Page 2 of 212

L4D2 Pre-Purchase unfair regional pricing

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.

Mini Ninjas on Steam: Nearly 100% more expensive in Europe

A pretty nice game was just extremely overpriced in Europe reaching nearly 100% difference between USA and Europe.

MiniNinjasdemosteam.jpg

US: $29.99
UK: £29.99 (67% higher)
EU: 39,99€ (94% higher)

Steam Forums: The thread won’t die!

Just wanted to tell you folks that I’ve been reading Steam forums lately. The thread I started around 8 months ago is alive and it’s been really abused by Steam moderators today.

So what actually happened? Those lunatics are removing every single post that contains a link to other store(s) than Valve’s. They claim people are advertising? I understand those guys work for Valve in a way (they must obey the forum rules and enforce them) but seriously some of them should take a chill pill or simply calm the fuck down.

I mean look at last few pages of the original Looks like $1 = €1 after all thread. These guys are out of their minds and seriously out of the line here – deleting every single post with links to other stores because they claim that people are advertising!

But actually people are simply pasting links to different Steam alternatives like Good Old Games (the whole Fallout prices thing), Impulse, Direct2Drive and others and compare prices to Steam prices. That’s it.

Is comparing considered advertising? Maybe in their little brains but in the modern world it’s like this, when people see that they can get the same product for 50% or even cheaper, guess which place they will choose? Yes, Steam moderators, it’s hard to believe but they will chose the cheaper alternative which might be harsh for Valve’s business (I’ll give you that) but this is not to piss off Valve it’s to make them lower the prices. In real world when you see that some store sells the same stuff for a lot more cash your natural behavior would be coming up to that asshole and tell him that you and your friends will never shop here again because they rip-off people and guess what? A store owner with brain will actually think about that and do something about it. But not Valve, “the creators of best-selling game franchises and leading technologies”.

Right here, right now I ask everyone who’s interested to visit official Steam forums in their free time and defend our friends (or should I say friends of our cause?) who have some really good points there but are getting bashed by the childish moderators – of course most of Steam forums moderators are nice people and you should always remember that and you should also remember not to spam, rage or post offending stuff there because you will simply get banned.

Consider this message as simple rant and RAGE!!11 and ignore it if you don’t like it. Good night.

Page 2 of 212

browse categories

browse old news


     

Who's Online

  • 2 Members.
  • 35 Guests.

Please login


SPAMBOX

Previous Next
Latest on Mon, 05:29 pm

slay: http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/3169/3479_e953.jpg

0cube: http://mp1st.com/2012/05/18/arma-2-sees-500-increase-in-sales-with-introduction-of-dayz-mod/ Oh what is it about zombies... Just makes everything better. haha

stranded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43GUnZN_s4&feature=youtu.be

stranded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43GUnZN_s4&feature=youtu.be

Zuko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns45Mr2D6jQ

stranded:

stranded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=632kyLysP6c#t=36s

stranded:

stranded:

stranded: im just frustrated that they keep selling old games on everything digital now, making them HD and shit, there is no progress at all in gaming

0cube: oh well got that on steam anyways already... so no good?

stranded: it's just stupid wolf3d in browser

0cube: FUCK THAT SHIT: Sorry, your IP address shows you are coming from a country that requires us to block access to this particular site. Click here (www.bethsoft.com) to check out our other games.

Zuko: http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/

rottencat: FEAR 3 75% discount (£3.25) in GameFly Activate in Steam. Steam price: 36,99€ http://www.gamefly.co.uk/

Zuko: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stainlessgames/carmageddon-reincarnation

stranded:

stranded:

stranded:

stranded: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=68460456

stranded: ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ

hunshiki: Thanks Tommy. And Stranded. Both questions answered flawless. :)

stranded: the site is logging, click on the green arrows below

Tommy: hey, maybe it is one of these : http://www.deals4downloads.com /////// http://isthereanydeal.com/

hunshiki: (Too bad the chatbox is not logging. So many good pictures get posted when I'm not checking the page for a few days.)

Log in to post a comment.






Search for your game or software.

Support Us

Like this site? Like our articles and events? Support us by donating now! All of your money goes to cover the hosting and domain handling.



Portal 2 - first impressions?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

Cool shirts and shit



Registration and Privacy Policy | Copyrights - © 2008-2012 created by sumowski.com - All rights reserved.