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Originally Posted by Rubers 
No, it's called regulation and it's essential to the running of a free market. If all those companies are getting together and artificially keeping prices high that's called price fixing and it's anti-consumer. At the end of the day, the government (should) look out for consumers.
No, it's called regulation and it's essential to the running of a free market. If all those companies are getting together and artificially keeping prices high that's called price fixing and it's anti-consumer. At the end of the day, the government (should) look out for consumers.
This
The reason the government is stepping in is because companies are essentially screwing consumers. They are forcefully taking advantage of our wallets and know that theres nothing we can do.
What really bugs me off is the pricing of digital goods. How the hell can it possibly cost almost twice the price for a publisher to release a game on Steam here, as it does in the US? Quite simply, it doesn't. In reality, the absolute most it should be is 10% higher due to GST (Goods and services tax). Thats it. There is no reason why a game costs $50 in the US and $90 here.
I saw MW3 on Steam the other day.......for $100.....yes, $100. And our dollar is above parity with the USD so a rough conversion would be $103-$105.......for MW3.
I'm glad the government is stepping in on this issue. With any luck we might see competitive pricing in this country and not the usual crap we hear about smaller market, shipping/freight costs etc. Especially when most of this stuff is available digitally, there is no shipping/freight costs associated with the product. Its just blatant price gouging
