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Im not going to pay 2k rubles (50-60$) for 1 bloody game i can buy for 600 rubles from retail, d'oh. and im not going to pay ALL my for-steam-games-mnthly money for 1 stupid preorder (like New transformers (1.5k) or Dishonored (1.2k)). I better wait till release and buy it in retail\ go to cinema 35 times.

Btw - arevage wage 200$ IS pretty low. But its only for people who work for goverment, and many of them has 2-3 jobs at a time\ some side salaries. I'd like to say, average NOT MOSCOW salary is ~600-700$ a month, excluding taxes, payments for living\apartment\gasoline\electricity etc (-370$). So we have 230-330$ a month to get food, fun etc. for example for me, living for 1 week cost 100$ (not so bad living, but average, without any chance of vacation or buying a car for cash or even in credit). and i defenetly not going to pay 50-60$ for 1 stupid game.

p.s. i HATE such threads, rly.Stop being jeleous for a country with most unstable economy in the WORLD. REALLY.

p.p.s check any "money pre person\years to get money to buy an apartment or car not in credit". In average (repeat, NOT moscow) city, you have to pay ALL money you get in 7-8 years (withour food or anything) to buy CHEAPIEST apartment. (cheapiest cost more then 50.000$ in rus. its 1-2 rooms, withour any furniture or even wallpapers, crap.)

and, as always, sorry for bad english.

In my country you'd be lucky with $200-300 a month. We still get US prices in retail and steam. That's why most games here are pirated or torrented.

LMAO

Laughed much harder than I should've.

this was very funny.

but not if it's true :o

ROFL

I almost thought this was true until I read «No potato currency». Then I laughted.

I agree, same prices for all! :)

Hey wanna hear a great example? Darkspore.

• EU price = 50 euros
• US price? 15 DOLLAH BIC BOI

That makes a 4-pack 150 euro's here in NL, and 45, there. Less than the price of 1, - that is - ONE copy, here.

Whilst confusing, I like this system. There is world wide «default» price for everyone in the world in US dollars. These games can be gifted to anyone in the world. For countries that have a much more low average income, they have their own price ajusted more to local income. So a game there might cost 60zł or 600руб. The regions for this are done according to average income in a tiered system, so some countries fit in between 300$ and 400$ per month, and others would fit in 700$ to 800$ per month. Games bought price ajusted through the tier system can only be gifted to tiers close by, so if you were in the 500$ to 600$ per month tier, you could gift games to anyone that fits in between 700$ per month and 400$ per month.

tl;dr
Have a world wide price in US dollars giftable to anyone.
Also have a tier system where gifts can only be share to close/poorer tiers.
Let people choose which price to pay.