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Go to www.eurid.eu now and find out how to get your own .eu domain name today. .eu offers a single online identity for the 500 million people of the European Union. There are many reasons to use a .eu domain name. Here are just a few of them: http://www.8reasons.eu/

Here’s how you can make this website popular on Google. Login to your Google account, type “steam europe” in the search engine, then click on arrow (up) to put this site on the top of search results. You can additionally add a comment. You can try with several other phrases like “Steam games” or just…

You can discuss alternative shops here. We will mention if any of the listed shops contain DRM (Digital Restriction Management) games, regional locked games or regional shops. SSL security is also another important feature to protect customer’s personal information so that will be mentioned as well. If any information on this page is incorrect please…

We’ll be making announcements about other game-distribution services. We’re in no way associated with the mentioned sites. If you find any information that is wrong or if you want to add a site, then please just send me a message here or on Steam. Feel free to discuss the different platforms on our IRC channel…

Get it now! Install it now! Have UT3 in retail version? No problem! Add the CDKEY into Steam and you will have it for free for your Steam account!

Update (19th Feb 2009): Seems like they have fixed it ;) — They should have fixed this long time ago, click to enlarge. See it yourself here. [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

Some of you may know the Facepunch forum, since it’s the main place for Garry’s Mod players and a hell lot of other people to meet. I thought it could be fun to see what such a large community would think of our problem, and here is the discussion: http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=692236 Feel free to participate.

The Inquirer: US GAME maker Electronic Arts is reporting a net loss for the eighth quarter in a row. It might be the biggest games publisher with a large number of success stories but for some reason it lost $641 million for the three months that ended in December. This is even worse than the…

Just found this on the official Steam Forums (link): Dear Sir, Thank you for the above letter, which has received our fullest attention. The answer to your letter requires further work which is currently in progress. You can normally expect a reply within one month of receiving this letter. Yours faithfully, (signed) Zsuzsanna Jambor Head…

Here’s an interesting read from consumerist.com: Reader Justin says he bought some software from Valve’s Steam service — and was randomly charged in British pounds. This resulted in a bunch of extra charges from his bank. He’s tried to contact Valve about the issue, but he says he’s being ignored. Justin writes: I don’t know…

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.

When this whole campaign was started and named 1€ ≠ 1$ (one euro is not one dollar), we all hoped that by this it would eventually be corrected. This is not the case. At start we complained to the EU commission about the price difference. Whether it be the price difference in the US vs…

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…