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Steam-Prices (EU)

krifoskrifos
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
So, I'm from Norway and pre-ordered the game via Telltalegames.com back in June.

The price was then and is still: 34,95$. This translates to roughly 25,12€.

Now, the steam-price for the game in euro is: 32,99€. That's almost 8€ or 11$ higher! The steam-price for the game in dollar (for non-EU / non-norwegian residents) is 34,99$ (4 cent higher than the telltale-price, so it's basically the same). The steam-price in dollar for EU-residents are roughly 46$!

So, why have you priced this game so much higher (more than 30%) for us europeans, but only if we buy the game via Steam?

Again, I've already bought the game - but please stop these big price differences between the european and non-european market :/


Apart from that, great game - only thing I miss is click-walking instead of holding down the mousebutton. Click to move, double-click to run would have been great for the next episodes.

And, please make the 1920x1200 (16:10) resolution an option. I could only select resolutions up to 1920x1080 (16:9), so i had to pick 1680x1050 (the highest available 16:10 res).

Comments

  • BaggeBagge
    edited July 2009
    Telltale is not responsible for Steams treatment of european costumers, with their unfair $ to € conversion. The game is still $35 for anyone in the Telltale store.
  • hansschmuckerhansschmucker
    edited July 2009
    Probably to compensate for the money that Valve takes from them. They can't release the US Steam version with a higher price tag because people would start screaming about it, but for European releases of Steam games it's somehow acceptable that the price tag is always higher.

    Edit: According to Valve, the prices are set by the publisher.
  • SlanzingerSlanzinger
    edited July 2009
    Yeah, Steam make up their own crazy prices for third-party games - recently (with much hounding from their own community) they started localising the currency so that it didn't depend on exchange rates - everything's now a fixed price everywhere.
    But yeah, they charge about £25 in the UK, where the exchange rate puts it closer to £22 from TellTale. (So not that much difference. Actually a little more expensive than when I bought it, IIRC.)
  • CrysinCrysin
    edited July 2009
    This has been an on going argument on the Steam forums, Valve isn't setting their own random price for the product, more is their using a bad conversion method and haven't cared to change it to make it more fair. So to counter my former statement i guess it is them randomly setting prices, just they do have a method that they use to convert us dollars to euro's and the Europeans have been complaining about it for a while now, basically don't buy from Steam if your not using US dollars because your going to get ripped off.
  • krifoskrifos
    edited July 2009
    No, Steam sets prices initially, but Telltale can tell steam to set the EU price to 25€ if they want. Some, but not all, have done that. That's why some games are equally priced on Steam.
  • peEtrpeEtr
    edited July 2009
    krifos wrote: »
    And, please make the 1920x1200 (16:10) resolution an option. I could only select resolutions up to 1920x1080 (16:9), so i had to pick 1680x1050 (the highest available 16:10 res).

    ???

    I played the game in 1920x1200. The option is definitely there.
  • werpuwerpu
    edited July 2009
    krifos wrote: »
    So, I'm from Norway and pre-ordered the game via Telltalegames.com back in June.

    The price was then and is still: 34,95$. This translates to roughly 25,12€.

    Its a known fact that Steam rips of Europeans, check the steam forums there is a 100!!! page thread regarding this issue. Back in 2008 steam promised to fix that ... guess they did it to calm down the customers.
    Anyway Telltale is not responsible for the Steam pricing, you always can get it from TTG cheaper, and better (with a DVD while buying over Steam removes you of that option!)

    Buying from TTG also gives TTG more money than buying over Steam because steam gets otherwise 30% of the revenue!
  • krifoskrifos
    edited July 2009
    Weird :S - I have no option for that resolution in MI. I always use it in all other games (where possible), but, not here.

    I have Nvidia GTX 285 if that could be of any help :/


    werpu: I already bought the game via preorder (+dvd) via Telltale of course.

    It was just a petition to make Telltale to set the steam price right. To try and make a difference. I've been following the steampricing since they separated it in December 2008, and I've seen several games adjusted to have equal pricing. It IS possible :/
  • werpuwerpu
    edited July 2009
    peEtr wrote: »
    ???

    I played the game in 1920x1200. The option is definitely there.

    Jepp same here, I am playing it at 1920x1200 you just have to scroll down the resolution listbox a little bit it is not visible upfront!
  • ShaleShale
    edited July 2009
    Regarding the exchange rates, I get this mental image of Guybrush as a Valve exec looking at exchange rate charts: "I was told there would be no math!"
  • harlequ1nharlequ1n
    edited July 2009
    It's as simple as if you live in any European country being ripped off by Valve, don't buy anything from Steam. Their greedy decision let me down so much that I don't plan to ever use their service again, even if they "fix" the price issue.
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