Only 25 days to go....

[Dave1984]

AKA government sponsored theft, getting suckers to pay more, games and software tax and generally stupid tax..

It would be heavenly over here to only have to pay a 10% sales tax, you shouldn't complain too much because we have to pay a ridiculous 17.5% on everything.

[Maizel]

19% here

Over most stuff that is

[NagatsukaShumi]

Looks like my bribery worked

I am delighted to hear that the release date for England will more than likely be November 10th, its nice to know that we are getting it quite early indeed

[Bob the Insane]

I am delighted to hear that the release date for England will more than likely be November 10th, its nice to know that we are getting it quite early indeed

Being based in the US at the moment I for one will be aviod M2TW forums from the 10th until I get the game in my hands (well maybe a quick check to be sure the forum is not full of "OMG it suxs" threads). Add to that I will have planning to get Gears or War and CoD3 for the 360 and Neverwinter 2 for the PC so will not be short of things to too...

I think i have spoiled any surprizes in the game enough already without reading every possible detail...

Of course the fact that ordered the Strategy Guide may lead to a lot of spoiling on the 7th anyway...

[Dave1984]

19% here

Where is "here"?

[Furious Mental]

Again I have to ask why the **** **** ********** ****** ***** * ******** ******* **** **** ***** ****** is the country where the game has been developed not getting it until six days after it is released elsewhere? Is there some UN convention to this effect?

[screwtype]

As a rule of thumb, sales tax of any kind doesn't apply when you eport something, but it's not as simple as all that. Firstly, you need to find a company that has the facilities to export and deduct tax from the amount you pay and then, by law, you're supposed to declare your purchase to the inland revenue (or whoever) and pay your local sales tax (in my case, VAT) when you receive the goods.

Sucks, doesn't it. Although I do think that there's a lower limit, below which you are tax exempt on personal imports

Yes, there is a limit. I know because I buy a fair bit of stuff from O/S and I've spoken to customs about what duties are payable. I thought it better to pay duties on the goods rather than have them confiscated altogether as "grey" imports.

As it turns out I needn't have worried as, according to the customs person I spoke to, one doesn't have to pay duty in Australia on items ordered from overseas so long as those items don't exceed a value of $1000.

[screwtype]

It would be heavenly over here to only have to pay a 10% sales tax, you shouldn't complain too much because we have to pay a ridiculous 17.5% on everything.

Yeah, but as someone else has pointed out, in Australia the GST is not necessarily the only sales tax you pay on an item. Apparently they retained a lot of the former sales taxes when they brought the GST in. In fact now you hear people complain because they find themselves paying "a tax on a tax" for some items.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Yea, where I live at (Pittsburgh PA), we got 7% Sales Tax. But I don't know what it is when you buy something from here from over in England or something..

[Basilios II Voulgaroktonos]

you guys are in soft ground because i have ordered from Australia and the delivery is in Europe so i was HAMMERED in the tax...

[Basilios II Voulgaroktonos]

you guys are in soft ground because i have ordered from Australia and the delivery is in Europe so i was HAMMERED in the tax...

[PROMETHEUS]

Why u don't update the title of the thread?

[danfda]

I've ordered books from Australia before (they were not released here in the US yet :P ) and I did not have to pay the 10% GST. Which was nice, since shipping was about thirty bucks.

On a related note, here in the Great Satan sales tax depends on what you buy and where you are. In my home state, its only 5.5%, and only for non-comsumables. So, everything but food.

Ohh, and I should mention that I am waiting for reviews. Until that time, MTW for me.

[Polemists]

I agree this thread should have it's title changed daily so we can all feel better :)

[Bagpuss]

I have just been lovingly reading the Review in PC Gamer UK an at the bottom it says .....




THIS GAME IS RELEASED ON 24th Nov in the UK ...OMFG !!!! Play.com says the 10th ...LOL :)

[Dan.o6]

^^ Yea, it sucks, Play are like that.

[Maizel]

Seriously?
Every shop and site i visit says 10th, Including some M2TW banners.


I'm still putting my money on the 10th

[Bagpuss]

just been here ....
http://uk.pc.ign.com/index/release.html

an they say 24 Nov :(

I have followed their release dates on games before an they have been right ... thats nearly 4 weeks away , UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuurgh :(

[Lusted]

I doubt it will be the 24th. The game will have gone Gold by the 3rd, when the Gold code day thing is, so it will be ready for mass-producation then. The 10th is looking like a good date for a UK release date.

[TB666]

Only 2 weeks left
I'm getting quite excited here

[Maizel]

It's very weird though i 've seen 3 versions so far
The cheapest version (which i take is the regular one)

https://www.dynabyte.nl/software.php?i=2274

€1=aprox 0,67 GBP and 1,20USD
priced €43,50 when preorderd and €49,99 after launch

http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSH...&lgl_Section=1

There it's priced at €54,99 Note the different boxart, so i take it's somekind of special edition?

http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSH...&lgl_Section=1

This one is priced at €64,99
ANd it's named M2TW Limited edition.


So are there going to be 3 different versions?
and does anybody know the difference between them?

[Bagpuss]

Ive just been on the Phone too Play.com an the guy there said it was still Nov 10 ....
I am hungry for this game ,lol ;)

[Faenaris]

Need ... game ... now! *cough*

[Polemists]

I am not a uker so I have no clue for you guys but I have heard from everywhere that counts that the U.S. date is Nov 14.

Now of course that maybe shipping date, meaning it may not be on shelves till Nov 15, however the 14th is a Tues and that's when most stores I know get there games around here so 14th sounds bout rite to me U.S. wise. So i'm 16 days away now, so geared up :)

[ProudNerd]

how can i find how much is 99 New Zeelands dollars in euros or US dollar?i saw in the site where you can take the collector's that they can send it in the 17th of November but thats a pity because in europe the release is on the 10th...

www.XE.com

[Filipe24]

It would be heavenly over here to only have to pay a 10% sales tax, you shouldn't complain too much because we have to pay a ridiculous 17.5% on everything.

Well in Portugal its 21%. I should be the one thats complaining lolol

[Maizel]

Ah well, the US doesn't have a proper health care system. ANd the health insurance is pretty much unaffordable. I rather pay some more VAT's.

Anyway.


11 days to go.

Right?

[spong]

It may not be the highest at 17.5% here in the UK but overall we pay over 40% taxes and that's the highest anywhere in Europe at least. By some schools of thought when a country gets over 40% tax a revolution of some sort will occur, not necessarily a radical one, but things need to change. One major question is that if we have the highest tax rate in europe yet our public services are still sub par, then where is all the money going?

[Dave1984]

One major question is that if we have the highest tax rate in europe yet our public services are still sub par, then where is all the money going?

From the news in the last week, expensive art centres and spending hundreds of thousands to imprison a man for a day.

[spong]

From the news in the last week, expensive art centres and spending hundreds of thousands to imprison a man for a day.

Yeah, maybe getting Blunkett involved with the prison service isn't such a bad idea?(jk) xD