Pix charges the USA more for event tokens

I've been getting $4 (Aussie dollar) offers for 400 bronze, 600 silver, 600 gold tokens the last couple of events.

That's not bad and pretty tempting but there's nothing in them that I really want. I have enough new weapons to level but not enough silver to go with them.

I cannot find the thread, but one of the mods posted recently a link to Pixonic addressing that very issue. Pixonic's answer was that they don't set the local prices, they set it globally and Google/Apple translates them to local currency. 

I'm personally very skeptical that is the case, but that's what they were claiming. 

Look guys, this has been a hotly discussed topic and I'd like to clear things up. This is not in defense of pix - they're still 「multiple dookie delivery chute」, but not in the way you think.

The reason lots of US players have been seeing more expensive prices than other countries is because US players spend more than most others, and Pix has a system specifically designed to squeeze as much money out of both high and low paying players as possible.

When the system sees you buying up a lot of offers, you start to get worse and worse offers, to the point that your offers are so incredibly bad you can be paying up to 5x more for 1/2 of the currency a f2p would be able to pay. When the system sees that you're willing to pay double price for half currency, it will only offer you double price for half currency. When it sees you're almost never willing to pay, it gives you incredibly good offers.

Incase you're wondering how I know this, not only did Pixonic's lead moneyman admit this on video to a group of investors (showing how good it was at squeezing us dry), but it can also be seen by comparing my baby account to my account to a whale's account.

A reddit user (who I assume to be a whale) showed his "evidence" of US players being hiked by showing that it costed him $25 for 4200 brown tokens of last event, wheras his friend in Finland was only charged $10. The funny thing was seeing how I, a US player, also had the $10 offer as opposed to the $25 offer, and for further proof, my f2p baby account got that same offer for $5!

So there you go. Want good offers? Put away those plane tickets to Finland and give Pix's expensive offers the finger! Put your wallet away until you're given an offer you're happy with. It will eventually go down so long as youre more stubborn than the system.

As a side note, this should be very much illegal. Imagine going grocery shopping and being charged prices based on what you have spent in that store before. 

You can’t base it off the offers section as those are individually tailored for each players spending habits, and the % off doesn’t add up correctly anyways. But the flat rate offers for coins or VIP could be compared. And when comparing you have to consider currency conversion and taxes.

The only game I’ve spent money on is Sky and they’re based in California as am I. When I buy the adventure pass I only pay the $9.99 it’s listed as but people in other countries pay more for the currency conversion and tax, I think even some other US states pay tax too. I think all international games have to deal with this and it’s left to the purchasing platforms to work out the final cost.

The question is, do these platforms even allow setting different prices for different places? Just checked and they can. So you just have to figure out the conversion rates to see how close the price in Russia compares to the US or Finland.