Why are games so expensive in this country?
importing things to "shithole in the middle of nowhere" must be expensive
>>341716585
top kek mate, that "shithole in the middle of nowhere" could annex your shit country in a day.
>>341716661
SUPERPOWER BY 2030
>>341716518
They're not, jb hifi sells new release games for 60-90 sealed. Considering minimum wage here is 20 bux+ for adults, i'd say that's reasonable lad. Stop going to EB.
>>341716518
Because companies never bothered to adjust prices when the dollar got stronger. That's why I import everything.
Bonus Monster Hunter Generations code for anyone that wants it. Not sure if it's PAL locked or what, but go nuts.B0N0P5B34TDBRFNK
>>341716880
>That's why I import everything
Basically the name of the game here down under. Haven't bought a game from a good ol' brick & mortar store for a good while.
>the 'muh minimum wage' argument
>implying i work
>>341716518
Because people working at Coles make $27 an hour.
>>341716773
this.
Eb charge way too fucking much.
I remember before JB HiFi started BTFO'ing Eb they were getting up to 130 dollars for a new game.
>>341716585
fukin seppo cunts
>>341716585
>digital games
we have servers hosted here, you mong
Never preorder a game.
Price will be down $20 on release day if eb is forced to compete with another shop.
>>341716518
because you will buy at that price
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
>>341716661
>he thinks straya could defeat and annex his shithole neighbors, particularly Indonesia
ayyyy
>>341716518
lol australia
>>341719221
Man, I wish my fellow Aussies weren't such fucking subhumans.
People here will buy games at $110, it's insane
>>341716518
Insurance against poisonous everything.
>>341719331
Where am I supposed to buy them then?
>>341719443
I get my console games from oz game shop and PC games from key sites (or I just pirate them)
You think you have it bad?
>games in neighboring Southeast Asian shitholes are cheaper compared to Aussie prices
Why is it allowed?
because of all the bloody boat people stealing our games
>>341719548
Our currency is shit.
Also the AAA companies don't do regional pricing, so D44M and other games are still $60 converted directly.
>>341716518
our dollar is shit, but even then it's not that bad, 3 hours work at the shittiest minimum wage job gets you any game.
>>341719716
>3 hours of getting wagecucked
what a waste of time
The better question is why the fuck do we pay $6 for 10 nuggets, whereas Americans only pay $1.
>>341716585
I'll get my indian comrades to swallow your country, there'll be so many people charging at you that even if you killed one person per bullet you'll run out of bullets to kill us all.
Fuck you, feel the wrath of Krishna, feel the wrath of hinduism. I'll rid your country of beef eating scums
>>341719716
Why is it so hard to get a job in Australia?
>>341719824
AMERICA NEED NUGGETS
>>341716518
why does this nation of ugly and retarded inbred convicts even exist?
>Just pirate everything
There, problem solved, consider it staying in touch with your heritage.
>>341719824
Because McDonalds Australia doesn't import meat from 3rd world shitholes on the cheap and is forced to use local ingredients at higher cost.
>>341719932
Convicts??
This is a Chinese colony, m8
>>341719942
Yeah, but is that really worth it? I don't go to McD's for 100% free-range, hormone-free, grass-fed chicken.
I love Australia tbqh
wait a few years and you'll realise that EVERYTHING is expensive in this shitty country.
wait until you wanna buy a house...
>>341719541
nzgameshop pham
>>341719941
>not picking random poisonous animals from the street, releasing em on the closest gamestop and grabbing all games you want while the employees run
>>341720020
Of course not, but if they tried to import meat people would go bonkers. "How dare you undercut the aussie farmers!"
All these fuck boys buying shit "irl" Aus dollars are so shit online, if I want to buy a game that costs 29.99 I have to pay 40 dollarydoos for that shit.
>>341720035
literally /suicide_watch/: the country
I can't even half fun online with this shitty 150KB/s internet
all I can do is shitpost here
>>341720089
>>341719541
>>341719785
>wage cucked
What?
