Author: stranded

One big site in France (gamers.fr) have mentioned our group and everything in one of their articles! Read the article here! – translated to English by Google. Original article (in French) here.

Here’s a comparison of some games from Steam Store available in 3 different “zones” ($,€,GBP) – all converted to dollars. See the list here! Looks like Valve adores UK. Table created by Rhonin the wizard.

That’s pretty interesting: Response (Antony) Hello,You have reached the Technical Support Team for Rockstar Games Tech Support, we are unable to force a company to change their prices of products in the same way we are unable to change the processes of a shop on the high street. we are un aware of the costs…

Thanks to Simplex for fixing the “document”. Dear company, Recently Valve (the owner of Steam Store – www.steampowered.com) has “localized” prices for European customers – prices of games in US dollars were converted to Euro at ridiculous $1=1€ exchange rate – this is more than 30% higher than the actual exchange rate (1$=0,75€). This is…

This support clearly sucks, lol: From: Veronica Rueda Thank you for contacting the EIDOS Online Customer Support TeamThank you for your message. This title was not published in the support region for the U.S. office. Our U.S. office does not provide technical support for customers or titles published outside North America, and parts of South…

As suggested by jojo here’s probably a better “document” to send out to the developers/publishers: Dear company, Recently Valve (the owner of Steam Store – www.steampowered.com) has “localized” prices for European customers – prices of games in US dollars were converted to Euro at ridiculous $1=1€ exchange rate – this is more than 30% higher…

Instead of attaching documents to their e-mails paste the content of the documents in the e-mail itself, attachments are probably not very well accepted at those companies! OK, here we go! Each and everyone of you should download this document I’ve just created (click here) and send it over to all developers who have their…

They have fixed “the bug” and right now everything is in €, even in the checkout. Ehhhh.

I’ve received few e-mails from random people that dollar is back, you just need to add something to your cart (still shows euros there!), then fill out all the data and go to the last step. I did it with COD4 (and I live in Poland), and see this: I did not use any proxy…

2009 is already here in my area, I wish everyone to have a good year and lower prices on Steam Store ;) Now go and have some fun xD

I’ve asked CD Projekt RED about the prices on Steam and here’s an e-mail I’ve just received: Hello,CD Projekt RED is not a direct seller of the game, the seller is Atari. Price of the game is determined on the basis of Valve -> Atari offered money plus a margin. CDP RED is the creator…

I don’t know how many of you (if any) are members of Boomtown, but I get their newsletter and one of their articles caught my eye. It’s in Danish, so many probably won’t understand it, but I’ll try to translate as best as I can. Read more in here. News thanks to Crash(DK)!

I was wondering how many of you bought something this holiday season on Steam? Leave a comment on what you’ve bought and vote in the new poll!

Aquaria’s developer posted some info about his game coming out on Steam, few people left comments that Europe is fucked with too high prices, and Alec responded with: And then: You can read the whole story in here!

Well, it seems that: a) Steam Store is up and running b) all of the sudden all holiday sales are not here (those were available at least 1 hour ago, few people seen it) Old holiday sales can be found here.

This just poped-up on my screen LOL:

Directly from Rock Paper Shotgun Steam is going native for Europeans. Currently in beta, you can log in to the website version with your account and see all the prices in pounds, including VAT. Which brings both good and bad news. The good news is some of the current prices. They’ve gone a bit mad.…

Our group reached 9000 members, and it’s on the first page of Steam Community groups around the world!