next time you have to pay $60 US for a AAA title you can think hey, thats not to bad. atleast im not Australian. :fffuuu:
A Friend of Mine very recently Moved to Australia.
I kept telling him “Don’t do it, Don’t do it, Games are a fucking nightmare”.
Good luck to him,
FUCK YEAH STRAYA CUNT
any half savvy aussie gamer knows better than to buy retail and grey imports their games instead… believe it or not in alot of cases retailers themselves have even begun to get in on the act over here, including some of our big chains like Harvey Norman and JB Hi Fi…
If I read that chart right, it’s still nothing compared to Sweden. The prices for new games here range from the equivalent of ~85 to ~110$.
I don’t know how well that translates, though, considering the different economies as a whole, but I still find the prices ridiculously high. Whenever I buy a game I either wait a year until the prices drop to about 50$ or buy from the UK.
You people all got it easy.
In related news, Medal of Honor and Battlefield 4, by EA, are going to cost 10$ more for everyone.
And this, gentlemen, is why pirating was invented.
Gah, double-post…
Get people to gift you games from the US and EU, then paypal them the monies back. It’s perfect seeing as most steam transactions are paypal anyway.
I gifted a friend in Sydney L4D2 to get around the censorship, he payed me back. Cheaper gaming, better gaming.
And then all these companies start going “Waaaahhhh!!! Why do people keep pirating!!!”
Hold on a sec… are you gents saying that you are not able to jump on Steam, buy a game (that your country deems too violent for you… even when you are an adult) and pay for it with PayPal… and just dl it?.. Do your countries have some kind of firewalls for this shite?..
Whaaaaa? I seriously did not know that, if this is indeed the case… And I thought US was run by the biggest tight-asses on the planet.
The US makes up for it in different ways - don’t worry.
Anyways, isn’t Raminator in Sydney, Australia? lol
Edit: Newcastle apparently
yeah you cant actually do it, same with origin, if i log onto the us origin store try to make the purchase as soon as i got threw the pay screen it notices im not a us citizen and reverts back to au prices.
havent tryd gifting threw steam though pretty good idea. but alot of games it ends up cheaper threw ozgameshop.com etc just because you pay no freight and your only paying 60 bucks for triple a title.
newcastle i think. still about 2 hours out of sydney. i think.
Yeah, but do they censor you?.. not allow you to buy at all?.. because of violence etc?
some games they have, there bringing in an r18 classificatory atm how ever, but game like l4d2 and that you could simply adjust one line of code to change it back to standard.
our government is stupid and dont realize we just go around them any way.
but all thats ever held it back is one front bencher being a douche.
but he didnt make any sense, he banned l4d2 but we were aloud to play other games that had far more violence and sex scene’s.
Just because they have it worse there doesnt mean most games arent overpriced piles of shit
tonkat, your spelling is atrocious.
And yet his sentences somehow manage to be perfectly coherent. But still, it’s safer to bitch about it than leave him alone or attempt to help him in a friendly manner. I mean, what if he uses the wrong (but otherwise phonetically identical to the right) words again?
I never heard that friendliness you are talking about… where can i buy such thing?
and i will always agree.
-edit i actually just read what i had typed earlier. feel like i reside from Broadmeadows now.
adn this is what happens in Broady
When a game is not available, I see something like this:
For me, Skyrim is not available, but I can still have games like Oblivion, Fallout 3/New Vegas, Left 4 Dead 1/2, GTA games or Borderlands with full gore etc. When I search for Skyrim on Steam, I get zero results. I can search for it via Google, but I can’t open the page. I think it was the publishers decision not to sell the game in our country, because I haven’t heard of any censorship laws here.
I read somewhere people saying that they bought a game while living in one country, then moved to another country and could no longer play that game.
I only managed to overcome this issue with a free to play game (that was also not available in my region) by getting that game’s code on Steam and putting together a URL that would open the install window on my Steam app.