I really don't get why this weird Idea that Games cost loads in the UK came about.
I just bought Red Faction on the 360 for £34 brand new. Thats a normal price for a game at launch Unless you are daft and buy it at a supermarket.
£34 = $55
The normal launch game costs LESS in the UK than in the US where you are always complaining about the $60 price point.
ALSO, the average wage for a job in the UK when converted into US dollars is HIGHER than the same comprable job in the US.
MEANING that on the whole £34 is more like $35 when cost of living, wage etc are taken into account.
Yes t depends on the job, and people living down near london have a high cost of living but I have lived in Newcastle and in the US along with my wife (who is American) and kid and I can tell you that unless you are on a high wage job people over in the UK have more money to spend.
Often you get the "well you pay more tax" comment.
We DO NOT PAY ANYTHING for health care. The state hands out Tax credits to people on lower incomes.
I had never really seen Real poverty untuil I lived in the US.
There is a reason my family Lives in the UK and that is because I do not have a highly paid job but I can afford to live in comfort here. My stepmother has the SAME career that I do and she is financially crippled in the US because she doesn't earn enough money to pay for what she needs. She WAS a well paid manager of a buisiness untuil she got sick and couldnt work which meant she lost her job. The job that paid her Medical insurance!
Now if she ever does earn more money the Medical Bills she owes will simply eat it up.
This is a concept that is UNHEARD of in the UK. I Personally know three families this problem has affected in the US.
So guys get your facts straight before you keep commenting on other countries and cultures. Its not the first time The Giant Bomb guys have made comments about other countries that are woefully misinformed or simply come from a lack of experience.
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