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Any ideia when the EU store will get fixed?
CaptainJonh
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As the title sugests does anyone have a clue when will the EU store get fixed? Been trying to get my hands on one of the packs and there seems to be no fix in site...
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I would like to know this as well. I don't mind giving my hard-earned money but not to taxes
Weren't we going to get an update on the EU store?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AshesofCreation/comments/i01vqv/potential_change_in_eu_publisher/
I would refuse to pay 2 lots of VAT.
I hope Steven finds new publisher for EU soon...
Paradox Gaming said that it wasnt theat steven didnt want another publisher for EU but all the others wanted Creative rights to the game.
I wonder if they thought of Steam as a publisher?
I know Amazon uses Steam to publish new world but i also know that Steam takes a 35% cut of each purchase. So i can see why Devs are reculant to to use steam.
On the other hand you have 1 publisher that can marked world wide and has a massive player base.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't steam just a platform to sell your game on but the hosting is still done by the publisher aka a My.games or intrepid themselves?
I would prefer kakao games more then My.games and that is something I never thought I would say.
They did a good job so far with bdo
You have to pay the EU VAT if you live in the EU. But the EU does not actually get the money, the member states get it. The EU only forces the member states to all raise such a tax in the same given rate bracket so they do not unfairly compete against one another by tax dumping.
Whether you have to pay it or not depends on where you (the consumer) lives, not where the service/good is bought from. So changing the publisher would not change anything. The only thing you can do is move outside the EU. And then even your new country could also raise such a tax. Many countries do. However many also not not apply them to s-services as the EU member states do.
But on a serious note, I am curious about what the news will be. If it is My.games that is not an issue for me as long as we get the exact same service as the US.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AshesofCreation/comments/i51038/another_breadcrumb_for_us_eu_people_regarding/
Thx / bedankt
Every mmo publisher I know of in EU are a bunch of greedy b*stards, they'll probably ruin the project, one way or another by cutting costs if they don't get the rights to fill the game up with microtransactions.
Oh and please, not gameforge, otherwise i'm not even gonna play the game, saw them ruin aion, I ain't gonna give them money to ruin another game.
They have said in the past that self publishing in EU would delay the game by 6 months for EU and add significant costs.
As I'm sure you can understand, having 6 months gap for an mmorpg is not a good idea at all. Delaying it for everyone would just piss off people outside of EU.
It's rough to get any decent publisher, but there certainly are better options than my.com if they managed to apply their strict contract requirements to others.
Maybe, just maybe another publisher got more interested after the game has gotten a lot of hype. Or they have somehow found a way to self publish without delays.
6 extra month of delay? For the translation?
If that's the case, the EU publisher will also need a delay to translate it, in that case it won't release in the same time either.
Or, they can release the game in english only in EU, then bring the translations progressively. I'm sure that's a little sacrifice that people would be ready to make (play the game in english rather than in their native language for a few months) to avoid getting one of those scummy publishers that invaded the mmo market and made them what they currently are.
It depends on VAT Rate, Exchange Rate and what you purchase.
Thank you @Neurath for the info!
not for the translation but for setting everything up within the law.
There is a saying it takes 1 hour and 1000$ to set up a company in the Us but 50.000€ and 1 year to do the same in germany.
Not sure how the other EU countrys fare in that regard but its a nightmare to open a company in germany.
There is also the problem with EU laws and NAtional Laws. Both have to be held on tight.
So if you publish you not only have to know all the relevant laws from the EU but also the relevant onces from each country in the EU.
France may allow something that is forbidden in Germany etc.
Its complicated to say the least.
I do however wonder if they couldnt strike a deal with Star citizen. They do Publish in the EU themself (correct me if i am wrong)
So maybe they would be open to publish AoC as well. Different genres and all that.