Anyone else notice the price of Auric Cell packs have gone up sometime recently?

Superyoshiegg

A friend of mine just pointed this out to me, and I haven't seen anyone else talking about it.

Note the prices of the first three packs. They're all about 20% higher than they used to be.

Here are three of my recent purchases, for comparison (all values are in Australian Dollars).

Strange.

SloppyVoldemort

Got to milk your costumers for every penny they have, you know?

humanbeing1704

must be a country thing because I swear in CAD$ these have always been the cell prices

Superyoshiegg

@humanbeing1704 said:

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must be a country thing because I swear in CAD$ these have always been the cell prices

Hmm. Might just be our government trying to screw us over when it comes to video games once again lol

Clowning

If I remember right, as answered in a similar thread, this has very little to do with Behaviour, as it is a government tax sort of a thing, and those change from time to time, especially with services such as this.

Zozzy

You need to actually buy auric cells to notice so.. no.

AU gov sucks when it comes to anything like this. Can't even use pccasegear without getting charged an extra 10% because i didn't travel to another state to the only store......

_NIGHTMARE_

I was about to have a mild heart attack, till I realised the prices were in AUD and CAD. 😅

Over here it's £7:99 GBP for 1100 cells. Which calculates to approx 15.04 AUD and 13.84 CAD at the moment. (Courtesy of Google search engine.)

Though I'm pretty sure it used to be £7:50 for 1100 cells?

I might be wrong here because my memory's pretty #########, but it's definitely changing where you are...

Marigoria

Theyre still the same price in EU

KweenPlease

Still the same price in USA

Jasix

@SloppyVoldemort said:

Got to milk your costumers for every penny they have, you know?

1. You do realize that a company needs to make money to pay their employees - you know the people who make the game and support staff - right... you get that? Do you think sales of the game are enough to pay employees and push out new content to pay employees to push out more content...and on and on and on. No - that's why there is a cash shop. You know what games did before free to play + cash shops - monthly subscriptions. You pay WAY more with a monthly subscription than with the model that is now more popular - cash shop. Cash shops work because some people spend $20-30/month + buy each DLC every 3 months. That allows people who never want to spend a dime besides the cost of the game - to play the game. Knocking a company for trying to make money to continuously work on a game seems silly.
2. Your comment is even less effective as a shaming tool - since the price changes are government/tax related and are completely out of the hands of BHVR.

GoodBoyKaru

@[Deleted User] said:

Wouldn't surprise me if there was a method connect to Steam with a VPN in order to secure the lowest conversion rate price possible, and that this is a result of standardizing prices across all nationalities.

Standardization against what? No clue.

It's still cheapest to buy cells in Argentina, source courtesy of a friend with an Argentinian account.

GoodBoyKaru

@ op this seems like a problem with the Australian government taxing things, not a DBD thing, since in England the prices are the same. Alternatively it is a DBD thing and the value of the currency dropped enough that prices had to be adjusted accordingly.

Boss

Not for me, must be your country making you pay more.