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Neither of you know how good you've got it. The Japanese promotion was by far the worst-- you can pick two games (from a list of six) that you can download and play as much as you want for one whole month! After that month is up, you then have the privilege of purchasing the game at something like a 30% discount.
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Silver Falcon posted:Plus, that Smash sale is pretty amazing It's not though, most of the stuff in that "sale" is still expensive/overpriced as poo poo. Most of it is only discounted to what it costs normally in the US, or higher still.
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Aug 22, 2014 13:25
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The first half was sort of okay, but the second half has nothing worthwhile outside of Fire Emblem, DK94 and NSMBU arguably. Depending on your region, even with these sales, you could still be paying more than America is normally anyways. I don't know how the Australian dollar is these days, but if it's anything like it was a couple of years ago then even with 20-40% off, we're still paying more than you guys are.
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Aug 22, 2014 13:37
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This sale loving owned. Grabbed two Mega Mans, FE:A and Donkey Kong '94. I would've also bought KI:U had I not ordered it a day before the sale started. I couldn't have asked for more, really.
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Aug 22, 2014 13:42
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Wow 30% off on a Nintendo game I guess they really are in trouble.
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Aug 22, 2014 13:51
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Zat posted:This sale loving owned. Grabbed two Mega Mans, FE:A and Donkey Kong '94. I would've also bought KI:U had I not ordered it a day before the sale started. Except decent prices, especially for a sale. You just paid the equivalent of 40 US dollars for FE:A, I wouldn't personally exactly call that a bargain. PAL eShop prices are overinflated/diproportionate to other regions in general, so all a discount does is bring them more in line with normal prices everywhere else rather than cheap(er), comparatively. If an apple normally costs $20 in some region and then is discounted to $15 in a "sale" I would still feel gypped and not like I just scored a great bargain.
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Aug 22, 2014 13:55
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less laughter posted:Except decent prices, especially for a sale. You just paid the equivalent of 40 US dollars for FE:A, I wouldn't personally exactly call that a bargain. Yeah well, I don't feel like a sale is the best time to complain about this, when the prices are actually decent. $ = almost always, but what can you do. Region restrictions are now the norm for console games, and nothing would've stopped me from getting a North American 3DS instead but I didn't. As far as euro prices are concerned, this is a pretty cool sale.
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Aug 22, 2014 14:01
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Yeah I wish Nintendo would take a look at how Sony handle sales. There are 100+ games on sale right now on PSN. Max Payne 3 is on sale for £3.99 which'll get you like one NES game on the eShop.
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Aug 22, 2014 14:02
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Do you people just purposely ignore taxes or what because I'm really lost here
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Aug 22, 2014 18:08
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I can't speak for Europe, though I assume they do factor in tax in their comparisons but Australia pays around twice as much as the US does without tax, and I'm pretty sure US tax is $30-40AUS worth. Even factoring import costs it shouldn't be anywhere near that high, and the need to have digital prices match RRP physical prices so as to not piss off retailers makes digital prices look even more ridiculous here, since outside of getting stuff rated, I doubt anything needs any localization from the Euro or occasionally American versions they source from.
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Aug 22, 2014 18:24
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Has the eShop price for Phoenix Wright vs. Professor Layton been announced anywhere? It shows as TBD in the eShop itself. I'm going to be out of town visiting friends on the 29th, so if the eShop price is competitive with the $30 Amazon price I'd probably just go ahead and get it digitally so I can have it on my 3DS for the bus ride back home.
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Aug 22, 2014 21:09
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ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:Do you people just purposely ignore taxes or what because I'm really lost here I do because I don't pay taxes.  But I'm pretty sure most people set their 3DS to a region that doesn't have taxes.
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Aug 22, 2014 21:52
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:Has the eShop price for Phoenix Wright vs. Professor Layton been announced anywhere? It shows as TBD in the eShop itself. I'm going to be out of town visiting friends on the 29th, so if the eShop price is competitive with the $30 Amazon price I'd probably just go ahead and get it digitally so I can have it on my 3DS for the bus ride back home. Pretty sure it's gonna be 40 bucks. Digital on Nintendo is always going to start at rrp
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Aug 22, 2014 22:02
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RMZXAnarchy posted:I do because I don't pay taxes. I doubt it. 99% of the people I streetpass set a region with a tax, and I don't think there are enough goons who both buy mostly digital and care enough to get around throwing a few dollars towards something that indirectly benefits themselves. Plus if everyone did that, how would you ever fill out that streetpass map!?
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Aug 22, 2014 22:08
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Ineffiable posted:Pretty sure it's gonna be 40 bucks. Digital on Nintendo is always going to start at rrp Normally I'd agree, but half the retailers on this Nintendo page are offering it at $30 straight out of the gate. Gamestop is at $32 and Target is at $40, but the rest are $30, so I don't really know what to think. I guess I'll just stay with the physical preorder to be safe.
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Aug 22, 2014 22:14
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RMZXAnarchy posted:I do because I don't pay taxes. In Canada, the best you can get is picking a province with no PST and then only paying the 5% GST. How is it as easy as picking an option in a menu to weasel out of paying sales tax? Nintendo should be getting a good idea of where I am from the IP address of the Wi-Fi spot from which I'm making the purchase. Yes, there are probably ways to mess with what IP they see, but it would be significantly harder to do, which would be a step in the right direction.
