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[Teneb]

Brazilian actually, and yes. Most games cost around R$100, wich is around US$58,82 right now. Steam turns out to be actually cheaper around here.

I hate my country now. On average we pay somewhere between $80AUD ($81USD) to $120AUD ($121USD). It's cheaper through steam but there's no ADSL in my neighborhood so for $90* a month I get enough bandwidth to download, say, a single game and play multiplayer for three hours. At 200kb/s with high ping.

If you think Steam is cheaper for us Aussies, you should see how high the prices are jacked up compared to the US store. Skyrim is $99.99 AUD in Steam for Australians, and then $59.99 USD in the US store. That's like $35AUD for no real reason, and it sucks.

Wow, you know, that 70% tax isn't sounding so bad now.

[buckets]

It's the same sort of stuff over in NZ, we get it for like $89.99 NZD.

Which is actualy cheaper than it would be in the shops, which would be about $120ish.

[Rose]

here in india, if we buy it off steam, it's the full US price, paid in USD.

if we buy if from the right store, it's 1/5 the US price, generally. as long as it's a PC game.

console games are full price.

[PTTG??]

Well, it makes sense when you consider how expensive it is to transmit information from one side of the planet and back again. Why, even with radio waves, it must take weeks and a team of oxen to send a message to the other side of the planet, judging by those prices.

[shadenight123]

not only that. the oxen only eat caviar to keep information comprehensible. and they have golden tip-tap shoes and go all doing "clikclak" and dancing.

[Shadowlord]

if we buy if from the right store, it's 1/5 the US price, generally. as long as it's a PC game.

I'm going to guess that said store is selling pirated versions.

[Rose]

if we buy if from the right store, it's 1/5 the US price, generally. as long as it's a PC game.

I'm going to guess that said store is selling pirated versions.

nope.

I got a boxed copy of the orange box for $16, within a few months of release. steam said it was legit.

right now, PC limited edition of battlefield 3 is $30, while PS3 and X360 versions are both $60

[Vibhor]

if we buy if from the right store, it's 1/5 the US price, generally. as long as it's a PC game.

I'm going to guess that said store is selling pirated versions.

The pirated versions are 1/5 of the original price in India. For example if a game costs Rs 500(standard price usually) then the pirated version would be around Rs 100.
If I were to buy it digitally then the game would cost anywhere around Rs 3000(60$) and considering monthly salary of a common man here is 20,000 , one can only wonder why would anyone buy digitally.

[Johuotar]

My friend pre ordered skyrim for 32 euros, free shipping and all. I should probably do the same while there's still time. Hurray for Åland islands and their cheap prices!

[Spitfire]

So exited I can almost feel the icy wind beating on my face, ice crystals scratching my skin, a perfectly balanced axe in my hand...

Do you have experience with such a big release on Steam? Can everyone download instantly after release or do I have to count with delays due to server overload?

[shadenight123]

i do believe they let the games come down before hand on steam, so you can download them. like two-three days before.
but only hand out activation code on the specific day.
*people at 00.00 ready to play*

[Spitfire]

Woohoo, this is going to be AWESOME!!!

[timferius]

I've been through a few big steam releases. As said above, the pre-load usually opens up a few days before release. And on release day, a tiny patch is downloaded automatically by steam when you run the program, which unlocks the game. The only issue I've ever seen is a few times it hasn't unlocked on time, but I think they found out what was causing that and fixed it.

[Teneb]

I do hope they'll let us pre-load. Steam says it's 4 days and 7 hours until release.

[shadenight123]

I do hope they'll let us pre-load. Steam says it's 4 days and 7 hours until release.

happy to be in italy for once. it's like, having 6 hours of advantage against americans! if i got the correct timetables.