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JBeckman
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Some countries do have a bit of tax added when purchasing from Steam, unsure how it's set up or handled but the game costs about 56 USD here which is still about 30 SEK cheaper than purchasing the retail copy (Not really a difference and I already have all other source titles on Steam anyway.)
Can't say how it works for "gifted" purchases though.
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Nov 2008 19:43 Post subject: |
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Is that Value added tax or something ?
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Nov 2008 21:02 Post subject: |
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Wow, I knew it was 25% (Standard tax on pretty much everything here - "Moms".) but I didn't know that made this country top-ranked in that comparison chart.
(Tied with Denmark but I think they have somewhat better economy over there.)
Well as long as the Steam price isn't much over the retail price (They're pretty even as I mentioned.) I won't complain about it and at the moment there aren't many titles with that kind of price on Steam.
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vurt
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Nov 2008 21:30 Post subject: |
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Steam prices should be at least 30-40% lower than getting box/dvd and delivered to your mailbox instead of being MORE expensive.. i always check Play first and, so far, it's always been cheaper to buy it and get it sent to you, so it's not like a one time thing they're doing.
I DO think Steam is great othwerwise (i've purchased several games over steam) but the prices are retarded.
With people like Glottis defending those fuckers, prices will probably increase instead of going down, sad..
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b0se
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Nov 2008 21:32 Post subject: |
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play.com itsonly 22 pounds , quite cheap
[spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote]
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Nov 2008 21:35 Post subject: |
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Steam client update released
Improved startup time (omg about fucking time, takes 5 seconds now instead of ~30)
http://store.steampowered.com/news/2014/
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Nov 2008 22:04 Post subject: |
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WAY overpriced. The orange box was only 50 dollars when it came out (now its 40), it contained much more content. Fifty dollars for something that is barely a mod is ridiculous.
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poullou
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Nov 2008 22:21 Post subject: |
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| wrathamon wrote: | | Gifts are tax free. |
Wrong. The only time Steam can ever charge tax on any purchases, gift or not, is when this purchaser is making the purchase in the same state the Valve is headquartered in (Washington, FYI).
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 00:40 Post subject: |
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They are setting their prices to maximise profits.
The most desperate people will purchase at $45/50 no matter what.
Then they will reduce the price to milk the next consumer segment and so on.
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 01:02 Post subject: |
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| wrathamon wrote: | They are setting their prices to maximise profits.
The most desperate people will purchase at $45/50 no matter what.
Then they will reduce the price to milk the next consumer segment and so on. |
Desperate? LMAO. More like people having jobs spending their money how they wish. No one was forcing me to buy this game but I bought it, and I really didn't buy it because I'm desperate. Are you sure you know the meaning of the word desperate?
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Big_Gun
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 01:16 Post subject: |
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| Glottis wrote: | | wrathamon wrote: | They are setting their prices to maximise profits.
The most desperate people will purchase at $45/50 no matter what.
Then they will reduce the price to milk the next consumer segment and so on. |
Desperate? LMAO. More like people having jobs spending their money how they wish. No one was forcing me to buy this game but I bought it, and I really didn't buy it because I'm desperate. Are you sure you know the meaning of the word desperate? |
im sitting here staring at the PILE of games I have to play and trying to figure out what to play. . . I am far from desperate. But, i didn't think much about plunking down the dough for Left4Dead. Just like i went and plunked down $599.00 for the new Fuze cell phone over the weekend. . . but thats another story.
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 07:05 Post subject: |
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| Big_Gun wrote: | | Glottis wrote: | | wrathamon wrote: | They are setting their prices to maximise profits.
The most desperate people will purchase at $45/50 no matter what.
Then they will reduce the price to milk the next consumer segment and so on. |
Desperate? LMAO. More like people having jobs spending their money how they wish. No one was forcing me to buy this game but I bought it, and I really didn't buy it because I'm desperate. Are you sure you know the meaning of the word desperate? |
im sitting here staring at the PILE of games I have to play and trying to figure out what to play. . . I am far from desperate. But, i didn't think much about plunking down the dough for Left4Dead. Just like i went and plunked down $599.00 for the new Fuze cell phone over the weekend. . . but thats another story. |
Bad choice of words.
What I meant was people who really want the game. They will be willing to pay the initial high price.
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poullou
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 09:36 Post subject: |
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This happens with everything nowdays...
Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς - Μολὼν λαβέ
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 11:47 Post subject: |
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You know, honestly, after I got The Orange Box for$40 at launch, I don't mind paying Valve $45 for this one single game.
I daresay I feel like I owe them a solid after that incredible bargain, so I think this will just about even the score.
Correcting people since 2007 even if they're not wrong.
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 17:22 Post subject: |
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there's a release out if you know where to look
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swebarb
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 17:26 Post subject: |
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lol bs, the files are encrypted and will be until the release date.
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 17:33 Post subject: |
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The files I've experimented with from the full versions pre-load content seems to work but the EXE file itself appears to be encrypted and using the demo EXE didn't work.
Can get a unpacker for those VPK files as well.
http://blog.gib.me/2008/11/14/left4dead-vpk-extraction-tools-now-with-ui/
(Models, textures and such.)
EDIT: Sound files seems encrypted as well actually, tried playing one of them.
(Mostly tested the files in the VPK archives.)
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 17:42 Post subject: |
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Damn guys just wait 3 days.
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JackQ
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2008 18:44 Post subject: |
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wait,so you can play now the "full" game
without multiplayer?
edit: It seems it's a demo RIP
or Fake
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| Posted: Sun, 16th Nov 2008 21:26 Post subject: |
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People from third world nations should blame their governments for their sales tax not steam. hahah stupid peasants.
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Ispep
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| Posted: Sun, 16th Nov 2008 21:38 Post subject: |
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I thought the point of STEAM was to eliminate zero-day piracy. Why would there be releases already?
| Cedge wrote: | You know, honestly, after I got The Orange Box for$40 at launch, I don't mind paying Valve $45 for this one single game.
I daresay I feel like I owe them a solid after that incredible bargain, so I think this will just about even the score. |
Indeed, though I think a role reversal in pricing would have been more palatable.
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b0se
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WaldoJ
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| Posted: Mon, 17th Nov 2008 04:48 Post subject: |
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there'll be a single player campaign that'll come out soontime. 
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| Posted: Mon, 17th Nov 2008 10:08 Post subject: |
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if you set winddows time to tommorrow , left4dead unlock
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| Posted: Mon, 17th Nov 2008 10:13 Post subject: |
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lol
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