Rands Coming To Steam

[Denouncer]

Unless as suggested Valve has a different price for the products in South Africa, like they have done with other 3rd world countries. Also how much are they currently adding? Surely that tax will be removed. We really just going to have to wait. I mostly buy my stuff on sale anyway, which is generally a lot cheaper than retail.

There currently isn't any tax on Steam purchases, so it won't go down unless we get regional pricing as you mention.

[Grievous]

There currently isn't any tax on Steam purchases, so it won't go down unless we get regional pricing as you mention.

are you talking about in general or just for us?

"Are taxes collected for Steam purchases?
If you made an online order for a Valve product and you are an international customer there may be taxes or VAT charges included in your purchase.
To the extent VAT applies to a transaction, Valve absorbs that cost and pays VAT itself. "

[Denouncer]

are you talking about in general or just for us?

"Are taxes collected for Steam purchases?
If you made an online order for a Valve product and you are an international customer there may be taxes or VAT charges included in your purchase.
To the extent VAT applies to a transaction, Valve absorbs that cost and pays VAT itself. "

Yeah, but they currently don't collect tax for SA purchases (from my understanding). They do collect tax in Europe and where it applies in some US states (so that's where that part in their T&C's comes from), but other countries like ourselves where there's no concrete agreement between STEAM and the local revenue services they zero rate it. That's changing for Australia soonish (2017), and could well be changing for us now too with Rands being accepted.

[The_Imp_ZA]

Official confirmation from Valve. Considering that the rand is tanking against the dollar, I wonder if this will make prices cheaper or more expensive.

[Deceptor]

Official confirmation from Valve. Considering that the rand is tanking against the dollar, I wonder if this will make prices cheaper or more expensive.

Well I hope it's a bit cheaper. Like the Brazil and Russia stores .

[TechThief]

I really hope it'ts cheaper games are already so expesive

[BeoTeK]

Will this then mean things will have to go through the FPB and will we get taxed? (unless I'm being naive or ignorant, please correct me).

Personally I would rather keep the $ currency and do my own conversion, so used to it by now.

[DarthMol]

Well if the prices go crazy on Steam with the switchover to Rands - there is always the Humble Store, Green Man Gaming, Bundlestars, G2A etc. to buy in dollars from to get a steam key. So at least we have options.

[BeoTeK]

Well if the prices go crazy on Steam with the switchover to Rands - there is always the Humble Store, Green Man Gaming, Bundlestars, G2A etc. to buy in dollars from to get a steam key. So at least we have options.

This is also true.

Hope it doesn't then impact Steam's crazy sales either.

[The_Imp_ZA]

Will this then mean things will have to go through the FPB and will we get taxed? (unless I'm being naive or ignorant, please correct me).

Personally I would rather keep the $ currency and do my own conversion, so used to it by now.

Things already go through the FBP. Go to the store look on the right hand side of the page for a game, under the languages section. You'll see the FBP rating there. It's why some games are missing from our store (such as Castlevania LoS1) or why others had trouble getting on and weren't available for months (like Mark of the Ninja). The FBP is already rubbish, it's not as if it can get any worse. I'm more interested in what the base pricing will be like. Hopefully we don't get screwed like Australia does.