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Valve divides Europe
If you’ve been reading the Steam forums or our forums lately you probably noticed that right now Valve divided Europe into some crazy 3 different zones.
Our friend Rhonin the wizard calls them tiers so lets just keep it that way.
So what’s it all about? It’s pretty simple, right now if you live in: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Sweden or Switzerland you’re paying the most in the Steam Store. You’re in Tier 1.
If you’re from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain or the Vatican City you’re paying a little bit less then the previous Tier. You’re in Tier 2.
And finally if you’re from Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania you’re paying the least for the games on Steam. You’re in Tier 3.
Here’s an example:
Team Fortress 2
Tier 1: 19,99€
Tier 2: 14,99€
Tier 3: 11,99€
Note: This conversion involves Valve games only!
United Kingdom is NOT on the list because UK has pounds as their currency, and apparently for Valve UK is not a part of Europe or the European Union.
What do you guys think about it? Is it better now, is it fair at all? Or is it totally wrong? I personally think that right now it’s even worse than it was before, they divided European Union/Europe like some countries are "worse" than others.
Chronicles of Mystery – The Scorpio Ritual and the weekend deal…
This is some serious mystery alright, this game is $19.99 in the United States and…29.99€ in European Union (nearly $42)! Boycott FTW. I think they don’t even realize how stupid this looks. They want us to pay double? No thanks, and publishers wonder why is piracy so popular. Of course we do not support piracy of any kind.
And ahh the weekend deal, don’t even bother buying this on Steam for "50% cheaper". You can easily get this game out of the box for less than 30€ or get the cdkey directly from one of the Alternative Shops (this game activates on Steam just fine).
Peace out.
Bethesda Game Studios – not so good after all!
All of their prices are $=€ today. Do not buy anything from Bethesda Game Studios!
I wonder what happens to people who bought those games few days ago at equal price in Europe (by equal I mean a proper dollar to euro conversion)? This is kind of amazing how they fucked it up right now!
If you’re one of those people please post here!
And here’s another one, Novalogic just presented most of their games on Steam and their conversion is really bad as well, well at least they have 1 dollar (or 1 euro) differences around the world… so if anything’s $15 in USA it’s basically 14€ in Europe.
Good deals people! Go buyzzzzz!1!!!11 Steam rawkzz.
Boycott? I think so.
A very big plus for Bethesda Game Studios!
For example:
USA CLICK HERE $19.99
EUROPE CLICK HERE 13.43€ ($18.64)
It’s even cheaper for Europeans (it’s almost the same, depends on the currency rates around the planet).
Very nice :)
More games from Bethesda Game Studios.
Blueberry Garden
Edit: They have fixed the demo installation link, yay.
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Valve should provide us regional news, if we have the prices different all over the world why can’t we have news for some regions only? Why do I want that? See this:
They’re fucking crazy to even use currency in the news, it’s just making things worse.
PS
The game looks cool on screenshots but clicking on the demo doesn’t do anything, broken as most of the times.
See it yourself by clicking here.
European Commission responds
It seems several people who have sent out complaints as according to the
1€ ≠ 1$ announcement ( click ) have received a reply from the European Commission.
Here is a picture of the response:
The person responding appears to be not understanding the issue. Or is it that we did not understand the issue at the time? We must be reminded that the original issue was 1 euro being 1 dollar, thus the group name “1€ ≠ 1$“.
Later on it became apparent that Steam UK was way cheaper and that certain European countries did not charge VAT for software, or even use the European currency at all.
But let’s not forget the other letter mentioning. The person mentions several other arguments that do apply to the matters that I just named. If you read the letter well, you can see that the person says different pricing in European countries is not an “exception”, but in in fact “a rule”.
Here is my reply to this letter trying to clarify the matter, and hopefully get some answers which are helpful:
I will keep you guys updated with any news on this matter.
GOG.com games are the same price, no matter where you live
As we get close to saying “Adios!” for a few days, we just wanted to bring your attention to a new point on our About Us page. The critically acclaimed “Point 8″ proclaims that we offer the “same game, same price, no matter where you’re from!” With our humble Polish roots, we know how frustrating it can be to have access to products or other online services limited for geographic reasons. Or to pay more just because of unfavorable regional pricing. Well, at GOG.com we take that extra step… we go that extra mile… we climb that extra mountain… we hit the “End Turn” button just one more time to bring everyone around the world the same games catalogue at the same price. Wherever you are in the world, have a great time this holiday season (even if you don’t have a holiday season) and we hope you get a lot of time to game.
Link in here!
GOG: 1 – Steam: 0
This update was also included on the official Steam forums:
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