Apparently, Japan has one of the “cheapest” prices for the game while elsewhere it becomes a rip off for some reason (as referenced, in green: is converted from JPY while in red: is the price of the same thing in USA, Europe, UK, Australia, Brazil & Poland to name a few places).
The thing with pricing is that different countries have their own rules on taxes, so it’s kind of finicky to compare (as US has sales tax added upon checkout while EU includes VAT). The weird part is that both $ and € use the same numerical figures despite them being different currencies, as in 80€ is treated the same as $80 when the conversion does not match at all when you look it up.
Well, I said from the start that I’m not gonna buy either because fuck rockstar. And my main issue was with the statement that they’re selling the full game for 100 and a worse version for 80. Which while technically true, it’s a bit silly way of looking at it when the 20€ difference is for nothing relevant to the overall experience. At that point you’re just harming yourself by thinking that way.
And I agree, they don’t need to do it and it sucks that basically every big company is doing it nowadays. People pay so unfortunately we’re partly to blame for it. When I was searching to see what was in the ultimate edition, one of the results was a reddit thread where someone was asking saying that ultimate is “only” 20€ more so it’s a no-brainer to get and I facepalmed so hard… It’s a sad state of affairs. Zoom out a bit and you realize that pretty much our entire society is like that… greed and idiots everywhere. It’s why we can’t have nice things