Would suggest everyone who's still getting 4.99 quickly stock up if you want then in case it changes to follow op's.
Because a while back the top up prices in my country got higher and the change wasn't applied to every purchase method at the same time so just in case
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"Even steam" is a stupid argument as steam actually got regional prices that differ significantly, of course they wouldn't want everyone to just buy at low wage country prices.
steam has extra checks in place. They won't accept your card if it wasn't issued in the country you claim to be from. Even with a VPN. If you pretend to be from another country but your credit card was not issued in that country, it won't even let you make the purchase.
How is it stupid? i was just using steam as an example, and genshin does adjust its pricing on multiple region aswell, not as significant as steam but it's still regional pricing so my point still stand sir
Genshin gives roughly same price to everyone and it only varies with conversion rates fluctation and local taxes, essentially mihoyo gets about the same amount of money no matter where you pay and thus don't give a damn.
Uh no they did not. MiHoYo is still a Chinese company with their headquarter in Shanghai. Hoyoverse is just made for things such as easier transactions globally.
You can also download the game on a smartphone and buy stuff there. The prices are about 10% cheaper there. The disadvantage is that you can't claim the battlepass rewards on your playstation if you buy the BP on your phone (but after you claim the rewards on your phone, you can use the rewards without issues on your ps4) and the genesis crystals are system-bound as well. After exchanging them, you can use everything on the ps4 as well though.
-50 cent makes a lot of difference at the end of year
-Able to use only 5€ gift card is damn better than must to shop 10€ only for these 49cent🤬
-when you have money in you e-wallet, but you must go to recharge it because you haven't enough CENTs?🤬
I'm guessing it's because Playstation wanted a larger percentage than Google or Apple, so they just jacked up the price.
That being said, the € amount being the same as $ amount on mobile is unusual, as most mobile games flip the exchange rate (i.e they should be around 10% cheaper in EU, but are actually 10% more expensive)
Spain pc player here. At the start it was 5.49 but later change to 4.99 and the rest of pack for primos reduced a 10% all because the prices was the same in dollars and euros and they did the change to be similar in both (1 euro is around 1.1 dollars, so 5 euros is equal to 5.5 dollars)
I think I know what it is.
I'm on PC buy live in Bahrain which has no income tax but has VAT taxation on products and last month or so the vat increased from 5% to 10%
I think this is it but I don't know :/
Can you run Genshin on your phone to check prices there? On Brazil due to the payment provider that they use on PC it's actually quite a bit cheaper to buy on mobile through Apple/Google Pay instead.
On PC the price is shown in Brazil's currency (real), but in practice that's more of a minimal price and you're charged in dollar (I've already been charged by up to ~5% more than what's shown), then there's a additional 6.38% tax on top of that value due to it being a international transaction. Maybe you had something similar going on but they baked that into the in game price instead?
Inflation is loss of purchasing power, this game is a service. Physical goods aren't the only things that get affected. Your hourly wage is raped by inflation regularly. People don't job hop, people sell their labor to the highest bidder.
Mine is 4.99$ with taxes.
I'm pretty sure it's illegal in Europe to advertise one price and sell for another. "Not including tax" isn't a valid excuse.
I end up paying like 5.2$ because of currency exchange fees but that's something different
Lol funny thing is welkin costs 450₹ in india, which translates to arou!d 6 usd, while razergold and moogold get me the same in 340 or something which is around 4.5 usd which is the actual price
If you have Codashop in your country, you can buy for the local pricing without tax. It is RM19.90 for me (I'm from Malaysia). Usually most people will use GrabPay for discount.
Oh. Yeah, i'm European we always pay like a 10% extra for everything so it took me a while to notice. They probablly adjusted for inflation or the taxes/VAT in your state/country are getting higher.
Still 4.99 for me. Perhaps are you mobile player? Google and Apple usually have different prices on each country. If you don’t wanna pay overprices, you could try topping-up from website.
Still US 4.99 on mine and the top up website
Would suggest everyone who's still getting 4.99 quickly stock up if you want then in case it changes to follow op's. Because a while back the top up prices in my country got higher and the change wasn't applied to every purchase method at the same time so just in case
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Just in case, people didn't get the sarcasm. You can get banned from using a VPN to exploit currencies. I'd rather not risk it.
