Breaking News; Steam still fucking sucks

Don't blame Steam for following local tax laws. If Australians (and others, see pic related e-mail I got from Valve a few hours ago) want this changed then they should vote for the change, but they are mostly left leaning idiots who vote for high taxes.

Most likely the tax rates for digital goods will only go up as governments see it as easy money. Want to buy that game? Be prepared to pay double for buying digital!

I'm Australia it was the right that drastically increased our taxes and despite us having 5 PMs since then 3 of which were originally opposed to the new taxes none of them have even suggested dropping it because it's more shekels for them to waste on retarded shit.

Pro tip, if you want to talk politics stick to nations you know about.

in before OP comes back and calls everyone "steamcucks". Wait what am I saying? With such a low energy OP he's definitely a cuckchanner that will never again appear in the thread.

I bet they're all fucking globalist liberals (i.e. cultural marxist scum).

We need a better national anthem.

It's going to spread over time. Taxes will go up and up on everything, and in another 10-20 years, many of us will barely be able to afford to eat more than once a day.

The dark times have come, anons. The Golden age has ended.

Only the ultra-rich buy games here anyway.

I don't have a reaction image for this.

>'BAD STEAM BAD STEAM IT'S STEAM'S FAULT" pls go use origin/gog ea needs your money

Dropped.

Our right party is a coalition between the Liberal Party, who are centrists bordering on conservative, and the National Party, who are conservatives.

They introduced the Goods and Services Tax, but it's been hiked up by later governments.
This tax will just make tech illiterates buy from Key sites or buy in brick and mortar stores, and the tech savvy will just make purchase with US accounts and gift them to their AUS accounts.

Gubment will never remove this tax. The states depend too much on it for their own things. What needs to happen is the abolishment of local governments, replace them with overarching state governments that control everything on a town/city level, and reduce spending.

Our council (local gubment) spend tens of thousands on fucking art installations. They all get contractors who are friends of the elected local officials, then wonder why the bills are 4x higher than first quoted. A complete scam.

Don't worry, people will stop buying games across the world from these new taxes, go to F2P EVE, buy microtransactions, then suddenly Iceland has lots more money to redistribute to their people to buy games at 24% higher costs!

Foolproof.

Inb4 it happens to canada too.

can't wait until some president with actual balls kills all welfare

I want Abbot back.

Nuff said. Have the newest Moko.

I'd agree, but it'd be political suicide, so it'd take some serious balls. And their replacement would just reinstate it.

Keating was the last good PM that actually got to see out his term, Rudd was bretty gud but got fucked over because he dared say maybe major mining corporations should pay tax.

Aussies get everything they deserve tbh.

Yes, let's get into bed with the Chinese I'm sure they won't fuck us over in the future.

While welfare cutting would help, what would be better is closing all immigration for 12 months and spending all that money on industry, getting the homeless into housing and creating a bunch of jobs and training.

Fuck you and your shitty forced memes.
They're Liberal in name only. Labor is our Democrats. They're conservative when they want to be, but they don't cut welfare. That's about it.

State gubments, when elected to be Labor, are insanely liberal. Fucking Victorian gubment right now are shitters that are ruining our emergency services and spent $2bil on tearing up a contract.

DELET THIS

DELET THIS AS WELL

Pro Tip: Your political right is still left leaning by US standards. You're all mostly left leaning cunts.

No, our coalition gubment is made up of centrists and right-wing.
The right-wing party has half of the seats of the current government, so if the Liberals say they want to do something, the Nationals threaten to vote against them, then the Liberals shut up and tow the line.

Liberals won't stand up to the Nationals ever, as the Nationals are the guys with donors and influence.

Fuck off cunt.

That's why you should pirate everything.
At least the consumer rights' laws are alright.

I hate to break it to you but our economy is built on mining and that only works because there is demand for what we mine. While China buys the vast majority it's in our best interests to keep them on side.

Please explain.

