Quote Originally Posted by randomizer View Post
The only reason it is $90 (USD mind you) on Steam is because it is $110 AUD in stores. Activision won't cannibalise their retail sales with low Steam prices, so rather than reducing retail price they increase the price on Steam. Ubisoft and THQ are other terrible offenders. Solution: get US friends.
I've heard that argument before, and it doesn't hold water. CoD:MW2 is the only game I've ever seen on Steam for $90. Other new releases either go for $50 or $60 USD - never $90. Clearly other devs and other games don't have this problem, this is purely a money-grabbing exercise which has backfired on them badly (note Borderlands and other indie games are outselling it on Steam - for precisely this reason).