Wow another price increase from 599 to 899 lira

[Momoi]

Thx for encouraging me to pirate it koei

[Karumati]

Blame your government

[Momoi]

Originally posted by Karumati:

Blame your government

It's them who pulled the trigger

[Karumati]

Originally posted by Ithaca37:

Originally posted by Karumati:

Blame your government

It's them who pulled the trigger

Turkeys lira is not stable currency

[Momoi]

Originally posted by Karumati:

Originally posted by Ithaca37:

It's them who pulled the trigger

Turkeys lira is not stable currency

Yes it is but not that drastic enough to change price for almost twice in a blink of an eye

In fact the 599 lira is already too much expensive for us to afford(even tho it's close to Valve's recommended price) and they increased it even more to which is like 10day full time job wages

[VavTenZ]

Originally posted by Ithaca37:

Originally posted by Karumati:

Turkeys lira is not stable currency

Yes it is but not that drastic enough to change price for almost twice in a blink of an eye

In fact the 599 lira is already too much expensive for us to afford(even tho it's close to Valve's recommended price) and they increased it even more to which is like 10day full time job wages

In Thailand this game also cost full week minimum wages lol

[Karumati]

Originally posted by VavTenZ:

Originally posted by Ithaca37:

Yes it is but not that drastic enough to change price for almost twice in a blink of an eye

In fact the 599 lira is already too much expensive for us to afford(even tho it's close to Valve's recommended price) and they increased it even more to which is like 10day full time job wages

In Thailand this game also cost full week minimum wages lol

In uk it’s like half a shift on warehouse

[If My🅿🅾cketH🅰dMoney🐸]

Weak Currency or bad government really has a small part in this change.
Local currencies& regional price exists because they want to make sure people could afford them instead of pirating
But now it seems like they just don't care anymore Couple of days ago there is indie dev who tried to explain the situation that backs in 2022 85% of sales in Turkey are actually made from outside So I could imagine Koei probably got some number on they hand as well it's more about a region-hopper problem it really sucks for Turkish people.

[Faruco]

It also happened with Argentina. It is increasingly clear that many companies, especially the Japanese, care little about the damage they do to the audience in certain countries, increasing prices in this overwhelming way. We don't have to represent a respectable percentage to be treated well as consumers. It's a shame that some countries with regional prices suffer the consequences of the bad practices of a few first world players who do not understand that buying via VPN to take advantage of regional prices is the same as scamming companies or pirating a game.

I understand that even with the high regional prices for first world players it's still cheap to buy this way, but Steam or the companies should take some kind of measure so that we are not always the affected ones. We do not have the same purchasing power in Argentina as in New Zealand, which is the currency that is closest to the current value of the game in Argentina. And we must also add 74% taxes. This will make it more and more difficult to buy games and regional prices will no longer matter.

[Momoi]

Originally posted by If My🅿🅾cketH🅰dMoney🐸:

Weak Currency or bad government really has a small part in this change.
Local currencies& regional price exists because they want to make sure people could afford them instead of pirating
But now it seems like they just don't care anymore Couple of days ago there is indie dev who tried to explain the situation that backs in 2022 85% of sales in Turkey are actually made from outside So I could imagine Koei probably got some number on they hand as well it's more about a region-hopper problem it really sucks for Turkish people.

I'm sick of hearing excuses of raising price radically in here. Those region hoppers are false customers that won't buy it when price goes up. They are just potential pirates. And you know what? prices other than Argentina and Turkey of this game is exactly set to steam recommended prices in other regions. Their attempts are even encouraging more and more region hopping. If I were to buy their new titles like this, then I'll make a new account set to South Asia or Ukraine to buy it at price of one third of that of the price in here. It's their fault to encourage even people with worst economic conditions to region hop and if they do measures to even increase prices in those lower price regions, then alright I'll give up and pirate it. Thx Koei for saving my 10day wages!

[RWND]

Don't think you will be able to pirate this game, there is only one person cracking Denuvo and i highly doubt shes gonna crack this one.

Game cracking is sadly slowly dying, no more free stuff.

[Momoi]

Originally posted by RWND:

Don't think you will be able to pirate this game, there is only one person cracking Denuvo and i highly doubt shes gonna crack this one.

Game cracking is sadly slowly dying, no more free stuff.

Koei doesn't implement denuvo. If they did you should see the yellow notification on the bottom of the discription

[If My🅿🅾cketH🅰dMoney🐸]

Originally posted by Ithaca37:

Originally posted by If My🅿🅾cketH🅰dMoney🐸:

Weak Currency or bad government really has a small part in this change.
Local currencies& regional price exists because they want to make sure people could afford them instead of pirating
But now it seems like they just don't care anymore Couple of days ago there is indie dev who tried to explain the situation that backs in 2022 85% of sales in Turkey are actually made from outside So I could imagine Koei probably got some number on they hand as well it's more about a region-hopper problem it really sucks for Turkish people.

I'm sick of hearing excuses of raising price radically in here. Those region hoppers are false customers that won't buy it when price goes up. They are just potential pirates. And you know what? prices other than Argentina and Turkey of this game is exactly set to steam recommended prices in other regions. Their attempts are even encouraging more and more region hopping. If I were to buy their new titles like this, then I'll make a new account set to South Asia or Ukraine to buy it at price of one third of that of the price in here. It's their fault to encourage even people with worst economic conditions to region hop and if they do measures to lower price regions, then alright I'll give up and pirate it. Thx Koei for saving my 10day wages!

I'm curious about South Asia just look into it and Wo long cost only 20 USD But Nioh 2 cost 49 USD over there. They really encourage region hopper to invade South Asia this time huh? What a bizarre price lol.

[Phantom Samurai]

It's unfortunate to hear this. Obviously, the publishers think about their revenue. Still, they forgot the fact that the regional price is an incentive to attract more players to officially buy their games but by increasing the price, even those players who could afford it before, now have more reasons to pirate it. Eventually, the sale in those regions will be reduced considerably. In the end, the publishers won't get more money as probably they were expecting by increasing the price.

[_Gustavo]

It's a Valve thing to counter the region vpn abuses. Here's a post from Spiritfarer devs about the price increase of their game as well.

"What I can say is that we saw a huge increase in sales in your countries last year, but no increase in the number of players. Something like 85% of sales coming "from Argentina and Turkey" seem to be coming from people playing in other countries - people who are chasing the lowest possible price on Steam. This is apparently a widespread problem on Steam, which is why Steam is recommending an especially large increase in your regional prices."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/10zq02x/spiritfarer_regional_price_update_developers_are/

Same thing happen to Fatal Frame IV (also KT), here in Brazil we also had an absurd price increasing, way over the steam regional table.

[kripcision]

well if you cant afford it then either play on gamepass, wait for a sale, or pirate. if its breaking the bank for you to buy the game then simply dont.