It could be done, Dungeon Defenders is an Unreal Engine 3 game on Linux. I doubt it will though.

You guys must get good pricing then on that island. When I look at steam it is US pricing $19.99 the gog standard price of AUD $19.99 saves me quite a bit of money with currency conversion. On special at half price it is a no brainer to me.

Expect a 10% rise in GOG and steam prices to Australia next year when the government gets 10% GST added on top.

But I'm not complaining, if I were to buy the game from an Australian website we would be paying GST anyway so I have no problem on levelling the playing field (not that there is one for an Australian digital games store). I still do better out of digital games than I ever did at retail stores.

Excellent release, instabought all three! More EA releases please! ^_^

I've always wondered how they were able to sell games in Canada without us having to pay our own GST/HST here. Normally, we pay GST on just about everything no matter where you buy it from or whether the company has an office in Canada or not (presumably via treaty or something, who knows). The only thing I can think of is that perhaps there is no treaty with Poland (or Cyprus as the occasion may be) with which this could be enforced. That falls apart though when considering Steam, Bundlestars, Gamersgate, and other gaming sites also as I have never once payed Canadian GST on any game I've bought anywhere online including from Amazon.com.

Whereas *everything* else I've bought online from *anywhere* else I've had to pay GST on. Certainly a weird but pleasant anomaly. :)

Are you sure it's not already included? Or is that (in the attachment) different?

Yup. VAT is UK/EU tax, not Canada.

Yup. VAT and GST from our perspective as well here are not the same thing either. So will be curious how its done in our case (people have suggested it might be impossible).

Ah. Going by the Wikipedia article, I thought that it was just another name for the same thing and that you had one, too.

I found this (supposedly) Polish government site where it says: I'm not too versed in legal and marketing matters, but can that mean games? It wouldn't work for other distributors, though (unless they're all secretly owned by CD Projekt :P ).

Beats me, but like I said - we pay no Canadian GST on games purchased online anywhere, whether it is from Poland, Cyprus, the USA (Steam), or elsewhere. At least not from what I've seen. Anywhere I've bought games online whether in CAD or USD, the final price paid is equal to the price shown in the store in the given currency (translated into CAD by the payment method of course if in USD). If there are any taxes going to the Canadian government for online game purchases then every single game company out there is eating the costs of it and hiding it all completely from being visible both at the checkout and charged on credit cards/etc. with no visible comments anywhere that they are doing it, and they're eating the loss of profit in order to secretly pay the Canadian government. All quite implausible. :) So either somehow digital games sold online must not qualify for GST/HST, or there is some other loophole as I would suspect that if it was necessary that at a bare minimum Canada would be on top of Steam bigtime for that, what with the US being our closest ally and all, with many taxation treaties etc. in place already.

I guess we just luck out on that. It's a good thing too though, as digital games cost a lot less than buying them in-store here and paying 13% tax (in Ontario) on top of that. Anything that raises the cost of games will result in less buying of them I imagine, at least from me anyway. :oP

Well, I did some research and it seems that your quite implausible hypothesis is the current situation. ;)

Steam support: reddit thread: And if it applies to Steam, I guess it applies to other companies, as well. It mind of makes sense; they would be much less competitive compared to brick-and-mortar stores if they charged customers extra.

That's interesting to know. Still, it references only VAT and provides an EU identification number for it. No reference to Canadian GST nor a GST reference ID (required by law as well), so I presume this is just an EU thing.

I did some more poking around and from what I've been able to find it turns out that there is no GST/HST/PST charged in Canada on digital goods purchased from foreign companies. I didn't find an official government website page on it, but I found some articles about it on Michael Geist's website whom is a popular lawyer/legal expert/blogger in Canada about legal matters pertaining to online copyrights and other issues so it is probably reliable.

I hope it stays that way too, digital taxes would really suck, and I would definitely buy less digital goods if they were taxed here. :)

Yep, as long as they have no 'permanent establishment' in Canada, they do not have to charge the GST on digital goods. Basically, it means if their servers are outside the country, they don't have to charge it. Give the government time though, and I'm sure they'll find a way to collect it.