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Edited by PinkiePie:
9/15/2015 9:24:58 PM
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The Taken King UK Price
BRAND NEW console games launch in the US for $59.99 (60USD)
BRAND NEW console games launch in the UK for £39.99 (40GBP)
The Taken King costs $40 in the US.
The Taken King costs.. £40 in the UK?!*
The publisher is Activision UK Ltd, it's a digital download which means there's no import tax. The Taken King should cost between £28-£30 here when VAT is added. Where is this extra £12 coming from?You even have the cheek to reduce the Collector's Edition cost by £5. Collector's Edition costs $80 in the US, but £75* in the UK? I'm sorry but who was the incompetent moron who put together these prices?
* - [i]Prices obtained from Bungie.net, Xbox Marketplace, PlayStation Store and Game.co.uk[/i]
Edit 1: I know that it costs £28 on Xbox. This means that either Microsoft have underpriced it, or Sony have overpriced it. Someone's made an error
Edit 2: Microsoft have [b]RAISED[/b] the price to £40 to meet PlayStation's cost. Very sad day.
Edit 3: The newest of [u]IGN's Destiny Fireteam Podcast[/u] mentioned our problems with the pricing for TTK for UK gamers! Listen to it here! http://uk.ign.com/videos/2015/06/27/fireteam-chat-ep-24-the-bungie-apology-igns-destiny-podcast
Edit 4: Someone created this petition, sign it!
https://www.change.org/p/bungie-activision-price-destiny-fairly-in-the-uk
Edit 5: You can now buy the[b] Legendary Edition of The Taken King for £35.95[/b] on a specific retailer website. That's the Destiny base game, both expansions and the Taken King expansion - let me clarify [b]that's cheaper than the Taken King expansion on it's OWN[/b]. You can all facepalm now.
Edit 6: Bungie still have yet to make any sort of remark to this massive problem that divides the UK gaming community from Bungie and it's game. With an outcry as big as this I can't see how Bungie wouldn't yet be aware of this problem. That said, I urge you to keep bumping and spreading this forum post in the little hope that Bungie/Activision may finally realize this problem should be re-looked at.
Edit 7: Problem solved! https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/152023108/0/0
Edit 8: And, as expected, the Collector's Edition Upgrade in the PS Store/Xbox Marketplace which includes the dances, shaders and items costs a ridiculous £19.99 ($30). The same DLC costs only $20 in the US.
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Edited by Jaffa Cake King: 9/11/2015 7:37:01 AM£40 for Destiny DLC with 10 achievements for 250G OR £40 for Forza 6 full game with 56 achievements for 1000G
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Stop complaining and just throw money at the screen. Deej out
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still waiting
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Greed. Pure and simple greed. Why do you keep getting things so wrong bungie? Do you like alienating entire countries who have been nothing but loyal and supportive of your product? Not buying. Not at this clearly unfair price.
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4 RepliesDoes anyone know where to find the cheapest TTK Legendary edition in the UK? Thanks.
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Bump.
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So This Means That When It Comes Out It Will Be 40 Pound/Dollars? As A Fan Of Destiny I Think That It Is So Stupid To Have It As 40 Pound/Dollars Because Some People That Play It Don't Make There Own Money So I Think They Should Make It So That It Will Be 20 Pound/Dollars When It Comes Out Therefore More People Will Be Able To Buy It And They Don't Have To Use £40 To Buy It. Even Though The Whole Game Is Changing £40/$40 Could By A Whole New Game!
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1 ReplyEdited by EliteGamer_14: 9/12/2015 1:29:22 PMreceived taken king legendary edition 3 days early, can confirm that all 3 dlc's are only in the form of 1 code, meaning if you own the first two already you cant sell these duplicate copies.
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10 RepliesIs everyone in the UK so broke they can't afford 20 extra
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Your username makes me cringe
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Destiny-Taken-King-Legendary-PS4/dp/B00ZF6ZUK4/ref=sr_1_1_twi_gam_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441995361&sr=8-1&keywords=destiny+taken+king+ps4 I think I'll get MGSV Phantom Pain instead.
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Edited by SilentSamurai89: 9/10/2015 5:44:23 PMBump. A friend and I are on Xbox One so we're going to use a work around and get it for £20.
