So...In Europe we have a large range of average wages (I live in Latvia and it comes to $681 in average)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_Europe_by_monthly_average_wage
but in the USA they have $3693 per month in average. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_America_by_monthly_average_wage
It's more than most of European countries.
At that time, the USA had borderlands 2 for $7.49, and guess what? Europe had too. But still, if I could buy in the USA steam, I'd save $2.69. And it's just the cheapest one. What the hell, Gabe?

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Lol average American making over 3k a month? Where did you get that load of bullshit. Average pay a month is like $1000. I find it pretty unfair for European people to pay the same as we in the USA do. Kinda strange how Russian areas get like 55% or more off per game automatically. Until Volvo fixes this just get games off Humble Store or Steam trades. Using those systems will only cost Steam more money because of the fact that they have to pay for server costs to keep your games alive and you're not giving them really any cash.

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Here in China the average monthly salary is like 10 bucks american and we have to pay US prices too. I'm not sure why only russia/ukraine gets to scam lower prices.

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I use Kinguin.net and it's the best option for me. The games are really cheap there. Check it out

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US gets everything cheaper, cheap gas, cheap food, cheap games etc. and huge salaries, and we get 5 times lower salaries and still manage to live through somehow and even buy games lol

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Here in Peru the basic salary per month is around 260$.
Steam charges us in $ but Origin charges us in Euros, wich really sucks.

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Here in Serbia average salary is below 200€/month, we are in EU tier1 and dont bitch all day about unfair Steam pricing policy. You can always trade for RU/BR copies if you dont like the prices in your region.

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All of you are lucky bastards! I live in the Island of Philippines and my daily salary is only $3 and $85 per month and steam prices are based on US currency that's why 99% of the Gamers here are not buying legit copy. We love piracy but luckily I got 401 games from dota 2 trading.

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That is one of my biggest complaints of online sales such as Steam store. RU/CIS get massive discounts in their region, but actual poor countries have to pay full USD prices.

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Good thing games are cheap in the US. Everything will explode in price before Obama is done with the country.

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Closed 10 years ago by KnightFury.