**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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But the item charts are probably very similar most of the time because a) operational costs are similar for the two companies in most places and b) there's some round off inherent on the item charts as the prices jump in increments. If Google's costs are 3% higher or lower than Apple's, factoring in taxes and other fees (which would be identical) the overall difference between the two might be small enough that they end up landing on the same price. I'm pretty sure like Apple, Google rounds off tier pricing in most countries to round numbers. Plus there's probably some competitive pressures at play here.
So if Apple calculates the AUD price of an Odin relative to USD as being anywhere near 159.99 AUD, its going to be 159.99 AUD. It is not going to be 158.72 AUD. If Google's calculation is different, but still close to 159.99 AUD, they will also land on 159.99 AUD even though their costs and other requirements might be slightly different (note: I don't have Google's price tiers in front of me now, so I don't know if this is literally true at the moment; this is just an example).
I'm assuming your comment either got modded away or maybe Youtube itself did something. I heard once that Youtube frowned on external links, but I wouldn't know because I don't really wade into YT comment sections.
Sure they try to do as well as they can just like literally everyone else in the Western world, but thinking that everyone pursues the maximum short term profit possible regardless of any other circumstance is just as naive as thinking there's no profit motive at all. Only cartoon villains live at either extreme.
If Kabam was really trying to make as much money as possible, they wouldn't allow me to grind almost a hundred thousand units a year through gameplay. In fact, one of the reasons I play this game is because it is among the most friendly to free to play grinders. I'm not a 100% free to play player: I spend. But the vast majority of everything I have in the game I earned through gameplay, including the equivalent of about $3000 of units per year. You'd be hard pressed to find another mobile game like this that lets you do that, and it most certainly cuts into their profits.
All things considered if you can find a way to spend less on the game, go for it. You don't owe Kabam inefficient spending. The way I do it is I stock up on iTunes gift cards whenever someone is dumb enough to sell them as a loss-leader, like Costco. I usually also only spend when the value of the offers is huge, like J4 and CW. But if you decide to use a VPN to go region shopping, as I mentioned the issue you might run into is that the app stores take care to conform to your locality's tax and fee requirements. You might be beraking the law by buying outside your region and dodging those taxes and fees. Everyone has to decide for themselves if this is worth the hassle and they are comfortable with the legal consequences.
The earlier example maybe having become more standardized (across all services like Apple/Google) over time, as laws regarding Taxes on Digital Goods may have over time evolved to a current standard practice (of charging them, vs leaving it up to the consumer to report “digital” or “online” purchases on their own State Tax Returns in order to pay the Tax as many States in the US had originally been requiring people to do).
Now online places are much more typically required to actually collect that Tax by the Seller (Apple/Google, or even eBay, Amazon, etc), instead of leaving it up to purchaser to “honestly” declare and pay on their end of year tax returns.
Some of this can be seen in much older posts (and maybe somewhat outdated State by State comparisons) in Forums here regarding “Currency Variations” and “Sales Tax”, which basically had included some similar info to this thread. Except for the added references by DNA here regarding PRICING TIERS, etc.
But Kabam is pretty friendly when it comes to interacting with it's base. Miike is everywhere. Dork Dave will be great. Even Gabriel Frizzera is accessible on twitter. Kabam is everyone's friend when it's SA calendar time or SA week and anniversary week.
Let me know if you can talk directly to Wal-Marts owners.
This is what I posted. It's still there. I tried posting this forum link but not sure if Hoff took it down or a mod. Tried it 3 times. You're right, there's a few people on there saying it's wrong. But you can also see the comment right above mine that agrees and bashes Kabam, Hoff liked or hearted or whatever it is in youtube world.
Odd. Is there some YT setting somewhere that is causing YT comments to be filtered? If you log out and view the video anonymously, do you still see the comment you posted? Just to make sure it wasn't my YT account messed up I tried viewing anonymously, and I still can't see that comment or its parent.
And because I'm me, the comments section says "91 comments" so I counted them all twice: there are 91 visible, so I'm not hiding one myself. Yours isn't in the 91 comments Youtube is feeding me.
Good OP.
Logged out-
Zero idea why.