Thanks to the UK government VPNs are going to thrive 😆

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Holy Cow, this makes the Steam prohibitive if you live in a country where its not officially sold, because there was already a markup for import taxes and shipping!

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Quoting: JustinWoodI cannot help but question what the point of having a 2 controller limit was when that limit was *per transaction*. At the very least, that should be limited to 2 per account until they've got a better idea of the demand. And frankly, I find the attitude of saying "Don't bother trying to deal with the scalpers" to be rather ridiculous. The markups I was seeing on Ebay yesterday were honestly obscene, to say nothing of the fact that they're blatantly against Ebay's ToS given that there's no way any of those sellers actually have the product in hand like they're supposed to.

many things could be done, it could be per account as you said, and also they could ask for the account to be older than a certain amount of months to be eligible to purchase, ofc scalpers probably have thought this and have thousands of bot accounts, but it could mitigate the issue, also maybe they could put a cap that if you havent spent like lets say 20 dollars on purchases in the store, you are not eligible to buy the controller... just some 2 minutes ideas from the top of my head.

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Go after the scalpers! ffs... "criminals always find a way" isnt even an argument, this is like saying that police should be abolished because criminals always find loop holes to commit crimes.

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I would buy one if only was available in Argentina... in latam we only get scalpers price that means like triple the price.

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I loved Sudden Strike 4, I would buy it... if it would be cheaper.. at least for me in Argentina its not following the new regional price guidelines... its just marginally cheaper.

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Quoting: KoopaMy bet is most studios will stick with the less favorable option for gamers regarding price.

The rational choice is to choose the price that maximises profit in each region. Setting the price too high reduces the number of units sold, and so reduces profit.

this is the ideal world... but other things come into consideration in reality... like artificial scarcity, or monopolizing a game segment, or marking up games to then discount them so the user perceives there was a hefty discount when there is not. Also I've seen some games that have huge demand, like selling a lot of copies in my region, actually being marked up higher than the US, simply because users are willing to pay that price, its not that simple.
Also some big studios dont care about this... I live in Argentina, latam-usd region and some AAA have exactly the same price as in the US. They didnt care about regional pricing before... I have doubts they will suddenly care.
Tbh what it looks from my end, is that regional pricing is falling apart, fewer studios do regional pricing by the day, to me Valve's move is kinda a desperate move because they dont want regional price to fall apart.

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This seems like a double edge sword, prices could go down or up depending of which option devs stick to, and tbh with how things are with the economy around the world I have no hopes of prices going down... My bet is most studios will stick with the less favorable option for gamers regarding price.

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Tim Sweeney is a sucker, this is the man that cries competition and free market in courts, and then cripples the competition.

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This specs dont make sense... technically the 7900XT is faster than the 9070XT!

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