How do you feel about the price of TTK DLC being £40 = $62.79 I simply cannot understand it. Why do we have to pay an extra $22.79 for a digital download?!
$40 = £25.55, add the 20℅ VAT the UK pays, and you are at £30.66 Not £40.
They have valued TTK at $40, not the price of a full game which is $60. Yet over here in the UK its valued at £40, which is the price of a full game. (Fallout 4 will be £42)
I bought Destiny brand new at release for £41.99, now they want £40 for TTK. It doesn't have as much content as vanilla Destiny did, so how can they charge the same price?
I know there any many more currencies affected, I'm just using it as its my currency.
Another point to make is, the day TTK was announced for purchase on the Xbox store it was £27.99 ($43.53) After 24 hours they bumped it to £40.
Can we at least get some answers please Bungie/Activision?
Thanks for reading, Remo.
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Edited by Lead Affinity: 9/1/2015 7:11:26 PMThey do it because they can, but they're not alone. It happens all the time. It's not a simple case of doing an exchange rate comparison. Our economy, our 'way of life', how we value things, what we expect to pay for things, all dictates how much we actually do pay for things. If we all stopped buying stuff, this DLC for example, then the price would drop - but we don't! We'll pay the high asking price, so the asking price will stay high. I recently bought, in a moment of madness it would seem, the digital Legendary Edition as I wanted to be able to share the game with my kids (and remove the need for my discs), despite it being a massive £74.99! I'm therefore part of the problem. It leaves me with two hard copies of the original game and digital DLC I & II, redundant. (I hope to sell the discs to offset the outlay.) But I, and especially my two kids, love playing the game and I, rightly or wrongly, thought it the best option. I will end by saying this though - this'll be my last Destiny related purchase, regardless of any 10 year plan. I've spent far too much already. I normally feel happy after buying stuff, but this has left a bad taste in my mouth. I feel shafted, as a UK resident, a Destiny player and a digital purchaser. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me - you won't fool me a third time...you probably will...a fool and their money, afterall... ;(