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Old Jan 30, 2013, 10:33 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by Crap Daddy View Post
I'm in Romania which is part of EU but average income is way lower than in Western Europe and we have our own currency. I can understand the taxes but when Steam and Microsoft use a conversion rate of 1Euro=1Dollar I doubt it's the taxes. Never mind, I understood long ago that what in US is 100$ over here is also 100... but Euro. What I don't understand is why they don't offer better prices and a different approach towards countries where illegal software is widespread.
In sweden (and uk) 1$ = 1€ makes sense. But you have a good point about different prices in different countries.
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