Steam volition display Australian dollars soon, according to developer
Using Steam isn't much fun inwards Australia. All prices are displayed inwards USA dollars, which agency checking conversion rates. And because the Australian dollar has been a fighting up-and-down compared to the USA of late, it's getting increasingly hard to brand a ballpark estimation on whatever game's price. Oh, too sometimes the toll on Steam ends upward higher than what Australians would await to pay at retail.
But it looks similar Steam volition before long grab upward amongst the likes of GOG soon, despite promising it would occur back inwards 2014. One studio has permit sideslip that it mightiness live on happening inwards a affair of weeks.
Spotted past times Kotaku, War for the Overworld studio Brightrock Games warned its users of closed to imminent changes to the game's prices in a novel weblog post. In an update to its toll matrix, 11 novel currencies volition live on supported on Steam, including Australia. (The studio's annunciation concerns changes to its regional pricing based on the novel functionality.)
"The next local currencies are straightaway supported past times Steam, too equally such these regions convey novel prices inwards trouble amongst the pricing matrix," the annunciation read. "As higher upward nosotros convey submitted the changes to allow these currencies too await them to live on approved inwards the coming days too weeks. The actual fourth dimension volition depend on Steam of course."
"These changes convey been approved past times Valve straightaway too should live on live. However nosotros tin laissez passer on the sack non confirm this too if you lot create non run across your currency it is probable that Valve has non officially launched them nevertheless too may live on waiting for to a greater extent than developers. If that's the example there's no timescale for the launch only we'd for certain await them this year, in all probability inwards the coming weeks."
Here's the amount listing of the soon-to-arrive currencies, according to the studio.
- Vietnamese Dong
- Ukrainian Hryvnia
- Australian Dollar
- Polish Zloty
- Argentine Peso
- Israeli New Shekel
- Kazakhstani Tenge
- Kuwaiti Dinar
- Qatari Rial
- Costa Rican Colon
- Uruguayan Peso
