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Pretty cool midweek madness on Steam:

There’s a pack of games for 9.99€ (2€ for each game if you don’t want the pack). Including: Gridrunner, Space Giraffe, Bullet Candy, Bob Came in Pieces, Altitude, Super Laser Racer, and Galcon Fusion!

A very nice weekend sale on Games For Windows Live has just started, the first title is: Batman: Arkham Asylum for only $12.49 (75% off!)

More games coming on next weekends. More information can be found here.

Warning! Games For Windows Live is NOT supported in some countries.

Finally someone else than us noticed the non-sense pricing on Steam. It’s kind of sad it took a over a year for someone to finally see it. Although, better late than never.

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.”

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updated on 22th January: added GoG

It’s unbelievable how quickly time goes by, time to next weekend deals. Again. Okay, here we go again

GamersGate shoots first with Sid Meier. Every Sid Meier’s games are off by 50%. So if you ever played Pirates! back on 90’s, get Sid Meier’s Pirates!, it is same thing, only with nicer graphics with some addons

Steam is offering Company of Heroes franchise with 75% discount.

Impulse has 20 items on sale!

GamesPlanet has Winter Sale still running.

Good Old Games woke up and is offering Cyan Inc. games with 25% discount.

PS. The list will be updated when new offers will pop up.

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Devil May Cry 4 was released today on Steam and it is cheaper in Europe than in America.

US: $29.99
UK: £14.99 (20% lower)
EU: 19,99€ (5% lower)

Our users wrote some time ago that the 2D Boy company decided to sell their product for the price, the buyer chooses. This was a very good decision, because over 57.000 people bought it.

The detailed data shows that 16.582 people paid a penny, 6483 one dollar, while up to 15.797 issued a sum between one and two dollars, and more – up to six dollars – another 13.877 people.

Four people felt that the production of 2D Boy is worth $50, 306 paid $20, and 352 – $15.

In the end, the promotion increased sales of the game by almost 40% on Steam and the publisher has brought about $100,000.

It’s a remarkable success, World of Goo is a puzzle game created by small, independent studio.

Medieval II: Total War and Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms have had a price reduction in Europe, making them priced fairly for us. Also the packs Medieval II Gold and Total War Mega Pack are no longer listed is the Steam catalog.

Medieval II: Total War

US: $19.99
UK: £9.99 (21% lower)
EU: 9,99€ (26% lower)

Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms

US: $14.99
UK: £4.99 (47% lower)
EU: 9,99€ (2% lower)

Let’s hope that this isn’t just a case of them being late to update the US price.

If you are thinking about pre-purchasing L4D2, you should think twice, as you might be yet another victim of Valve’s regional pricing scam.

Previously only differing the price between US Dollar, Euro and British Pound, they now topped it by even discriminating between the European countries.

So we not only have the well known unfair price difference between Dollar, Euro and Pound:

US L4D2 Pre-Purchase: $44.99

EU L4D2 Pre-Purchase: 44,99€

UK L4D2 Pre-Purchase: £26.99

but also differences between european contries:

Germany, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and a lot of others pay the high, unfair price of 44,99€ (L4D2)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/?cc=de (or /?cc= fr, nl, dk, fi, se..)

while countries like: Poland, Norway, Italy, Spain, Lithuania and a few other – for incomprehensible reasons -, pay a much cheaper price of 34,19€, which is only slightly more than the UK price in Euro!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/?cc=pl

Thats a price difference of 10€ or even 20€ less when buying a bundle of four L4D2 copies.

Workarounds:

1.) Gifting cheap games to friends in an expensive, foreign region is thankfully still possible, eventhough it probably won’t be for long, judging from recent developements.

So have a good foreign friend who lives in a cheap priced region gift you L4D2, after sending him the money via PayPal or likewise.

2.) If you can live without the “exclusive baseball bat” weapon that comes with Steam Pre-Purchases: Don’t support the Steam Regime at all and Pre-Order L4D2 on Amazon.co.uk for the cheapest of all prices: £26.99 (29,26€)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Arts-Left-Dead-DVD/dp/B002BSH9J4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1254503223&sr=8-2

German users should be aware that L4D2, like 1, will be censored again, when buying from their region.

Buy the game at Amazon.co.uk or have a foreign friend gift it to you, for uncensored Zombie Slaughter.