Localized prices

Dr_doom1 · February 2

So its well know that the prices in the game is the conversion of the dollar to the country you play currency,but that has a fatal flaw that is some countries simply get absurd prices like brazil where a odin crate offer is 1/3 of the minimum monthly wage,localized prices would be great for the players and kabam due to more people be motivated to buy offers if they are more acessible,just a suggestion

Wong_98 · February 2

Kabam doesn’t control prices, App Store or google play do

SummonerNR · February 2

I’m gonna assume you don’t just mean the quantity of whatever currency you are in (how many places of numbers are involved in a price) such as 1 HUNDRED of some currency vs 1 MILLION of another currency (like Dollar to Yen or Lire, if those are still good examples of outrageous currency denominations ?)

But that the cost in relative terms to the people who live in that country.
Which is a combination of 2 different things.

* Currency Conversion. Kabam, whose business runs on Canadian currency, even though we can approximate that close enough into running on US Dollars (I assume they might have a US bank in which they can transact corporate money). And they’re wanting to receive 99. US Dollars for an example offer. So they (it's actually Google and Apple, so let's not hear all the “Kabam sets the exchange rates” talk) set a cost based on what currency conversion would need to take place for Kabam to get their 99 US Dollars. ***and yes, there is a whole lot more factored in, such as Tier Pricing set per country, etc, besides for just currency exchange rate. That makes it NOT EQUAL to 99 Dollars. But relatively, semi-equivalent to 99.

* and VALUE of the local currency in all the different countries. As in how does it equate to say a fraction of an average monthly salary, or how many multiples of say an average MEAL COST, would the offer be in that currency. So if say 99 dollars in US would equate to cost of 5 person meals (prepared at home, not dining out), you may be asking why isn’t cost of a Kabam offer in another country set to what the average cost of 5 person meals would be in that other country.
But if cost-of-living, or average income, etc, is so much different somewhere else that Kabam would only end up receiving 12 US Dollars instead of 99 US Dollars from people in that country, that would be a bad way to run their business.
And you would have everyone trying to fudge their IP Addresses and default currencies, in order for Google/Apple to think they lived in those countries and only have to pay 12 US equivalent Dollars for an offer instead of 99.

Would a car company sell a 50,000 car to someone in another country for exactly 1 year of whatever the average yearly salary is in that country (if for example that is what a 50,000 car comes out to in the US, with average US salary say maybe being 50,000 /year), even though that means the car company might only physically get 7,000 USD for selling that car then over in that other country ? Or only 2,000 USD (or even as low as 500 USD) in much lower developed or depressed countries.

Dr_doom1 · February 3

SummonerNR said:
I’m gonna assume you don’t just mean the quantity of whatever currency you are in (how many places of numbers are involved in a price) such as 1 HUNDRED of some currency vs 1 MILLION of another currency (like Dollar to Yen or Lire, if those are still good examples of outrageous currency denominations ?)

But that the cost in relative terms to the people who live in that country.
Which is a combination of 2 different things.

* Currency Conversion. Kabam, whose business runs on Canadian currency, even though we can approximate that close enough into running on US Dollars (I assume they might have a US bank in which they can transact corporate money). And they’re wanting to receive 99. US Dollars for an example offer. So they (it's actually Google and Apple, so let's not hear all the “Kabam sets the exchange rates” talk) set a cost based on what currency conversion would need to take place for Kabam to get their 99 US Dollars. ***and yes, there is a whole lot more factored in, such as Tier Pricing set per country, etc, besides for just currency exchange rate. That makes it NOT EQUAL to 99 Dollars. But relatively, semi-equivalent to 99.

* and VALUE of the local currency in all the different countries. As in how does it equate to say a fraction of an average monthly salary, or how many multiples of say an average MEAL COST, would the offer be in that currency. So if say 99 dollars in US would equate to cost of 5 person meals (prepared at home, not dining out), you may be asking why isn’t cost of a Kabam offer in another country set to what the average cost of 5 person meals would be in that other country.
But if cost-of-living, or average income, etc, is so much different somewhere else that Kabam would only end up receiving 12 US Dollars instead of 99 US Dollars from people in that country, that would be a bad way to run their business.
And you would have everyone trying to fudge their IP Addresses and default currencies, in order for Google/Apple to think they lived in those countries and only have to pay 12 US equivalent Dollars for an offer instead of 99.

Would a car company sell a 50,000 car to someone in another country for exactly 1 year of whatever the average yearly salary is in that country (if for example that is what a 50,000 car comes out to in the US, with average US salary say maybe being 50,000 /year), even though that means the car company might only physically get 7,000 USD for selling that car then over in that other country ? Or only 2,000 USD (or even as low as 500 USD) in much lower developed or depressed countries.

I didnt meant literal equal prices as you mentioned where a company could make only 200 usd instead of 5k,i meant reduce the price a bit,not make it equal,i used the example of the wage to show its kinda unviable the price,even tough they dont Control Playstore prices they have a site to buy other offers,like the namor treasure which i believe they can control,they could make it viable in a way they dont lose alot of money and attract more buyers

Phantomfire500 · February 3

SummonerNR said:
I’m gonna assume you don’t just mean the quantity of whatever currency you are in (how many places of numbers are involved in a price) such as 1 HUNDRED of some currency vs 1 MILLION of another currency (like Dollar to Yen or Lire, if those are still good examples of outrageous currency denominations ?)

But that the cost in relative terms to the people who live in that country.
Which is a combination of 2 different things.

* Currency Conversion. Kabam, whose business runs on Canadian currency, even though we can approximate that close enough into running on US Dollars (I assume they might have a US bank in which they can transact corporate money). And they’re wanting to receive 99. US Dollars for an example offer. So they (it's actually Google and Apple, so let's not hear all the “Kabam sets the exchange rates” talk) set a cost based on what currency conversion would need to take place for Kabam to get their 99 US Dollars. ***and yes, there is a whole lot more factored in, such as Tier Pricing set per country, etc, besides for just currency exchange rate. That makes it NOT EQUAL to 99 Dollars. But relatively, semi-equivalent to 99.

* and VALUE of the local currency in all the different countries. As in how does it equate to say a fraction of an average monthly salary, or how many multiples of say an average MEAL COST, would the offer be in that currency. So if say 99 dollars in US would equate to cost of 5 person meals (prepared at home, not dining out), you may be asking why isn’t cost of a Kabam offer in another country set to what the average cost of 5 person meals would be in that other country.
But if cost-of-living, or average income, etc, is so much different somewhere else that Kabam would only end up receiving 12 US Dollars instead of 99 US Dollars from people in that country, that would be a bad way to run their business.
And you would have everyone trying to fudge their IP Addresses and default currencies, in order for Google/Apple to think they lived in those countries and only have to pay 12 US equivalent Dollars for an offer instead of 99.

Would a car company sell a 50,000 car to someone in another country for exactly 1 year of whatever the average yearly salary is in that country (if for example that is what a 50,000 car comes out to in the US, with average US salary say maybe being 50,000 /year), even though that means the car company might only physically get 7,000 USD for selling that car then over in that other country ? Or only 2,000 USD (or even as low as 500 USD) in much lower developed or depressed countries.

I think the second argument sort of falls apart when you consider the cost to Kabam of giving somebody a unit. They can sell any amount of units for virtually any amount of money and make a profit, so they may as well sell them for as much as people in X country will pay. With cars there's a much higher production cost.

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