[url]http://www.ultimatumgamekeys.com/en[/url]
Try this when its back up. You can get deus ex 3 for around half price.
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[QUOTE=joost1120;31840152]Its the same with Europe. We pay €60 too, you pay a single euro more for most games.
They should just get good conversion rates, so it's like USD to Eur, not USD = Eur.
And right now they just converse the Euro to the Australian Dollar.[/QUOTE]
I thought they had it pretty bad.
Now i feel bad too. Thanks.
I've always paid 60 euro for games. It's never been lower than that. And nowadays some companies think it's funny to charge 70 euro for some games. Mainly ps3 i think.
I buy my games online now often saving almost 30 to 50% of the cost without shipping. Even with 15 euro shipping it's cheaper.
It's the same here in the UK aswell, we always get insane prices. E.g Skyrim collectors edition is £130 in the UK (which is about $220) or $150 for the US.
$=!€
Game costs $50 in the US? Oh, let's price it up to 50€ which is a lot more.
Damn US and their fucked economy.
[QUOTE=Dppdy;31838419]steam doesn't specifically operate in australia
paypal, which specifically operates in australia, can ignore the fact that in queensland (not sure about other states) its legal for a minor to be a partner or owner of a business and ban them for being under 18, even though their ToS says 18 [i]or[/i] a business partner, and get away with it because they are an american company and don't have an office here.
It's the publishers who do this, not steam or any law. It's because games cost ~100 in every store here[/QUOTE]
I remember that thread.
Meanwhile the UK pays £25 ($40), one of the cheapest prices anywhere.
I don't fucking get it... Why are games more expensive in Australia anyway?
Almost double in stores i don't understand why...
Wow, Our games are like way cheaper than US or AUS ones, ours only cost £30 - 40 new
So in AUS money that's $47 - 63
[QUOTE=mr apple;31839635]Other way around, Aussie dollar is worth more by a few cents.[/QUOTE]
No, you are mistaken. An American dollar is slightly more valuable than an Australian dollar. I used these websites to compare the currencies:
[url]http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en[/url]
[url]http://www.xe.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.oanda.com/[/url]
[url]http://finance.yahoo.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;31838113]Isn't it because the Australian dollar is worth less than the American dollar?[/QUOTE]
Nope that's the american dollar to the Great british pound.
:patriot:
[QUOTE=cqbcat;31845251]No, you are mistaken. An American dollar is slightly more valuable than an Australian dollar. I used these websites to compare the currencies:
[/QUOTE]
No, you are mistaken. An Australian dollar is slightly more valuable than an American dollar:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/AUD-USD-20-08-11.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Gfoose;31840808]This is why you get a proxy in America and then buy the game, use your imagination.[/QUOTE]
Is that legal? Anyways here in Europe new games cost 70 euros minimum.
Has anyone asked this yet? What's the cost of living and average income in Australia?
And also they might be charging more digitally or else retail stores would flip a shit because steam could charge less.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;31846393]Has anyone asked this yet? What's the cost of living and average income in Australia?
And also they might be charging more digitally or else retail stores would flip a shit because steam could charge less.[/QUOTE]
it shouldn't matter
just because we live in a different place doesn't mean we should get absolutely retarded prices for exactly the same product
[QUOTE=stealth_camo;31846488]it shouldn't matter
just because we live in a different place doesn't mean we should get absolutely retarded prices for exactly the same product[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?title=modern+warfare+2[/url]
This shit is the same price as retail. [B]If steam charges a lower price retail cannot compete. Steam could seriously harm the competition and look like it was trying to get a monopoly in Australia and I'm sure someone would sue.[/B]
Please quit your bitching. Just because Steam sells things digitally doesn't mean that they can or should charge whatever they want. Get a trusted American friend to buy it for you then (with paypal or something).
You Aussies have retarded game prices. And I thought it was bad with the euro (I now order from the UK).
