South African Rand coming to steam on 10 November

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So just got this email from steam

Valve Software <[email protected]>
6:34 PM (11 minutes ago)

to me
Dear Steam User,
Steam will soon be priced in South African Rand!
If your Steam wallet has any money in it on November 10th, 2015, your U.S. Dollar balance will be converted to Rand, at a conversion rate dictated by market value at the time of conversion.
To view your account balance, simply log into your Steam client or the Steam website at http://www.steampowered.com. Once you have logged in, you will see your balance in the upper-right corner next to your account name.
Thanks,
The Steam Support Team
http://support.steampowered.com
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Wonder if this is gonna cause problems now with releases and what not
 
There's already a thread. "whistling:

Placing my bets that there will be absolutely no difference. We might have to pay that tax that the ANC is talking about, but I don't see the base prices of games getting more expensive.
 
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MetalSoup said:
Hope so too but I wouldn't bet on it. At the very least it will be easier to see how much money I'm wasting now, so I guess that's kind of a plus :p
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Lol.

They better not use this as an opportunity to region lock us out of more things.
 
I received this email this morning.

Dear Steam User,

Steam will soon be priced in South African Rand!

If your Steam wallet has any money in it on November 10th, 2015, your U.S. Dollar balance will be converted to Rand, at a conversion rate dictated by market value at the time of conversion.

To view your account balance, simply log into your Steam client or the Steam website at http://www.steampowered.com. Once you have logged in, you will see your balance in the upper-right corner next to your account name.

Thanks,

The Steam Support Team

http://support.steampowered.com
 
Also got the email this morning. First time getting a mail from "Valve" so I thought, whoah this will be interesting. Here's also hoping the we get lower prices like the Russians (and Brazillians) do - I mean come on, South Africans are too poor to buy stuff and pirate everything right Valve? We're just like the pirating Russians... (hint hint)
 
HavocXphere said:
Nobody "absorbs" 20%...not without pricing it in. But yes I guess they should at least apply consistent treatment.
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What they mean is at most you will be paying the same in total, no matter what your tax rate is. But, I would assume they would group us with the likes of Russia and Brazil, which have the cheapest prices on Steam.
 
MetalSoup said:
I seriously doubt we're going to be paying much more. Guess we'll only know next week for sure. Not that Steam was the cheapest to begin with anyway.
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Paying R700 for a PC is already expensive enough. Add +- 14% on top of that! That is Much more than I am prepared to pay for any digital game!!!!
 
Flex said:
Paying R700 for a PC is already expensive enough. Add +- 14% on top of that! That is Much more than I am prepared to pay for any digital game!!!!
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As far as I know steam absorbs sales tax. If not do you really think stream will make their games more expensive than those available in local stores through VAT? Odds are is that they have a loop to escape through.
 
Ike_009 said:
As far as I know steam absorbs sales tax. If not do you really think stream will make their games more expensive than those available in local stores through VAT? Odds are is that they have a loop to escape through.
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Mmm... I highly doubt it. Even Apple Online Store or whatever you call it these days included Vat to their pricing. Unfortunately it is not steams choice or idea. It is our lovely government :) Don't think steam even thought of the Tax when deciding to make the Prices in Rand.
Guess we will have to wait and see what the implications will be
 
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