Bandwidth is cheaper in Europe. See the Cloudflare article recently.
Also, regarding i18n for Europe: most of the time, it is localized only for FIGS (France, Italy, Germany, Spain). Other 20 or so (for EU, not Europe) countries get shown a finger. So why should they pay for that?
It would appear that my knowledge on relative bandwidth costs is either very out of date (or was just plain wrong to start with)...
On internationalisation: fair point on those that don't get the effort, though some effort being made is better than none.
Re:Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
by shawabawa3 on Monday September 01, 2014 @09:48AM
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> Bandwidth is more expensive over here
Do you have a source for that? According to this [1] Europe has by far the cheapest bandwidth in the world
[1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-around-the-world
There may be differing costs for payment processing too, and if they have any sort of tech support and documentation there will be larger internationalisation costs in Europe too.
These things are unlikely to explain all the difference (probably not even close to half of it) but we need to consider these thing to make sure we are being fair when shouting "rip off!".