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bump the pricing is stupid how it isn't converted to the right amount
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Edited by Lucianlegion: 9/9/2015 1:33:58 PMAgree completely however have a work around, shell out the £40 for the legendary edition keep the emot codes and cloak codes sell destiny vanilla £12 TDB £10 and HOW £10 on eBay that way you paid only £8 for the taken king,exotic class items and emots that's what I'm gonna do. You can get the hard disc legendary edition in game for £46.99 or order the DLC version for between £38 - -£40 online
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Pricing is -blam!-in stupid why do I have to buy the 80 dollar shit to get dances n exotic cloak when it should be added to the 40 dollar dlc for the year one people that have the dlc already n don't have to waste -blam!-in 80 dollars -blam!-in stupid af man! I already have all the other dlc why tf do I need to buy it all over again to get cloak n dances passes me off!
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Edited by Caffinated Viking: 9/8/2015 2:23:56 PMI agree that the pricing structure is crazy. But I do think it is more Activisions doing. £46.99 for the physical copy of the full game, expansions 1 & 2 and The Taken King. Of course it can be found cheaper if you shop around. [url]http://www.game.co.uk/en/destiny-the-taken-king-legendary-edition-668105?pageSize=40&searchTerm=destiny&catGroupId=[/url] £40 for the digital download of The Taken King on it's own. It doesn't make any sense. But I think the main issue may not be the price. I would buy the content if I trusted that what I was paying for was worth it. I originally bought the Ghost Edition day one. I did that because I had faith in Bungie after years of buying their games, seeing them look after this community, listening and acting in the interest of the fans. I had faith that this game was going to be immense because it was coming from this studio. I played the beta and loved it, I thought that the story elements were light because they did not want to give away too much before release. I loved it, explored the earth and got access to the moon and explored what I could there. It wasn't until I got hold of the game on day one that I realised that I had already explored 90% of the earth. Then the moon, Yep, seen most of that too, and still not much in the way of the story...what happened? Most of this was the beta? Still I enjoyed the game and it became more about getting the equipment you wanted, grinding to get Thorn, etc. and it was fun with friends to play and beat the hardest difficulties. But always in the back of your mind you were waiting for the expansions, hoping they would add more. The expansions came and they added very little. A new raid, new gear to grind for but again very little in the way of story and content worth the money. I finished House of Wolves story content in less than 2 hours. Prison of Elders in under 30 mins. But always the same stuff, enemies spawn in the same place, chests always in the same areas, the same bounties over and over. So now I will let everyone else who is happy to pay the price, play the content that is there and then I will decide if it was worth the £40 price tag. What if it is the same again? under 2 hours worth of story, a couple of strikes that take 30 mins to complete? Would you be happy paying the price for that?
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Bungie is so incompetent. Go bankrupt, Bungie.
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Edited by HitmanBarnes: 9/7/2015 4:06:06 PMI have the expansion pass on the 360 it says that i should be able to download a digital copy of taken king. will that happen on the day and how much just for that?
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Edited by Will170348: 9/7/2015 3:24:33 PMI totally agree! Absolutely disgusting, this is rank profiteering and greed. This is DIGITAL content and so should be priced the SAME everywhere in the world!! Petition signed.....
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1 ReplySigned. I wouldn't bend over to pick up 40 quid if I dropped it in the street, but I won't be waisting anymore cash on this game.
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I would also like to add a few things to this list that seem to have been missed. Such as the price is exactly the same for the physical collectors as it is for the digital...even though the physical collectors gets all those cool goodies such as the replica strange coin and the notes and such. So what they are saying is that those parts of the collectors are free...just for getting the physical version? Also something else that I'm not 100% sure about, and would like confirmation, but if it is true then it's another slap in the face to the long term "LOYAL" destiny players. The VIP rewards are granted for people who own both expansions prior to the end of August (just gone) or a level 30 character. Now as far as I'm aware, if you pre-order the game (digital version) either legendary or collectors. You get both expansions to use immediately. So do those people who pre-ordered before the end of August get the same VIP rewards as those true loyal fans? So if all that is true, then the "Loyal" fans are truly being t-bagged by Bungie. Not only are we having to pay more, we aren't getting anything extra to the new players.
