Cocoa -- as far as I know, Gamersgate is a download site only. I could be wrong, of course!

It is possible that the game you are trying to buy is not available in the US yet, even for download.

Hi Becky,

Thanks for replying and I was writing about Lost Horizon. Some of the people responding in this thread are not from the UK and from what I was reading it appeared as if they ordered from Gamersgate. I would also like know why so many games are being released out of the UK. The english versions anyway. The people from the UK complain but we can't even get them to ship to the US.

Complain? Us? Nevah!!;-) Well maybe about the fact that we always seem to have to pay through the nose compared to americans.

Not quite sure what "I would also like know why so many games are being released out of the UK" means.

play.com got it for £ 14.99 and ship everywhere in Europe for free

True but play.com is sending from jersey islands so there will be taxes and such, since its not part of EU.

Amazon UK and Play.Com are both offering the game for less than £15 + free delivery.

For us here in the UK that's a good price for a PC game !!

I'm not sure as to whether Amazon UK deliver to Europe but Play.Com certainly do and with the same free delivery offer, as Carla has already said.

And yes !! We do very often have to pay more for our games here in the UK but it's always been the case, so if we've wanted to play the games, we've learned to live with it. No amount of complaining is going to change it - so why waste energy complaining ??

I often have to do without some other small luxury so I can buy a game but I'm happy to do it !!
That's what BAAGS is all about

I thought that it was the opposite - because they are sending from Jersey then there will be no tax. At least if the price is less than £18 you dont pay UK VAT. Not sure about mainland Europe though.

zak and mj2c.

If you go HERE you can see exactly where Play.Com deliver for free.

This is all well and good for people living in Europe ...probably should have said Europe and not just the UK in my earlier post. Seems they are developed there with distributors who don't get the US stores stocked and the ones "over there" refuse to ship here. I can understand a console game as they are different but not shipping pc games here (if we are willing to pay the shipping) I don't understand.
That being said does anyone know a store offering the game reasonably priced that will ship here?

Interact has Lost Horizon for preorder for $29.95, due out 9/21.

I'm not sure if this answers your question -- but there is a law in the UK (apparently) barring sites like Amazon UK from selling and shipping PC games to the US. I don't know the reasoning behind it. I do know that I have no problems getting a book shipped to me from Amazon UK, but I can't get games shipped to me.

For games that are released in the UK without any news that they have found an American publisher, online stores like Interact have to import them, and that inevitably raises the price.

European publishers seem to be having a harder time finding US publishing partners. We are seeing strange stuff, like The Book of Unwritten Tales being announced as soon to be published by JoWood/The Adventure Company, then that's cancelled, then it's re-announced that they are publishing it! Sam & Max: Season Two Beyond Time and Space and Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island suddenly show up on shelves in US stores, with absolutely no fanfare.

There was a time, during the unfolding of the global economic crisis, when many of the gaming industry PR people I knew suddenly switched jobs, most leaving the industry. If the PR staffs are practically nonexistent, it's hard to get reliable news.

It's as if the industry in the US is in transition and nobody knows what it's heading toward.

"I'm not sure if this answers your question -- but there is a law in the UK (apparently) barring sites like Amazon UK from selling and shipping PC games to the US. I don't know the reasoning behind it. I do know that I have no problems getting a book shipped to me from Amazon UK, but I can't get games shipped to me."

We, here in the UK, can't buy games from Amazon in the USA, either, Becky, and it seems really silly to me that the Amazons sites in both our countries can't offer the same product and so solve the problem

Sometimes even games that are available in the USA in general never become directly available here. And no doubt some games available here never become directly available in the USA ??
So unless people like Dave at Interact can supply them, trading sites or very careful perusal at Ebay are the only alternatives

Obviously a "download" version will be more widely accessible but lots of us players still much prefer a disk

But even when we CAN all get a game, there then quite often erupts a heated debate about the different prices we have to pay for it in different countries.
So will we ever be satisfied ????

If they allowed people outside the US to buy from the US Amazon then they would have to equalise the prices (and that's not gonna happen) because people in the UK would simply stop using the UK Amazon as the US one is cheaper.

That isn't what I'm asking.

I'm asking why both the Amazon sites can't just stock the same games - so that the same games are available in both countries.

Pricing is another matter entirely.
Tax laws [etc] are different in almost every country around the world, so even if the same product is being sold everywhere, the selling price is not likely to be the same.

Hi Becky,
Thank you so much for that indepth reply. I appreciate it.
I guess I will wait for the release to happen and then check with Amazon UK again. It appears that the (unsponsered) smaller game retailers on that site definitely ship here as I have purchased quite a few with no problem. I have an account there with my past purchases. Why Amazon limits the shipping with some of their retailers is quite unfair and especially if it appears they are the "official" game distributors.
I will also check Interact for the game as well, but with shipping and tax the game is right up there in the console game price range which is expensive for an adventure PC game.

Yep free delivery but when taxes and whatever gets added its 70-100% more, but its tempting cause of the low prices but when it suddenly cost more than just buy at a normal store and this is for denmark.

Doe's anyone know if Lost Horizon has any copy protection on it, and what kind please ?

Cathy

I downloaded it from gamersgate a few weeks ago and I had to enter a serial key.
Richard

Since I won't be downloading it,I was wondering about the DVD version ?

"Yep free delivery but when taxes and whatever gets added its 70-100% more, but its tempting cause of the low prices but when it suddenly cost more than just buy at a normal store and this is for denmark."

Who adds these "taxes and whatever" ??

Postal service takes like 20euro fee to just check the package, then taxes from state/tax center its normal legal rules for shopping outside a EU country.

Ouch !!

The only times I ever had to pay such extras was when I received games (in trade) from Canada.

HM Revenue & Customs opened the parcels both times and then charged me £33 (both times) for games that were worth about £5 !!

I trade games all over the world but I no longer ask for games from Canada

Mad

I am guessing it is policy with Amazon rather than any law. I bought this game from game company uk. I just got an e-mail they mailed it yesterday. I pre ordered it on sale from them before Dave had it available for pre order. It was actually cheaper than what I could have gotten it for from Dave.

Hi oldmariner

Yes. GAME UK is a good site and one of the "not so many" who will ship overseas.

Electronics Boutique (UK) bought out GAME (UK) in 1999 - when both companies had lots of brick and mortar shops. In fact in my nearest town they had practically adjoining shops on the high street, which was terrific, because if one didn't have what I was after I could just go two doors down and get it from the other !!

Ahhhh ..... Happy days ....

Cheers.

Mad

kjos, I don't see a way to download the game from gamersgate, could you post the link?

Will Interact bring it? I prefer boxed games.

Edit 6:53, I am sorry I found it in Interact, I don't know how I missed it earlier.

mcc,interact has it on preorder 9/17.
Richard