>>341720202
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wagecuck
>>341719852
>one billion Indians floating across the Indian Ocean on doors, couches and whatever other bits of floating furniture they can steal from their superior neighbors, Pakistan, amassing the largest army and navy the world has ever seen
>a giant fleet visible from space, appearing as a greath writhing brown mass, leaving a ginormous trail of human excrement behind it
Truly frightening
>>341720175
wow a """""sport""""" that makes no sense and nobody in developed countries cares about
>>341716773
Don't go to JB, go to Target instead. Usually new games are $69, I got Uncharted 4, Dark Souls 3 and DOOM all for less than $70 on day 1.
>>341716518
Post em.
Fuck congestion though
>>341720147
People are already going mad over the "halal approved" shit.
>>341720020
ever been to murka? All their food tastes fucking foul if you grew up in australia.
You don't notice that shit until you go elsewhere.
>>341720156
you're "supposed" to get rich, get a house on north shore and contracty telstra lay fibre to your house.
Living the australian fucking dream.
>>341720156
I'm American and I live in a semi-rural area.
I can literally get nothing better than 150 KB/s, if that, of 3G modem internet at nearly 100 dollars a month.
I can't get DSL or cable.
I had dial-up in 2008 - 2010.
>inb4 move
Never ever, everything else is awesome and I have a lot of land.
>>341720315
I'm just waiting for someone to try the same with the kosher approved stamp and sink their career.
>>341716773
>h
>>341716773
dang. in the US, minimum wage is 8 to 12 dollars, depending on where you live. you aussies still get better life/work ratio...
>>341720391
I wish I lived in America. Everything is cheap over there.
>>341720492
But then you have to live with Americans
>>341720312
>30Mb
>Country Rank: A-
>>341716773
JB are juat as expensive and are typically very rude. I swear all of their employees are stuck up 20 somethings who think that they're better than you for working there.
>>341720584
Something wrong?
>>341720156
I know how you feel. 10kb/s connection here.
>>341720672
So, did anything actually change under him? I don't keep track anymore.
>someone posts about how Aus min wage is $17
>convert that to real dollars for them in comment
You're welcome
>>341720649
At least they have a job.
>>341720742
Rich folk got a tax break I think
>>341720089
>jewgameshop
They've gotten really scummy lately charging for shipping, and the worst thing the original site still does free shipping and ships to Australia/NZ.
reminder that steam still doesnt have AUD prices on steam when much smaller countries have their currencies on steam
oh look at that GTA5 is STILL 80 USD for us, which is 108 aud
thanks gabe you fuck fucking piece of shit
>>341720742
Same thing every time libs get in. Tax breaks for rich and subsidies for coal.
>>341720742
the rich get richer, and vice versa
>>341720940
they know that Australia is full of richfags, man
just pirate like the rest of us poorfags
>>341720312
i suffered through like 4 years of like 50 gigs a month though with speeds under 1 mb so suck my dick
>>341716773
Even jb is expensive in certain ways, the razer chroma keyboard is $330, compared to like
$220 from pccasegear
>>341720940
>That fucking court case where they tried to justify shitty business practices by saying they don't technically sell shit to us.
Glad they got absolutely BTFO on that day.
>>341719869
because our economy relies on having a small percentage of people unemployedgotta start work for the dole in 3 weeks if I don't get a job soon, fuck
Hey, i'm leaving this scope here for a moment while i go get some drink ok?
Please do not take it apart to do a massive 30 minute video with a lot of waffling and reverse engineering.
>>341719973
the chinks are held hostage by the convicts
>>341720391
>america
>"a first world country"
ahahahahahahahahaha
>>341721242
>gotta start work for the dole in 3 weeks
nigger, just fuck up your job interviews
>>341721242
You can do a shitty Cert 3 paid for by your jobactive provider that is designed for literal retards and takes about 15 minutes a week to finish instead of work for the dole, if they even make you do anything at all. I was on there for like three months before they did that to me.
>>341716518
There was a period a little less than 20 years ago when the Australian Dollar dropped to less than 50 US cents. Vidya prices went up accordingly. However when the dollar recovered, vidya prices did not drop.
>>341720312
this is six times what i had untill last year
>>341720672
FUCK YOU SHIFTY POLITICIAN OF SHIT INTERNET
>>341721520
>Fagalaide
>>341720312
Why's my internet so bad. I have optus cable too
So who you voting for? I'm pretty dissatisfied with all the major parties so I have no idea.
