Vandal (CD Projekt): Just remember, Steam doesn't necessarily set the prices for games on the site -- they've asked publishers about the prices they'd like to sell games at. Publishers have to approve the pricing, or they have an option of changing it. With The Witcher: Enhanced Edition we asked them to lower the price in Europe (well, Eastern Europe, where the game is available on Steam) to be in-line with market expectations.
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Valve sent us an email basically saying "here's what we're doing and here are the prices we're planning to use -- let us know if you need them adjusted" and I'd suspect that other publishers must have gotten that same email.. particularly considering the fact that we only have one game on Steam, so we're a minor player.
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here is the link. I wouldn't say they 'go along with it', really. The publishers have final approval and can set the prices to whatever they want. If they choose to accept the arbitrary price that Valve picked, then that's what it gets set as. If they say 'no, set it to be equivalent based on the value of the currency', then that's what it gets set as. Valve does not get final say in this, so I place the majority of the blame at the feet of the publishers.
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Thank you.
Regarding publishers, I'm willing to bet a lot of them just go with whatever Valve suggests without paying much attention. And there are probably a lot of small devs that self-publish and have no idea what the exchange rates are and that this is a problem.
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Still, it's their fault for being so unconcerned about it. Valve just sends out a generic price point (I imagine because so many publishers are shitty about communication, and if Valve waited until the publisher themselves sent a price, it'd take a lot longer and they don't want to wait... but that's all just speculation). They're responsible for signing on the dotted line that makes the price official, regardless of how much thought they put into the price.
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haha, very funny. Here in Germany it is: No Quake, No Doom, No Left4Dead, No Dead Island, No Manhunt, Various Censorships in Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto etc.
And now you care about Dirt 3?
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East Europe is considered as a separate area by steam, in which many (all the?) games cost less, but, probably due to some law issues, many games are not available.
Also I'm not sure if even trading you could get to play those games; somebody who has traded a game to get around the limitation should confirm if that's true or not, or you risk trading for nothing.
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here in germany, dead island and manhunt and probably several other nice games are "put on the index" and it's not allowed to sell them here...
alot other games got censored beyond recognition, like L4D. barely any blood, no dismembering and zombies dissapear 1sec after killing.
but hey, it's even worse in japan...green blood lol.
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i live in a third world country and i have access to all steam games
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What? I think it's worse in my country (Indonesia) FYI. My country is infamous for its piracy. Many game and legit software unavailable in my country. There's not much apps in my region either (WP8 marketplace).
Edit: I wondering if something is wrong with GFWL. I played bioshock 2 with GFWL as well. But not with Dirt 3? And yeah, there's no Dirt 3 bundle in my country too.
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Click here and check how much games are available for you. You should get "showing 1 - 25 of X" just above the results. X is what you're looking for. It's 1942 for me.
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And this is how pirates are born (I don't assume you are or will become one but this is one of the reason why people become pirates)
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So...for a while I noticed more and more games being not available for purchase from my country(Romania).
Now, for example, midweek madness (Dirt Franchise): normally, you should get Dirt2, Dirt3 and Dirt Showdown, but I can get only Dirt 2 and Showdown. CLICK
Another problem is that I don't have friends in other countries so I could buy through them.
Any suggestion/advice/trick? :)
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