We proudly present new version of Steam store price comparison script, originally created by tor (thanks!) modified by Zuko.

New features:

• Works on DLCs
• Works on discounts
• Converts prices to your local currency
• Has colors ;-)

Configuration (open up the script with your favorite text editor):

• showYourLocalCurrency – Enables/Disables price conversion to your local currency
• yourLocalCurrency – Your local currency (eg. PLN, CZK and many more)
• yourBaseCurrency – base currency for DLC price conversion
• showTieredEuPrices –If set to true, the script will display prices from both Valve’s price regions, or "tiers".
• showUkPrice – If set to true, UK prices will be displayed (in addition to US and EU prices)
• showAUPrice – If set to true, AU prices will be displayed (in addition to US and EU prices)
• usVat – Adds VAT value for US prices (depending on country)

Script works on: Mozilla Firefox (with GreaseMonkey Addon), Chrome and Opera (but without the colors in the last one).

1C Company and Best Way announce a special offer dedicated to 65th anniversary of the Victory Day.

Starting from May 11 through May 23, 2010 inclusive anyone can download Men of War game client free-of-charge, receive a temporary access key and take part in online battles in all multiplayer modes available.

The voice of Polish XboX 360 gamers is even louder thanks to their refreshed website and language version of the site.

If you want Live in your country join their cause and maybe in near future the community will force Microsoft to bring Live to Central and Eastern Europe!

Not that we didn’t contact IGN a year ago about this…but oh well. Anyway, here’s the post:

“I noticed something when cooking up the Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition Steam pre-order posts – why is there a discrepency in EA’s regional pricing?

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition: $49.99 / €49.99 / £34.99
Real World: $50 = €35 / $50 = £31 / €50 = £43

Dragon Age Origins – Awakening: $39.99 / €29.99 / £19.99
Real World: $40 = €28 / $40 = £24 / €30 = £26

Ignoring EA’s laughable exchange rates, why is Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition $49.99/€49.99, and Dragon Age Origins – Awakening $39.99/€29.99? Following EA’s own logic, DAOA should be $39.99/€39.99. Don’t get me wrong, I prefer the lower price, but why is it only applied to DAOA and not BFBC2LE?

The cynic inside me says because they’ve already got Dragon Age players hooked and so it’s a sure bet they’ll buy the expansion, whereas BFBC2LE buyers might not like what they see, and may not necessarily buy the inevitable expansion or DLC.

Think I’m crazy? Take a look at Dragon Age: Origins’ Steam pricing – $49.99 / €49.99 / £29.99!

Also note that the UK equivalent price jumped £5 on BFBC2LE, compared to DAO. Exchange rates have shifted since Dragon Age’s release, but not sufficiently so to justify a £5 increase.

In conclusion, EA’s regional Steam pricing is a huge con, stiffing mainland Europeans considerably. Having lived among the natives for seven years I suggest using Play.com, if you don’t mind a delivery taking up to two weeks, or Amazon UK if you don’t mind paying a few quid extra for their cheapest delivery option, which typically gets a game to your doorstep a few days after release, if not on the day of release.

In the interest of fairness I should point out that other publishers use rip-off exchange rates on Steam, but only EA has introduced these new discrepancies.”

Source

Here’s a link to Steam Powered forums: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1031758

And here’s BurtonJ’s response:

Update:

Here’s what he did now:

Also right now it seems like he’s saying "You have to buy games in our 300% more expensive store, sorry mate."

Tero Virtala, the RedLynx CEO, said that the pirated version his team sent out did not include leaderboard support, which Virtala called the “soul” of the game. In other words, the pirate version functioned as a kind of demo without being a demo, encouraging downloaders to grab the fully enabled version if they enjoyed the illicit one.

“Piracy is here, so how can we take advantage of that? What we did actually, on day one, we put that game immediately on all the torrent networks ourselves,” Virtala said at the Develop Liverpool conference.

The 150,000 copies the game has sold since its launch matches the number of users with access to the leaderboards, Virtala said, so if the gambit didn’t work, at least it didn’t hurt. “At least people have not cracked our leaderboards yet,” he said.

Source: Game Industry

Left 4 Dead 2 was rescheduled for today @ 9PM (Central European Time). Meanwhile Left 4 Dead 2 demo server files are already available and we have some good news, thanks to our friends at Strefa Gier TP we just setup 10 servers in Poland.

Click here for IP addresses!

Update:
Something is downloading right now:

Update 2:
Fuck it, still blocked and redownloaded the whole demo and nothing. Nice job Valve.

To save 20% off any game on Impulse use this coupon code:

SURVEY-2009

August 24th is the day when the Team Fortress was released as a Quake total conversion. Today all Team Fortress 2 players wear birthday hats, all gibs turn into birthday presents and any time you hit someone with a weapon, balloons slowly float away out of them.

Have fun!

And something extra:

Od jakiegoś czasu miałem zamiar umieścić na stronie arkusz Excel’a pozwalający na szybkie przeliczenie oraz porĂłwnanie cen w Steam, D2D i Impulse.

Arkusz ten powstał zaraz po wprowadzeniu przez VALVE € i przeszedł dość poważne zmiany od tego czasu. Nie będę się rozpisywał bo nie ma o czym, sami zobaczcie a w razie wątpliwości/pytań piszcie na forum lub w komentarzach.

Aby pobrać arkusz rozwiń niusa.

In case it disappears, like things do on Valve’s websites, here’s a screenshot: