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Steam sells by countries currency so its a big deal to people who aren't American. Yeah Steam can sell in the regional currency if the selling company (ArenaNet in this case) wants to do that. They have to opt in. But it's worth noting that ArenaNet's current payment provider (Digital River) could also do that if ArenaNet wanted them to. They may offer regional pricing on Steam but may not. yeah that's one big boon when going to steam regional pricing... and they other is ease of payment. with many different payment methods available tailored to the region of the account holder so, regional pricing or not, steam is still a better platform for non-NA/non-EU players who can't pay via international credit card or paypal. it's enough to convert current players who aren't buying gems via real money to actual paying customers (though sadly we can't link steam and arenanet accounts so if you want to continue your main account's progress on steam you have to resort to creating an alt shopping account on steam to gift your main whatever gemstore things you want and continue playing on the regular client)Exactly, this is why i would like to be able to move to steam. Ofc, if they add other payment methods here that would work too: i use DLocal and WebMoney. An alternative could be if we could buy gems and/or the expansions as a gift on steam and be able to get the gift here but i don't know if that is posible.

This are great news! but i wanted to use steam to buy the expansions and there is no much point if i can't use my old account with it. I hope this changes in the future.

I would like to see GW2 on steam, it does offer me options to buy the game that Anet doesn't