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Different price for DLC - Steam vs. SK

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Mon, 03/05/2012 - 09:06
Chic's picture
Chic

Yesterday I noticed that even though the advertised sale price for the DLC is 3.95$, the actual price in Steam is 3.99? Now sure it's only 4 cents but if you multiple that by a thousand or ten thousand buyers and you can get 40$ to 400$ (I have no idea what's our player population or even the PTP population so this is really vague).

What's up with the 4 cents? Who's getting the 4 cents? Why are players charged 4 cents more than advertised?
Also it's 33% off 5.95$ = 3.927$ which is closer to 3.95 than 3.99$ Y U NO MATH STEAM?

Really though, are we gonna get refunded our 4 cents? This isn't really about the money more than this is about doing what's right.

-waiting for the barrages of flames, sigh-

Mon, 03/05/2012 - 09:16
#1
Oolon's picture
Oolon
Don't feel so bad in the UK

Don't feel so bad in the UK they add 20% on to the cost and then there is the cost of currency conversion.

Mon, 03/05/2012 - 09:19
#2
Oolon's picture
Oolon
(double post sorry -- delete)

(double post sorry -- delete)

Mon, 03/05/2012 - 09:23
#3
Chic's picture
Chic
@Oolon Steam always had a

@Oolon Steam always had a problem with foreign currencies, but wait why couldn't you ask a trusted American friend to purchase you the DLC and give their money through Paypal? (I'm sure Paypal's currency conversion is less atrocious than Steam's..I think? -sigh- Even Canadian dollars are worth less in Paypal even though they're stronger than USD right now..)

Idk if you actually purchased the DLC yourself so this is pretty hypothetical, but you can do it like that next time?

Mon, 03/05/2012 - 09:48
#4
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Debianlinux
Nick: [Explaining the plan]

Nick: [Explaining the plan] Alright so when the sub routine compounds the interest is uses all these extra decimal places that just get rounded off. So we simplified the whole thing, we rounded them all down, drop the remainder into an account we opened.
Eurydice: [Confused] So you're stealing?
Nick: Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's uh it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a penny here. And over time they add up to a lot.
Eurydice: Oh okay. So you're gonna be making a lot of money, right?
Nick: Yeah.
Eurydice. It's not yours?
Nick: Well it becomes ours.
Eurydice: How is that not stealing?
Nick: [pauses] I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
Eurydice: Okay.
Nick: Um... the 7-11. You take a penny from the tray, right?
Eurydice: From the cripple children?
Nick: No that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray. You know the pennies that are for everybody?
Eurydice: Oh for everybody. Okay.
Nick: Well those are whole pennies, right? I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here. But we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.

Hyperion: We get caught laundering money, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE A** prison.

Mon, 03/05/2012 - 10:02
#5
Simohayha's picture
Simohayha
Debian -- office space quote

Debian -- office space quote is a check, but doesn't apply here. It's actually a lot simpler.

The four cents are likely going to Steam. It's a small price for the ease of platform accessibility (if you enjoy using Steam -- I know not everyone does), and it incentivizes Steam and Valve to keep helping OOO and SK out.

Mon, 03/05/2012 - 10:19
#6
Juances's picture
Juances
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^ nope.

Both on steam and the regular game the default price is set up as 5.95, yet this 3.95 'special launch disccount' is different.

If steam was taking 4 cents, then why do they list the original pirce as 5.95 instead of 5.99?

Mon, 03/05/2012 - 10:34
#7
Juances's picture
Juances
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"Also it's 33% off 5.95$ = 3.927$ which is closer to 3.95 than 3.99$ Y U NO MATH STEAM?"

Also, sorry but 33% of 5,95 is 1,96

5,95 - 1,96 = 3,99

Steam is half right.
The discount should be more like 34,5% to match the game.

Mon, 03/05/2012 - 12:15
#8
Chic's picture
Chic
@Debianlinux Hahaha~ xD Such

@Debianlinux Hahaha~ xD Such evil minds they have! D; lol

@Simohayha Even if they did, they still should advertise it as 3.99$ or at least 3.94$* (this next part in super small print at the very bottom corner of the image *+ 4 cents for Steam!)

@Juances: Ahh well my bad. I was too lazy to 5.95-33%, I 66% x 5.95$ instead ^^;; Forgot about that 1 percent there..

Still it's unclear why the price on Steam is 4 cents more...mmm..

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