>>341721471
i had to do it last year work at the showground for the council, 8 people doing a 1 person job. the actual council worker who would normally do it would sign off on us and then go back to his house which was on the grounds for the rest of the day
>>341721731
Whichever gives me the most bux.
>>341720175
I swear the shitposting on /cric/ is some next level shit. It's shitposting refined into an art form.
>>341721626
>living in a shitskin infested city
enjoy your nigger and mudslime gangs, m80
>>341720312
>>341721116
>>341721520
>>341721691
>>341721691
i feel sorry for you niggas.
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>>341721731
Liberal. Both candidates are fucking snakes, but at least Liberal has had our last good Prime Ribroast.
RIP Johnny "Mad Cunt" Howard
>>341716518
Why are posters from this country so shit?
Should Mook just ban all Australians?
>>341721749
That's why they've started the online Certs. The program is not fucking working and is just there to punish the unemployed. Someone has actually died doing it but of course there was barely a peep about that from the Murdoch owned media.
>>341721471
Thanks, I'll try that. Work for the Dole is fucking retarded. Doing a brain dead course is probably just as productive.
This whole jobseeker thing is kinda dumb. I've got a bachelor's degree but they treating me like I'm some fucking retarded ice addict who can't spell their own name. Atleast the chick who sees me at the employment place is qt 3.14 even if she isn't helping me find a job at all.
>>341721853
daily reminder all leb scum should get out
>>341721820
>[/IMG][/URL]
nigga...
>>341721242
how many of you lie on your resume?
>>341721943
thats the thing i was doing a cert 3 IT course at the time. only way i got out of is was because of mental issues flaring up midway through
>>341721853
>>341719520
>ozgameshop stopped doing free postal years ago
They've gone full jew though. Only reason I stopped using them though is because my brother works at JB and I was able to get good discounts.
Can anyone please give me some steam keys
>>341721789
When the entire sport involves men standing out in the sun for 6 hours doing nothing they can only insult each other. They even came up with their own word for bantz. Top 10 sledging lists are hilarious.
>tfw 25
>tfw already own two houses
>tfw the rental income from them pays for pretty much everything
Thanks negative gearing ;^)
>>341721242
Just volunteer at an OP Shop
>mfw found an original Mario 3 cartridge and a bunch of other old school games, manager sold me them for like 10 bucks
>>341722042
>that edit
Literally kill yourself.
>>341721853
It's our culture m8, stop oppressing us.
>>341722023
They don't help you find a job as they're an employment agency not a recruitment one (I actually heard them say this). They exist purely to get kickbacks from the government and are borderline fraudulent. Most of them treat you as if you're subhuman. The one I'm at actually got investigated for fraud last year.
>>341722205
KILL YOURSELF
>>341722243
Tell us more about employment agencies
Who Centrelink/Studylink here?
>>341722243
>borderline fraudulent
Some are fully fraudulent. I found out during a centerlink interview that I'm listed as part of a job seek agency I've never heard of. I nearly lost my payments because of those bastards.
>>341716773
OzGameShop always has the lowest prices except for a few rare exceptions. Plus they have a reward system set up.
>>341722306
It's just banter m8
High wages.
How about we post the % a newly released AAA games cost compared to the monthly wage of your average-joe in your country?
5.3% here
>>341722343
That's about the extent of it. They'll string you along for months not doing anything, routinely fuck up appointments and frequently bully their clients.
>>341722205
>tfw rich parents
>tfw trust fund
>tfw don't even have to work
>tfw own a 2 story bedroom apartment in the eastern suburbs outright
Get a job sperglord. Its not that bad.
Crocodile Dunde Famous
>>341722023
The whole jobseeker thing is a joke. When I finished Tafe and struggled to find a job after a couple of months they threw me in some awful weeklong course I had to attend to stay on the dole. That course doesn't help you get a job, it just keeps you dead bored for a working week. At least the group I was in was interesting (including an abo fifo worker who refused to work until he could unlock the mysteries of William Blake's prophecies).
>>341722223
For some reason, despite living in a semi-rural area the Lifelines (ie the only decent op shops) have a fuckton of old PC games everytime I go in, as well as old PS2 and rarely Xbox stuff. It's fucking great.