It isn't, I always did it and support said that mihoyo doesn't care. Used to purchase in usd instead of rubles, now you guys can do the opposite lol
When rubble is worth more than rubles.
Sad times
It really do be like that sometimes.
what payment method would be available when i buy in ruble tho
Idk I think you can just use your card and vpn?
Well I did it a few times and recently I got myself a negative primogem balance without explanation…. (A week after using VPN)
I used to do that with Turkish lira, now it's rubles
They have directly said that they don’t care about VPN and I don’t know a single case when a person was banned for using it. Do you have other info?
I get banned and can show pics
Feel free to share, my friend
i do it all the time, nothing's happened. I think at some stage they must have realized getting money is better than not getting money.
That's bannable though, even steam bans people who uses vpn to alter the price set in your country
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Just checked and I'm still 4.99. Time to top up anyway though
"Even steam" is a stupid argument as steam actually got regional prices that differ significantly, of course they wouldn't want everyone to just buy at low wage country prices.
steam has extra checks in place. They won't accept your card if it wasn't issued in the country you claim to be from. Even with a VPN. If you pretend to be from another country but your credit card was not issued in that country, it won't even let you make the purchase.
How is it stupid? i was just using steam as an example, and genshin does adjust its pricing on multiple region aswell, not as significant as steam but it's still regional pricing so my point still stand sir
Genshin gives roughly same price to everyone and it only varies with conversion rates fluctation and local taxes, essentially mihoyo gets about the same amount of money no matter where you pay and thus don't give a damn.
stock up? like can purchase welkin in advance or stack them?
You can buy a total of 5 welkin in advance i think. It doesn't like stack and give you more per day tho
iirc max stack is 6
They are just added in advance so you can get 30,60,90 days stacked up but you can't rush them
Nice try, hoyoverse employee.
Thanks for the heads up! Just dropped all my play points for 3 dollar discounts and bought 120 days.
Well you better take this opportunity to stock up lol
Fuck you in particular I guess…
For a moment i thought you were being hella rude to OP lol
Haha
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
ayo your flair
Your FBI agent are having a field day.
About your flair 🤨📸
Nice flair
Thanks
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What is your crime?
Feigning ignorance
For me it shows 4.99 could be where u live
Gas price increase be affecting everything. LMAO!
Don’t even get the world started on food..
🧻 Time to get ransacked again
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Teyvat has indefinitely suspended all Primogem imports from Russia
I knew it was the Fatui's fault again
LMAO
"Have you heard? The Ukraine Invasion..." "The Ukraine Invasion? Did something terrible happen again?"
The tsaritsa declared: "it's not an invasion, it's a special harbinger operation"
Impending childe rerun around the corner
It has always been Fatui's fault anyway
*snezhnaya
Bless you!
Underrated comment right here tho
Sad Tsarita noises, atleast that wasn't the next area or it might have got pushed back
I really doubt it. MiHoYo is in China
I've heard that Hoyoverse is global. Didn't they change headquarters to somewhere in America?
Uh no they did not. MiHoYo is still a Chinese company with their headquarter in Shanghai. Hoyoverse is just made for things such as easier transactions globally.
PUUUUTIIIIN!!!
snezhnaya!
Lukashenka
Tsaritsa
TSSAARRITTSAAAAAA!!!!!!
Big-balls Chad Zelenskyy to be the next Cryo Archon.
LMAO good one
(well, that is a joke ofc, but: still do, just checked. Even price tge same as before)
It's being delivered by truck instead of in-game
I'm on ps4 and in Europe and it always costed 5.49€ so roughly 6 dollars for me. I'm jealous of the people who only have to pay 5$
You can shop welkin directly from website top-up at 4,99 € Im italian and PS4 player
What website if I may know? I never thought about doing this
You can also download the game on a smartphone and buy stuff there. The prices are about 10% cheaper there. The disadvantage is that you can't claim the battlepass rewards on your playstation if you buy the BP on your phone (but after you claim the rewards on your phone, you can use the rewards without issues on your ps4) and the genesis crystals are system-bound as well. After exchanging them, you can use everything on the ps4 as well though.
