TL;DR: [b]1[/b] talked about your use of an outdated currency, [b]2a[/b] talks about why a straight conversion is not practical. [b]2b[/b] talks about why minimum is a factor (hint: inflation), [b]3[/b] Clarifying that I was elaborating a post.[b] 4[/b] Just a personal remark. [b]1.[/b] Saying it has nothing to do with it shows your lack of understanding of the financial system. It does have a role. Also using an outdated currency system that was disregarded in 2012 shows lack of research in this argument. [b]2.[/b] "because we earn more we should pay more" Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds? Why? One word, "inflation". Let's take a few look at reasons why. [b]2a.[/b] Let's take a look back at the old zimbabwe currency. Let's say that, based on your logic "we earn more we should pay more". Are you saying in Zimbabwe they should only pay 40 dollars of their currency? Anything greater they would be "pay more". Alright, but then let's just do an exchange rate, that would fix everything won't it? Not at all. Again, why not? Well you see, in zimbabwe the average worker only earns $253 US dollars a month. Even the higher up government officials make $508 a month. I make that in 2 weeks. I make nearly a $1,000 a month and I'm fairly close to the minimum wage here. So you are saying that even because I make more than them considerably, I should pay the same? Go to Zimbabwe and tell them to fork out 1/6th of there pay for a DLC. Zimbabwe Average a month: $253 =1/6th their paycheck US Working 40 hours a week on minimum wage: $1,160 = 1/19th of our paycheck Aus working 40 hours per week on minimum wage (for their $40 asking price since we are strictly converting it to US currency): $2,068 = 1/51th of your paycheck Aus working 40 hours per week on minimum wage (for their $53.96* asking price since we are applying minimum wage into account): $2,068 = 1/38th of your paycheck. *All currency was converted to US dollars. $53.96 US dollars = $70 AUS dollars. Essentially what you are saying is that someone in Zimbabwe should work for 25 hours (assuming he works 40 hours a week for 4 weeks) to pay for TTK while someone in AUS only has to work 3 hours. 3 days of work, 1/2 a day of work. Yeah, seems totally fair to me. [b]2b:[/b] Inflation. What is inflation? Inflation is defined as a sustained increase in the general level of prices for goods and services. It is measured as an annual percentage increase. As inflation rises, every dollar you own buys a smaller percentage of a good or service. Note that's a google definition, but it looks pretty spot on. What you seem to be confusing is that inflation goes up evenly across the board. It doesn't. In Kansas (one of our states), the minimum wage matches the national wage of $7.25. In Arizona however the minimum wage is $8.05/ hour. Does the DLC cost more in Arizona, not really, but there are reasons why. That's not the point here though, where video games don't go up here based on local minimum wage other products like housing, movie tickets, food, etc do go up. Now let's get back on track, because I need to explain why video games aren't effected. When it comes to a lot of national products, like games, movies, etc, they base it on the US minimum wage, so when they go overseas into a completely new market they take into account the inflation over there. Why would they look at US minimum wage when talking about AUS? There is a direct correlation between increasing of the standard of living and inflation. [b]2c:[/b]From what I've heard about the AUS government is they are trying to make practically everything illegal. -I'm looking at you GTA 5 and Saints Row 4.- [b]3.[/b] My post contradicted it? That's funny, because that post elaborated what I said. The first post was a basic example of how minimum wage effected prices, and the second post used real world figures. [quote]What kind of dumbass are you?[/quote] I'm the kind that does research and provides facts and numbers to back up my arguments. Show me any fact or even basic logic that supports your side.