Why No Regional Pricing ?

[Artoriaxs]

Hi Modus Games, Cris Tales looks amazing. But this price is very expensive for Turkey. No regional pricing. Please use the Steam suggested pricing for Turkey and other countries. Thanks.
https://steamdb.info/sub/362540/

Finally Price fixed. Thank you.

[Melodia]

引用自 󠀡Zale Unda：

Melodia shilling hard. Indie devs can be just as crappy as AAA devs. They don't deserve to get the kid gloves.

I'm not shilling. I mean, you can clearly see I don't have this game, which will be true for quite a while (probably will pick it up at 50% or so, depending on things).

But people seem to think that companies MUST cater to their whims or are automatically trash.

[󠀡Zale Unda]

引用自 Ph|Apple Norris：

引用自 󠀡Zale Unda：

Hope this game flops and you have to shut down your studio you greedy hacks.

No. We don't do that here.
Developers are not to blame. Publishers are.
Those publishers haven't even launched any ad campaign. After Steam's Summer Game Fest - I never saw this game anywhere. Publishers are lazy and greedy mofos here. Not devs.

Who's we? I'm not some brony.

[Ph|Apple Norris]

引用自 󠀡Zale Unda：

Who's we? I'm not some brony.

Dude, you don't even know memes.
Please, go try to troll anywhere else, you furry lover you.

[Ander]

引用自 Melodia：

引用自 󠀡Zale Unda：

Melodia shilling hard. Indie devs can be just as crappy as AAA devs. They don't deserve to get the kid gloves.

I'm not shilling. I mean, you can clearly see I don't have this game, which will be true for quite a while (probably will pick it up at 50% or so, depending on things).

But people seem to think that companies MUST cater to their whims or are automatically trash.

We are just telling the publisher that regional pricing is important for people in the third world countries and that they are approaching this in the wrong way. How is that a whim lol

[Alan]

引用自 Melodia：

引用自 Alan：

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This is one of the worst argument I've ever seen.

- "Hey I live in US but I'm using VPN to buy your game for $5 instead of $30 because I'm poor"

Give me a break

You really don't think people won't do it just because they aren't poor?

I was talking about Aris' argument. Steam should ban VPN. Period.

[luckykukinha]

引用自 Modus Games：

Hi. We don't follow standard Steam recommended pricing, because it often leads to users using a VPN to purchase in those countries at a much lower price. We follow a less aggressive curve for international pricing that is becoming quite common with other AA and indie publishers.

Jesus Christ that just brought my hype to 0. I'm tending to believe this is on purpose because it makes NO SENSE for you to put such a high price on Steam but put on Gamepass Day One. There are AAA games being sold cheaper than this and it's sad to see it. I'll wait for a huge discount in a sale, have a nice first week of sales.

[󠀡Zale Unda]

引用自 Ph|Apple Norris：

引用自 󠀡Zale Unda：

Who's we? I'm not some brony.

Dude, you don't even know memes.
Please, go try to troll anywhere else, you furry lover you.

Uh huh thanks for assuming my gender calling me a dude

[okcomputing]

Last I heard, Valve pretty much closed the VPN loophole...

[Sviagator-01]

I sadly have to agree with the people who are disappointed with the pricing range. I am from Colombia, the country where the developers are from, and would love to support their game as it resonates with me as a fellow countryman, as well as due to the love I have for JRPGs. However paying the current price for it is too steep. It almost has the cost of other AA games and it is a big investment considering it is an indie game, and probably one of the first the studio has created, so there is no reference to their previous work. That is, they have not earned a name that backs up their products yet, and which pushes you to consider paying that price.
I would have bought it if it had had a 12-15 dolar (45.000-70.000 Colombian pesos) price range, as I have supported other indie studios that have published along those lines. Even games such as The Messenger, Hollow Knight or Solasta have lower pricing costs, while CrisTales has a pricing closer to games like Red Dead Redemption or Dragon Quest XI which is ridiculous.
I think I will buy it someday, but that day is far to come. Maybe on a 65% discount sale?

[cvbas]

引用自 Modus Games：

Hi. We don't follow standard Steam recommended pricing, because it often leads to users using a VPN to purchase in those countries at a much lower price. We follow a less aggressive curve for international pricing that is becoming quite common with other AA and indie publishers.

Terrible response. I won't be buying any of your games anytime soon.

It's already almost impossible to circumvent Steam VPN restrictions.

[ultramex21]

At this price point it is better to get yakuza like a dragon, like take that game for references it is a big game from big developer and it has pretty good reginal pricing for a $60 dollar game, my recommendation for anyone wait for a 70% sale or go to gamepass were they do have better reginal pricing and complete the game.

[En.]

引用自 Modus Games：

Hi. We don't follow standard Steam recommended pricing, because it often leads to users using a VPN to purchase in those countries at a much lower price. We follow a less aggressive curve for international pricing that is becoming quite common with other AA and indie publishers.

What is with this answer? So to block VPN abusers, you decide to screw over REAL PEOPLE living in the lower income areas as well? Is this a case of just letting the innocent ones suffer along with the guilty ones? If this is the direction you've chosen (for your future games too), then sure, have fun "blocking" VPN abusers, because it certainly blocks real customers too.

Earn little money with regional pricing, or none at all with this outrageous pricing strategy of yours. I wonder if you guys did any Maths to see how many sales you are losing.

Btw, just because others are doing it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. I've seen indies complain about bad sales before, maybe if you guys stop making bad decisions, the sales will improve LOL.

[hip]

引用自 Modus Games：

Hi. We don't follow standard Steam recommended pricing, because it often leads to users using a VPN to purchase in those countries at a much lower price. We follow a less aggressive curve for international pricing that is becoming quite common with other AA and indie publishers.

Ok. Watch your game's sales flop in the next few weeks then.

[Stoibs]

It's on gamepass, just get the trial or pay a single month and forget about these devs going forward.
This insane AAA pricing for an indie isn't really doing them any favours, and this new 'up and coming' devteam has already shot themselves in the foot before they even got it in the door, unfortunately.
Even worse on consoles too where it's something absurd like $70 in my region.

Kind of a sad non-answer from them also.. you can't buy from VPN's unless you want your steam account banned these days anyway - this gives us another glimpse of how out of the loop these guys are too (Maybe they are confusing people from using VPN to unlock a game early when some things release in the NZ/Australia region first..? But nothing to do with purchasing)

Ah well, I played the demo in a gamefest last year sometime and enjoyed it, downloading on Gamepass now but otherwise that's about as far as this financial relationship goes I guess.

Um.. good luck on any future indie games you guys make, I hope you take this feedback onboard and don't list them for the same price as I can get many AAA's..

[Moby The Duck]

Saves me the trouble. I expect the game to be on Humble Choice in the next 2 or 3 months anyway.