Dear Steam!

I am a real fan of your company and your philosophy of distrubting games but i feel tricked since you changed the prices for your shop "steam" from $ converted to € to $ = € price.

Now according to your price policy I,as a European Cititzen, am not able to buy games from other countries than from the Austrian shop of yours. This is not in the interest oft he European Commission of Competition and I think it is also against the right of free trade in the European Union. If you don’t change your price policy so I, as a European cititzen, can buy games in every country of the EU will send a complaint the commission and they will investigate on this case. This could lead to a very hard fine as shown below.
There has been a similar case which i ll send with this mail :
VIDEO GAMES
Between 1991 and 1998, Japanese video games maker Nintendo and seven of its official distributors in Europe worked together to maintain artificially high price differences across the EU. Each distributor was obliged to prevent exports from its territory to another through unofficial distribution channels (so-called parallel trade). Under Nintendo’s leadership, the companies collaborated intensively to find the source of any such exports. Traders who allowed these exports were punished by being given smaller shipments or by being boycotted altogether. As a result, prices for play consoles and games differed widely from one European Union country to another, with the United Kingdom being up to 65 % cheaper than Germany and the Netherlands. The European Commission imposed a total fine of EUR 168 million on Nintendo and the distributors.

Sincerly

Tomorrow i ll go to the Office of the European Union in Vienna! and talk with the responsible person about it, i hope it will boost my hopes in doing the right thing, going in the right direction. i ll keep you guys informed.

btw every bit of information is from the European Union Office of competition. EU rocks !