Support for AUD finally comes to Steam (with a catch)

Huh, so it's in the publishers hands to get their shit together for Black Saturday, gotta wonder how many games might never get updated if their publishers aren't paying attention

"Summer Sales"??

There's so many games on my wishlist that are no longer purchasable. Fantastic stuff! Hopefully, the ones that I was looking to buy on sale will have prices by then.

It’s currently summer in Australia, so he is referring to STEAMS winter/Christmas sales.

gonna do a big lol if this fucks us over for black friday sales

Correct me if I'm wrong but I wanna point some games that were worth $60 USD roughly converted to $80 AUD before, but now they're selling for $90 AUD so we're paying about $10 more for some fully prices games. This is mainly with games priced at $89.95 AUD. Not a huge increase but it's still bullshit regardless.

Yeah, that was the first thing I checked when I saw it was rolled out. Noticed the same thing. Everything I checked seems to be priced ever so slightly higher.

When Steam added my currency, some games were without prices for a month, so do not get too excited.

When steam sends me wishlist updates, it does something dumb with localized games (FO3 has RU version, i think borderlands too?) and sends me empty emails saying a game is on sale. I have no idea why Estonia is still in the RU zone, even though the EUR is now 1 staged instead of 3 like it was before, where some poorer countries got cheaper prices like we did.

Called it a million times over, strap in for the ride

do we still have the option to pay in USD?

"if your games don’t have AUD prices submitted before AUD goes live, customers in Australia will no longer be able to purchase them through Steam." Looks like a no. Pretty bullshit if you ask me.

I haven’t seen a feature that allows us to do so. I guess VPN is a way around it? Would that work?

60 * 1.3 is 90 though Exchange rate is 1.38

That was the whole idea of the conversion, easier to apply the Australia tax.

https://i.imgur.com/dajqbli.png Even putting 60*1.3 or 60*1.38 into a calculator is closer to 80 tho

I fucked up the calulation LOOOL 0.3 of 6 is 2, not 3 just looking over steamdb, but prices are a lot harder to compare at fullprice when all the figures are being adjusted for the sale

it seems like most developers have just chosen(?) to set the price the same as USD per current conversion rates so in those cases there's literally no difference. but I assume this is a precursor to making us pay GST?

precursor? We've been paying GST for a while https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/5870d30a-58de-4e9a-84f3-ba881ce6bad1/image.png

I was being facetious, Australia tax is the tax on top of the final price that is added on for no good reason other than "fuck you, we want more money".