Valve Games on Origin

[Sep 03, 2011, 12:52 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

In an interesting twist to the competition between Valve's Steam and Electronic Arts' Origin, the Origin store is now selling some Valve games, as seen in this buy two get on free promotion, where the games in the "buy two" part include Counter-Strike: Source, Left For Dead: Game Of The Year Edition, and Left For Dead 2. Thanks Joystiq.

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Re: Valve Games on Origin

Sep 3, 2011, 18:51

theyarecomingforyou

entr0py wrote on Sep 3, 2011, 16:32:
Basically, if a company does not have offices in a particular state, they are not required to charge sales tax on sales made to that state. Valve has physical offices in Washington, so Washington residents are the only ones who have to pay sales tax for ordering through Steam. EA has offices all over the damn place, so in many states you'll be charged sales tax.

The US government is in massive debt - like most developed nations - and yet they haven't even considered fixing the tax system so that people... you know, actually pay tax? Surely with internet shopping the way that it is it would make sense to have a unified tax level for all states? I remember reading a few things about Amazon cutting out affiliates to avoid tax and I was amazed that the government had done nothing to address it.




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	1.	Sep 3, 13:00	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Rattlehead
	27.	Sep 3, 17:01	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Wolfen
	2.	Sep 3, 13:04	Re: Valve Games on Origin	GunSpeed
	3.	Sep 3, 13:08	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Fion
	4.	Sep 3, 13:26	Re: Valve Games on Origin	vrok
	5.	Sep 3, 13:37	Re: Valve Games on Origin	nin
	6.	Sep 3, 13:40	Re: Valve Games on Origin	[VG]Reagle
	8.	Sep 3, 13:57	Re: Valve Games on Origin	theyarecomingforyou
	9.	Sep 3, 14:05	Re: Valve Games on Origin	eRe4s3r
	11.	Sep 3, 14:17	Re: Valve Games on Origin	eunichron
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	14.	Sep 3, 14:46	Re: Valve Games on Origin	eunichron
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	20.	Sep 3, 15:37	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Frijoles
	22.	Sep 3, 15:59	Re: Valve Games on Origin	entr0py
	32.	Sep 3, 18:37	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Kosumo
	29.	Sep 3, 17:40	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Mashiki Amiketo
	52.	Sep 4, 06:22	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Rockn-Roll
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	51.	Sep 4, 06:16	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Rockn-Roll
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	23.	Sep 3, 16:02	Re: Valve Games on Origin	theyarecomingforyou
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	25.	Sep 3, 16:32	Re: Valve Games on Origin	entr0py
	26.	Sep 3, 16:56	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Prez
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	37.	Sep 3, 19:45	Re: Valve Games on Origin	eRe4s3r
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	45.	Sep 3, 23:34	Re: Valve Games on Origin	eRe4s3r
	46.	Sep 4, 00:00	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Rattlehead
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	30.	Sep 3, 18:08	Re: Valve Games on Origin	xXBatmanXx
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	44.	Sep 3, 22:49	Re: Valve Games on Origin	eunichron
	39.	Sep 3, 20:31	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Mashiki Amiketo
	40.	Sep 3, 20:49	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Kosumo
	41.	Sep 3, 21:28	Re: Valve Games on Origin	PHJF
	42.	Sep 3, 21:29	Re: Valve Games on Origin	theyarecomingforyou
	57.	Sep 4, 14:29	Re: Valve Games on Origin	Mashiki Amiketo
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	48.	Sep 4, 01:08	Re: Valve Games on Origin	theyarecomingforyou
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