Posted October 29, 2023
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When companies grow, they change. Massive sales, multiple currencies and regional prices are all part of that change.
ZP is now where GOG used to be. If they ever experience exponential growth, like GOG did, you'll see that they'll also embrace multiple currencies and constant sales.
The uncomfortable truth is that there's a ton of poverty. People not from here (including other US states) like to point out all the billionaires living in my state, but they don't want to accept that there's way tons of poverty.
If you suddenly kicked a poor person from the US into the 3rd world (while somehow maintaining their current income), that poor US citizen would suddenly find themselves living the life of a middle class person in that 3rd world country. This is what everyone is seemingly failing to understand.
What's the minimum wage in the US? $1200 or something per month? Well it is $400 in some other countries. So why is a $1200 p/m earner considered poor in one country and well-off in another? Because of massive price differences. How much is a McDonald's cheeseburger in the US? $2 or something? Well it's around $1.15 in the Philippines. If someone earns $400 per month, you cannot expect them to pay $70 for a video game. You will not make any money with such prices.
Once again, regional pricing is not about helping the poor. It's about making money in poor countries. It's not the same, so all these "we've got poor people in the 1st world too" arguments are missing the point.
The "rich", you would be surprised, do not enjoy to pay a lot... they may value their coins even more than the poor ones... probably the reason they are "rich" in the first place.
The ultimate factor is simply "how much is someone willing to pay", which can fluctuate dependable on the country but it is NOT necessarily bound to a income-level", rather on "the will to pay a lot... or simply lesser, as a huge mass"; this is not the same... but it might look the same.
There are some billionaires that will never pay more than 30 coins and some poor ones willing to hand over their very last bucks... even if it means to sacrifice their meal or even their kidney for it... because humans most likely act in a way that they put some value into something else, and the thing we are putting value into it is very different... even without any link to the current income level. Sure, in a "good environment... a rather healthy economy" people are willing to spend more for luxury goods in general, but this is just one of many more factors playing a role.
Let me make a easy example: How much is a person, per head, "paying" for their car every year? How much are they paying for gaming in average per head in a country like South Africa (because people said, in Africa sells do barely work) Okay...? Yeah, its much... much... much lesser... so the income is not the main issue... its the will to pay, the "value" someone is putting into something else... this is the "main motivation driving humans".
How much more money vs. me do you think some of my relatives got? 10x? 100x? Nah... its more like 1000x the coins i own... but are they buying a expensive computer or any game at all? Of course not... but even if they may have interest into games... they may not put enough of value into it for "getting something that expensive"... a over aged notebook and the cheapest Steam game will be "good enough"... because of the "value" they put into it... which is way lower... there is simply never the same level of interest nor competence.
There is no direct link to the wealth if we consider the price someone is willing to pay, however... obviously. if a certain market is as good as totally broken... the chance of finding someone willing to "sacrifice" their coins is near zero. Not even because no one could afford it but they simply will spend the coins on the "more important matter", for example a car or a meal.
Of course i could be different... i could feel like "i value this supreme PC so crazy much"... lets just forget about this huge car... lets not even buy a car so i can get the very best PC"... but how many humans are acting like this? Clearly a minority... because of the way of "how we value goods". And of course, culture in general is playing a huge role too... dependable on "social standing"... related to a certain good... it will more likely to become valued by the mass... or simply rather not.
There is even a gender divide, which can be complicated explaining the factors involved, but in general males dominate "tech stuff" while women dominate "social stuff".
Post edited October 29, 2023 by Xeshra