You will have a hard time finding major parties in the west that are still traditionally "left" or "right". Both here and there you will find all major parties are pro globalism and pro whatever their corporate overloads want.
It's sad but we have adopted the US system of corruption and it's taking hold.

If I had to slot our parties into left / right I would say Labor is more liberal than the Liberals.

They're not great, but they keep things from getting too left-leaning, which is fine by me until the uprising after your cunts start WW3 over Twitter and memes.

I know, steam being shit is inconceivable!

I know how it feels. My country is also fucked when it comes to vidya.

Our economy is based on Agriculture and Livestock. Mining was big for a while, but Ag and animals have always been the big thing. Mining just made the whole place better off for a while, which we're now losing and everyone is panicing, despite it being fine.

Rudd fucked over education by cutting funding on them and promising the Gonksi model, which he did at the end of his time and knew full well that it wouldn't get through after Gillard. She was even more incompetent and only got in beacause she was female.

As for industry, he insisted on raising taxes on exports for mining, agriculture and livestock. That killed so many companies because he felt it was nice.

He was absolute scum that wanted Unions to have power over everyone else, no matter the cost to the average citizen. Fuck him. the Andrews Government in Vic is doing the exact same thing. Raising taxes and giving money to the Unions who they're in bed with.

wow it's nothing

if i remember correctly nordics have generally high VAT like finland has 25(?)%

Sorry mate but mining is fucking huge and has been for decades, when the price drops and mines close the media likes to act like all mining has stopped but in reality 70%+ are still open.
I spent a decade in the resources sector, you need to be in it to see just how big it is

I'll agree Rudd was retarded with education but I'm all for taxing the mines as I have seen what they make and what government handouts they get paid for by us. I worked in a mine that made $220m that year then got $30m government funding because they were "creating jobs", after all taxes and concessions were calculated they made $240m $20m of which was tax pays money handed to them.

As for unions they have always been corrupt as fuck because they have tens of thousands of sheep that will vote how the unions says, the simple solution is to make it illegal for any political party to deal with unions and actually jail any fuckers that do so.

Not an argument.

Are you a fucking dumb cunt? oh wait this is Holla Forums the gov is finally charging "GST" Goods and Services Tax on Aussie internet markets. This has got nothing to do with gabe. In fact some prices might go down as games will finally be shown in Aud on the storefront and their true values are realised.
I've seen plenty of games being marked up on the Aussie storefront compared to the American before the exchange rate is put on top despite it being digital distribution which costs fuck all. Now normalfag Aussies will see how much some companies are pushing up the price.

Fucking this we didn't tax the mining industry nearly enough during their best years, spent the surplus we did make on our economy not crashing during the GFC and now we have fuck all as mining and factories shut down.
Oh and Howard our PM during said mining boom sold all of our backbone internet infrastructure into a private company and created the horrible monopoly they are today which is fucking charging the current government to upgrade everyone to fibre for them! Thanks Howard!
Shame Rudd had to completely fuck up the labour party as well for the next several elections.

Oh yeah video games.

What? Which one?

Oh yeah, I forgot I was always paying in USD.
I never used a CC, just paid for Steam Cards from a shop with cash. $100 was something like $120AUD, so there is a chance prices will lower.

Wouldn't surprise me at this point.

Just get some slaves and then have a civil war bro.

90% of our current gov is slightly right of labor but still left of center, stop lying.

smhtbh

Clearly not trying hard enough fgt, though the same can be said about any pro-gun party. It's a non priority seemingly even for shooters and fishers since they haven't done dick about anything.

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That shit should stop too.

There is a reason the moment Turnbull got the top job he suddenly became a lot more centralist/right wing despite being quite left leaning beforehand?
pro tip it's cause he has to listen to the rest of the conservatives on the party to keep the position
Honestly it entirely hinges where on the spectrum you put left, right and centralist. Also why would they bother with gun laws when the current upper house would let none of them through.

