Hahaha, with their prison colony history that statement is ironic.

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I was watching their Australian border patrol tv program and they didn’t allow a guy into the country because he had a drug charge for weed on his criminal record from two years ago. He didn’t have no drugs on him or gave any clue he was going into Australia for drugs.

Irony at it’s finest there, not allowing someone into their country due to a criminal record lol.

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Australia is no more a Prison colony than the yanks.

Keep in mind that some people got sent to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread.
Keep in mind that there were multiple settlements along Australia (This CONTINENT is a huge place!) that had nothing to do with the prison colonies.

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Yet Brasil is the only country to sell this game the cheapest, along with many other games. Just saying.

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No. Taxes have nothing to do with it in Australia.

Normally when the dollar increases in value and taxes stay at a constant, prices should then drop when you are purchasing goods and services overseas as your dollar has more buying power.

Now when Australia’s dollar increased by 40% compared to the Yanks, the prices of games stayed the same, they didn’t decrease, everything else dropped in price from Televisions, Cars, Clothing etc’.
But not video games, publishers laughed all the way to the bank.

Did you know that you could jump on a plane, fly to the USA, pick up a copy of Creative Suite Master 6 Collection and fly back to Australia and STILL save HUNDREDS of dollars?

The Australian government then did an inquiry into the situation and pretty much every publisher/software maker said the same thing.
They charge the maximum the market will handle, Australia has the highest minimum wage and one of the highest average wages on the planet, so companies feel they are capable of charging more for the same thing.

Then you have Digital vs Retail, companies set digital prices to reflect retail, apparently competition between the two are not allowed to exist, there have been some pretty hilarious examples like Civilization which doubled in price overnight in order to match the retail price on Steam, even though retailers generally don’t stock PC games anyway.

In the end the billion dollar companies like Microsoft (Who are also guilty of a similar thing to Adobe) Sony, Nintendo, EA, Activision etc’ are just being a business and charging a set price on what people are willing to pay, that’s capitalism through and through.

But don’t think for a Minuit it’s because of Taxes, the tax rate in Australia isn’t THAT severe.

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don’t work that way any more dude.

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I can confirm it still works, you’re obviously doing it wrong. I purchased a game from the Russia store about 5 minutes ago..

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Yes it does.

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