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#1  Edited By DizzyMedal
@oldschool:
Yeah, I'm not to big on digital either. But it is the easiest way to properly compare the difference between prices in different regions because then it is the exact same place, offering the exact same product, just with a wildly varying number after it. Europe gets it pretty bad too. Sadly the 'fairest' option here (where I don't feel like we're just being treated as lesser beings compared to bigger countries) is buying preowned which I feel kind of bad about because the developers see none of that money. 
 
What's worse is I live in a small town of only 80,000 people and I know that even with the price difference, getting some of those games here at retail can be even more expensive. Having them shipped in from a capital city store is usually cheaper. 
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#2  Edited By DizzyMedal

I arrived slightly late to the 360 party and by the time I stopped murdering zombies in a mall long enough to hear about Beautiful Katamari, it was impossible to find on shelves in my town. With really bad luck on ebay, importing was looking like my only option, and not a very attractive one. Then came Games on Demand, showing up on our Xbox dashboards like a shady uncle. The answer to our prayers, right? Sadly no.  
 
By sheer luck I found a preowned copy for $29 at JBHiFi today and bought it. But as I was coming home I couldn't remember why I hadn't just downloaded it. As soon as I looked it up on live, I remembered. $70. For a two and a half year old game. Now that is annoying enough, but then you have to think 'Well I bet they don't charge that for the US' and no, no they do not.
  
A few weeks ago I had reminded myself why I don't play too many games by flicking steam pages from US to AU settings and looking at the prices. I just did that for the entire games on demand AU library and I'm sure you can all guess it was horrifying. 
 
Still, if any of my fellow Aussies can stomach the reminder, I made a pretty GB list to show the differences, 
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#3  Edited By DizzyMedal

First off, more of an extreme annoyance than a true bug I think, but hey. I did try searching to see if this had ever been mentioned, but search is also broken :(. 
 
OS: Vista Ulitmate 64 SP1 
IE8 
 
Usually when I open multiple videos in their own tabs, then click them all to start then pause (so they'll download and I can watch them one after the other) about half of them will have the timebar at the top. I don't know if I'm acccidentally hitting something to make it do this, but I also don't know how to make it go back to the bottom of the video. I usually watch videos here at fullscreen and if the hiding bar reappears (I bump the mouse or something) instead of just having the bar show up at the bottom, the ones that are set to the top will appear at the bottom and then quickly float up to the top. 
 
Thankfully this doesn't seem to be a permanent setting and if a new video is tabbed, it will normally have it back at the bottom. It's just really annoying. Is there a way to move it back to the bottom when they do this? Sadly click and drag does nothing, and that's about the extent of my 'moving things' knowledge.
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#4  Edited By DizzyMedal

Vista Ultimate 64 SP1. IE8, FF 3.6
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#5  Edited By DizzyMedal

Thought I'd weigh in that I'm using IE8 and this started happening to me about three days ago too.