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Aug 22, 2014 22:17
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RMZXAnarchy posted:I do because I don't pay taxes. Well cool, but the Euro prices have VAT included, which is a tax hidden in the price, you literally can't not pay it. And it's 20% on average, which surprisingly covers the price discrepancy between the dollars and euros
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Aug 22, 2014 22:21
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A good poster posted:In Canada, the best you can get is picking a province with no PST and then only paying the 5% GST. But then wouldn't you run into issues with region lock? Like if I'm buying something off the US eShop on my US 3DS while I'm physically in Malaysia, what tax should I be paying?
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Aug 22, 2014 22:22
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Some states/counties don't have sales tax on digital purchases and the postal code you set with the eShop is different from your 3DS region for purposes of street passing. I don't know why Nintendo doesn't go "golly the billing zip code and IP address are nowhere near the stated home region" but I guess so long as you're in America buying with an American card they don't care enough.
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Aug 22, 2014 23:13
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RMZXAnarchy posted:But I'm pretty sure most people set their 3DS to a region that doesn't have taxes. Do people really actually do this? I wouldn't know because I'm not a goddamn criminal.
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Aug 22, 2014 23:41
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Yes. Whether it's saving three bucks at a time or trying to put one over on The Man, people do weird things with money. Then again digital downloads is one of like five narrow categories where Californians don't axiomatically* pay sales tax so I don't have much room to talk.    *It might still be due the State on a 540, or from the merchant themselves. I'm not a tax attorney or anything. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Aug 23, 2014 |
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Aug 23, 2014 00:48
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I have no idea why they even charge me sales tax anyways because nothing else does in maine w/r/t digital/online retailers.
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Aug 23, 2014 01:15
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Stan Taylor posted:Do people really actually do this? I wouldn't know because I'm not a goddamn criminal. When no other digital platform charges tax, why should Nintendo?
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Aug 23, 2014 05:45
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RMZXAnarchy posted:When no other digital platform charges tax, why should Nintendo? Because "how should digital purchases be taxed" is a pretty major issue right now? Nintendo is actually ahead of the curve.
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Aug 23, 2014 05:50
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jivjov posted:Because "how should digital purchases be taxed" is a pretty major issue right now? Nintendo is actually ahead of the curve. It actually sounds like they aren't if you can spoof it so easily? I just had never even considered that when I was setting up my gameboy.
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Aug 23, 2014 06:28
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RMZXAnarchy posted:When no other digital platform charges tax, why should Nintendo? I'm pretty sure Amazon counts as a digital platform, it's not like they physically ship you copies of kindle books on a CD.
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Aug 23, 2014 06:44
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RMZXAnarchy posted:When no other digital platform charges tax, why should Nintendo? Which ones would that be? I understand that including taxes in the listed price isn't how it's done in America, but back before Steam dealt in USD worldwide everything was the listed price + tax.
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Aug 23, 2014 07:10
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Peewi posted:Which ones would that be? I understand that including taxes in the listed price isn't how it's done in America, but back before Steam dealt in USD worldwide everything was the listed price + tax. Neither PSN or Steam charge tax for me.
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Aug 23, 2014 09:43
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Steam charges state sales tax for purchases made in Washington.
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Aug 23, 2014 21:04
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As a Brit who has to pay 20% tax on literally everything all the time I just want to give a big old middle finger to anyone who can just choose not to pay tax, you lucky bastards.
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Aug 24, 2014 21:47
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:As a Brit who has to pay 20% tax on literally everything all the time I just want to give a big old middle finger to anyone who can just choose not to pay tax, you lucky bastards. The Nordic countries say hello. 24 - 25.5%. Zat fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 24, 2014 |
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Aug 24, 2014 21:59
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Can we please stop  taxes chat thanks guys
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Aug 25, 2014 01:21
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PAL update (week of August 28):quote:WII U RETAIL DOWNLOADS Note the SteamWorld Dig cross-buy discount: 25% off if you own the 3DS version, runs until the end of September. Eh, it's something. The Mario Kart 8 update includes a bunch of small improvements like being able to display the map on the TV, a records screen and the ability to edit others' highlights, among other things; it'll also include three free Mercedes Benz-themed cars because I guess this is a thing Nintendo does now?
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Aug 25, 2014 11:59
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The main thing that was a lot of people's pet peeve, they changed your options after a race to default to the thing you selected last time. So mashing A will not put you into replay when you just wanted to go to the next race.
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greatn posted:The main thing that was a lot of people's pet peeve, they changed your options after a race to default to the thing you selected last time. So mashing A will not put you into replay when you just wanted to go to the next race. My pet peeve with that game is having to pause at the start of each GP/vs race to change wiimote only steering controls from motion to dpad. Any idea if they're fixing that?
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Aug 25, 2014 14:54
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NA's getting Megaman X3 this week per Capcom's hinting at the beginning of the month.
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Aug 25, 2014 22:42
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So, uh:quote:Each Add On Content pack will contain two new cups, each with four courses, which, in total, increases the number of available courses by 50 percent. The Add On Content packs include classics like Warios Gold Mine from Mario Kart Wii, as well as new courses, some taking place in the worlds of The Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing. New vehicles will also arrive with each pack, including the Blue Falcon kart representing the F-Zero franchise in the first AOC pack. http://store.nintendo.co.uk/wii-u-ddc/the-legend-of-zelda-x-mario-kart-8-aoc-pack-digital-download/10991121.html http://store.nintendo.co.uk/wii-u-ddc/animal-crossing-x-mario-kart-8-aoc-pack-digital-download/10991122.html  
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Aug 26, 2014 22:33
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Holy poo poo
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Aug 26, 2014 22:47
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wheres megaman nintendo?? do you hate him too???
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I want it I want it I want it I want it I want it I want it I want it I want it
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