I've read everything you've typed in. Thank you.
And it's not really assuming, when I just told you, that every major company makes price adjustments frequently. I work with this stuff myself... So how am I assuming, when I'm working at a company where we see suppliers, distribution networks and even resellers doing this stuff. And I already told you why.
Yes you can say I'm just assuming Frontier is setup like every big company out there. Maybe they are not. Maybe they are in some magical bubble, where they doesn't experience any price regulations whatsover (which is the most unlikely thing to ever assume) .
Plus PS Network takes the console owner fee. The usual profit for a game sold after all the expenses are paid and taken out, is 1$ per sold game. The biggest portion (nearly 45%) goes toward simply programming and designing the game itself. Then the console maker, retailer and marketers each get a cut. Add in manufacturing and management costs, and depending on the type of game, a license fee. Some gamemakers also have to pay a distributor to help get their titles in stores. And that's for a 60$ game... Conversion rates change almost every day as well.
And you're the one complaining. I'm not at all. I think it's way worse to complain about something you assume, than just dropping facts and keeping it moving.
And we're talking about 3.3 USD here. If you skip a pizza this month, it's break-even.
I’m not a businessman. I’m a graduate chemist so I am not able to verify the accuracy of your claim. I don’t doubt it at all however.
Even then, you already admitted yourself even you cannot determine the validity of your claim when it applies SPECIFICALLY to Frontier and in my case. You just don’t have any kind of access to the required values of the variables. There are so many of them to be honest!
So, I think you won’t have any objections when I say you can’t really conclude if my assumption is wrong or yours is correct, is that right?
Both of our theories are merely guesses, strictly speaking. Of course, yours is educated guess while mine is based on logical deduction. It doesn’t make you any more right just because you’re doing a related job.
Maybe I didn’t make myself clear. I’m sorry for that only. This is a complaint. This is a complaint to demand for answers. Because I’m the one who paid the extra 3 Dollars, not you. Even if it is you, you have no right to interfere with my right to complaint as a customer. This is not a judgement. If Frontier steps in here and state that my theory is wrong and provide me a reasonable explanation (something like yours, even more vague), I’ll be gladly apologize right immediately and continue to be a loyal customer.
Yes, this is their business and they don’t need to do things as I demand. This is perfectly okay.
But it is not okay for you to step in, with unprovable claims to interfere with my complaint.
Maybe you’ll argue that since I complaint in a public forum, you have the right to step in too and interfere. I cannot deny your claim. You’re right. But I just want to make it clear that I made the best effort I could to resolve this privately. I personally messaged Paul but got no replies. So here we are in this situation. There is no point to argue any further.
To conclude, although it is not 100% proven correct, there is still a high possibility (based on elementary math calculations as post #7 above) that Frontier is laying the currency instability burden on the shoulders of loyal customers who bought the game early. Don’t get me wrong, to me, the game is VERY GOOD! It is just the unfair and unexplained regional over-charging (by 20%!) that set me off.
Good bye! This is probably going to be my last post here!
