Dude what you are not getting id that this is a stupid move from a basic business standpoint. I'll do this step by step okay. Lets say you sell blenders, yes blenders all other blenders are priced at 10 for the local market, blenders around the world might cost an average of 50, but at this local geographical location every single blender for the past years has sold for 10. Then all of the sudden you jack up your blenders to 50, now you are the only salesman of blenders that is selling them at 5 times the local market price.... isn't that dumb, isn't that basically handing the entire market share to your competitors? Why should I as a consumer buy your blender at 50 when the other... erh blender publishers(lol) are still selling them for 10, as a consumer i'd feel ripped off and would rather buy the other blenders still priced at 10 or... Pirate(?) your blender, okay my analogy is falling apart, but do you get it now?Yuuki said:All my evidence of Indian stores charging the same for all imported products made by international brands as the rest of the world, ignored.Dr. Thrax said:Except you've done pretty much the same thing you claim CriticKitten has done by ignoring pretty much all of the very valid, very strong arguments that he's made. You pointed out things while crying "SEE? THEY PAY THE SAME AS WE DO!" for things, while failing to provide any counterargument to anything he's posted.Yuuki said:The best part is that you're continuing to ignore chunks of my replies, because you keep telling me how I'm rich when I've already told you that I spent most of my life actually LIVING in the very poverty that you actually know fuck-all about. You trying to tell ME what living conditions are like over there is like an american telling a chinese guy about chinese food. It's embarrassing, stop it.
There is no point in trying to explain anything to you because you just ignore most of the post.
I have to keep this post short in case you decide to skip most of it, sorry. If I try to discuss too many things you'll just ignore it (again).
CriticKitten supplied a response to the pricings you've provided, yet you ignored that. He pointed out the massive disparities between our economies, which you've ignored. Living quality, ignored. Market, ignored. See where I'm going with this?
Don't start accusing others of ignoring parts of someone's post when you're doing exactly the same thing.
Logical fallacy trying to point out that games are unlike all those other products, ignored. Hell, I pointed out that gaming consoles are NO cheaper in India than anywhere else, they didn't have to "adjust the price so those poor, poverty-stricken people could afford it", but when it comes to games (you know, those things that you already need to own a console/pc to PLAY) then the rules change?
It's alright for business software, gaming peripherals, PC hardware, clothing products, cellphones, cars, shoes, sports equipment, etc from the big brands to cost international prices - but as soon as we bring up games, then I need a fucking lecture about economics, poverty, minimum wages, GDP and other crap? You see nothing strange about games being 70-80% cheaper in India, games that aren't made locally (like goddamn bread or milk) but imported from foreign nations like all other big-brand products I listed above? FYI digital distribution is still in the stone age in India due to horrific internet, almost everyone buys retail copies that have to be shipped in.
Again:
http://www.flipkart.com
http://www.theitdepot.com
http://www.techshop.in
I don't know what kind of people I'm dealing with here, either blind or plain crazy.
also just for another comparison, games in my region average at 85-95 USD, outrageous yes but that is the average price of this local market, so there can be no boycott of any publisher, but if EA games all of the sudden cost 380 USD no body would buy from EA