I posted this elsewhere, but I feel I should post this here as well.
US pays $35 + $5 tax = $40 = £24.7 for the Expansion Pass.
UK pays £35 (which includes tax) = $56.6 for the Expansion Pass.
See the disparity?
It is, at very least, wholly unethical. I cannot justify £35, no matter what. £25, sure. £35? No, not a chance.
We pay an extra $16.6 for living in a different country. Please try to justify that to me. Like I said before, in the UK, tax is in including in the price on the Xbox Live Marketplace, so don't try that either.
After reading up on the leak from reddit, the sheer amount of cut content is staggering, and knowing Activision, they'll charge us for every drop. What they need to do is what ME3 did with free DLC.
If not, then I'm just not interested in supporting Destiny any further, and neither should you unless you want all of your games to cost $80 with only a fraction of the actual game present upon purchase, the rest to be re-purposed as DLC and sold back to you even though it's on the friggin' disc.
Ethics before greed. If you want to be treated fair, you have to fight for it, and in this instance, do so with your wallet.
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Unfortunately it's nothing to do with Bungie. That's how currency has always worked.