Valve issues a ~50% price hike for european Steam customers

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Rhonin the wizard said:

It's dew to the fact that the currency has been changed for UK and most European countries, we now have to pay in €, pounds for UK.

A comparison of some games. I'll convert all the values into $s.

Title	Steam NA	Steam Europe	Steam UK	Amazon.co.uk	Retailer(Romania)
BioShock	19,99	28,22		15,42	42,00
Call of Duty: World at War		70,57		45,32	70,79
Crysis	29,99	42,34			42,13
Fallout 3		70,57		54,03	65,73
Left 4 Dead		63,51		40,79	60,68

 

Could somebody give me the prices for Steam NA and Steam UK, I can't find them.

Blatant advertisement:  1€ ≠ 1$ (1euro1us)

 

 

What?! (the equivalent of) $70 for Fallout 3 and CoD 5 for us Europeans to download these games from Steam?! Insane if that's true. At the game store they sell for (the equivalent of) $50 tops. With package, physical DVD and manuals.