Valve increases suggested prices for Steam Games non USD currencies | Commits to update non USD price suggestions annually

[KaitouX]

On 10/26/2022 at 4:43 PM, igormp said:

However, it's not like the purchase power has increase by much since then, so my bet is that we're going to see less sales here in Brazil after this adjustment.

Almost no one followed the suggested prices anyway. The suggested price for new AAA games was a bit below R$150 but they were already going for R$300, I have seen old titles that were ported to PC for 40 USD going for R$200+. Only some indie games and some publishers followed the suggested prices or at least kept prices somewhat close to it.

It's amazing how pricing went from many following the suggested price or at least keeping somewhat close to it, going for 90~180 reais in 2015, to them doubling the suggested prices in 2018/2019, the dollar price was almost the same during that period too. The best part is that Brazilian prices are usually almost the same as the Euro or Dollar prices while our neighbors usually get anywhere between 20~60% lower prices.

Some publishers seems to hate specific countries though, I've seen publishers that make most of their games more expensive in countries like Argentina or Mexico than in the US and Europe while some other countries that usually have similar prices, get much lower pricing.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 10/25/2022 at 6:29 AM, CTR640 said:

I don't care how shady they are but I'm not paying full prices to corrporate-greed. They treat us like trash anyway so why fill their bankaccounts more.

All fun and games until you realize you accidently funded organized crime... whoops.

[strajk-]

Activision laughed, they don't follow that pricing anyways and neither do they do regional pricing.

They're basically asking the equivalent of 300-450$ from someone in Argentina to buy the new MW2

[leadeater]

Topic has been cleaned, that was a lot of posts. Please be mindful of the original topic and what this forum is for discussing and what it's not for discussing.

[Supreme Calamitas]

Ah Europeans, we're like modern jews. Hated by everyone 

[thekingofmonks]

Goodbye Argentinian Peso, it was nice using you

[Dracarris]

9 hours ago, thekingofmonks said:

Goodbye Argentinian Peso, it was nice using you

Try Turkish Lira. Even after this hike prices should be at least 50-60% down from US/EU.

 

Also, hm, cleaning. There goes the work for researching the basis for my inflation comment.

[Gamer Schnitzel]

On 10/27/2022 at 4:32 PM, strajk- said:

Activision laughed, they don't follow that pricing anyways and neither do they do regional pricing.

They're basically asking the equivalent of 300-450$ from someone in Argentina to buy the new MW2

Yeah but.. who cares? Valve is not based in Argentina. They are based in a rich country. Do you seriously think they care if they get a couple of cents from someone in Argentina?

They are losing more money from rich countries using this loophole than from poor people paying them pennies for games. The only reason they even deal in poor countries is not for profit but rather why not. 

[Bombastinator]

2 hours ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

Yeah but.. who cares? Valve is not based in Argentina. They are based in a rich country. Do you seriously think they care if they get a couple of cents from someone in Argentina?

They are losing more money from rich countries using this loophole than from poor people paying them pennies for games. The only reason they even deal in poor countries is not for profit but rather why not. 

Then activision won’t sell games in Argentina because paying that much is insane.  I suspect the vast majority of steam users play only free games so it won’t matter.  As for the others,   Some time ago I figured out that a person should only have one game per account, but many accounts, so the games would remain resaleable.  If activision is doing that it’s a simple matter to look for some non Argentinian that has figured that out too, and simply buy the account from him/her.  Problem solved. 

[strajk-]

4 hours ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

They are losing more money from rich countries using this loophole than from poor people paying them pennies for games. The only reason they even deal in poor countries is not for profit but rather why not. 

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