Price increase ??
SHAYU
Member Posts: 78 ★
Is the price increase only in singapore? Or the rest are facing the same thing? Even the units are more expensive.
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SHAYU
Member Posts: 78 ★
Is the price increase only in singapore? Or the rest are facing the same thing? Even the units are more expensive.
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Kabam's gotta lot of bugs to feed.
Play store reduced it's commission from 30% to 15% for in-app purchases in India and yet price were not reduced in store after that.
And now they increased them only for Android devices here.
Due to external platform pricing changes in varying regions, Kabam is implementing certain price adjustments to ensure parity across platforms and equal customer experience irrespective of device.
Previously
£99.99
Now
£88.58
I should be happy about it but I am not. Are we gonna get a compensation for the overpriced stuff we've bought all this time now ?
Let's talk about the latest Romance event on the Valentine's day if someone in Europe (Android Device) spend 300€ someone in USA would buy the same for 250$ this difference is actually 250$=220€ to the 300€.
It always bothered me that other people buy the same stuff cheaper and it's kind of better now but I can't erase what has happened in the past. Please think about it.
IG. Th0rIRL
First of all, it is important to remember that Kabam doesn't sell you anything directly. Apple and Google sell you stuff, take a percentage, and then sends the rest to Kabam. Kabam doesn't even know who you are or what you paid: payment information is not forwarded to Kabam by either app store. They just know you bought something, and the app stores took care of payment.
Second, everyone assumes that the app stores collect 30% (or 15% in some cases for Google Play) in every country. That number is infamous. But that's actually not entirely true. The 30% figure is the take in US currency. It isn't the same for every region and currency. For example, take the Odin. That is, in Apple terms, a tier 60 item. In the US the price is $99.99. Kabam is sent $70 for every such transaction. So Apple keeps basically 30%. In the UK, the same tier 60 item is priced at 99.99 pounds. Kabam is forwarded 58.33 pounds from each of those transactions, not 70 pounds. Apple is keeping about 42%. A similar thing happens in the Google play store. The app stores mark up differently in each country and region, factoring in both currency exchange and their cost of doing business in those regions. Kabam is not marking the items up and making more money, Apple and Google are marking those items up and keeping most of it for themselves. Kabam has no real control over this.
Until recently, both Apple and Google imposed the same restrictions on developers: you can set the tier of the item which implicitly sets the US price, but you have no control over how that item is priced anywhere else. You also cannot sell different items in different regions to try to manipulate pricing. This is actually explicitly forbidden by Apple except for certain exemptions. Doing this to manipulate local pricing is grounds to get kicked off the App store.
Apparently, and I'm not a Google Play expert, some time in the recent past Google has started allowing companies to have some discretion with regional pricing. So it is now theoretically possible for an app developer like Kabam to set different pricing in different regions. However, they still don't have control over app store mark up. If they sell to customers in different regions at lower than the normal tier price, they'll just make less money on each of those transactions.
The higher prices that you paid relative to US currency is not money Kabam ever made. It is money that Apple or Google made. Asking for compensation from Kabam is asking for money back they never got from you in the first place.