6, DlC.

But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the bait into his own reply or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the bait into his own post, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the hook in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the post in front of me.

Why him, Why not Henry Parkes?

REMOVE WEALTH

Menzies for socialism and Howard for conservatism.
The two longest serving PMs with different ideologies makes much more sense.

???

To be honest I'm not too surprised because Brazil has been in Civ games too, but Australia is just much more surprising for some reason

I'm just glad I don't buy games.

Fucking animal.

back to your furfag meme fortress 2 sub reddit.

I wish a huge portion of huma beings would just die.

One of the good things about this shithole is that most politicians are too technologically retarded and have been for decades to even consider shit like taxes on digital goods or fining people for pirating all day erry day.

Well shit we must be a shithole with those digits.

just came here to check 'em

But without welfare, how will Holla Forums survive without autism checks?

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So, are the ausfailia shitposters going to starve in the near future?

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That's where the banter export comes in I guess.

Reparations to the abos aren't gonna pay themselves goy.

Daily reminder that
TAXATION
IS
THEFT

This wasn't Steam's decision. It was once again Government showing it's true cards.

leftypol and pol are equally shit on taxes.

And if there weren't taxes and governments, you'd be paying much more to a bandit gang or be a member of said gang and extort money from people.
There is no escape.

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You know all those anarcho-capitalist memes are ironic, right?

Step one is deport/gas all the muzzies. YOu wanna drop welfare spending, you start by excising the tumors on society.

I can't speak for Holla Forums, but I don't think Holla Forums gives much of a shit about taxes.

Why would someone who knows how to shoot waste their time and risk their life going around robbing when they could make more money guarding someone rich.

Literally just don't be a poorfag or a nogunz and you won't get robbed

No what you should do is kill every single one of your leaders that does shit like that or other.

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I bet you hate roads.

Yes, we are used to that.

Jesus Christ

It's your fault the abos aren't all dead. Fuck you.

Welfare should still be funded, but there need to be greater efforts in getting people back in the workforce in order to reduce the budget. If you get rid of welfare, not only is crime going to go up but it will be damaging to small business owners. If they end up defaulting on loans and go bankrupt, then banks will end up having worthless spaces they can't do anything with and they would lose money. Companies who produce consumables like food will also be damaged when small businesses close because now a market has closed down and they can't recuperate costs unless they raise prices, cut jobs, or lower wages. Raising prices will also close off potential buyers, cutting jobs will only increase the amount of poor people who can't buy anything, and while lowering wages is probably the most sane option, it'll increase living costs for workers.

Same here
I guess there are upsides of not being developed after all

Mi indio!

I know what it's like to need the "safety net" that wellfare provides, but that's all wellfare should be.
Even if we're in a recession and the economy goes to shit, wellfare should be limited to survival-level income: less than min. wage.
There are more important things for the gov't to throw cash at than OpressionBucks©.

Welfare doesn't exactly encourage people to get back into the workforce, especially if cost of living goes up and wages go down while welfare is supposed to cover both of those things.

>tfw furry comission money running low

And before you ask why
1000USD for lizard girl with titties drawn in an hour and a half

Jesus, where do you find these turbo autists who will pay premium? I've made like 100 bucks tops for one animation.

SERBIA
YES
YES
YES

GabeN is a fat fucking fuck and he needs to be sliced up into hamburgers, but Australians are the worst fucking people up there with Germans, Koreans, and Turks. Kill yourselves you Kangaroo fuckers.

You need to have high quality.

Define high quality. Like, what artists in the business do you consider that?

When people start offering at a start at 300USD.

None of my clients have ever offered a price, I always had to name one.

Maybe it is only a thing with Macrophiles.

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Maybe. I know there's that surgeon who pays ridiculous amounts of money for those, but I've never drawn it. Most of the commissions I've gotten were relatively normal.

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Gaben is shit, but this is a problem of Australia itself. Steam has nothing to do with this.

