Stickied post would work just fine yeah, can't really expect the developer to set up a public repo for just tracking features. Hopefully Ruben takes notice.
UlrikHD
joined 1 year ago
if Valve isn't selling at a loss to poorer regions then they are simply extracting additional profit from higher-income regions on the assumption that those customers can afford it.
Valve can't sell for a loss the same way ebay can't. Valve simply takes a percentage of the price everytime a game is bought, publishers are in complete control of the price they want to sell. Often, publishers will let Steam automatically set regional pricing based e.g. the American price though.
The way these publishers operate, they will simply set the price at the highest possible value to extract as much as money ad they can from those willing to spend 60+$. Those unwilling or incapable of spending that amount of money, will just buy the game later on a sale. Price skimming has only become more and more prevalent in PC gaming with steam being the "innovator" of frequent sales.
Yes I did read it. I was pointing out that all this will do is screw over citizens of poorer EU countries. India vs USA was simply to make it obvious why the concept of geo blocking makes sense. Germans will on average have stronger buying power than someone in Latvia.
Steam is a storefront, not a competitor to game publisher. It's effectively no different than Lidl agreeing to run a regional rebate program for Samsung TVs in Latvia for whatever reason.
The geo blocking enabled cheaper prices for certain countries, not higher. The only people who would have an issue with it is people from richer countries that for some reason are jealous of lower prices in some countries.
Localised pricing is good though? Is it really fair ask someone in India to pay the same price as an American? If you can't geo block keys, you can't stop people taking advantage by using a VPN to buy games from whatever country got the lowest price. The result will just be publishers keeping the high price for every country, screwing poorer regions over.
Also, what they did wouldn't really qualify as price fixing.
Valve won't break the law for other publisher's profits. Steam is just a store front, they were geo blocking on behalf of other publishers.
Valve also doesn't take a cut from steam key sales not bought directly through their storefront, so the geoblocking keys isn't something that will impact them. More likely, this will result in citizens of poorer EU countries getting screwed over by having to pay higher prices for games, since they can't stop EU citizens from taking advantage of buying the game from the poorest EU country.
Nynorsk supporters just never quit do they. Half the country wants it gone and less than 10 percent of the country uses it, still it's on the list while Swedish and Danish aren't, lmao.
Lovely work, Jerboa is nice, but old habits die hard and boost is what I'm used to.
My only complaint is that BankID won't allow me to pay to remove ads, but that's not really the fault of the app.
Can anyone who is a moderator confirm that they don't have access to mod tools? As an admin, I can't see an option for checking out reports, or for a way to ban/purge users. Seems like I still need the Web browser for those things.
You can, but you may need to edit some registers to avoid windows reseting them.
Aren't people notified when mods removes their stuff?
Boost really should just update the UI to simply show how many upvotes and downvotes a post has. No reason to stick the inferior sum total of all upvotes and downvotes that reddit prefers.