Gerrard
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Yeah, and nobody will even mention that in Poland the game is 50% more expensive than W3 was at launch, because CDPR are the "good guys".
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Rising video game prices in Poland
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Is it more expensive than other AAA games as well? It's been a while since Witcher 3, so maybe some of the price increase can be attributed to inflation.
Gerrard
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It's not, but neither was W3. The default price of a typical foreign AAA game didn't change since 2015 much, if at all, since the default $60 price didn't change either.
It's not inflation. Publishers just decided people in Poland are now as rich as Zee Germans. Prices of games have increased significantly, since 2015. Witcher 3 could be preordered for 139,99 PLN. Cyberpunk is 199.00 on GOG, right now, and it's still cheaper than most foreign AAA games at release (250 PLN).
That seems still relatively cheap, since ~250 PLN is in line with what people in other countries are paying.
In my case I could buy it on steam for $99.99 or on GOG in AUD for ~$96.00 or in USD for ~$91.00, even though the conversion into AUD is much more favourable than USD.
Seems weird, but no surprise since Oceania has gotten reamed for a long time.
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199 PLN is still 45 EUR. Poorer countries than Poland have the game priced at 60 EUR.
Just because other people have it worse, doesn't mean you have it good. "Kids in Africa" is not an argument.
Quit bitching. You are getting it cheaper than the standard price.
Poorer countries having it priced at the standard price is mentioned just as a curious fact.
If getting games cheaper by 25% comes with earning 1/3 of what Germans on average do, then I'll take full-priced games and their salaries, thanks.
No one is obliged to give a shit about the average salary anywhere.
Also, 200 PLN is what - eating at a good restaurant 3 times?
Also, 200 PLN is what - eating at a good restaurant 3 times?
Curratum
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Why the fuck are the retarded Poles whining again?
I live in a much bigger dump and have to pay 60 EUR for new AAA releases.
I live in a much bigger dump and have to pay 60 EUR for new AAA releases.
Ol' Willy
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At my place, I can buy 100 cans of Franziskaner for 100 bucks. It will provide me with far superior experience than CP77 game.
Make that 10.
And you're proud that you're taking it in the ass like good goyim instead of complaining?
It's the retarded zoomers. "I'm getting a price increase" - "You are still getting it discounted" - "Yeah but I should be getting a bigger discount" - "Why do you think you should?" - "Because I'm special"
Whining is the legitimate way of "fighting for your rights" to cheap stuff. Welcome to the 2020s folks.
Curratum
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I'm proud enough of having a big enough brain to realize I live in a tiny, irrelevant market and no matter how much I complain, nobody would care.
If Russians can get games as cheap as 25% of what the USD price is, then I see no reason why other countries can't get lower prices appropriate to their lower income. It's just retarded publishers treating EU like a single country.
Nice inferiority complex. No one will respect you if you don't respect yourself. The same goes for your country.
Yeah, CDPR is giving us preferential pricing on their games, which is nice. As I said, most other AAA titles are 250 PLN (~$60) at release. My point was about this having nothing to do with inflation.
Who's whining, bitch? Almost everyone pays the same for games nowadays in Europe. Russians don't (if you consider them Europeans) and perhaps some of the Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia... not sure.
Russians are governmentally challenged, Polonia is a prospering country by all accounts. Take advantage of this!
Why don't you do right like some other men do?
Why don't you do right like some other men do?
Curratum
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I understand why everyone I know who has met Poles irl hates them. You're seem to all be hilariously full of hot air, high and mighty with no real grounds for it and generally full of yourself, especially considering you come from a nation of potato farmers who have contributed nothing significant to the world.
Baltic States all use Euro so they don't have any regional pricing. As far as the EU goes, Poland, Norway and the UK (not anymore I guess) are the only ones with prices that are a bit cheaper than EUR prices (usually around 5%).
I don't need your opinion on my country, cuck. Keep drowning in your self-pity. I'd like to remind you that you're literally on a sub-forum dedicated to a Polish developer, in a thread about Polish-developed game and there's an ad for Polish publisher's store at the top of this very site.
Ol' Willy
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If you want to have games as cheap as Russians have, you should live in similarly shitty conditions with similarly laughable salaries.
Not to say that selling games at full price in Russia is pointless. People will pirate them instead.
Curratum
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There are ads on this site? I guess you're the cuck, buddyroo! :D
Google says average salary in Russia is 43k Rubles gross, so ~37.5k Rubles net. That's ~2100 PLN. I'm on minimum wage right now and get 1920 PLN net. I don't see the disparity being big enough to warrant going from games being 25% of the USD price to 5% below the EUR price, which is already higher than the USD price.
OK, Albanian.
Entertainment products in general are a luxury - something you could do without. In that sense, to be getting discounts on an entertainment product doesn't sound like a goal to be striving for.
Maybe it's just me being a one-percenter who doesn't get it
I'm all for looking for the best deal, just not through a discount on the basis of "my government sucks, my country is poor, it's the communists fault, etc." Look for discounts, look for cheap second-hand steam keys or whatever. If you can find a better deal, by all means take it. But you really aren't so bad to deserve a country-wide discount on an entertainment product.
The reality is that from CDPR's perspective, they are most probably acting rational - they make projections on revenue in various markets and if they see they would be losing sales if they offer a 250 PLN price in Poland relative to what they would make at a 200 PLN price, they will go with whatever brings in the more revenue.
Maybe it's just me being a one-percenter who doesn't get it
I'm all for looking for the best deal, just not through a discount on the basis of "my government sucks, my country is poor, it's the communists fault, etc." Look for discounts, look for cheap second-hand steam keys or whatever. If you can find a better deal, by all means take it. But you really aren't so bad to deserve a country-wide discount on an entertainment product.
The reality is that from CDPR's perspective, they are most probably acting rational - they make projections on revenue in various markets and if they see they would be losing sales if they offer a 250 PLN price in Poland relative to what they would make at a 200 PLN price, they will go with whatever brings in the more revenue.
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