Dead Island 2 Hoses Canadians With $100 Price Tag

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Canada is home to many unique curiosities. Ketchup-flavored chips? Delicious. Poutine? A delicacy. Milk in a bag? I don't get it either, and I live here. But now Canada is home to something that most Canucks never wanted: our first $100 triple-A game.

Head to either the Microsoft or PlayStation store in Canada, and you’ll find Dead Island 2 is priced at $98. That’s a significant jump from the American price of $69, which has become the de-facto standard price for triple-A games these days. Given the Canadian dollar typically trades for less than an American greenback, we’ve come to expect new releases at $80 up in the Great White North, and there are even a few new titles starting for $90 (FIFA 23 and NHL 23, for example), but $100 for a standard-edition digital release is unheard of.

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The financially savvy among you will likely point out that the current exchange rate pegs a Canadian Loonie as worth 74 American cents, so a $70 item in the US would likely cost around $95 in Canada. That means Dead Island 2 is being sold for $5 more in Canada than it would to buy it in America and pay for the exchange.

But that's not really what has Canadians outraged. Regional pricing has typically kept Canadian pricing just $10 above the price of American games for decades, but now it seems like that regional pricing might be off the table.

This is, unfortunately, becoming more and more common in today's interconnected age. With the majority of games being sold digitally, it's easier than ever for gamers to try and find the best deal by spoofing their location to wherever a particular game is being sold cheapest. Steam and PlayStation have been forced to raise prices