody hell at the shipping prices to Israel and Iran...shit, £45.
PS. I think I did it wrong...the $ is perhaps always in front of the price and the £ is after? Not sure if I mixed them up.
ShogunDarius
Member
is this new?
ShogunDarius
Member
have they taken down the sales counters so we cant see what the stock levels are anymore?
Apparently :lol It's quite telling that Persona Q is still available despite them announcing that it'd probably sell out very, very quickly. It's proof enough for me that the sales numbers definitely don't live up to their expectations.
This exclusive Premium Edition will be produced in very limited numbers for Europe and we expect it shall sell-out very quickly once Pre-Orders are opened.
ShogunDarius
Member
Yeah the only thing that had sold well was Danganronpa and I remember that saying it had just reached under 50% stock
Leafhopper
Banned
Greece can't get a break.
At least you have choice between courier and standard delivery. Look at Saudi Arabia, for example. That's insane price.
Andrefpvs
Member
So instead of addressing consumer complaints, they took another step in further keeping us in the dark? They're actually resorting to techniques such as hiding stock levels in the hope that people will rush their purchases out of (the possibly unfounded) fear of missing out.
What a bunch of shits.
read our every complaint here and then working it out from there.
Samurai_Heart
Member
It's a tax thing.
arhra
Member
ShogunDarius
Member
not exactly, they put a charge through that drops off, then charge you properly at dispatch.
Hours Left
Member
Probably so it's not so apparent how slowly most things are selling. DanganRonpa was the only thing people were buying up.
I really hope they remedy this situation in further releases, because this is really a cruddy situation to put European fans in. I feel bad for you guys & girls.
ShogunDarius
Member
well they havent put the counters back so it doesnt seem like it was a glitch :/
Samurai_Heart
Member
Pretty obvious they got rid of it so they can go and bullshit stuff, when it's clearly obvious their stuff aren't selling. Something like:
"Our stock on the _________'s edition has almost run out get your order before it's too late, dood"
In all honesty if they were more honest on why the prices are more expensive I may be sympathetic to the higher prices but that press release that basically ignored all criticisms to their pricing irked me =/
"Our stock on the _________'s edition has almost run out get your order before it's too late, dood"
In all honesty if they were more honest on why the prices are more expensive I may be sympathetic to the higher prices but that press release that basically ignored all criticisms to their pricing irked me =/
StrikeFirst117
Banned
They are still taking pre-orders for it aren't they? I want to preorder it next week.
ShogunDarius
Member
yeah but no change on the original pricing as of yet
Yeah, I was thinking that might have been the reason. They seemed like they were moving pretty fast actually, but I guess after an initial burst they could have just stopped.
Which game are you talking about? Depending on which, I would pleeease urge you to try and import from a US site, if at all possible. It would be very helpful if we could avoid giving NISA Europe any money for these LE's as much as possible
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