Valve, 1€ ≠ 1$

[jonesybunny]

Recently, Valve introduced Euro prices to Steam. All nice and dandy, but they're ignoring the exchage rate.

Meaning, games like Call of Duty 4 that cost $49,99 also cost €49,99.

Current exchange rate dictates:

49.99 Euro = 72.18006 US Dollar
49.99 US Dollar (USD) = 34.62175 Euro (EUR

Comments

[damanique]

What the hell!? When I read about Steam converting to Euros, I thought they would calculate the appropriate exchange rates. This is ridiculous and I will not buy anything from Steam until that system is changed. *joins group* I found Steam to buy an ideal way to buy games legally - I used to pirate games a lot more before I started to use Steam as a way of getting games. But like this? No way. They're screwing over the gamers who put their support in the industry (the same industry that everyone says is failing because of piracy).

[relee]

Why the heck would they even do that? o.o;;

Somebody's gonna get in trouble over there. ^.^;;

[furinari]

WTF_VALVE

Seriously, I'm in the US but this enrages me.

[ionotter]

This happens with most video game systems. It's almost as if the marketing people don't understand exchange rates, and only see "pretty numbers".

[milesba]

Oddly enough, this doesn't surprise me coming from Valve. I'm curious, can you still get the game from a physical store? (where it might be cheaper)