€ Steam Users - Why pay more :o)

Sleepery · 22 Jan 2010 at 11:23

Briton said:
Why are Euro priced games more expensive?

Because they think they can get away with it, as far as I can see. I don't see any other justification for it. Take AvP for example - it's €50 on steam, which works out at £43 at the moment. I think it's going for £25 on steam in the UK.

ic1male · 22 Jan 2010 at 11:27

Mr. Anderson said:
I would suggest that you don't do this through your own steam account gimpymoo. Steam could view you as an unlicensed trader, even if you aren't making any profit.

I second this - set up a new account with a new email at least.

Gimpymoo · 22 Jan 2010 at 11:30

Briton said:
Why are Euro priced games more expensive?

Sleepery said:
Because they think they can get away with it, as far as I can see. I don't see any other justification for it. Take AvP for example - it's €50 on steam, which works out at £43 at the moment. I think it's going for £25 on steam in the UK.

It is down to some publishers being greedy, not all games are over priced in Euros.

For example, Zero Gear, an Indepently developed/published game is:

£12.99
€13.99

http://store.steampowered.com/app/18820//?cc=FR
http://store.steampowered.com/app/18820//?cc=GB

Disjunto · 22 Jan 2010 at 11:32

elmuzzy66. said:
I contacted steam a few months back when the store stopped pricing in £ and switched to the euro. As my currency is the pound, they said to access the store via a browser and add ccuk or something along the lines to the address and it would take you to the uk store of steam.

you add ?cc=uk to the address bar

or cc=us for $ store

Sleepery · 22 Jan 2010 at 11:58

Will it actually let you buy in £ of $ then?

Disjunto · 22 Jan 2010 at 12:01

Sleepery said:
Will it actually let you buy in £ of $ then?

should do, and if you live in a censored area it should also give you the uncensored version

Gimpymoo · 22 Jan 2010 at 12:10

Sleepery said:
Will it actually let you buy in £ of $ then?

Disjunto said:
should do, and if you live in a censored area it should also give you the uncensored version

It doesn't work.

Would make their region restriction and censoring rather pointless dont you think?

It allows you to view the store in the different currencies but you need to purchase in your home currency.

Disjunto · 22 Jan 2010 at 12:12

Gimpymoo said:
It doesn't work.

Would make their region restriction and censoring rather pointless dont you think?

It allows you to view the store in the different currencies but you need to purchase in your home currency.

I'm pretty sure it worked at one point, just tried now and it gave an error at checkout, so I guess it doesn't work anymore (or never did)

Evilsod · 22 Jan 2010 at 13:31

For the record, AvP is currently at £17 on Amazon, which is well below half of what you pay in Euros.

I agree sometimes Steam is a little uncompetitive price wise. But if you can point me in the direction of a non-Digital Distributor that would offer the THQ Pack or ID Super Pack (containing very, very old games) for the ridiculously low price found during the Christmas offers... not to mention sometimes its worth that little extra for the convenience.

Gimpymoo · 24 Jan 2010 at 03:18

Antar, thanks for the feedback

Glad was received OK.

hornett · 24 Jan 2010 at 09:19

Did this before on and online shop when the Company of Heroes Anathology was 6.99 worked out cheaper for my mate to paypal me the money and post the game to germany when it arrived.

Briton · 24 Jan 2010 at 10:51

d_brennen said:
Even in sterling the steam prices are a bit much tbh

Despite what the fanbois say...yes they are. The service they offer is offset by the fact there is no CD/packaging/distribution costs. The price should, at worst, be no higher than the retail version.

psychas · 24 Jan 2010 at 11:01

how much is alien vs predator 25 £ ? will you able to get me that?

i'll will send ya via trust email when im ready to buy it

thanks

Gimpymoo · 24 Jan 2010 at 11:03

psychas said:
how much is alien vs predator 25 £ ? will you able to get me that?

i'll will send ya via trust email when im ready to buy it

thanks

£24.99

Not a problem, just send the funds when ready

Gimpymoo · 24 Jan 2010 at 11:08

Briton said:
The service they offer is offset by the fact there is no CD/packaging/distribution costs. The price should, at worst, be no higher than the retail version.

As long as I dont have to pay no more than RRP, I am happy.

It is not about being a "Fanbois", it is just I like the service and find it convenient.

I dont want to be installing from Disc, finding serial numbers, entering serial numbers, swapping discs during install, downloading patches, installing patches. Then after all that, having some junk on my shelf I could do without.

Blackhawk47 · 24 Jan 2010 at 11:21

Gimpymoo said:
It is not about being a "Fanbois", it is just I like the service and find it convenient.

I dont want to be installing from Disc, finding serial numbers, entering serial numbers, swapping discs during install, downloading patches, installing patches. Then after all that, having some junk on my shelf I could do without.

I feel exactly the same way. Sure I have plenty of games not one steam. But the ones I play most are all on steam.

Antar Bolaeisk · 24 Jan 2010 at 11:47

Gimpymoo said:
Antar, thanks for the feedback

Glad was received OK.

Cheers man

Gimpymoo said:
It is down to some publishers being greedy, not all games are over priced in Euros.

For example, Zero Gear, an Indepently developed/published game is:

£12.99
€13.99

http://store.steampowered.com/app/18820//?cc=FR
http://store.steampowered.com/app/18820//?cc=GB

I like how they always claim it's the distributors' fault though yet Valve also seem to suffer from the same price discrepancies, one need only look at L4D2 to see an example of this.

Briton · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:02

Gimpymoo said:
As long as I dont have to pay no more than RRP, I am happy.

It is not about being a "Fanbois", it is just I like the service and find it convenient.a

Well your analagy regarding Harrods and cheap retailers was a poor one and frankly smacked of blatent fanboism.

I too would be happy if there was parity between Steam and the retail price... an 'ordinary' digital download should be considerably cheaper.

Disjunto · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:07

it's not steams fault that publishers realised they can make a lot more profit using digital distribution platforms, even after cutting valve some profits and reducing price below retail RRP they are making more than at retail due to not having to produce manuals,case sleeves and disks

Dark Sun · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:20

I like Steam. I was unsure at first.

It's very convenient. It saves a lot of physical storage space. If I take my PC somewhere I don't need to cart around a load of game boxes. Also I don't have to rely on Royal Mail. I can sit in my underpants surrounded by bags of wotsits and cans of vimto and just have the game unlock.