I hate how the $ to € is converted in Steam

Sux. Publishers set the prices, not Valve.

Stop complaining to them and complain to the publisher.

EDIT: This is also about the 999th thread about this.

I didn't said this was VALVe. I just want to say it's really weird and it makes me angry

The GOTY ed. costs 29,99€ here...

Join this Steam group then

Not my group but it adresses this issue.

A lot of it is also VAT, remember. It's not even all the publisher's fault. In most US states you don't pay sales tax for digital purchases, whereas in France you're paying 20% which has to be factored in. 16.26 + 20% is already 19.60 or so.

Gotta love my Philippines' $-account with "travel mode" fully on ;)

EU Steam : Titan Quest Gold = 9,99€

US Steam : Titan Quest Gold = 19.99 $ = 16.2649 €

^_^;;

You should check out Australia...
It's as high as: 1 USD -> 4 USD...
Not 1:1 sometimes

Developers are stupid. VALVe never does this mistake. For example: CS:GO is 15$ in America but it's 11€ in Europe (maybe not equal but it's not 15€, so...).

This is for economic reasons. Every commodity is priced differently in Europe vs. North America mainly due to economies of scale, so European consumers are largely accustomed to higher prices. Retailers in the digital realm have found they can exploit this grumbling acceptance to make more money, so they do.

100%

I know how you feel man, i'm from EU1 too ;[ ...

I love, how they convert into Roubles:)
Especially, when they make conversion errors (sometimes they think, $9,99 is the same as 99 roubles, lol)
I'm really sorry about those of you, who has to pay extra.
On the other hand we have lots of games region locked, language locked, separate versions with not working DLCs and lots of other problems:(

My favorite:
20 USD = 16 EUR
50 EUR = 60 USD
EA loves European people.

Also why do steam put the € after the price? In Ireland we write/display it like every other currency €19.99 not 19.99€. It's only a small thing but it really bugs me.

Binary Domain was for FUCKING 3,14$ DOLLARS ON RUSSIAN STEAM TODAY!!!

Yeah it's very annoying o_O

You would find EA's Origin even sillier - Hot pursuit is 50eur in Europe and 20$ in USA (similar thing with Alice, Bad company 2 and Mass effect games)

Could be worse:

US Steam: Shift 2 = $ 20 / € 16 / AU$ 19
EU Steam: Shift 2 = $ 61 / € 50 / AU$ 58
AU Steam: Shift 2 = $ 85 / € 69 / AU$ 80

One thing is clear: we in Europe are getting ripped off and that's not right. I propose we all send an email to the Steam Support (hoping we can reach at least 100 in two days) but we should petition or something.

You know, just show them we don't want this anymore. Hopefully they'll take us seriously and fear the boycott. If the boycott doesn't happen, we can always find something else. Even court - and I'm dead serious. I'm tired of being ripped off just because I live somewhere that isn't North America. If we take the Borderlands example, that's a difference of 8 euros (correct me if I'm wrong; my thinking is 24-16, as shown in the original post). So basically that's Borderlands+1 indie game if you're in NA, and that's Borderlands by itself if not.

If you go for the email, here's guidelines:

• Basically tell them how much you like Steam and Valve (but don't overdo it!)
• Obviously talk about regional pricing. Preferably link examples, such as Borderlands and Darkspore (to access another store, add ?cc=code (where code is US or FR/LU... any country western European country using euros) to the link) and explain that this is not normal.
• Finally, add that you're ready to boycott Steam unless prices are standardized - you set a price in $ or any currency, then you convert them, and that gives you the prices in other countries.

Remember two things though:

• The Eastern European Steam store offers lower prices because, officially, there's a lot of game piracy going on (apparently you can walk into a legit store and buy your pirated copy right off the shelf).
• Publishers set their prices, but I believe Valve has some saying. I guess they won't refuse EA telling them to sell MW3 at 60€ (normally new triple A releases are at 50€) but the indie publishers might not have that margin. Either way, we don't know for sure.

If support for my, er, mailing campaign isn't strong, I can at least say I tried haha. And I guess I kinda look like a troll or something, but let's be honest here: it's not normal for me to pay more for the same game just because I live somewhere else. And if we don't do something, nothing is gonna change. I know there's a group trying to change that, but I don't think they've been trying hard.

If you're with me on boycotting Steam just a little, there's other places you can get your games :P GamersGate is having a summer sale right now, there's GreenManGaming whom are very nice, there's GoG which dropped DRM and regional pricing... I know a lot of you - and I'm in there too - like Steam so that you can keep track of your games, but at some point we have to tell these companies what we think, or they're never gonna change their practices. A company's main goal is making money, and that's what they're getting when they charge 8 extra euros for a game.

Is it legal to change location to US so you can buy games cheaper?

Russian prices.

I find it actually worse on GMG, I get £ prices instead of € ones, and they usually are higher. At least on steam I know the number is the same before currency (between $ and €). Exemple, Dear Esther is apparentely around 1.50 in € while it is 1.73 in £.

I thought €=$ there

Prices are set by publishers, not by Steam. The publishers don't give a damn about your complaints, as long as you keep buying things at the prices they set, they'll keep using those prices.