Steam just got +40% more expensive

[Main_Brain]

Originally posted by Solver
The costs of shipping it from Amazon make it cost as much as a physical copy does in local stores...

shipping costs on German amazon:

Purchases exceeding a total value of EUR 20.00 are delivered to Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland at no delivery cost. Orders to these countries that contain books on their own, or books combined with items from our Music, DVD, VHS, Games or Software categories, also qualify for free delivery, irrespective of the total order cost.

[DrSpike]

So Liechtenstein > Norway........didn't know that.

Latvia is obviously pretty low on any such list. It doesn't really matter though because despite all the big talk on forums Solver pirates most of his games.

[Solver]

Nah, I hire smart-talking Londoners to deliver them to my doorstep

[DrSpike]

I'll take that as an acceptance of my point.

[Solver]

Good chap. Want a new job?

[DrSpike]

Unfortunately I'm a very long way out of your price range, alas.

[Solver]

Do not underestimate me. Or overestimate yourself for that matter

[Traianvs]

Looks like another incentive for people to pirate games. Nicely done, Valve!

[El_Cid]

well you can also either go to a shop, ask them if they dont have something in stock or get it on Amazon/ebay etc. Sometimes the deals on Amazon(through private sellers) easily make up for p+p costs i've found.
Piracy is bad remember - look at what is has helped create(console dominated game designs/falling PC dev etc).

Heck compared to 15 years ago i find it much easier to buy legit games these days, the interweb really is amazing

But yeah the fact that Steam has stolen a jump on pretty much all the competeing business means i'm personaly not surprised by stories like these, and I can actualy live and be a gamer without Steam. This just makes that choice easier.

[Solver]

At least Valve have now acknowledged that they're aware of certain prices being too high in Europe. So hopefully they're going to do something about it.

[Traianvs]

I've never bothered with Steam. Then again, my monthly download has been restricted to 4GB for over 6 years now.

[Asher]

I do more than that daily...

[Dale]

Originally posted by Asher
I do more than that daily in porn...

Fixed.

[DrSpike]

I didn't know Steam had porn.

[Unimatrix11]

Originally posted by Solver
At least Valve have now acknowledged that they're aware of certain prices being too high in Europe. So hopefully they're going to do something about it.

´Yeah, we know we are charging too much´ doesnt neccessarily entail ´and we are going to change that.´

You know, when someone asks You wether You could tell him what time it is, ´yes´ is a totally sufficient answer...