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Don't know what you're asking specifically, but I've never seen A$ or $A to mean American dollars. It is always $US or USD.

edit: In English, of course. In French, it's possibly something like EU$, which would confuse the heck out of me.

The price for Freedom Planet is $A 8.59 (whatever that means)

I'll try Steam again but the store isn't letting me through

For me, the price on that page is $7.49 (no A), so I'm assuming your price is Australian, and mine is US. (Despite the fact that the actual steam page is in Dutch. It changes every time I visit.)

edit: Just to be clear, I meant the price on the steam page is $7.49 .

Nope.

Wow. Has the Australian dollar really depreciated that much lately? I really doubt the USD has gained that much.

Going by the Local Prices Update, the Australian Dollar, the Euro, the Pound and the Ruble have all weakened in comparison to the American Dollar.

You seem awfully aware of currencies fluctuation ... wait ... did you do something recently ? ;-)

Just the usual stuff:

1) Read the Local Prices Update thread, specifically and [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/local_prices_update/post205]here.

2) Cross-reference them through xe.com.

There's a country called United States of America and its currency is sometimes displayed as USD (united states dollar).
Not AD (american dollar). I'm not making fun of you, but I actually saw that happen a couple of times, no joke.

So anywhere where "A" stands for America will have to "include" Panama, Bolivia, Uruguay, Guyana, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile, Suriname, and many, many more... :P

A could stand for Africa, though :P

Actually, 6 out of 8 continents could be covered by the A.
North America, South America (counted together as simply "America" for this exercise), Asia, Africa, Australinea, and Antarctica.

Only Europe and Zealandia are excluded.

Well, in France we tend to call it "dollar américain" (american dollar). Which is a gross generalization about America, of course, and probably somewhat insulting for the other countries, but we tend to call the US and the continent by the same name. Too much US movies, cultural and political influence, news coverage, etc... so it tends to steal the show. I imagine that happens in quite a few other countries.

But on an international site, yeah, I always saw it spelled "US$", and A$ for Australia

In French, we would either use the currency code USD, either "Dollar US" either "Dollar américain" It has much to do with, on one side the long USD trade (flight towards the USD) and, on the other side, the turmoil around the JPY and all the related trades ( and includes the JPYAUD and AUDUSD pairs ) ... but, yes, mostly it is the other currencies depreciating vs the USD

It really annoys me that New Zealanders are offered Australian dollar prices by default. It is not our currency, and I am not sure I have ever brought anything with AUD, whereas I buy stuff with USD on a regular basis, and thus I follow the NZD-USD exchange rate and pay no attention to the NZD-AUD rate. I can change the currency on GOG to USD, but if I use a different browser the prices are all listed in some foreign currency that has no relevance or meaning to me.