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"Price Cheaters" Accidentally Rocketed a Game to Mass Audiences

#vpn#dollarfifty#argentina#nintendoswitch#pricetourism
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0:00 but then like if I'm gonna do like specific oh you're gonna get weird yeah then I'll do private browsing what are your Search keywords for for VPN or for porn porn VPN I don't I don't do Search keywords [Music] I I personally really thought this story was amazing because I learned a lot of new ████ and now you're gonna learn the same new ████ oh okay I love education I'll talk about three things one of them is called price tourism I didn't know what that was either I made the same face the other one is e Invasion e invasion is another thing and the third thing is how those integrate with Argentina that's pretty ████ amazing all right dude I'm ready for this ████ I'm not lost maybe Nick is but I'm done oh I totally got it dude listen to this so it all has to do with

0:51 Nintendo switch all right when people make a game and they put the game for sale on Nintendo switch let's say you want to sell your game for 24 right that price is going to be adjusted for different countries and the current economy state they're in makes sense when that goes to Argentina the price is going to fluctuate over there it's gonna cost a dollar fifty because they're totally in the ████ right so what people do and this is a price tourism thing they are gonna start an account that's based in Argentina so that they can buy the game for a dollar fifty and then but they're really just in America playing it they you can't resell digital games that's right that oh so it's digital so it's kind of like a VPN kind of thing exactly so what e invasion is is that happens with a ton of different online products is people will go to the certain countries that are having the worst economic crisis and they will just buy things that are available there that are also available here but at the price

1:42 of the tanked economy just capitalize on yeah smart yeah so that's something that a lot of people started to realize was happening on Nintendo switch in particular because people would release games and they would go oh my God like I just released my game and I have like hundreds of pre-orders already and then they'll see that it's all Argentina and they'll go ████ because that's only a dollar fifty per game so they're always going no what the hell like all these people are doing that thing and uh for the for the first time somebody was able to observe that it actually backfired in a good way for them the game developer yeah the game developer so the price just before so this guy made a game called uh let's build a zoo it's a little cute game it's really nice oh cool so they uh they released that and he had the same thing happen where he goes oh no price tours and they ████ hijacked my thing and there's all these purchases for a dollar

2:32 fifty and he's like I'm ████ that's it and so what happened though is because it's in Argentina the way that Nintendo in particular tallies up all of their sales for games they include Argentina as being part of the of America because it'll be like all the Americas Oh north and south so on the algorithm that's still American Sales and so what that means is the algorithm is going to look at it and go oh a lot of people are buying this game in a place where it's priced 24 that means America is one of the full price countries that the economy is at a normal level and because of that it's gonna go front page so it's like most sold or top seller right now or something like that even though he's really only made like 16 even though the dollar dollar amount is not high the priority for where people will see this game it's going to look like the reviews are in it's a hot game it's a hot game

3:23 so what happened in that case is because buying it then every other country in the world it's going to read as hey this is what American kids are buying and it'll be priced out there exactly and then it's going to be a top shelf game yeah all right yeah so that happened to this game and because of that his sales actually the game actually blew up in popularity over something that's initially supposed to ruin your sales did you buy the game no I don't I don't play kids games you don't play I do I do play kids are people satisfied people love the games oh so the really good thing about it is that you know because what's supposed to be a disaster thanks to price tourism and e-invasion in just the right way on just the right platform on an algorithm that's exclusive to Nintendo not everything reads sales that way but Nintendo specifically does America's as a whole what else is cheap in Argentina

4:15 pretty much everything I'm surprised they don't adjust prices though because like they do it with clothes and like Apple products like if you go to a a country where the Dollar's strong it's gonna be that you're gonna end up paying the same amount they just adjust it how much is a this in an Argentina you think well 20 bucks I assume for like phones they probably adjust well I think I think that might be a different category of stuff like for example the Nintendo switch itself I don't think you can get for like 10 bucks in Argentina there might still be a normal transition like uh premium on it yeah because same thing even with like ps5s that aren't available here you can get them in other countries but it's not that much for a thousand dollars but comparing something that's digital exactly yeah exactly absolutely it's a digital thing so and it's uh you can't resell it so you're not gonna be able to scalp that market so they they price it accordingly because a lot of the time too uh Publishers will go you know what

