Is SG's end nigh?

"Good on Steam for employing another archaic measure. Cuz, ya know, prices just have to be different across regions, because of economics."

FYP

Speaking of which.. would be nice to get a separate store for my region.. I mean.. hard copies of games cost less than a game on sale on steam (AAA titles.. you can't get other games as discs/disks)

The end of Game Miner though..... perhaps.

Right, because region locking games was impossible before.

only a few? half of the AAA games are region locked...

Probably. Valve behaves very much like a monopoly.

"A simpler approach would be to make Russians pay the same base USD price as everyone else has to - including countries, such as the one I live in, that have a lower average annual salary than Russians, and a higher rate of piracy and counterfeiting--- yet have to pay the max standard price in USD."

This.

I totally support the idea of "the same bas USD price" - that way, most games would be cheaper for users from Australia and Germany =)

A simpler approach would be to make Russians pay the same base USD price as everyone else has to

So your solution is to remove the solution they started to use in one of the countries just because the others didn't get the privilege? "If I can't have it, nobody else can?" Fuck you.

"A simpler approach would be to make Russians pay the same base USD price as everyone else has to - including countries, such as the one I live in, that have a lower average annual salary than Russians, and a higher rate of piracy and counterfeiting--- yet have to pay the max standard price in USD" Same here, but we pay in €

Someone please shoot this person... Why are you on a "PC and PC Gaming" website, if you think they are dead. PC gaming will be in it for the long run. No matter what you call a portable device, it is still a personal computer.

lol seriously.. PC and PC gaming were dead before they were even born.. What planet do you live on ?

Don't worry, they just never heard of sarcasm.

http://i.imgur.com/VCpfD26.jpg

That's why they needed an Xbox 360 and Xbox One after the original. 4 Playstations, like 10 DS systems, gamecube, SNES, Wii... and I still play on Windows. You know, because PC Gaming is dead... guess that 4 generations of PS later I can still play new games on my 'dead' PC xD

Considering the fact that it's probably gonna be used on games that are currently region-locked anyway I'm not sure why anyone actually cares about it. The only difference it's going to make is you won't be able to receive a region-restricted game outside of that specific region. And since you wouldn't have been able to legally activate it in the first place, then no harm done.

To be honest, I don't really see any US users on SG.
Most high contributors that I've seen is from out of the US

actually the person who won my most recent giveaway is italian

Not sure if serious. But yeah, so economically correct to charge MORE to people in countries where they have LESS money.

Maybe you will, just like folks at steam and publishers, be very much surprised that not all people in Europe for example can afford to pay the same price, that is usually higher than in US, where people flat out get paid MORE money than most of Europeans.

But sure, you all keep telling yourself these price differences are here for our benefit.

ea would use origin ;)

2K will use it. Bethesda will use it. All japanese publishers will use it.

Maybe to play the game?

Exactly this. Happy to give publishers money, but if they're going to apply regional pricing then they will get zero instead of the lowest regional price.

It will probably only affect the games that were already region-locked (or future games that would have been) anyway. It will just prevents people from trading/gifting the games outside of an area where they can actually be activated. The only ones affected by this will be the people spoofing their location to activate restricted games they shouldn't have been able to.

Yeah, would prevent a censored German version from being sent to an unsuspecting user in another region.

Or they could add a setting to everyone's profile that asked them for their location. Then filter their giveaways via that. No need to make a "microsite" as you call it.