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Steam in AUD?
I live in Australia, and the exchange rate to USD is not ideal at the moment. I was wondering if it was possible to change it to Australian dollars instead? I heard Steam was adding the currency, but I could never find if it was implemented.

Any help would be great!
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Mothman 2015年12月25日 22時05分 
You guys have misunderstood GST. For it to apply to Steam, they would have to be established as a business in Australia with their own ABN etc and be registered for GST.

How do you think all these online "Australian" stores get by selling TVs, furniture, etc without charging GST? It's because as far as they're concerned, their business is situated outside of Aus, therefore you are essentially buying from a foreign country. Until Aus forms trade agreements which include requiring other countries to collect tax on their behalf, or Steam sets up and Australian branch, we won't be paying GST.

Pretty sure the issue is Steam just having some sort of programming to detect country of origin, and adjust prices according to the current exchange rate. The issue is as the exchange rate constantly varies, it would have to constantly update. Pretty big demand for a (relatively) small group of consumers.
It's a legal one.

In Australia it is illegal for Steam to undersell Australian retail stores in AUD$.

They would also need to introduce a new publishing region and republish 10,000 games or we would miss out on stuff we already have access to.

Prices would also rise, regardless of exchange rate.
If you sell goods/services in a country you have to abide by their tax laws, things are changing and many online stores are being requested to pay GST tax... Steam has already be requested to charge GST, unsure when it will happen.... Either way we should be paying in AUD, else we currently are paying 1.5 times the price, so consider this when the sales are on... It's now cheaper to buy from Jb Hifi then Steam most of the time, unless you get 60%+ sales
when USD and AUD were equal value we would have been paying the same amount but now the USD is recovering the number on AUD price tag is getting higher, i feart that it may yet cost 40 AUD to get a Steam Card worth 20 USD.
最近の変更はinkwhiz888が行いました; 2015年12月29日 2時43分
It's $1.38888 to the dollar, if we get AUD$ in Steam now all games will permanently cost at least +38.888% more, plus regional overheads, plus tax.

Really dumb idea, as games are expensive enough in Australia.
Anything now?
Steaaaammmmm, we're waiting...
I don't want to pay +15% more for games on Steam after the conversion.

Do you?
cuz 2016年2月2日 13時14分 
I know it sucks that they haven't added AUD. I heard that there is NZ Dollar (New Zealand) but there isn't a AUD.................... Makes total sense.
If they add AUD then I'll ban my children from using Steam, and stop gifting games to my cousins, as end user prices will rise +15% to +50% for legal and local publisher reasons.
最近の変更はDr Thomas Pabstが行いました; 2016年2月2日 23時37分
Dr Thomas Pabst の投稿を引用:
If they add AUD then I'll ban my children from using Steam, and stop gifting games to my cousins, as end user prices will rise +15% to +50% for legal and local publisher reasons.

Why? it is not like they will put steam on servers located in australia, and all i really want is an option to see prices in australian dollars beause when i bought a $20 steam card in Big W when activated it, it was intsantly converted into the USD equivelent.

if I can click in the right click on the price of a game see how much it is based on the exchange rate then I will know how much I would need to spend on Steam cards in Big W.

At the moment if I go to EB Games to get a card worth 20 USD I would need in excess of 30 AUD for a steam card but if I am able to know in advance that the game in question is worth less than 20 AUD then would get a card from Big W.
The cards are in USD.
The games are in USD.

No math is required to convert USD to USD.
Since I Have to pay for the cards in AUD I want to have an option to Right click on the USD price and select my currency to see what the exchange rate state it would be in AUD.

That way I know wether paying 20 AUD in Big W will cover it, as that gets converted into USD which last time was around 13-14 USD, or If I will need to go to EB Games and Pay $39 (what it cost today, the 4th Feb 2016) for a Steam Card worth 20 USD.
They will only use one currency more then likely to prevent currency abuse like that.

Trust me and the other people that have said it but being forced to use aud will mean a increase of prices when that happens.
Chompman の投稿を引用:
They will only use one currency more then likely to prevent currency abuse like that.

Trust me and the other people that have said it but being forced to use aud will mean a increase of prices when that happens.

Currency abuse? SEIROUSLY!?!

I am sorry, I live in australia I have to pay in australian dollars, the exchange affects how many AUD it will cost me buy a game on a site that at present, only deals with people in my country in USD.

If the game cost 20 USD then I will go to EB Games and pay the $39 AUD (assuming I have it at the time) for 20 USD Steam card (or I may have to go with out).

How-ever, if on the same day a game I want to buy is only 5 USD or less (not sure I would get 10 USD for 20 AUD now), are you telling me that anyone that goes to Big W for the 20 AUD Steam card is at fault, possibly even breaking the law?

I may be waiting for those almost miraculous days when i actualy have any form of disposable income, so if a game does happen to be on special, then all good and well, right place at the right time, lucky me I guess.

but I do not believe that I am someone sitting on a massive bag of money (never have been) waiting for days the days to return when I could pay 20 for 20(add $3 for EB and GST?).

Reguardless of the stock exchange and how much AUD I currently have to pay on any given day for that Steam card at EB Games, am I mistaken In my belief that Valve would still get 20 USD?

What about all those who take advantage of summer/winter sales? Do you also believe that they are they deliberately abusing Steam/Valve. If Valve had a problem with it, I doubt that those sales would even take place and it is digital download, while a print run of physical disks is limited by certain factors, with digital download, I am not aware of any limitation to how many copies they can sell, other then the number of people willing to buy them. the lower the price is the larger that number of people can become.
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