South African Rand coming to steam on 10 November
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So I wont complain. I have heard that there are some games that we don't have access too now, but not a clue if this is true or not.
Grievous
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Shit I made an assumption, like everyone else!
The_Imp_ZA
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Yup, I agree completely.
EA and Ubisoft games were already priced in rands on Origin. I think the reason Fallout is so much more expensive than AC:Syndicate is because Bethesda doesn't actually know that local pricing for big AAA games is around R600. Or maybe they do and they just want to milk some extra cash out of people.I'm looking for some other examples. On Origin, The Witcher 3 is R500. On Steam it's R589, but currently on sale for R412. Far Cry 4 is R379 on Origin, but R500 on Steam. Similarly AC:Unity is R379 on Origin, but R500 on Steam. Hopefully these prices get adjusted, because it's pretty stupid to have two different prices on a platforms that both sell in rands.
Grievous
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Yup, I agree completely.
What I'm more surprised about, I was expecting a more cut and paste approach by steam, every game that's $60 is now R800 and so on. But that doesn't seem to be the case. So far it looks like everything is at least slightly cheaper.
Deus Ex : Mankind Divided @ R500 , XCOM2 @ R580, Total War :Warhammer @ R600 , Hitman @ R500 , The Division @R600. I am very tempted to pre-order a ton of freaking games at those prices. What's the odds local retailers will have those prices by the time those games release? Zero.
Grievous
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My word, all those games are games I want. Thanks for the good news. Deus Ex being a game I will get on release, The Division a potential, still need to see more game info before I decide.
Mister 44
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PsychoFish
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Naa, looks like the conversion was favorable. No major differences in prices though. Seems like a R10 here and a R50 there drop on some titles.
oltman
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I meant the card marketplace... $0.08 used to be a good price... Now I have to do math! Urgh!
Grievous
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Just something you will get use to, as you did with the values being in Dollars. It should be less confusing now, since you don't have to keep track of the exchange rate.
Some games have had a big drop, as noted earlier in the thread. It seems some of the pre-orders for Ubisoft games are R300 less.
oltman
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My wallet was full of dollars I earned by selling cards, so never needed to do a conversion. It was easy to work out value when everything was in a currency that I was earning in. Now I basically have to start over
Not a big deal, but just a slight annoyance. I will forget the dollar value pretty quickly!
PsychoFish
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Noticed that as well, that's likely coming directly from Ubisoft though as they give us Saffas an "emerging markets" discount
The_Imp_ZA
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My wallet was full of dollars I earned by selling cards, so never needed to do a conversion. It was easy to work out value when everything was in a currency that I was earning in. Now I basically have to start over
Not a big deal, but just a slight annoyance. I will forget the dollar value pretty quickly!
I'm in a similar boat. I have about 50 cards I have to reprice, because the conversation rate Steam used is a bit wonky, it made everything too expensive. On the plus side, I only need R30 more to buy Shadow of Mordor now. Before it would have been R60.
Even better news, all that cash was made using card money. I don't know why people make badges, selling them can actually get you quite a bit of change. I think I've made over R300 this year selling on the market.
Valve really needs to add batch remove and batch sell. Only being able to select cards one by one takes forever.
Grievous
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I think they did that to be safe, peopel would be way more upset if it made it cheaper and all your items sold at that price.
GregRedd
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Done. As the site post suggests, pretty sure they just need to get all the store pricing plugged into their database. The range of games missing prices does seem a bit random though?
Apollo
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So i did a thing
It seems to be that older new releases best to buy on steam, however brand new releases best to get at local retailers.
Also with this does this mean we will be getting steam wallet funds?
Just note the Raru prices are a bit off on that list.
FO4 = R601
BLOPS3 = R687
JC3 = R515
Witcher 3 = R479
Stefan9
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So i did a thing
It seems to be that older new releases best to buy on steam, however brand new releases best to get at local retailers.
Also with this does this mean we will be getting steam wallet funds?
Only if pricing is all that matters. There are intangibles to consider. Personally steam services levels vastly superior to the local sharks + steam refunds no matter what as long as you are within 14 days/2 hours played period. Good luck trying to get the local sharks to give you a full refund on a pc game...