Are local currency purchases better on Steam over the Dollar?
In Canada and we used to be the cheapest RoW region till New Zealand got added. I'm liking it, especially since our dollar tanked. Steam defaults the price to US price + 10% which ends up being a ~26% cheaper for us in general, making Steam my goto shopping place out side of bundles (GMG helps with their coupon).
Publishers have over ridden Steam's default and have adjusted the price to match the Americans after conversion ($60 US is ~80$ CDN), which is fine so long as the dollar doesn't rise any time soon, but we'll see. Best of luck to you :).
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bump!
btw not enough points xD
local price is good, because not all people have the same GDP, different wage, different salary~
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Cant really comment on this since we still pay in euro on Steam (Hungary)
Aka hello 20-30% expensive everything <.<
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Other sites, like Origin, have localized prices for Sweden. That results in higher prices, as game companies price things like $1=1€=10sek. This used to be worse a year or so back, but it still means that we effectively pay about 16% more than people in the US do, or about 7% more than the rest of the Euro-zone
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So I've received official communication from Valve that Steam will soon be offering purchases in my local currency, the South African Rand.
As it stands, the Rand-Dollar exchange isn't great, so the local gaming market has seen a spike in costs of everything related to games.
During this time, however, purchasing games from distributors like Steam, directly using the Dollar currency, made things easier when converting currencies, but I fear this may change.
Do you think this is a good or bad situation?
If you've experienced something similar in your country, please let us know if it worked out better or worse when changing to your local currency.
Almost forgot the GA: Enjoy!
Edit: Please don't forget to bump, I'd appreciate a large consensus.
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