Apple price adjustment to impact Tower of Fantasy players

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Hotta Studio confirmed that Apple’s price adjustment due to exchange rate changes will increase the prices of in-app purchases in Tower of Fantasy.

A recent announcement on the official Tower of Fantasy website has confirmed that Apple’s price adjustment to in-app purchases has affected the game. According to the post, this is “due to exchange rate changes in some countries and regions.” Hotta Studio, the developer of Tower of Fantasy is quick to address the concern.

The post clarified that the increase in the in-app purchase prices is not related to the game or developer choices. It included information about what counties are affected by the adjustments and how the game developers have concluded after their discussion regarding their next steps after the price adjustments.

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Credits: Hotta Studio

How will Hotta Studio react to Apples decision

“Due to the fact that ToF is a multi-country and multi-platform game with the same version and the price of items cannot be adjusted individually to countries that are affected by Apple’s policy change, the purchase price of in-game items for all iOS players will be changed according to Apple’s policy changes. The price increase will take effect on October 5 (the actual effective time is subject to Apple). For details of the adjustment, please see Apple’s announcement on pricing adjustment link attached.”

Tower of Fantasy Team

The post also included the countries that are affected by the increase: “Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, and all territories that use the euro currency.” The post did clarify that the list will continue to be updated by Apple until it gets finalized after their deliberation.

The post continues by indicating how Hotta Studio plans to react to this decision from the iOS manufacturer. “To protect the interests of Wanderers as much as possible, the purchase price of in-game items for Android and PC players remains unchanged.”

This means that all prices outside of Apple systems should stay the same, but within those systems Hotta Studio doesn’t really have a way to prevent a price increase.

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Credits: Hotta Studio

Apple price adjustment release date and other details

There has been a previous post from Apple’s news and updates website back on September 19, 2022. It listed the specific reasons behind the eventual price adjustments. It also provided information on how tax plays a vital role in the upcoming increase in in-app purchases.

This move will not only affect the players of Tower of Fantasy but all prices of apps and in-app purchases on the App Store.

“As early as October 5, 2022, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that use the euro currency. In Vietnam, these increases also reflect new regulations for Apple to collect and remit applicable taxes, being value added tax (VAT) and corporate income tax (CIT) at 5% rates respectively.”

Apple Developer

The post from Apple ended the statement by providing the following link to view the updated price tier charts.

Hotta Studio also provided compensation for iOS players that were not able to log in and are impacted by this change because of Apple’s policy adjustment. The details are as follows:

  • Compensation issue time: 2022/10/06 11:00~2022/10/20 08:00
  • Compensation Eligibility: Players that log in via iOS
  • Compensation Path: In game “Rewards” page then click on “iOS Price Adjustment” page; You must complete the “Ecological Station Intruders” Event to unlock the “Rewards” page
  • Compensation: Dark Crystal x1000

The news posted on the Tower of Fantasy website also provided their players with a table doing a side-by-side comparison of the Price Adjustment (Before and After).

Tower of Fantasy is available now on PC, iOS, and Android.

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