The E94 pack is the 3rd DLC to have the € value be equal to the dollar value. This means that Europeans pay more. My theory may be stupid, but since there is a lack of American releases, DTG may be trying to make up for it and making Americans pay less. To me its not fair, the same way that the Swiss pay more, and others pay more too. This must stop.
No one is forcing you to buy at those prices. Wait until a sale if its too rich for you! Also, you know nothing about currency fluctuation & international pricing clearly….
I believe that the US $ price is subject to additional sales tax on top of the listed price (in some states at least) whilst the Euro and sterling prices reflect what you’ll see come out your account.
In UK and EU the price you see is the price you pay. it includes the associated taxes (normally VAT).
In the UK the only place youll see the price excluding VAT is trade stores and Costco (who are kind of a trade store but also open to select members of the public with membership cards
Yes, price stickers on eg. groceries include no tax in US stores since sales tax rates vary by state. When you get to checkout sales tax is added there https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/2024-sales-taxes/
But VAT also varies in Europe by country, yet I automatically see the full price with the VAT applied in every online store. It's 2025, this really isn't that complicated. Not having VAT applied in physical stores feels even weirder to me, because I will be paying the local sales tax, no? So they already know what will be the end price when they are printing the tags.
Perhaps, but as I understand it there are not only state sales taxes, but also some local sales taxes at a county/city level. I have no idea if these are cumulative. For EU there are only what, 25-30 countries and a chunk have the same rate
It is not an unsolvable problem. We live in the age of computers, after all. The excuse about local taxes is just that: an excuse. Physical stores already know the correct tax rate to apply (since this happens at checkout) so there is no reason that a physical store cannot on a technical level show tax-inclusive prices. The reason it is still done is because sellers like to be able to legally advertise the lowest possible figure as a marketing trick. Online stores (like Steam) are another matter, since the store presumably does not know the location of the purchaser until the billing address is given at checkout. It would theoretically be possible to advertise a flat final price (which includes margin for taxes) and deduct a dynamic amount of taxes from the generated revenue so that it appears as a fixed price to the buyer, but this is both more complicated for the seller/marketplace and less attractive to sellers who would prefer to be able to advertise lower prices, even if the final total is increased slightly by taxes.
It wouldn't make good business sense for a store to advertise a price that included sales tax. I can go to a store a block away from my home and pay 8 cents on the dollar or go a couple of miles to the next town and pay 10 cents per dollar. Interestingly, when I first started buying from Steam, they didn't charge any sales tax, in common with online stores generally. Gradually States began to enforce the collection of tax so that now, Steam charges sales tax according to the State in your address. My experience buying TSW dlc on Steam is that the exchange rate for US dollar prices is inaccurate leading to Americans mostly paying more than they should. But it's really unpredictable.
