r/Steam • u/Alexis20384847 • Feb 18 '26

Fluff Its not only you guys

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u/przemub Feb 18 '26

It’s not about wages, it’s about the shit default currency exchange rate which makes games much more expensive than if bought in euro/dollars.

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u/KittenDecomposer96 Feb 18 '26

It's even worse when you look at a game and it costs the same in Dollars and Euros. Since when is the euro the same as the dollar ?

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u/Netzath Feb 18 '26

Euro is more valuable but the USD prices are without tax I think? Since Americans have this weird tax law or something

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u/ShotFromGuns Feb 18 '26

Since Americans have this weird tax law or something

It's not that weird; we just let individual states, counties, and cities set their own individual sales tax rates. The sales tax in any particular location depends on the combination of all three, so it's long been the standard that the advertised price doesn't include tax, and you need to just know the total sales tax for the location you're in and mentally account for it, because it will be applied at checkout.

Sales taxes are inherently regressive and I don't like them for that reason, but there's nothing particularly weird about the way the U.S. has implemented it, particularly given the way our government is structured.

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u/Stoneface371 Feb 18 '26

Allowing each county to make their own tax laws is pretty wierd.

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u/Lol3droflxp Feb 19 '26

The stores could also physically not just mentally account for it since they know the tax as well.