A year or so after the games release, pack pricing for international players was changed so that it no longer took the exchange rate into account. This really hit home lately with the $100 packs costing us £100 here in the UK. That's £22 (or $29) per pack that we were unfairly overcharged. I'm not sure how that works out with Euros and currencies in other regions, but I'd imagine it's the same scam.
It's been theorised that this is the result of Apple imposing a tariff and CG (or perhaps EA?) deciding to make their international player base carry the cost of it, including Android users. I play a lot of other mobile apps with international micro-transaction systems and I haven't noticed this policy elsewhere.
Way I see it, if Apple places a tariff that cuts into their incredible profits, that's their problem. It shouldn't give them the right to overcharge international players for the same content.
At the very least, they should stop making Android users pay extra.
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