@Beaudacious: Looks like Gamestop in Canada is selling it for $59.99.

These prices make it a little too obvious that they're trying to make as much money as possible before the game releases and everyone sees how bad it is.

@DEMONOLOGY_24 said:

sometimes it sucks to be canadian. now if you excuse me I have to ride my moose to the grocery store

you must live in a city if you got a grocery store. we just have a hole in the ground filled with snow and dead beavers and seal cubs.

@jozzy said:

I am really curious how the game will fare at those prices, is the hype for the game really that big? Most of the impressions I have gathered from beta players is that it's certainly a fun game, but very familiar mechanicly. This strategy seems to suggest that either they are not very confident in the long term appeal of this game, or that it just cost them way too much money to make and they need to recoup some fast.

I really have the same impression. It seems that Bioware "just" did his Bioware-thing x8 (for every class), but they might have failed to innovate on the MMO side. We do not know yet.

Actually I did some searching and the price span is ridiculous. The video games industry really has to figure out how to deal with currency conversion, since they are dealing with digital products mainly. Every other software product I buy with lets say my PayPal account, and I get a recent rate. I live in Switzerland and the prices range from 70 US-$ (physical copy from Amazon UK) over 115 US-$ (digital deluxe edition, I originally wanted to get that) up to 240 US-$ for the collectors edition.