I'll buy games for you bro if you need it,
2 way paypal system going on!
i feel bad for Australia..:tinfoil:
[QUOTE=cqbcat;31845251]No, you are mistaken. An American dollar is slightly more valuable than an Australian dollar. I used these websites to compare the currencies:
[url]http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en[/url]
[url]http://www.xe.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.oanda.com/[/url]
[url]http://finance.yahoo.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
1 Australian dollar being 1.03US dollars means the US has to pay 3 cents more per our dollar.
It was shocking when we were at 0.60 to the US dollar.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;31846770][url]http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?title=modern+warfare+2[/url]
This shit is the same price as retail. [B]If steam charges a lower price retail cannot compete. Steam could seriously harm the competition and look like it was trying to get a monopoly in Australia and I'm sure someone would sue.[/B]
Please quit your bitching. Just because Steam sells things digitally doesn't mean that they can or should charge whatever they want. Get a trusted American friend to buy it for you then (with paypal or something).[/QUOTE]
That's a pretty flawed argument, it'll DRIVE competition and BREAK any monopolies if Steam charged less. The same would apply to America, etc so you have no real reasons
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;31843405]I remember that thread.[/QUOTE]
I didn't make a thread, paypal stole $250 of my money.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;31846770][url]http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?title=modern+warfare+2[/url]
This shit is the same price as retail. [B]If steam charges a lower price retail cannot compete. Steam could seriously harm the competition and look like it was trying to get a monopoly in Australia and I'm sure someone would sue.[/B]
Please quit your bitching. Just because Steam sells things digitally doesn't mean that they can or should charge whatever they want. Get a trusted American friend to buy it for you then (with paypal or something).[/QUOTE]
That's stupid, it wouldn't hurt competition. Valve/Steam doesn't set the prices, the publishers do, so it's not harming competition at all, it'd just hurt publishers pockets.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;31846770][url]http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?title=modern+warfare+2[/url]
This shit is the same price as retail. [B]If steam charges a lower price retail cannot compete. Steam could seriously harm the competition and look like it was trying to get a monopoly in Australia and I'm sure someone would sue.[/B]
Please quit your bitching. Just because Steam sells things digitally doesn't mean that they can or should charge whatever they want. Get a trusted American friend to buy it for you then (with paypal or something).[/QUOTE]
Except steam doesn't operate in Australia. They can't be sued by our companies.
Valve don't even set the prices, its the publishers who do.
If internet companies could be sued, then ebay and other sites like that would be sued constantly by woolworths inc and the other big retail companies. Shops like Big W are literally going out of business because their prices are higher than internet shops
I think we can all agree that:
A) The price they are charging for games is silly.($110 pre-owned, no case/manual, scratched disk Blops)
B) There is absolutely no reason for us to pay that much.
C) People do pay this much for games, regularly. It's considered normal to pay that much.
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[QUOTE=Dppdy;31851978]Except steam doesn't operate in Australia. They can't be sued by our companies.
Valve don't even set the prices, its the publishers who do.
If internet companies could be sued, then ebay and other sites like that would be sued constantly by woolworths inc and the other big retail companies. Shops like Big W are literally going out of business because their prices are higher than internet shops[/QUOTE]
They don't need to sue. They whine to the publisher who goes. "Hey Steam, you need to stop selling it lower then everyone else's price, otherwise we won't allow you to sell any of our games."
i dont pretend to know austrailian tax laws or anything about austrailia, but this is just bad
what (your goverment most likely) do they want you to do? go outside and enjoy the sun that you guys get like all the time?
this sounds alot like a goverment regulation thing instead of a publisher thing because vaulve would wanna sell stuff for the lowest price they could to keep people on the pc and off of the xbox where they make less money because they got microsoft putting its fingers in their cake, which is not a lie
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;31852251]They don't need to sue. They whine to the publisher who goes. "Hey Steam, you need to stop selling it lower then everyone else's price, otherwise we won't allow you to sell any of our games."[/QUOTE]
I'd like to see steam prices drop, and then retail outlets decide to get competitive instead of being pussies about it.
Like when an Aldi opened just down the road from Woolworths. Woolies practically shit themselves and started dropping prices.
Needless to say I had fruit loops for breakfast for a month.
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