Xbox One EA Publisher Sale Price Discrepancies

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  OverburdenedWarrior on 07/03/2017 - 14:49

  It's been that way forever. Use (http://www.xbox-now.com/home) and filter prices by AUD for more of the same.

  Xbox One is region-free, so providing you can buy the currency (and they take it as payment), you can use that website to shop around. The website will guide you on places to grab currency.

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    Ghosteye on 07/03/2017 - 14:59

    That's really interesting cause I've only just found out about this. You've really opened my eyes on this, man sucks to live under a rock all this while.

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    Ghosteye on 07/03/2017 - 16:06

    It seems that when I try to buy this game, I hit the credit card not from issue region error, strange

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      OverburdenedWarrior on 07/03/2017 - 18:03

      You gotta buy credit from the region, can't just use credit card. Some places it'll work, but most will need credit. Hover over the country name for details of what they accept. (Brazil works via card for me.)

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  airal3rt on 07/03/2017 - 14:54

  The "Australia Tax" exists on just about everything, due to a typically smaller number of distributors and therefore less choice for Australian consumers companies will just jack up prices across the board knowing we will pay for it most of the time. Videogames are no exception to this. Just another reason to have a VPN to not get extorted by these pricks.

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    Looking4Bargians on 07/03/2017 - 14:59

    But can you buy from SG region with AUD and download play in AU region ?

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      Ghosteye on 07/03/2017 - 15:04

      I've tried it in other games, and yes you can

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  Axelstrife on 07/03/2017 - 15:15

  Welcome to the Aussie tax.

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  taril on 07/03/2017 - 16:28

  This has always been the case and Xbox one games have always been region free.

  I have previously bought games from HK and USA, as well as from AU, often resulting in less than <50% cost of aussie xbox marketplace.

  However, as you can no longer use aussie credit cards to link to payment method for a foreign xbox market and payment by paypal seems to be removed, this has restricted purchases from foreign markets somewhat but there are still ways around this.

  1) buy amazon gift cards (delivered by e-mail) using your credit card and have some billing/shipping address in US (doesn't matter where, i've setup address as some hotel or microsoft office itself). I guess you can also do for amazon EU but i've only used amazon US.

  2) If you got a foreign credit cards (or relative or friends), i guess you can setup a payment method for that market place.

  3) Other online vendors sell xbox live credits in EU, USD etc which you can buy and setup a payment method for as well. Just use the billing address of some hotel in that country when you setup new payment method.

  A good place to check for other market prices are http://www.digitalgamesprices.com/xboxone.php or google "xbox one game price comparison"

  Sorry if this is not too clear. I had over $400 AUD credits purchased on various microsoft gift card sales and huge backlog of games so haven't been looking for few years.

  good luck

  EDIT : Forgot to mention that if you have a trusted friend on xbox live, you can always game share by setting your home console as your friend's home console and vice versa. instant half priced games for the games you both play.

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    Ghosteye on 08/03/2017 - 01:51

    I was thinking about whether bitcoin debit cards would accepted by mirosoft, i'm very tempted to try and see if it works

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  Zylam Marex on 07/03/2017 - 20:11

  Yup, it's been like this across most digital stores for us. I'm not too mad as I've looked at the more expensive regions too, Aus isn't that bad when you compare it to Brazil and such.

  However the strange part to me is the fluctuation in price among regions, for instance the Witcher 3 GOTY edition amounted to a total of AUD 12 on the Indian store, however other games such as Battlefield actually turned out to be more expensive?

  Also the Division season pass on the Argentinan store was around AUD 11 vs 40 for us, however other games are more expensive.

  I really have no idea how they scale pricing of games, its mostly touch and go i guess. Maybe licencing fees are different per region.

  Also MS have made it much harder to buy from different regions, although the Xbox One is region free, it's more of a lottery as to if your card will be accepted as payment. I used to easily buy games from the US store using my Aus PayPal, without a vpn or any other tricky, right from the Xbox 360 dash. The only requirement was for your Hotmail to be set as US upon creation. Now it checks for the actual location from where you are located regardless of the account region.

  However the method of buying Xbox live credit for a specific region still works, if you can manage to source cards from say the US and change your location on Xbox.com to US, log in, redeem the credit, then when you click on buying a game via the US store, it shows the US credit and let's you proceed.

  The only catch is, for the super cheap regions (on most cases), the Xbox live credit prepaid cards don't actually exist.

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  Ghosteye on 07/03/2017 - 20:35

  I was looking at India too, and it looks like a gold mine over there. Even if its locked like this by microsoft, i think maybe 3rd parties who try and take advantage might benefit a lot from this