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Why Do We Care Less About Game Pricing?
There was a strong sense of injustice, but it never really affected us. Not really. We played the games we wanted to play. Somehow. And if we couldn’t? Well, outside of a few exceptions those games were hardly worth our time — they existed as morbid curiosities at best and we moved on as a collective. In reality gamers could have lived without an R18+ rating for video games, but that didn’t matter. The situation was wrong and we all knew it. As a group we mobilised, with verve, and we made a real difference, on an issue that, if we’re being perfectly honest, had little-to-no impact on our day to day lives as gamers.
Yet on the contentious issue of video game pricing, an issue that makes a genuine difference to our financial bottom line, we remain largely silent. I wonder why that is?
Why Everyone Is Deluded About The Australian IT Pricing Inquiry
Discussions about tech pricing make everyone angry, but rarely solve anything. Software and hardware vendors are kidding themselves if they think their flimsy justifications for gouging Australian consumers will stand up to in-depth scrutiny. Consumers are kidding themselves if they think that this is a universal phenomenon. And we’re all kidding ourselves if we think that the current parliamentary inquiry will have any real effect on the issue.
Ed Husic On Video Game Prices — High Australian Wages Are A ‘Massive Cop Out’
Yesterday it was announced there would be a Federal Inquiry into the price of digital software in Australia, to discuss why Australians are pay inflated prices. We spoke to Ed Husic, the MP who has been consistently raising these issues in Parliament. According to him, claims that high Australian wages are to blame, are a “massive cop-out”.
Government To Hold Online Retail Forum
One of the major Australian talking points here at Kotaku, especially over the last year, has been the increase of online importing and its impact on games retail. After Gerry Harvey and other retailers railed against online shopping and its effect on the Australian economy, it seems the issue has been made a real priority by the Government, who have announced an Online Retail Forum to “discuss the opportunities and challenges that exist for Australian retailers in the digital economy.”
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