Soon they will be charged for breathing. Shit country.

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Aren't games in ausfalia already like $200? Whats another 20 at this point.

Fucking Malkike Cuntbull is at it again. Pushing even more taxation to put a band-aid on problems rather than solve them at the source.

Just remember where this money's going.
It's going to Jamal, the 70iq sudanese retard that stabbed little suzy on her way to school
It's going to Muhammed, and each one of his four wives separately on single mother pensions.
And, most importantly, it's going towards bringing even more of these cunts in.

Fuck our Marxist-socialist system.
Fuck everyone in parliament.
Fuck anyone who defends this shit because they've never been hired or attempted to raise a family in order to feel the brunt of tax.

It isnt THAT bad, it could be worst.

Holla Forums consistently preaches thresholds on taxation, as taxation becomes dysgenic in regards to the wellbeing of the family, and lowers birthrates among the most productive in society. the National socialists want taxation to go towards the betterment of the people from a purely objective standpoint - better schools, hospitals, services.
Holla Forums is relatively marxist-socialist, and any amount of taxation is fine as long as it's going towards forcing the Dildo of multiculturalism and "goodthink" up the ass of the average man.

Oh, you don't know how right you are. It can get a whole lot worse, and we're around two election cycles off the destruction of our middle-class.

Socialism is a political scam and the end result is intended for communism after crippling the economy and morale of the people.

Lol you're getting fucked in the ass by your retarded government and for some reason gaben is the one to blame.

An exemplar goy…. I mean citizen.

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but goy, economists claim that automation can't kill jobs :^)

Our PM literally used to work for Goldman Sachs. Fucking Netanyahu was down here for 4 days last week. They're already working on their escape plan for when America pogroms them.

Protip for Americans:
Liberal party = Economic Liberals, pretty much republicans
Labour = Democrats and all the poz that goes with them. Tried to introduce talking about Grindr to school kids
Pauline Hanson = Sarah Palin who saw that "we are in danger of being swamped by Asians". She's right and all the Chinese of the past 10 years who came into the country are yellow fucking Jews. Projected to get 10-20% of the vote in some states, with preferential voting this makes things very interesting down here.

This. Tony "get back in the kitchen and avert white genocide" Abbott was based.

I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS

If by "relatively," you mean "overwhelmingly."
False. Full commies oppose markets in favor of planning, which means no money and hence no taxes. Market socialists tend to view taxes as broadly necessary, but view the specifics as minutiae to be worked out after the heavy lifting (i.e., abolishing capitalism) is done. Anarchists run the gamut.
Sage for off-topic.

habbening in sa too

absolutely fucked as

The safe schools initiative is sex ed on crack. It's designed to make kids more tolerant to trannies and gays.

Quotes from the material:
"So I done fucked up. Literally. One Grindr hook-up gone wrong and that's how I got myself some gonorrhea"
source: httx://safeschools.acl.org.au/ Yes I broke the link, so a Christian website doesn't see where you came from if you direct click it.

Bill Shorten wanted to spend 8 Million in a recession to stop homophobia last election. Trump gets in and then he's all "stop the foreign workers". He's a snake that tries to appeal to whatever is in vogue, he has no vision and only wants the power for it's own sake.

sage for ranting.

FUCKING REMOVE STEAM

Wait, we weren't already paying that? Jesus christ Steam was already expensive enough (they have a habit of listing games under their AUD pricing but as USD which makes a few games ridiciously expensive. I'm talking a game that's $60 USD in America being listed as $80-90 USD here, or roughly $103-116 AUD when it should be $80-90 AUD).

This shit just solidifies my decision to pirate everything.

Wait, this means I could buy games on the Russian store then gift them to myself on the Canadian one.
Holy shit.

Australia should get extra damage vs embarked units. Also they should add in emu barbarians.

Taxation is theft

so basically Valve is admitting that Steam is for multiplayer games only

>>>/liberty/