Steam Price Differences???

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Can anyone explain why Need for Speed: Hot Persuit has an UNDISCOUNTED price of $49.99, when using my internet at home, yet when browsing it from work its only $19.99?
 
Maybe it wasn't on sale when you were home and became a flash sale by the time you got to work? It does change every 2 (or 4?) hours you know...
 
TJ99 said:
Maybe it wasn't on sale when you were home and became a flash sale by the time you got to work? It does change every 2 (or 4?) hours you know...
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Nope, i am not including the discounts.

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There are a few games like this.
Plus, LA Noire is not available to me at home, yet at work it is.

Black Ops was also $10 cheaper at work :-/.
 
In that case your work probably routes traffic via another country so Steam sees the IP and thinks you're in a different country.
 
Mine's still showing $49.99, discounted to $24.99, you sure you're checking the same game? There's no way a game that's still relatively new would have an undiscounted price of $20, Steam has never done that, not even with From Dust.
 
TJ99 said:
Mine's still showing $49.99, discounted to &24.99, you sure you're checking the same game? There's no way a game that's still relatively new would have an undiscounted price of $20, Steam has never done that, not even with From Dust.
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Check the screenshot...

Dead Space 2, Black Ops and Need for Speed are the only ones i have noticed so far.
 
Are you on a VPN by any chance ? Might be that Steam picks up a different International IP when browsing from work if you are on VPN hence you see other prices
 
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Wow, that sure is messed up... I just noticed, when I type in Need for speed in the search bar (on the Steam website), the first match that comes up is Hot Pursuit (the new one, same as your screenshot), at $24.99. But then when I hold the cursor over it, the price suddenly changes to $12.49.

WTF is going on with Steam?
 
TJ99 said:
Wow, that sure is messed up... I just noticed, when I type in Need for speed in the search bar (on the Steam website), the first match that comes up is Hot Pursuit (the new one, same as your screenshot), at $24.99. But then when I hold the cursor over it, the price suddenly changes to $12.49.

WTF is going on with Steam?
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I have no idea. I wanted to buy Hot Pursuit when it was on the flash sale, i get home and i was a bit confused as to why it was not as cheap when i saw it at work.

It can only be that Steam recognises our work connection as originating from another country. As Splice says, but we are not using a VPN. We have a Neotel Fibre connection for internet.
 
Even if you are in another country there's only meant to be the Dollar price and Euro price ($20 vs €20). And that doesn't explain the price changing when you mouse over it, then changing back when you click on it....
 
TJ99 said:
Wow, that sure is messed up... I just noticed, when I type in Need for speed in the search bar (on the Steam website), the first match that comes up is Hot Pursuit (the new one, same as your screenshot), at $24.99. But then when I hold the cursor over it, the price suddenly changes to $12.49.

WTF is going on with Steam?
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Hahahaha, I just checked, when the quick search results come up it shows as $5 :D. I wish it was that price.
 
$24.99 this morning. It is a most random occurrence. I didn't realise game prices were different according to geographical locations though. I thought the price was THE PRICE, irrespective of where you are.
 
Agent_Smith said:
$24.99 this morning. It is a most random occurrence. I didn't realise game prices were different according to geographical locations though. I thought the price was THE PRICE, irrespective of where you are.
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It is. Apart from being in Euro some places and Dollar in others. But the Dollar prices are meant to be constant, what we saw was a bug.
 
Its normal for prices to fluctuate to be honest. Steam has alot of sales and exchange rate has a mind of its own lol. Lately alot of the Steam and Origin codes we sell have been dropping in price rapidly for a day or so then they go up and our distributor gets them from Steam as well cept alot cheaper :)
 
The_Unnamed said:
Nope, i am not including the discounts.

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There are a few games like this.
Plus, LA Noire is not available to me at home, yet at work it is.

Black Ops was also $10 cheaper at work :-/.
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I was under the impression that LA Noire was available in SA through Steam?
 
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