A Christmas Present From Valve

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fedaykin

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So it looks like Valve is now screwing its European customers in the butt, because 1 dollar now equals 1 euro in Steam. Retail games are now cheaper than Steam, which pretty much makes Steam pointless. Why pay extra when you can get a tangible copy cheaper?

I was thinking of getting CS:Source or TF2 or something via Steam, but now I certainly won't be doing that.

Here's the Steam forum discussion thread: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=770231

Your thoughts?
 
The whole "Steam sells in dollars" idea was untenable anyway; publishers didn't like it, Neelie Kroes wouldn't like it if she weren't so busy already, only consumers liked it.

Heck, publishers hate it when DD is cheaper than retail, it's just not supposed to happen.

That is a long-term, conceptual problem, and no doubt Valve will be amongst those fighting to reconceptualise how we approach retail games and DD games.

In the meantime, it's their funeral. Even for those of us who didn't already use Steam only for older games and weekend deals (I've only ever bought two new titles off of Steam), this will serve to convince them. Not sure where you're getting the idea that Steam was ever that much cheaper, tho': in general, you could always find a better retail deal than what Steam offered.
 
fedaykin said:
1 dollar now equals 1 euro in Steam
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What. Meh, I don't buy games via steam, anyway. Not since they decided to force German users to buy British/US retail versions if they want their games uncensored.
 
Not really sure what to say about this.

It is not much of a problem if games in the stores are the same price as on Steam, but I wouldn't buy if I can get it cheaper at stores.
 
It really kills the main reason anyone would buy a steam game.

Now that they cost more/as much as a retail copy, so why not buy a real, physical copy ? You can uninstall and reinstall it as much as you want, and you can sell it to someone if you dont like it anymore. (excluding some draconian DRM games)
 
Patton89 said:
It really kills the main reason anyone would buy a steam game.

Now that they cost more/as much as a retail copy, so why not buy a real, physical copy ? You can uninstall and reinstall it as much as you want, and you can sell it to someone if you dont like it anymore. (excluding some draconian DRM games)
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You can uninstall and renistall Steam games as much as you want to. And you keep save games as I was plesantly surprised to see when I was having problems with Steam and had to renistall. I like having a physical copy and a nice manual, but Steam is just really convenient.
 
Well, I only really like to buy big name games from Valve on Steam, not so much other games that I can get retail. It will be a bit annoying for some though.
 
Patton89 said:
Now that they cost more/as much as a retail copy, so why not buy a real, physical copy ? You can uninstall and reinstall it as much as you want, and you can sell it to someone if you dont like it anymore. (excluding some draconian DRM games)
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Do Valve games still require a fee to be paid if you resell a hard copy of one of there games? The reason they can force this is that even their offline games are tied to the Steam account. So essentially it is a fee to switch the hard copy to a new Steam account.

I haven't played one of their games in a while. Do they still do that?
 
I tend to buy from Steam often because they never charge sales tax in the US (unless you like in Washington). So it ends up being cheaper for me, esp. since sales tax in Tulsa, OK is almost 9%.
 
Is the localization tied to the paying bank account or can you just make a Tunisian account or US account and pay in dollars ?

Havent logged on to steam in a month - this news makes me feel sorry for not buying L4D
 
Rev. Layle said:
I tend to buy from Steam often because they never charge sales tax in the US (unless you like in Washington). So it ends up being cheaper for me, esp. since sales tax in Tulsa, OK is almost 9%.
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Sales tax in Ontario is 14%!!! I'd love a 9% sales tax :).

Bummer about Steam for you Europeans though... I use Steam and Gamersgate simply out of convenience.
 
Heh, seems like I bought Portal just in time, the day before yesterday.

And this sucks, man. Another extra 'tax' for being European. Together with the fictional 'tax' we already had to pay (they called it 'VAT tax', but I'm not buying that. They're a US company, so they don't pay VAT here.); prices are now about 25-35% higher than in the US.

What - it costs more to upload in Europe than in the US, or what? Bullshit.

I've got about 750€ worth of games in my steam acc. - and I guess it's going to stay that amount. I don't see the use of paying steam when retail is, on average, 25% cheaper.
 
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