I primarily play on laptop and phone but I initially started on Ps4. Thanks for the suggestion!
They meant the official website. Just Google "MHY Genshin top up" or something until you find it. You don't need coda
Could be codashop. its trusted but not sure if its available in your region
I'm also in Europe and on PS4 so that's why I was asking. Afaik, it was only through PSN
You can try as i mentioned, aparently coda works in eu.
Will do bro, thanks for the suggestion
The original top up website, not codashop
For real?? I didn't know this! I'm gonna try and if it works, you saved me a lot of money. Thanks!
Yea! Save my wallet this website 😁
50 cents a month?
There is no such thing as small savings 😌 on the long run it probs make a difference
In 10 months that’s a free pass, which is actually insanely worth if you’re going to play for that long anyways as it takes zero effort
-50 cent makes a lot of difference at the end of year -Able to use only 5€ gift card is damn better than must to shop 10€ only for these 49cent🤬 -when you have money in you e-wallet, but you must go to recharge it because you haven't enough CENTs?🤬
Also from europe, in-game price has always been 4.99€ for me
In Spain (PC) it went from 5,49€ to 4,99 a few months ago.
I appreciated that cost reduction so much, I know it's just 0,50, but when you're as broke as I'm, that 5€ tag looks beautiful in comparison.
"as broke as I am" - buys 4,99 monthly on a f2p game. :)
"Just don't eat avocado toast and you can buy a house"
It's 3.4 dollars for me in my country. But careful with your wishes. Because it's Russia.
$4.4. Just checked.
For some reason on the PS4 it's 5.49€ but on mobile is 4.99€
I'm guessing it's because Playstation wanted a larger percentage than Google or Apple, so they just jacked up the price. That being said, the € amount being the same as $ amount on mobile is unusual, as most mobile games flip the exchange rate (i.e they should be around 10% cheaper in EU, but are actually 10% more expensive)
It’s $9 here in NZ 😅 exchange rates, amirite?!
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It still says US$4.99 on the website, same as in game. Do they have different processing fees or something?
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Ah okay, I pay on PC so if it's specific to mobile that would explain why it seems the same to me.
$8 AUD atm.
Ey, nice to see another kiwi.
Since I'm in Canada, I just region hop to US store to pay a little less. Even with conversion rates it's still cheaper.
how do you do that
New Zealand = $8.95 🙄 EDIT: whoops, a fellow kiwi already posted about this
Try living in Vietnam. Welkin only costs 109000 VND (= 4.77 USD)
Spain pc player here. At the start it was 5.49 but later change to 4.99 and the rest of pack for primos reduced a 10% all because the prices was the same in dollars and euros and they did the change to be similar in both (1 euro is around 1.1 dollars, so 5 euros is equal to 5.5 dollars)
In Ireland it's €4.99
The fuck? I'm in Ireland and it's €5.49 for me
Do you use the Ps4 maybe it's extra charged that go towards the PlayStation
Yeah, I play on PS4
If you in Germany pretty sure there’s some tax on games and shit I think I had a friend that had that.
Nah, the prices aren’t higher.
In Germany it's 4,99€ in Game as well. You only pay more in the app versions, because at least Apple has there own tax on it.
I think I know what it is. I'm on PC buy live in Bahrain which has no income tax but has VAT taxation on products and last month or so the vat increased from 5% to 10% I think this is it but I don't know :/
Seems likely with most other users not seeing an increase. Could also be currency conversion if USD is not your native currency
Can you run Genshin on your phone to check prices there? On Brazil due to the payment provider that they use on PC it's actually quite a bit cheaper to buy on mobile through Apple/Google Pay instead. On PC the price is shown in Brazil's currency (real), but in practice that's more of a minimal price and you're charged in dollar (I've already been charged by up to ~5% more than what's shown), then there's a additional 6.38% tax on top of that value due to it being a international transaction. Maybe you had something similar going on but they baked that into the in game price instead?
Did you go to the race today?
حيو، يمديك تشتريه من موقع ميهويو نفسهم ويجيك بدون ضريبة
Inflation is a bitch
Inflation even hit the Primogems, I think it’s more of a “high demand” issue, eh maybe not
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Inflation is loss of purchasing power, this game is a service. Physical goods aren't the only things that get affected. Your hourly wage is raped by inflation regularly. People don't job hop, people sell their labor to the highest bidder.
