Today was the day that Steam lastly added support for the Australian dollar, and in addition the day that various games stopped being bought to people down below. Steam requires publishers to explicitly set costs in regional foreign money for a game’s to be bought there, see, and a few people simply haven’t finished that but. Which is an issue if you happen to at the moment need to purchase such games as Vermintide 2, Factorio, Ori And The Blind Forest, Return Of The Obra Dinn, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth… some good things. I think about oversights will quickly corrected but it surely’s an ungainly teething drawback. A little bit of a sticky wicket.
So! Australians now pay localised costs in Australian {dollars} for Steam games, reasonably than paying in US {dollars} and having costs transformed. That appears to means sure, game costs there have gone up a wee bit too.
It’s not a shock that some games have turn into unavailable with the change. Valve warned builders prematurely that this might occur, making clear that they’d must set AUD costs for his or her games to proceed to be bought there and even recommending worth factors. Some nonetheless haven’t set Australian costs (hey, life’s loads) and so away go their games till they do. Kotaku Australia have ferreted out lots of the neat-o games quickly (hopefully?) not bought on the Australian Steam retailer.
Australians who beforehand purchased any of the games which can be at the moment unavailable do nonetheless have them of their Steam library, and might nonetheless obtain and play them. It’s solely would-be-newcomers who’re affected by this.
Developers, these good Australians wish to offer you cash; please assist them try this.
