Question on the DLC Price (No, not the same)

[Kellyc764]

I'm intending on getting the DLC when it comes out. Be it $5 or $10.

 

However I've been looking at the varying prices of the basegame and have a question.

I'm in the UK, and from the official DS website it's $14.99 (Current conversion = £9 GBP)

From Steam however it's £11.99 (Current conversion = $20 USD)

 

My question is, is this a case of it being cheaper purchasing from the DS website (So steam adding their little bit onto the price)

Or is this a case of prices being pickled in the conversion rates?

 

I just want to get some idea/clarification before the DLC comes out to save myself some monies Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

-Also, just to clear up my own confusion, it doesn't matter where I buy it from right? Be it the US site or the UK steam page?

[the truthseeker]

I'm intending on getting the DLC when it comes out. Be it $5 or $10.

 

However I've been looking at the varying prices of the basegame and have a question.

I'm in the UK, and from the official DS website it's $14.99 (Current conversion = £9 GBP)

From Steam however it's £11.99 (Current conversion = $20 USD)

 

My question is, is this a case of it being cheaper purchasing from the DS website (So steam adding their little bit onto the price)

Or is this a case of prices being pickled in the conversion rates?

 

I just want to get some idea/clarification before the DLC comes out to save myself some monies Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

-Also, just to clear up my own confusion, it doesn't matter where I buy it from right? Be it the US site or the UK steam page?

(For the sake of real-life sanity, I will base the pricing in this reply on United States Dollars or USD)

 

The base game price is 14.99 USD, or 19.98 USD with soundtrack  as listed on the company's website. 

 

After the game was out for a while (longer if you count the "working game beta" period) and it passed its six months of free updates, the game's price  was lowered by third parties sometimes as a "sale" price (as well as periodic sale prices before since its release.)

 

Companies that agree to re-sell the game (while certain caps in either direction may be demanded,)  have the right to sell it whatever they want as long as revenue to Klei is met per the re-sale contract. 

 

So at the time of this reply (US pricing; your country's rates may vary; for future readers, if over 14 days, the pricing may or may not have changed,)  Humble Store sells it for 14.99 USD and GOG sells it for 14.99 USD, and Steam sells it for 14.99 USD. This doesn't count if any groups are having sales, (including Humble's Weekly Bundle game sales that happen to include that game and Steam's Weeklong deals starting every Monday at 10 AM -8 GMT or 6 PM GMT if that game also were part of the list on sale.)  

 

Obviously, the best thing to do is buy it for wherever it sells cheapest (legally speaking of course,) then follow the steps listed in Klei's Support center for Don't Starve under "How Keys Work" (specifically, it matters how you bought the game [and for future readers, if from Klei directly, they use a Humble Widget, so it counts as a Humble purchase,] but the options start on this page,) to ALSO port it over to Steam if bought standalone or Standalone if bought Steam.

 

(If you want it both on Steam and Standalone then I do not recommending buying it from GOG.com. If Steam is not an issue and you plan to play it only on Standalone, than GOG.com is fine.) 

 

Finally, short of if your country has mandatory additional video game surcharging/taxation or not, I see no reason buying it on a US or UK page would make any difference. That written, it couldn't hurt to see if there is a sale on one site that you didn't notice on another. This may or may not be permitted however. 

 

Edit: And apologies if this reads impolite (which never was my intent when I added this, but i know how hard it is to read something without body language and other queues,) but this thread does not have neither anything to do with the DLC price, and should have been called "Questions on the Base Game Price," nor should have it initially be posted in DLC, and should have initially been posted in Don't Starve's General topic section. 

[Kellyc764]

(For the sake of real-life sanity, I will base the pricing in this reply on United States Dollars or USD)

 

The base game price is 14.99 USD, or 19.98 USD with soundtrack  as listed on the company's website. 

 

After the game was out for a while (longer if you count the "working game beta" period) and it passed its six months of free updates, the game's price  was lowered by third parties sometimes as a "sale" price (as well as periodic sale prices before since its release.)

 

Companies that agree to re-sell the game (while certain caps in either direction may be demanded,)  have the right to sell it whatever they want as long as revenue to Klei is met per the re-sale contract. 

 

So at the time of this reply (US pricing; your country's rates may vary; for future readers, if over 14 days, the pricing may or may not have changed,)  Humble Store sells it for 14.99 USD and GOG sells it for 14.99 USD, and Steam sells it for 14.99 USD. This doesn't count if any groups are having sales, (including Humble's Weekly Bundle game sales that happen to include that game and Steam's Weeklong deals starting every Monday at 10 AM -8 GMT or 6 PM GMT if that game also were part of the list on sale.)  

 

Obviously, the best thing to do is buy it for wherever it sells cheapest (legally speaking of course,) then follow the steps listed in Klei's Support center for Don't Starve under "How Keys Work" (specifically, it matters how you bought the game [and for future readers, if from Klei directly, they use a Humble Widget, so it counts as a Humble purchase,] but the options start on this page,) to ALSO port it over to Steam if bought standalone or Standalone if bought Steam.

 

(If you want it both on Steam and Standalone then I do not recommending buying it from GOG.com. If Steam is not an issue and you plan to play it only on Standalone, than GOG.com is fine.) 

 

Finally, short of if your country has mandatory additional video game surcharging/taxation or not, I see no reason buying it on a US or UK page would make any difference. That written, it couldn't hurt to see if there is a sale on one site that you didn't notice on another. This may or may not be permitted however. 

 

Thank you ever so much for your reply, I didn't expect anywhere near that level of detail, so it's greatly appreciated

 

All in all I'm just trying to work out the price differences/variability of the DS basegame in an attempt to work out where best to purchase when the DLC time comes (for my own sanity xD lol)

 

Funnily enough I'm sure this now becomes redundant as I didn't check the US steam store price which probably would've cleared up the matter a bit further.

 

I'm just also somewhat in disbelief (Given I actually can't find anything on the taxation of games, and even including the UK's 20% tax it still wouldn't bring the base game price to more than £11) That being said, I understand some country's charge more for games than others - I'm just scrutinising my options for the DLC purchase.

All being well though I'll save myself a few quid by purchasing from a US site xD

 

-Thanks again for your input though, I'll be saving a few of those links too

[the truthseeker]

My pleasure. Knowledge is power as you can see!