Steam Sale

Just push it. There seems to be plenty of people online. Do away with the tiresome 'MORNING JOURNAL THAT FOLLOWS THIS FORMAT' & try to get some dialogue going.

The good thing about this site was the interaction with people the world over & conversations diverging & meandering. Doesn't seem as many people willing to reply (or perhaps not as many interesting people commenting!) to develop this. It's gone through slumps before you'll pull it back.

That's just a massive crock of horeshit. Who do you think powers the virtual world? It's not some matrix style enigma in your head. It's real people eating eating real food, drinking real water breathing real air. They get out of bed, go to work & produce things. How do you think Google provides its great services? Amazon gets those parcels to your door? Is TosspoT some transient being, Crossfire's very own Holly slogging away at that there hamster wheel?

I'd imagine the reason you're trying to separate the two is that you're either embarrassed of your virtual self, or you're trying to morally justify virtual theft (which is fine I do it too).

There's a cost to distributing games. There's a cost to advertising them. There's a cost to processing transactions. There's a cost to paying wages, paying taxes & building maintenance. There's a cost to time. Were the developers to take on these costs; you know what, they're spending less time developing games.

If the distributor was taking too large a cut to make the development cost effective we'd see no games. Or we'd see competitors out there undercutting Steam.

They provide a much needed valuable service. The best way to keep studios in production is to purchase their products. The best way to avoid online privacy is to offer a high quality easily accessible product at an affordable price. Seems to me Steam slots into this role perfectly.

Then buy them from elsewhere :-)

Regional pricing is just a way of life that we see with everything. Sucks to live in a wealthy country!

Let people from those regions gift games to you. That's how I did it to get uncut / cheaper versions in Germany.

This, why would anyone w/o a US account even bother? This Might & Magic deal (14,99€) for example, it's 11€ with free-shipping in sweden, straight to your mailbox within a couple of days max, and this is in sweden, a place that makes most countries look cheap :D

Unless you're really, really dying to play the game RIGHT NOW, which I doubt since you didn't buy it up until this point, then I don't see any reason why you would buy it on steam.

it said "update" though all those updates equal the size of the games. but it's definitely not downloading the entire game, but can't check how much, since steam laggs a lot as long as it lasts :P

all of the new heroes are boring compared to heroes of might and magic 3