>>341722243
>>341722392
What ones were you boys stuck with?
>>341722409
Yeah that takes ages to take effect, expires and can't be combined with other deals. They're not even that cheap anymore.
>>341722625
cheapest place to get weeb games from
>>341721731
I'd vote Lib regardless to stop Labor or the Greens getting my vote but my MP is a top bloke so I go Liberal.
>>341722205
>already own two houses
are you chinese?
>>341722501
I feel you senpai
>>341722613
I'm on a disability pension, which makes it all the more galling that some cheeky job seek cunts were using me to bolster their numbers.
>>341722553
>abo
>refusing to work
Gee, Im shocked
>>341722501
Says a lot that you're on 4chan bragging about this
>>341722745
Nah famagotchi, justshitty genes on mums side = early inheritance
>>341721520
Who /radelaide/ here??????
>>341721831
>Howard
>his entire legacy is disarming Australians as a kneejerk reaction
>>341722827
He introduced me to the works of a pretty cool 18th century painter though.
>>341721520
Shits me that the povo areas get NBN and my less pov area scrapes by on naked.
>>341722613
Max Employment. Really dodgy seppo fuckers.
>>341723041
An abo knows about Blake? Maybe there's hope for them yet
>>341722895
radelaide here
>>341716518
>I don't know how real purchasing power works in the economy
>>341722895
5126, livin' the lower middle class life
>>341723135
who /elizabeth/ here????No NBN yet holy shit but Smithfield gets it. Good thing I only play single-player games and weebshit
>>341723103
Why the fuck is my mum pressuring me into going to these employment agencies when i know they're dodgy fuckers.
i just want work, mate.
all i do every week is walk from store to store handing out resumes, applying online, and hearing fuck all from anyone.
im getting fucking sick and tired of this shit, i swear it wasnt this hard when i found my last jobat a now dead business
>>341723026
Hey he also sold all our assets.
>>341723229
shouldn't you be breaking into lizbef shops?
>>341720312
Easter?
>>341723295
hit's too close to home
you just know Shorten is going to fuck everything up, even worse now that the greens have him by the balls
>>341721789
>tfw starting to see /cric/ memes in my facebook
>>341723364
fuck off from my UNE m8
Because your minimum wage is really fucking high
>>341722713
>voting to keep a merchant *coughjewcough* banker as prime minister
I sure hope you faggots aren't thinking of doing this.
>>341723480
>Shorten
Jesus fuck, that prick has fucked labor for the next two cycles at least. Holy shit
who here voting /labour/ ?
>>341723295
If John Howard didn't become PM, he'd be a Dilbert character.
>>341723563
what is cost of living
>tfw I'm voting for the greens and you can;t stop me
>>341723579
>>341723645
>our only choices for PM are a kike banker and a Unionist Thug
>tfw no based cowboy to vote for this year.
>>341723752
i dont even know who i should be voting
>>341723752
No, we can't but at least we'll still have pride.
>>341723645
>not /xenophon/
Come on fampatchi
>>341723563
>I also don't understand how real purchasing power works in an economy
>>341723752
>tfw you live in Bonner
>>341723480
Turnbull isn't exactly a charismatic individual but I don't know where Labor keeps finding such boorish people to lead them, not to mention all of them are such twats. I can't even pin down why I dislike Shorten so much.
>>341716518
Because fat idiots like you keep buying them.
>>341723735
waht is save your money and stop spending it on trivial shit
like it only makes sense when the minimum wages goes up SO DO PRICES
i mean do you really think companies WOULDNT pass costs along to the customer?
>>341723752
enjoy throwing your vote away. They shouldn't be allowed near anything that doesn't relate to the environment.
>>341723752
A donkey vote is more valuable than a vote for the greens.
>>341723645
>/labour/
>labour
>not labor
Fuck off you ain't Australian
Are any canidates actually pushing for the NBN?
I just want a decent net connection already.
>>341723872
i think their NBN plan would have been even worse in terms of cost and delays just from how fuckheadedly retarded they are.
>tfw iliked kevin rudd
>>341723869
>tfw you live in longman
>tfw you're older than your local MP
>>341724078
I heard Labor wants to get the nbn back into action but that could have been a crock of shit.