5:05 I don't want to sell it for a dollar fifty that's too cheap I'm gonna sell it for nine dollars or whatever but in an economy like Argentina you'll get zero sales like nobody's gonna buy that ████ they're not trying to buy ████ games right now 50 then you have a better chance plus like they didn't want to start raising the price once they see it being hijacked because they don't want to screw over kids that are actually buying it for a dollar yeah I remember too um correct me if I'm wrong right but I think when I got the Nintendo switch a few years ago too somebody was advising that I like sign up for a Nintendo account or like turned it on to like the Japanese setting versus the American because if you open up the Japanese setting on the game like you're playing in Japan you get access to like all the games like a bunch of stuff that you don't even necessarily get access to obviously all you got to be down for is like audio and subtitles like through the Nintendo shop yeah

5:56 because the store will adjust to what's available in your region so if you're like a VPN again like what's on Netflix same thing like you can buy certain games that aren't released here or are not going to be released yet but it'll be in Japanese yeah I was gonna say it's going to be in Japanese it's going to be exactly Japanese I think that's so dumb that they do that like I think they should just if it's on Netflix or like whatever the switch thing it should just be available to everybody like why did they make us go through getting a VPN oh like you should be able to toggle what region on your own yeah and then like if you want a Japanese game dude just put you know click Japan and then go go for but we have to go through this whole long process of don't they do that to make more money like to base off a different territory I think it's licensing for Netflix it's licensing I don't know about with Nintendo because I don't play games because I'm a grown man yeah um oh I'm sorry I didn't know I feel like you're taking shots at me give me time man I don't grow out of it uh but yeah for

6:47 like Netflix um even let's say Disney plus Disney plus has bought a lot of um like exclusive rights to Korean dramas but they only show them in Asia until they're all aired then they'll release them for the rest of the world but if you have a VPN you can you can like pretend that you're in Korea or Japan and you can watch those things uh Netflix I don't know if you guys been on Netflix in Asia they have like literally everything but then as soon as you cross over it's like if they need to cut like 30 40 yeah I've heard that from Canadian Netflix and also the UK Netflix yeah you're telling me actually got a VPN no well Netflix actually does a really great job of recognizing vpns as well so so when it when it algorithm algorithmically like checks a proxy setting or something like that it'll be like oh you can't stream right now because there's some sort of proxy going on or whatever like so if you're in the

7:38 actual country you got full access because you're for real in that spot but if you're using a VPN on Netflix oftentimes again correct me if I'm wrong if anybody has better experience but I've tried to VPN into like a number of different countries to Netflix and it'll actually be able to see that I'm like using a VPN there why are they so ████ up like yeah that's annoying dude I've learned that not all vpns are created equal which one's the best yeah so hold on which one are you which one are you sponsored by for that yeah so there's one I don't want to divulge it too much because I I don't like burning my uh Avenues of fun all right though you gotta tell it I'll just give hints okay so um fed or federal it's a shipping thing okay a VPN oh God yeah yeah I got that that one that one works I know I use that one yeah that one works really well

8:30 what don't worry about it that one works really well he's like yeah FedEx VPN and what's cool is is that when you bring it up they just have an on off switch which makes because when when you have it on and you forget um you know because I think other vpns you have to go into the settings and like switch stuff out this one is just the app and you turn it on or off and what's great about it and because when you when you have it on and then your other your other apps won't work properly you can't airdrop you can't you know recognize certain things absolutely yeah so this makes it super simple you just so I just put it right next to the Disney Plus app whenever I watch Disney plus I just you know make sure to hit that is um are like streaming services the only thing you use your VPN for you got other little he's not gonna say porn yeah no

9:20 no porn porn I I'm I don't know I gotta be honest with porn like I feel like everyone kind of watches it so if someone like someone being the government snatched my computer and then like oh he watches this porn like you know it's all normal stuff but then like if I'm gonna do like specific thick oh you're gonna get weird yeah then I'll do private browsing yeah but other than that like I don't use VPN because you know why people what are your Search keywords for for VPN or for porn porn VPN daily no I've got sites well like no give us a hint I just go to categories oh and what are some wild cat or some zany some like crazy ones like uh what like zany that's a good word Korean Filipino are you just talking about this table

10:11 yeah that's nice like three videos come up but yeah they're fired there's nothing wrong with it just turns your self webcam on ████ [Music]

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