How come certain games remain so expensive for the Belgian market?

Yami no Shuuen · Oct 6, 2017

Does anyone know why certain games remain so expensive for the Belgian market (perhaps even European market in general - I haven't checked) even after the game is relatively old?

THIS IS DIGITAL NOT FYSICAL.

For instance Mad Max.

(For US market.)

It costs $ 19.00 normal price and now on sale it's $ 5.00.

(For Belgian market.)

It costs € 69.99 normal price and now on sale it's € 17.50.

The $ 5.00 would be € 4.27...so basically we pay € 13.23 too much in comparisson for a game that's over 2 years old by now.

ON SALE!!!

By comparisson also the sale price of € 17.50 is equal to about $ 20.50, which is even more than what the game costs normally for the US market.

I understand there can be small differences because of taxes and such, but these differences are rediculous, unfair and perhaps discriminating.

Mad Max is the best example.

There are other cases, but with less obvious price gaps.

I just want to know why some have to pay more for a digital game because they live somewhere else.

:)

Pippo7390 · Oct 6, 2017

Problem download stop 79%

I live in Belgium and I changed the region for France because Dishonored on the belgian market is full english and I wanted to play in french

So it's impossible for a belgian guy to buy a game on the french market?

Erulln · Oct 6, 2017

Belgian Version of Fallout 3 language issue

Dear sir or madam,

I'm a Flemish Belgian, and I just bought Fallout 4 with Fallout 3 code included via backward compatibility. I installed the Fallout 3 via download but.... The entire game is in French....

As a Flemish Belgian my language is Dutch... "not" French... I can understand that there are not enough Dutch speaking people to create games in Dutch version... I utterly understand that. So I want to have my game in English, which is my second language.
As I have no knowledge of French whatsoever the game I bought Fallout 4 for (fallout 3 disc version was more expensive atm then Fallout for with 3 included) is of no use to me as is.

There are more Flemish Belgians then French ones, by a margin of 3 to 1.... So not giving the option to have the lang uage in English but forcing a French version down our throats is really a disgrace. Truely.... I don't dare buy anymore backward compatible
Xbox games out of fear they'll be of no use to me...

Yours most sincerly,

Stefaan De Wasch

Smwutches · Oct 6, 2017

Prices are largely set by the publishers. So that's not something anyone here can really answer.

Smwutches

Prices are largely set by the publishers. So that's not something anyone here can really answer.

Pippo7390

I live in Belgium and I changed the region for France because Dishonored on the belgian market is full english and I wanted to play in french

So it's impossible for a belgian guy to buy a game on the french market?

XA JJKILLERs

The Xbox Scarlet is coming out in 2020 my question is about the Xbox one X how long will Xbox one remain on the market after the Scarlet comes out? How long will Microsoft continue to make games for Xbox one after Scarlet comes out?

360s just got there end date so im guessing a while

XBF Diego M

Hi Carlos,

Some games are just not available in certain regions and that's due to multiple factors. The main factor has to do with the market economy of your region. Xbox Live Gold is a service that Microsoft exports around the world and the prices for those services
are set to reflect the region's market economy, so that no region is getting charged more than others. Since the market economy is different for every region, so will be the prices of Xbox Live Gold but the value remains the same for everyone.

Various games are not available to their respective markets due to limitations put in place by various laws of those respective regions and certain laws can lead to a developer or company not being able to market their product in certain regions. This goes
for every manufacturer since everyone has to follow the rules of the economy of the country they are selling their services to. If developers and Microsoft were able to offer certain products or services in your region, they would most certainly, but they
cannot in certain regions for certain products because of regional laws preventing them from doing so. I hope you can understand that there are many factors that go into making these decisions and that Microsoft is not solely responsible for making these decisions.

Wishcatcher

Hi,

Xbox game pass is region locked , so if you are a Belgian and if you living in Belgium, you will have access to all Belgian's contents not the one from other counties.

Regards

How come certain games remain so expensive for the Belgian market?