I can honestly say I've barely ever seen people state this, but if you do see people saying that, perhaps you shouldn't get annoyed about what those people are saying as it's obviously wrong as you're well aware. Most people who follow Steam know that sales are where it's at. Maybe they don't properly phrase it that way when they portray Steam but 9 times out of 10 that's most likely what they mean.

I find price changes at Amazon odd. I had a game sitting in my cart that was around twenty bucks; later that day it went up to over thirty, so I didn't get it.

Amazon has been really douche bag like lately. Too bad there is no amazon alternative...

I don't buy from Amazon US, so I can't say whether the same applies, but with the UK and German Amazons, you will on occasion have a product that was temporarily on offer and returns to its original price later on - like Steam.

Also, for physical products, it's possible that the seller you were buying it from runs out of stock, and your shopping cart switches it automatically to the next seller.

I'd also imagine whatever sale the game had simply expired while it was in your cart. Either that or a much rarer case of the sale price simply having been wrong and then later corrected.

This is why the single EU currency is such an act of unbridled genius. After all, all countries in the Euro zone are all exactly the same, have equal economic prowess, have equal salaries and have nothing to worry about when it comes to having the same currency as economic powerhouses like Germany.

Genius.

We know that, but do our elected politicians know that?

Can't you use greenmangaming.com? They don't cover whole Steam catalogue but they have a lot of its titles and always charge me in dollars. If I want a newer title, I don't have to buy directly from Steam anymore thanks to GMG.

Used to be that way but more and more EU countries have been forced to use €-pricing on GMG.

That sucks. But I'm not disillusioned. Origin deals are already hidden in special tabs evaluated in euros. Thanks for telling.

I'm just stunned. Back in the 90s I was just a teenager with only just enough economic insight to manage my own finances. Yet I predicted all this shit with startling accuracy. So yes, how were so many elected politicians blind to this? You can't tell me they all have less sense than I did as a teenager.

If you're implying that they are not stupid, then it means they are ill-willed towards to rest of us. Which might be the case for some, but for most I think they're plainly stupid. At least that's the case in my country. The utter stupidity of some politicians is amazing, but some people do vote for them...

"In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." Joseph de Maistre

I wouldn't go as far as to blame the €uro responsible for the bad pricing scheme of Steam, but the stupid people who support that are probably the same who vote the stupid politicans.