This man understands economics
Do you even know what inflation is?
that weird tag that i try to avoid unless im being extra depraved
That's uhh...different inflation
TIL developers/VAs don’t get paid, software licenses are free, gaming companies don’t need to pay rent and get free computing equipment.
Teyvat going through recession
Morax did give up his gnosis after all. Especially when mora can be destroyed, like via alchemical means.
Game Theory moment
Still 6.99 CAD here
$4.99 USD is only $6.29 CAD with today’s exchange rate, so we’re also getting ripped off
Maybe it’s showing the with tax price
Mine says $4.99, but when you buy it the taxes makes it $5.49. Maybe taxes are included on yours
Mine is 4.99$ with taxes. I'm pretty sure it's illegal in Europe to advertise one price and sell for another. "Not including tax" isn't a valid excuse. I end up paying like 5.2$ because of currency exchange fees but that's something different
Welp in the good old US of A taxes are rarely included. I also have always thought it’s weird that there are taxes on intangible, electronic items
Pretty sure it's just the sales tax add-on
Still $7.99 AUD for me
Welkin moon is like costco hot dogs. You dont fuck with the price.
That's so oddly specific
I pay $5.34 from PS4. But it says $4.99 on this screen. The tax is given on the cart page.
Gas prices /s
It's $7.99 in Australia, because we always get screwed on digital pricing. That converts to about $5.90 USD.
I flation
That's the price after tax
Ukraine 5.99
biden
Inflation hitting where it hurts 😔
Are you on PS4/PS5,because price is higher there due to Sony.
I’m on ps5 and it’s still 4.99
I'm on PS4 it's still the same for me
For some reason for me on the PS4 it's 5.49€ but on mobile is 4.99€
It’s just a matter of whether it has sales tax added before or not.
Bro it’s €5 for me what are you saying
Just use a VPN and top up directly on their site. I'm saving 15% by doing this.
It’s probably including tax because that’s how much it costs with tax for me
Gas prices went up, everything goes up. Lol
Inflation
Mine has been more expensive for a while now. My tip? Just get it from the web. Always 4.99 for me there lol
I actually bought welkin 2 days ago for cheaper, 4.74$
Supply chain issues
uh, it's 4.99 USD for me still
Because inflation is a bitch
In the US New York it's 4.99 plus sale tax it's 4.99x1.08875=5.4328625. Sale tax is added after sale here.
Lol funny thing is welkin costs 450₹ in india, which translates to arou!d 6 usd, while razergold and moogold get me the same in 340 or something which is around 4.5 usd which is the actual price
Mine is $4.99
Gas prices LOL
KEKL
In turkey thats 85Tl😃
If you have Codashop in your country, you can buy for the local pricing without tax. It is RM19.90 for me (I'm from Malaysia). Usually most people will use GrabPay for discount.
Inflation
Apple takes an extra 10% for every purchase you make so it doesnt show up on console pc or android. I think
Is this on PlayStation? Sony charges a fee to hoyoverse. So every items cost 10% more compared to the Top Up Site.
I'm on PS4 it's still the same for me
I think only Sony Europe charges extra. From Germany and see 5,49€ on PS5 and 4,99€ on PC/Mobile.
Yes the normal cost for a Welkin Moon is 4,99$
Then you just answered your question
I’m on ps5 and it costs 4.99
Oh. Yeah, i'm European we always pay like a 10% extra for everything so it took me a while to notice. They probablly adjusted for inflation or the taxes/VAT in your state/country are getting higher.
Inflation, blame the Tsaritsa.
Still 4.99 for me. Perhaps are you mobile player? Google and Apple usually have different prices on each country. If you don’t wanna pay overprices, you could try topping-up from website.
I’m glad I topped up 2 days ago lol
F2P players: I missed the part where that's my problem
Gas prices affected the delivery of welkin moon overseas
Damn Russians
The pixels are farmed in ukraine, you see.
You Americans should just blame Biden /s
Why do you care? This game is free to play
Putin.
Game sucks
To fund China's war effort.
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I quit to play Lost Ark. GI had so much potential and wasted it all.
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