Regardless, i already have nbn here in rural bum fuck nowhere qld
>>341724078
we left it too late and now we're gonna get buttfucked by the telecom company's for another 20 years.
Labor's pushing it, but they're pandering hard as hell this year
>>341724078
Labor and shorten have now said they will go back to FTTP NBN (with 1gbps in offer as well)
Quick, post your favorite quality Australian music
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b18_1463087350
>guy I know from high school is the Labour candidate for my area
>usually vote for labour but jealous of his popularity and success and want to see him fail
He's a nice guy and everything, but I have some serious self esteem issues. My electorate is Liberal as fuck so it probably won't matter anyway.
>>341724160
>tfw no NBN
>tfw even if Labor decides to bring the good NBN back I'm never going to get it because I live in an electorate in WA that is a solid Labor seat
>>341722613
Went into Matchworks.
> "So how come you haven't had a job interview?"
Doesn't even check my faked jobseeker form and sends me on my way. Fuckin useless.
>>341724319
Why are Aussie threads on /v/ so comfy
>>341723872
>he's ugly
>policy is always just "say the opposite of what labour says"
btw, anybody know how to break into Aus politics.
and why are games that are $60 in the us £60 in uk??
tfw there will never be a beta uprising here because everyone's a normalfag
>>341724546
*liberal
>>341724546
yes, go to melbourne, make friends with socialists and run as Socialist Alternative's candidate
>>341724319
>Q&A
What a surprise. I really need to start going on /pol/s Q&A threads again. Those used to be hilarious.
>>341724573
Hey mate you got the wrong thread, fuck off
>>341724659
No. I'd rather become a scientologist, it's less of a scam that SA.
So how different is Cable to ADSL2+?
>>341724664
>he hasnt seen the latest carpet snake moment
this bitch was high as fuck the entire show, ranting about how globalism is good and how we need a french revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCSoFd7O75E
>>341724664
>>341724848
You guys got bingo that episode, right?
>>341724848
What is this garbage? the comment section gave me aids.
>>341725002
triple bingo
>>341721265
It's ,ah, too late you know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6mMpE8AaA0&t=42m10s
>>341724848
>athiest anti capitalist slam poetry
>>341724995
Insight is usually pretty good though. Way balanced than Q/A.
I really cringe every time I see /pol/ use "degenerate" it's such a mealiness buzzword like "toxic".
>>341724536
top quality bantz
you cunt
>>341724319
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jHXu86O01w
>>341725153
Begone electric engineer!
I have those awful caps and i'm not afraid of using em!
>>341725275
FUCKING
REEEE
>>341719443
Buy em on sale a year post release
Being up to date is overrated, especially when you have no friends to talk about games with.
How the fuck do I cancel my TPG internet plan
>>341725304
>Insight is
No, fuck off cunt.All Aussie TV is piss. Every square inch of it is aids.Sure, ABC is far less aids than Ten, but that's not saying much.
>>341725402
absolute mad man, don't you let out that magic smoke
What video games have you lot been playing lately? Also it is absolute suffering trying to play old multiplayer mods from here, 300 pings everywhere, maybe when we become China 2.0 there'll be more people to play vidya with
>>341725517
it must be nice to be under 18
>>341725547
Could be worse, significantly worse.
>>341725614
27. Last time I actually watched aussie TV, Rove was still on and Krudd was in office.
I haven't had a TV hooked up in my place since like 2009. I see it occiasionally at mums place when I visit and it's worse and worse each fucking time.
Channel Ten has some fucking insane muslim cunt telling australia every night how to bend over to allah.
Sydney and Melbourne poofs are killing this country. I can't wait for WA to remove itself from the commonwealth and the rest of Oz.
Feels Fuckin' Good Famicom
Where the Adelaidians at
>>341725814
I agree with you about that brown cunt, the sooner someone snackbars him the better
>>341725703
please don't remind me of that monstrosity
>>341724995
>>341725304
>>341725517
>>341725614
>>341725814
>they canceled At the Movies on ABC
And that's when I truly stopped watching Australian tv.
