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Winning at regional pricing

Regional pricing is when websites detect where you are in the world (or where your VPN claims you are) then gives you a price designed for your region's purchasing power.

As a result: compared to where I was before, Steam is always on sale! Using the Augmented Steam extension for my browser, here is the price difference for a game that I've been thinking of buying:

Comparison of prices at USD 6.69 in the USA, USD 3.78 in Indonesia, and USD 7.07 in the United Kingdom

Yes, please. So I went to Account details and clicked "Update store country". I mean, I do live here now!!