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Originally Posted by DYNAMO
Actually I and a number of others are from the UK...
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Well, that's a horse of a different color (er...sorry, "colour"
).
How different? Well, let's see. I'm popping over to Dixons(.co.uk) to see what they've got...okay, Sins of a Solar Empire is a very highly-regarded, detailed, and polished game from a small developer, and it's on the retail shelf there for £29.99.
Whereas the full non-preorder price for UK purchasers of OOTP 9 (with them being considered "Europe" and paying in Euros...now
that's guaranteed to give the UKIP people fits) comes to £31.65 at the current base exchange rate. Of course, depending on your credit card company, there may be an additional percent or three in exchange costs added to that, so figure the final cost will be somewhere between two and three quid higher than the comparison title at retail.
That's a couple pounds higher than one would wish, but still pretty close to what you get making the same comparison Stateside. Sins of a Solar Empire is $39.99 on the retail shelf at my local GameStop...and that happens to be exactly the same as the non-preorder price of OOTP 9.
So y'all are getting a bit less attractive deal than we are. Maybe next time around, if the costs and hassle aren't too great, it can be arranged to charge you £29.99 in sterling instead of the €39.99 for continental Europe. Or maybe Markus just owes his British customers a pint or two next time they're down Germany way. In any event, I think they've done about as well as they could have, with the goofy exchange rates these days.