Tag: prices
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Valve is dropping local currency support for Turkey and Argentina
Valve is making changes to Steam pricing in Argentina and Turkey that will see game sales in those countries switched from their local currencies—the Argentine peso and Turkish lira—to US dollars. The change is being made to address “exchange rate volatility” that Valve says has made it difficult for developers to set and maintain prices…
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Price Comparison: Mortal Kombat 11
It’s time for Mortal Kombat 11 Price Comparison! All stores are from our Steam alternatives program.
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NVIDIA encourages retailers to sell to gamers, not cryptominers
Gamers are pissed off because cryptominers have fucked over the GPU market. Mining cryptocurrency sky rocketed graphics card prices over the last few months. You could grab a GTX 1080 GPU for around $700 on release day AFAIK, right now the prices are around $1000 all over the planet which is pretty ridiculous. Recently German…
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Price Comparison: PREY
It’s time for another price comparison of Steam alternative stores! PREY is a reboot if the series but I won’t be trying it out anytime soon – I’m one of those patient gamers ;) but if you have to play it right away check out the comparison below: Store EUR Buy €30.89 Visit €31.99 Visit…
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Poll Time: Is your local currency available on Steam?
We all know that prices on Steam could be really uneven in some regions. Especially after that sneaky conversion that happened in 2008. We’ve tried to change that but it didn’t work, they simply wouldn’t care. But maybe they do now? Valve started to add more local currencies to Steam over the years and in…
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Poll Time: Should Valve allow us to get refunds in EU?
You probably all have noticed that the Steam Subscriber Agreement has been updated to include some new rules especially when it comes to the 14 days return time in European Union. And no, you can’t do that on Steam (at least according to them) but is this completely legal or fair? See this little checkbox…
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Petition: Regional Pricing in Romania on Steam
Hello guys, please spread the word and sign the petition now! Click here for details.
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Steam: Comparison Script for Chrome!
Remember the good old comparison script for the Steam store? Now you can download it as a chrome extension, it works smoothly. This should get you ready for the Steam winter sale. Check it out!
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New 20% off voucher for GameFly, works with BF4!
GFDOCT20 20% discount on most PC digital downloads with promo code – works on BF4, but not the Premium edition.
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Ubisoft spring sale up to 75% off!
Head over to the Ubisoft website to see the deals. Most of these are redeemable on UPlay I guess.
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New pricing experiment on GOG!
Lowered from $5.99 to $3.99 Alien Shooter Celtic Kings Commandos Ammo Pack Constructor Empire Earth Knights and Merchants Litil Divil Lords of Magic Lords of the Realm Mobile Forces Myst: Masterpiece Edition Outcast Personal Nightmare Realms of Haunting Rollercoaster Tycon Simon the Sorcerer Waxworks Lowered from $9.99 to $6.99 Broken Sword 4: The Angel of…
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IndieRoyale: Valentines Bundle 2.0
Minimum is around 4,30€. Get it here! It has Serious Sam 3, that’s nice!
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IndieRoyale: The Snowstorm Bundle
Featuring 6 games for the minimum of 3,35€ (at least at the moment): Renosance, Hinterland, RoboBlitz, Star Drone, Project Aftermath, and Robot Riot. Get it now here.
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Green Man Gaming explains Australian/New Zealand pricing
Here’s a friendly message from Green Man Gaming with some information about price differences in Australia and New Zealand. Hi – we have had a number of enquiries about price increases on Borderlands 2 and XCOM Enemy Unknown in Australia and New Zealand. This was done at the request of the publisher based…
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European Commission responds: If Valve decides to offer a product solely within the UK this does generally not amount to an infringement of EU competition rules
I’ve just received a response from the European Commission (it’s weird because I did not send them an e-mail but a physical letter) and you guys are not gonna like it: … Thank you for your e-mail regarding Valve corporation. We note that, in substance, the concerns you have raised are to do with the…
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CS:GO available for pre-order, unfair prices!
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Valve counters EA’s Steam sales "cheapen intellectual property" accusation
"If we thought having a 75 per cent sale on Portal 2 would cheapen Portal 2, we wouldn’t do it." Valve has countered EA’s accusation that Steam sales "cheapen" intellectual property, saying they in fact benefit games, publishers and gamers. Last month EA’s David DeMartini, who runs rival digital platform Origin, said Steam sales, which…
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Steam Summer Sale: Day 1-11 indie bundles revealed and more!
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EA Origin: ‘Our aim is to be a better version of Steam’
EA says it wants its Origin download platform to be a better version of all the other portals on the market. The firm’s senior VP of global ecommerce David DeMartini has also responded to Valve and Steam boss Gabe Newell’s criticism that Origin has yet to do anything ‘super-well’ – adding that he is delighted…
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Valve employee explains regional pricing
Australian gamers community AusGamers had chat with Valve internal marketing and PR head, Doug Lombardi. It was a long chat but let’s look what about interesting part about regional pricing. AusGamers: One of the big things then, that has come as a result of the selling side is regional pricing, which we happen to…
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Steam: Borderlands pre-purchase
As of today, the four-pack pre-purchase of Borderlands is available on Steam. But, as always, the prcing isn’t very fair. Borderlands US: $49.99 $44.99 EU: 49.99€ 44.99€ (47% higher than US) UK: £29.99 £26.99 (5% lower than US) These prices are just for 1 game, not the four-pack. Four-pack: US: $149.97 $134.97 EU: 149.97€ 134.97€…