Mihoyo increase price of gems of many regions with no warning
Approximately one hour ago, they posted on their facebook page a price increase for the following countries: Indonesia, India, South Africa, Iceland, Russia, Colombia and Brazil. Their stated reason for the price hike is "due to policy changes on App stores", which as far as I understand, was a change exclusively on the Apple Store, but they increased the price on all stores.
Basically, items got around around 70-80% increase (R$17 to R27 here in brazil for the blessing, R$389,99 to R$549,99 for the largest bundle).
Needless to say, this is a huge hit to our already sad, poor wallets. Some people believe the increase happened because of international users buying from our stores (which are...well, was cheaper, when converted to dollar), which is frankly, bullshit. Every other store managed to solve this issue with VPN blocking or banning, gift blocks and other such measures, and it worked fine for them. Even in cases where companies decided to go with price increase, they at least offer a grace period to allow purchases at the lower prices, or announce the increase a few days before it goes live.
Heck, I personally was going to buy the last two bundles without the first purchase bonus and was just waiting for the 8th...well, that ain't happening anymore Mihoyo. I'm sure I'm not the only sale you lost, and all you had to do is provide some warning for this. Honestly, the lack of warning is what soured me on this the most.
I'm not even going to explain why companies all around have been doing region based pricing for several years already, taking into account each country's purchasing power, I'm sure Mihoyo already understands this, they just don't care.
New prices on Brazil store. Picture taken on PC: https://imgur.com/8JtmuyY
Facebook post from 1 hour ago (portuguese): https://imgur.com/sRCbJNa
EDIT: Article talking about the policy changes on the Apple store. Not only are those changes much lower than this price hike, it's also ONLY for Apple Store. Just lock apple store accounts from purchasing elsewhere if that's the problem: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/26/apple-to-raise-app-store-prices-in-brazil-india-russia-more
NEW EDIT: For the people saying it's the community's fault for using VPN to abuse the lower prices, you're a funny bunch, I won't lie. Everyone else but Mihoyo apparently already figured out how to block such sales. I'm sure they can expend 0.001% of the $250 million profit to address this issue.
Also, I feel like this has to be said again, my (and I'm sure many others)'s biggest issue with this is the TOTAL LACK OF WARNING. We slept one day at X prices, and woke at X+a shitloadmore prices. This is also something that's not the norm on this industry. Apple itself issued an warning, why couldn't Mihoyo go ahead and say "hey ppl heads up shit's getting more expensive next week BUY BUY BUY". Fuck, I'm sure that would lead to more sales for them too.
Also worth mentioning that FFXIV pulled a similar move last year, and thanks to community outcry they delayed the price hike for a month, giving people time to either purchase what they wanted to at the lower prices or decide to stop playing. Companies do listen if we make enough noise.
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