Humodour

It's not Steam that does it. It's individual publishers.

Say wut? Of the universities I know, none were either founded nor funded by a church. My highchool was founded by a church in 1184 (AD) or so, but the universities? Not really. While there is some debate over the details, Medieval Universities were a continuation of Cathedral and Monastic schools of the early Middle Ages. You can look it up if you'd like, it's an interesting history. The Catholic Church owned a lot of land and had a lot of power in the Middle Ages. There wasn't much that went on that they didn't have a hand in. That's not true in Australia.

Gorth is Danish. That is a lie perpetrated by villains.

**** the press.

Uh, I don't think you're correct Hurlshot.

How did you usually build your hero virumor?

That's probably because you hit 'Automatic' on every battle instead of 'Tactical'. Tactical combat opens up a whole new other game with Baldur's Gate-like combat in turn-based mode that is completely missed by going Automatic. It's absolutely nothing like Civ if you avoid Automatic fights.

I'm sure that the official Obsidz response will be "pricing is a question for the publisher and/or the retailers-- we have nothing to do with it." That's like a lobbyist in America saying "the policy is up to Congress - we have nothing to do with it".

Portable sentient... DOUBLE RAINBOW?!

It gets 5 out of 5 stars on GoG.com and I can see why. It's awesome. Dunno quite how to describe it. Suffice to say it should entice any RPG, RTS, or turn-based fans. http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/age_of_wonders Go buy it! $6 and DRM-free! It's from 1999 but the graphics and interface are way better than I expected.

Obsidian is there a reason this game has such a ****ing ridiculous price on Steam, at $90 AUD? Seriously, I'm keen to here your response.

WHAT THE ****. Fallout: NV just increased to $90 AUD ($87 USD) on Steam. Nope, **** that ****, I'm not buying it. Tell your publisher to **** off, Obisidan.

What's taxation like in Australia? Most of Europe gets a 15-25% price hike just from VAT, though. Not saying we aren't shafted, but that's a part of the equation, too... As others have already covered, GST is 10%, excluding basic food commodities. It's a horrible regressive tax system introduced by Australia's most conservative government in a long time. The highest income tax bracket here is over $180,000 which is about $54,000 tax (30%) plus 45% of every dollar over $180,000. Not many people pay much over 30% tax. There's also the universal healthcare levy which is 1.5% of income, or 2.5% if you earn over $70,000 and have no private healthcare. Edit: That steamprice site is awesome. There's a few reasons Steam is more expensive in Australia, and I think unfortunately the most prominent one is simply Australians can afford it. Publishers can hike the prices without risk of decreased sales here. Altogether fees, shipping, and GST account for maybe a 20% price increase. Not 50% to 100%. ****.

What is the speed of relativity?

Because these stores do not exist in the majority of countries. On a serious note, digital distribution is usually much cheaper, not the same price. Civ 5 is one notable exception here in that the publisher decided to make the online price double what it is for Americans. So we can pay $80 on Steam or $100 in retail stores. In America it's what? $40 to $50 bucks? Either way it's not worth buying in this country.

Is that GAME Australia or some other country? You can hardly compare GAME Australia to GAME UK considering the completely different states of the economies of each country for instance (for a start the UK's = **** condition, Australia's = Brilliant condition). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_(retailer) Wikipedia has the information you're looking for. If you're going to respond to me, don't try and be a smarmy bastard with a one-liner Wikipedia link as a reply. The Wikipedia link says NOTHING about how GAME performed in Australia relative to the UK for the same period. You CANNOT draw any causative link between GAME UK's performance as a "specialist retailer" until you've first ruled out regional retail instability or economic gloominess as the cause. From wikipedia, addressing your initial question which is if the groups are linked: They seem to be. I obviously don't know about the performance, I haven't claimed so either. I'm also asking a question, please bare that in mind... It could just be economic gloominess, it may be a shift in trends. *sigh*, if you're going to communicate with other people, I recommend your remove your pretentious head from your ass and get a sense of humour. Just a suggestion, feel free to ignore it. You are forgiven.

Is that GAME Australia or some other country? You can hardly compare GAME Australia to GAME UK considering the completely different states of the economies of each country for instance (for a start the UK's = **** condition, Australia's = Brilliant condition). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_(retailer) Wikipedia has the information you're looking for. If you're going to respond to me, don't try and be a smarmy bastard with a one-liner Wikipedia link as a reply. The Wikipedia link says NOTHING about how GAME performed in Australia relative to the UK for the same period. You CANNOT draw any causative link between GAME UK's performance as a "specialist retailer" until you've first ruled out regional retail instability or economic gloominess as the cause.

30 years after proposing black holes destroy information, he conceded this is not true - that singularities preserve information. Look, all I know is that it wasn't a sapient being in any human sense (in fact describing 'it' as a 'being' at all seem utterly ludicrous to me).

Thanks This is the link I had awhile back I could never get the game to work properly, even following the instructions to the letter. This time however, so far so good. Should note, in case other run into the same problem, I had to re-extract and re-install the UI fix, the Unfinished Business and bugfix mods several times before they worked properly. Bit of a pain but worth it. The game is a masterpiece without mods. It's eminently playable without them and it might be worth doing so your first playthrough.

Is that GAME Australia or some other country? You can hardly compare GAME Australia to GAME UK considering the completely different states of the economies of each country for instance (for a start the UK's = **** condition, Australia's = Brilliant condition).

Nice find!

Copyright is NOT property rights. ****, I would've thought the more Libertarian-leaning people on this board would be the most astute ones on this matter. Guess not.

****.

That's because cops have to complete their degree, go through intensive training, and are generally held highly accountable to the law. Private interest groups fit none of these requirements.

Yes, but this is the same thing the major game publishers do too.