Providing a place for discussion for this announcement…
Now what have you guys done with LakeStone?!
LakeStone is out of town at the moment. I know I only pop in to bring occasional news and it’s never the “Hey, here’s something awesome!” kind of news, so if you just don’t want to check my posts, that’s fine.
Come back when you have news that ISO payouts for purchase are increased at minimum 400%. 
Marvin the little robot lives on in someone’s heart, I see.
(I was teasing you. At least you didn’t get a nickname. IceIX is now “My Cervix” due to LakeStone.
oh wait, that’s not cool
Stark Salary is going from 109 AUD to 129 AUD due to Apple, even on my Android?
Sorry to say, but I probably won’t be spending any more money on this game. Maybe, just maybe, during a sale.
Beware the war cry of the master sword wielding, kangaroo riding, jellybean fueled diamond miner from Indonesia. The guy really feels like you are singling him out on this one. Yes, I have a picture for that. No, I can’t show it for copyright reasons. Yes, he throws boomerangs sometimes. No, he isn’t willing to swap out a kangaroo for a Cassowary..those things are deadly.
Wow, in Indonesian currency a motherlode is 0.1 australian dollars, in AU currency it’s 130 o_O
Thats not true Electroblast! You’ve given us plenty of good posts, like Server Downtime Maintenence… uh… Steam Promotion…? Okay, what about Tournament and Patch Notes - 12/23? Oh wait, that was the week that IceIX was away. Um… walks backwards slowly
See… exactly.
Feel free to come by and waste some non-official time with us, lord knows half of IceIX’s posts are completely off topic 
So with the Australian dollar currently at 94us cents. We are for some reason being slugged an extra 30% over your US customers.
Please explain why? At 94us cents we should be paying $106 Australian for a $99.99US Stark Salary .
Why the massive price hike?
Thanks… but I’m a little scared of some of you. =)
I will say, however, that the meme post had me in tears for about 30 minutes. I’ll try to get in here and just answer more questions in general, like…
Totally fair question, but I don’t have an answer just yet. This was a change to the pricing tiers which are controlled by Apple. We’ve reached out to try to find out why the conversion rate is not closer to the current actual conversion rates.
The US price won’t include a sales tax, while the Australian price might include Goods and Services Tax. That wouldn’t account for all of the difference, though.
Astronomical price hike. I would gladly fork out $50 AUD a fortnight to grab some Asgardian loot and support the team but this is just pushing it too far. No more spending from this Aussie MPQ fan.
Exactly it wouldn’t account for the different. I remember when Australian dollars was above the US 2 years ago and we still had to pay $1.29 for a game that the US of A pay 99c for. Australian tax is 10% max. and 10% of 100 is only $10 not $30. So even factoring in tax, we are still getting slap in the face.
I’ve noticed that people outside of US pay considerably more for the same thing (factoring in currency conversion rates) in games like this. I don’t know if it’s a universal idea to take money from guys outside of the US or if there’s actually a good reason to do it (like a VAT or whatever) but that’s a very consistent theme across all games. I remember guys outside US (usually Euros) would ask if the US guys can buy the game for them and send over the code and they’d pay us back because it’s considerably more expensive for them to buy it, even when the product is distributed digitially.
A Stark Salary is currently £69.99, roughly $124AU so you arent the only territory that is being charged over the odds.
Yeah it happens in a lot of games. I get sick of it and simply stop paying/playing and move on to something else.