The Ubi, a French company, would charge less in the US than in its home. You would think that equivalent money is equivalent money and values sould be equalized. This makes it look like they think "Europeans are much more prosperous than Americans, they'll pay double or triple and smile in our general direction." They also must think there is not instantaneous comparison across the pond to reveal price inequities.
Of course, any solution would go along the lines of making all prices equally high, not equally low:rotfl:, just like socialism has succeeded in making everyone equally poor (except those actually running the government, who tend to live very well), not equally rich.
I work for a newspaper. Once upon a time, not long ago, newspapers were exempt from sales tax in Florida because of constitutional freedom of the press. If you bought a magazine, you paid sales tax. The magazines said, "Hey, we're the press, too. We use printing presses and our publications contain words, just like newspapers, it's not fair that we have to charge sales tax and they don't."
The Florida legislature looked at their protest, and after many drinks and irrelevent conversation, decided that the magazines were right, it wasn't fair. Solution: sales tax on publications of all kinds. This had the additional benefit of keeping protesters in other merchandise categories from complaining about exempt status of similar products. It clearly would not pay and this eliminated much future work for our legislators, who were now free to spend the time they saved at fundraisers to finance their reelection campaigns.
Wow! Governments and corporations work the same way!:rotfl:
And Type941, the European market is larger than that of the US, so where does preferential treatment for the US market make sense? I'd rather have paid $20 for a non-SecuROM infested CD. I understand that's what Europe is getting (except some of you are paying even higher than $20).
To paraphrase Arthur C Clark: Economics is not only stranger than you imagine, but stranger than you CAN imagine.
