1€ ≠ 1$

Most of us – Steam Unpowered team – participated in closed beta of Shattered Horizon – a pretty decent space shooter. The agreement between testers and Futuremark forbids us to tell you more about the game or even post screenshots. Anyway, I will tell you that the first thing I did on the official forums was a thread with a request to price this game equally around the world as it comes out only on Steam. And guess what?

They annouced the pre-order of the game. Testers have it for 25% less (14,99€ in Europe excluding UK) and the rest of people 10% less (excluding UK). And it looks like this:

US: $17.99
UK: £13.49 (22% higher)
EU: 17,99€ (49% higher)

We’re not the only one whining about it.

If I remember correctly they replied in my thread that they will try to price it correctly (equally) but I guess they didn’t try hard enough.

PS
The game gets boring after few hours – and no, we weren’t bad in it, we actually scored in top 10.

PS2
Get S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl instead – it’s a really fun and solid shooter for only 5€.

PS3
You can get the game from here http://www.shatteredhorizon.com/buynow/ and order it with better discount if you own 3DMark and you will receive a cdkey for your Steam account.


Detailed article:
http://steamunpowered.eu/shattered-horizon-overpriced/

Forum discussion thread:
http://steamunpowered.eu/forums/steam/shattered-horizon-overpriced/

Twitter post:
http://twitter.com/steamunpowered/status/5196041185