Rocki wrote: »

It looks like we can now make purchases through twitch for things like ESO plus and get a free crate:

https://twitch.tv/directory/game/The%20Elder%20Scrolls%20Online/details

I was planning on buying my ESO plus through this but I checked the price and it's $17.99 for 30 days. I'm in the UK and it's normally £8.99 for 30 days, but going through twitch it costs £13.39, damn near 50% more expensive for just a single crate. Is this a mistake?

No mistake, not everyone will do the converting n will just jump.in thinking yeah I'm getting more for money ...

Those people have massive disposable income

The twitch loot crates are mainly full of potions too, at least everyone said they just got potions from that Kevduit stream

ZOS Online Store - £8.99 GBP 30 Days
Twitch Store - $17.99 (£13.3910 via xe.com)

So basically not worth it for UK people, unless I am missing an option to buy in GBP from Twitch.

Firemantim wrote: »

It's showing as $14.99 for me

Seems like $17.99 is the price for people outside of the US, at least for people in EU. Still wondering if it's a mistake.

Firemantim wrote: »

It's showing as $14.99 for me

It's showing the same for me $14.99 USD.

For me, in US Dollars, the Twitch prices are the same as the Bethesda prices for ESO Plus in each of the three durations.

PlagueSD wrote: »

Rocki wrote: »

Firemantim wrote: »

It's showing as $14.99 for me

Seems like $17.99 is the price for people outside of the US, at least for people in EU. Still wondering if it's a mistake.

+20% "tax" for Europe...pretty standard. (14.99 * 1.2 = 17.988) rounds up to 17.99

Is it standard to screw people in the EU for no good reason?

You expected twitch to not take a cut?

Ydrisselle wrote: »

Usually yes - mostly 1€ = $1 if you want to buy anything. But this is a bit too far.

Well that's certainly true for a lot of things but not usually for indentical online services IME. Sometimes we get screwed on the exchange rate for that type of thing but this is just a flat USD price increase just for being outside the US.

Rocki wrote: »

Ydrisselle wrote: »

Usually yes - mostly 1€ = $1 if you want to buy anything. But this is a bit too far.

Well that's certainly true for a lot of things but not usually for indentical online services IME. Sometimes we get screwed on the exchange rate for that type of thing but this is just a flat USD price increase just for being outside the US.

It seems to me that they simply set up a US price, and added VAT to it for the EU. That means we got a more expensive option. I have no idea if it's possible to make something like regional pricing, but currently it's simply a bad idea to buy anything for ESO through Twitch...

DuskMarine wrote: »

people actually go to twitch to do something other than yell at streamers or for cam girls lol yall act like these things are a bad thing just stay unlinked to twitch then if you dont wanna buy them.

You missed the point.

It is a buff if you live in the US. It is a nerf if you live in the EU.

PlagueSD wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

PlagueSD wrote: »

Rocki wrote: »

Firemantim wrote: »

It's showing as $14.99 for me

Seems like $17.99 is the price for people outside of the US, at least for people in EU. Still wondering if it's a mistake.

+20% "tax" for Europe...pretty standard. (14.99 * 1.2 = 17.988) rounds up to 17.99

Yeah but if you buy from ZOS directly the price, with tax included, is £8.99 which is $12 at the current exchange rate. So we're being charged $5 extra for no apparent reason.

Value Added Tax: (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/valueaddedtax.asp)

VAT: Value Added Tax is 20% of the same price for consumer goods. In the USA prices are always shown before taxes, in the UK they are shown including tax. So this makes american goods look artificially cheap (you actually pay more when you go to buy), plus UK tax tends to be higher.

Well I highly doubt twitch is buying the subscription from ZOS, it's not a manufactured good or physically stored in some secret twitch vault to sell it. There isn't really an extra step in the supply chain.

I think you're missing the point here. Valve/Steam sells the goods for the same price ZOS asks themselves, including VAT.

The whole thing is just messed up. It's probably an "issue" with how the twitch store is set up. They don't have a localized store and just, as you calculated earlier, add EU tax to whatever the publisher says they should ask for goods if they are registered from the EU. They don't give a flying guar poop wether or not it'll make it more expensive and very undesireable to EU customers that way.

That said, I'd appreciate it if ZOS could pull some strings and make a change in that regard. I would've probably made a few purchases, but paying an extra 20% on top of what ZOS or Valve asks makes it a no go.

Rocki wrote: »

It looks like we can now make purchases through twitch for things like ESO plus and get a free crate:

https://twitch.tv/directory/game/The%20Elder%20Scrolls%20Online/details

I was planning on buying my ESO plus through this but I checked the price and it's $17.99 for 30 days. I'm in the UK and it's normally £8.99 for 30 days, but going through twitch it costs £13.39, damn near 50% more expensive for just a single crate. Is this a mistake?

Yup, prepare your utters. They’re gonna be sore after this milking.