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Submission + - Valve starts euro pricing for europeans in Steam

Submitted by Bocconcini on Friday December 26, 2008 @06:46PM

Bocconcini writes: Valve has brought the Steam euro pricing out of beta and european customers are not impressed.

Apparently, the initial currency conversion rate is 1USD=1EUR, which makes many Steam games more expensive than local retail prices. In addition, many countries that do not use the euro currency, such as Russia and Poland, are forced to pay the euro prices.

Comment Re:Specs (Score 1) 551

by Bocconcini on Saturday December 13, 2008 @05:18AM (#26101277) Attached to: How Do I Manage Seasoned Programmers?

Kind of related to this is decision making. Don't put a decision off to make sure we know 100% the best possible solution. Usually a good-enough solution will work until more is known about the problem (especially if it contributes to the later solutions).

I've seen near a year lost on a project because management couldn't make the decision everyone knew they would.

There is actually an interesting parallel to this coming from the Lean software development ideology. You shouldn't make a decision until the last responsible moment, when you have the maximum amount of information.

I know, easier said than done.

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