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Why is it that Poland gets the same prices as the Eurozone/Scandinavia, while Russia gets the price cut by 6?

I think that might be mostly Steam's fault. The EU is split into only two zones: EU1 and EU2. The latter is mostly poorer, but not necessarily that much poorer. It consists of:

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and the Vatican City.

Mixing together Romania and Italy is pretty strange. Italy is reasonably well off, so pricing games in EU2 based on Italian wages you end up with something that's overly expensive in Poland, Romania, or Lithuania.

I suspect that if Steam split up the regions a bit further (E.G., putting the whole Eastern bloc in a new EU3 region) then more companies would price their games more appropriately there.

The sad part is that they didn't conquer the US, right?

do mods, participate in the community.

I can confirm this helps. As of last year I'm a Paradox contractor, maintaining their wikis. It all started with me setting up a wiki for one of their games, which over a couple of years ballooned into nearly a dozen wikis, at which point Paradox decided that having official wikis would probably be a decent idea and bought mine and brought me on to continue administrating them.

Norway has between the highest and third highest wages in the world, depending on exactly who you ask and how you count, and whether you count micro nations like Monaco.

It was in EU2. Now we get to use our own currency. Funnily enough the prices are generally lower than in the US, UK, EU1, and often even EU2. They use an exchange rate that hasn't been the case for a while now after the Norwegian krone got devalued as a result of the falling oil prices.

As a modder, modding is one of the most important aspects of Paradox to me.

As such I'm wondering if you have any plans to make modding easier in the future, and/or more prominently display the work of modders.

Paradox is one of the more modding-friendly companies out there, but there's still a lot of room for improvement, which is why I'd love to hear about what you plan to do to make modding better.

Edit: BTW, fans of Paradox games should check out /r/paradoxplaza.

^{Disclaimer: I'm a moderator of that subreddit}