STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|
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My respect for you has gone down the shitter. You are speaking about stuff you have no clue about. If the shoe was on the other foot you would be crying Price gouging aswell.DiscoJer said:
Until then the US Free trade agreement needs to include Digitial distribution and the ACCC's power needs to be extended so Valve is punished.
LyarVonLyar
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Just out of curiosity are the Aussie prices being driven up by some institutionalized factor such as a tax or tariff? Or are the games being priced at such prices just because they have the Australians by the balls.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
crimsonheadGCN
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2K Sports representatives have told someone on the Steam forums that NBA2k12 will be available either tomorrow or by the end of the week:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2153804
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2153804
jim-jam bongs
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LyarVonLyar said:
We've always been charged more, but our dollar was substantially weaker in the past. Obviously there are going to be other factors which add to the price, like shipping and localising for a country in the southern hemisphere with a smallish predominately English-speaking population, so even when the dollar was a lot weaker it was never an exact conversion.
That burned but it made a little sense.
Right now though, we're at or near parity with the USD which means that the practice of charging us more makes a lot less sense. There aren't even any issues with shipping and localisation to be used as excuses now because we're talking about digital PC games here; as far as localisation is concerned Australians can just buy the exact same version as Americans, or people in the UK.
The real elephant in the room is that retailers still gouge people quite severely. New 360 games can cost up to $120 AUD at EB Games (which is why sane members of console-AusGAF religiously use JB HiFi). Given this situation, it's not hard to imagine why some publishers feel comfortable charging us exorbitant amounts for games.
LyarVonLyar
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Wow that is ridiculous. Is Australia on a different format like NTSC/PAL? Just curious, that there doesn't seem to be much incentive to import, even though you shouldn't have to.
Steam is the only time ive been happy about not having any sort of videogame retail laws/whatever in my country. We are basically dead ground for retail since publishers stopped giving a shit and piracy kicked in, wich means retail games here cost 170+ USD (seriously), but we get the same Steam prices as the whole SA/NA region. Digital distribution saved my gaming life.
I actually didn't, sorry.legend166 said:
edit: Okay now I did. I understand what you're saying, but it's either buying them for cheap or not buying them at all. How many aussies do you know that use steam and actually put up with their stupid regional pricing? Valve just goes along with it, and to region lock things would just put issues on valve's current gifting system that works just fine for the time being. They could probably change it to regions like USA/EUR/ASIA or whatever, but there really would be no benefit for consumers, no matter how they try and spin it.
Awesome new game? Full price?Stallion Free said:
Wait for Steam Sale, attempt to trade games previously on sale, beg.
On regional pricing, its going to sadly come to a halt, because of the Russian Keys. Gamers paying the typical price you see for the first Steam Sale, day 1. Except the publishers are only receiving cash based off 20$ titles instead of the 30-40$ normally charged for on Steam.
Joe Molotov
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EA Price Drops:
The Sims 3 $30 (-10)
Hot Pursuit $20 (-10)
Shift 2 $20 (-10)
Alice $30 (-20)
Darkspore $20 (-10)
The Sims 3 $30 (-10)
Hot Pursuit $20 (-10)
Shift 2 $20 (-10)
Alice $30 (-20)
Darkspore $20 (-10)
Dog Problems
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Yeah, I'm real tempted to buy Alice now.
The Broken Ska Record
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Will definitely get Alice and Darkspore if/when it gets to <$10.
Joe Molotov said:
...I bought my Alice from G2B because it was so much on steam then what do you know the next day it drops in price lol I rather have it on steam than origin oh well good game so far and that hair is so gorgeous.Also Payday the Heist is coming October 11th now it got delayed on PC
Finished Dark Messiah today. I like the core to it, had some really fantastic ideas, but it needed more ambition to be a great game.
8.8 hours on the play clock.
I'd say its worth the 2.50 I picked it up for. Don't expect much in the way of replay or exploration, but it was a solid 9 hour ride.
8.8 hours on the play clock.
I'd say its worth the 2.50 I picked it up for. Don't expect much in the way of replay or exploration, but it was a solid 9 hour ride.
The Broken Ska Record
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To be fair, EA didn't have very many games on sale during the Summer Sale.Derrick01 said:
spindoctor
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The Broken Ska Record said:
I think there was an EA week of daily deals as well after the Summer sale, but they stuck with the usual suspects (Dragon Age, Mass Effect, NFS etc.). I was hoping some of their other games like Deathspank, Shank and Bulletstorm would go on sale but it seems like they've forgotten all about those now.
Phife Dawg
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MW3 US: $ 60 (GDP per capita: $ 46)DiscoJer said:
MW3 DE: $ 80 (GDP per capita: $ 40)
firehawk12
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I thought the reason Australian prices are high is because of their version of VAT and all that.
LyarVonLyar
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I'm bummed EA discontinued selling the original Alice with the deluxe version of Madness Returns. I really want to play the original despite how clunky or dated it may be.
The Broken Ska Record
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That's true. I was hoping for a Bulletstorm 50% off sale, which never happened. D:spindoctor said:
Madrugador
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Tomodachi said:
Blame EA. Bulletstorm is still $59.99 USD where I live. FUCK THEM.
Agreed. And fixedSalsaShark said:
Still, depends on the publisher, EA games are actually more expensive and some aren't even available.
GFWL games aren't available either, but that's probably a blessing in disguise :lol
Given our salaries, I wouldn't mind cheaper prices though.
.SalsaShark said:
Same here in my country, although EA seems to hate us for some reason since their prices are always higher. Probably to push the origin service.
Probably the biggest reason why I try to stick with steam since most of the other digital stores usually have some sort of region lock.
Phife Dawg
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Eh, Germany has you beat on most:PaulLFC said:And in the UK...
The Sims 3 £30
Hot Pursuit £30
Shift 2 £30
Alice £30
Darkspore £30
The Sims 3 45
Hot Pursuit 20
Shift 2 50
Alice 50
Darkspore 50
50 = £43
Stallion Free
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Oh shit oh shit, where are you?Nabs said:
Spectacular Dr Dawg
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I just bought a new PC and I have steam installed on the SSD but I would like the games to be downloaded to another HDD. Is that possible? I know that you can move them after you download them but I would like to have them download directly to my "game" HDD.
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