50 dollars = 60 euros ? What ?

[Aletheia]

I know Steam has always considered 1 dollar = 1 euros for years although that's not the case, but that's the first time there's a huge difference between the US price and the EU price.

What is the deal ?

[fifthelement]

Actually, these days, Steam's automatic conversion is like 0.84€ on a dollar. You don't really see publishers leaving it at that too often though. And this 10€ extra is just garbage. But it's just gonna get more common. Koei Tecmo has done it before mulitple times. At least it's not 80€.

[derExperte]

See also Sony's PS5 games, $70 vs 80€ from now on. Apparently us Europeans are all rich af so let's f them in the a.

[Aletheia]

Originally posted by fifthelement:

Actually, these days, Steam's automatic conversion is like 0.84€ on a dollar. You don't really see publishers leaving it at that too often though. And this 10€ extra is just garbage. But it's just gonna get more common. Koei Tecmo has done it before mulitple times. At least it's not 80€.

Yes, i've noticed the conversion was automatic these days, already bought games with their actual euro price in comparison to US price, but that's always "lower".
I wonder why Nioh 2 is 10+ euros more expensive in Europe though. 60 is huge for a digitalized version of the game, especially when I already have it on PS4 pro but I wanted to play at 60fps with a pretty good preset instead of the performance mode from the console version. :(

[FEZ. TF7]

Even the UK is getting screwed, $50=£37 but steam are charging £50

[Aletheia]

Originally posted by FEZ. TF7:

Even the UK is getting screwed, $50=£37 but steam are charging £50

Yeah. But i'm pretty sure it's on KOEI Tecmo's end.

[la_nague]

this is annoying, i understand dollar = euro because of taxes, but this recent +10 already made me not buy a PS5

[mega_bahamut86]

I guess I will go to a key-seller then.

[MasterDrake]

Originally posted by mega_bahamut86:

I guess I will go to a key-seller then.

i preordered the first nioh for 34€ so I guess I'll do the same this time too

[delta]

Yeah they can go ♥♥♥♥ off for this. Not buying the game at all anymore

[FEZ. TF7]

Originally posted by Aletheia:

Originally posted by FEZ. TF7:

Even the UK is getting screwed, $50=£37 but steam are charging £50

Yeah. But i'm pretty sure it's on KOEI Tecmo's end.

Yep, it has to be, if you were to look on SteamDB you can see the price valve suggested, which is £33 in the UK and in Europe 42 Euro

I'll pick it up from a key seller as the prices are far more reasonable

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by Aletheia:

I know Steam has always considered 1 dollar = 1 euros for years although that's not the case, but that's the first time there's a huge difference between the US price and the EU price.

What is the deal ?

If I recall someone else did the same. I forget if it was also Koei, but probably the case. For whatever reason Koei likes to price things higher for EU.

[Limp Squirrel]

regional pricing. Almost all Japanese games release at a similar price point (~1490 NTD = 50~53 USD). I reckon that's a fair price to ask for a complete edition.

[Aletheia]

Originally posted by Squidcake:

regional pricing. Almost all Japanese games release at a similar price point (~1490 NTD = 50~53 USD). I reckon that's a fair price to ask for a complete edition.

Which is a fair price for US but the difference between EU and US is ridiculous.
I really don't know why japanese games (especially from KOEI) cost that much in Europe.
I wouldn't have been mad if they were going for the dollar = euro bs.

[Raiser 💤]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Originally posted by Aletheia:

I know Steam has always considered 1 dollar = 1 euros for years although that's not the case, but that's the first time there's a huge difference between the US price and the EU price.

What is the deal ?

If I recall someone else did the same. I forget if it was also Koei, but probably the case. For whatever reason Koei likes to price things higher for EU.

Microsoft does this aswell for whatever reason.

[YSL]

eur=usd is legit bc eur includes vat so it's roughly same price depending where you live

$50 is justified for a late port imo, first one was pretty fun tho a bad port that was also late