The only time I do now is when you get home from a pissup on a saturday morning and watch some RAGE
>>341725831
i'd suck your dick right now for that speed
>>341725517
ABC has good news programs and doco, SBS 2 is alright if you ignore The Feed.Australia produces very little good original programming. 7/10/9 are all the same shit reality shows and the ABC can only do so much being publicly funded
Why is our country so fucking terrible
>>341725517
Australia produced the greatest series of modern television.
>>341725967
the other night I download 375gb of MAME chd's like it was nothing. Feels good.
>>341716773
New Zealand fag here, minimum wage here is $15.50 and new releases come out at $110 at JBHIFI and EBGAMES, steam is usually around $10 cheaper but still.
I hate this country.
>>341725934
That video was fucked up as fuck. But in a good way.
>>341725934
Come on, it's not so bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk
>>341725975
It all went downhill since The Chasers War on Everything got axed
>>341721731
HEMP
>d-dude w-weed
Yeah yeah I'm a degenerate, alcohol is just boring as fuck though.
>>341725940
>>341725940
>RAGE
I fucking forgot about rage. Truly the only thing I can respect about our TV.
Too bad it's probably filled with the type of shit /mu/ gushes over now though
>>341725940
>>341725971
I'd say Shaun Micallef is pretty decent for a good chuckle, other than that, fuck it.
Whatever happened to Full Frontal and all that tier stuff
>>341725871
>mfw people who live in the in the northern suburbs thing they're people
>>341725985
>swastikas on the hat
Man I've really got to watch Danger 5 sometime.
>>341726116
I've always lived in the south and have never actually been into north adelaide, is there even anything there?
who /sbslatenight/ here give me those softcore movies and other silly Asian movies and anime
>>341725814
>I can't wait for WA to remove itself
Neither can the rest of Australia.
>>341725985
SBS has some ironically fun shit like that gook dating show and Danger 5
everything else is trash, except maybe the news
>>341725985
it's so bad
>>341726154
it's like Noarlunga, Hackham and seaford but worse
>>341726167
Like you even know what goes on over here. WA is a separate country. When the muslim horde engulfs Sydney, We'll lock the shit down and wall off coming from the Nullabor.
>>341726017
are you cute?
i would let you assfuck me just so i could play CSGO on your net
>>341726165
All I remember is bubblegum crisis, evangelion and erotic tales.
>>341726317
righto bro
>>341726317
There are plenty of muslims and chinks in perth though.
>>341726192
Season 2 was all of the place.
>>341720156
mine is 100kb/s and they blocked 4chin here.
fuck indon
>>341726317
>WA is a separate country.
Yeah, one that has even more assholes than any other state. Bunch of slack jawed faggots thinking they're better than everyone else.
Can someone explain how the wage situation in Australia? How did the wages get to be so high?
>>341726165
I watched a mexican cannibal horror film on sbs at 1am a couple nights ago, it was pretty good.
>>341726165
>blonde with the bare breasts
>99 francs
god bless that bushy eyebrowed frenchwoman with those god tier tits
>>341726464
We're too busy thinking the rest of the country forgets about us to think about if we're better than anyone.
>>341726518
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0320209/
god bless french b-movie actress's
>>341726317
You will just miss out on murdering some gooks and sudos when the race war fires up
>>341720312
wish it was faster desu
Why is Lee Lin Chin suddenly a fucking meme everywhere? Did SBS hire a competent PR person under 40?
>>341725814
>WA
Literally worse than Tasmania
>>341726471
Dollarydoos usually used to be less then 50c USD, except the mining boom pushed it up to parity with USD. Nowadays it sits around 70-80c
>>341726165
I really learned to appreciate European cinema as a young guy. Guaranteed tits and sexy nonsense on free to air tv.
>>341726674
They kept pushing her to be hip and trendy and she eventually stuck. My dad has been complaining for years because she looks terrible and won't get off the TV.
>>341726674
Racist hipsters find her amusing because of much of a silly gook she is.
>>341721691
>live in a 3rd world country
>have faster internet
You should be ashamed of yourself.
>>341726471
>>341726471
General higher costs of living due to various factors, exchange rates, attempts to make minimum wage livable instead of people needing multiple jobs.
If you factor in exchange, there are places in the US that have even higher minimum wages (I think Seattle and California are US$15 which would be around AU$20),
