Pricing policy in Turkey and other countries

[lil_thot]

Good afternoon everyone, I'm interested in the pricing policy of the publisher/developer and I would like to discuss it here, thankfully there is an opportunity to do so
It's a bit strange that a game on Steam costs the same as on Playstation (999TRY). Also considering the average earnings in Turkey it becomes even stranger.
By the way the original price was 699TRY and during this time it increased twice, first time to 899TRY, second time to 999TRY. The total increase was 42%, I think that's significant
This discussion was created to find out what other people in Turkey and other countries think about this, maybe you have experienced a similar increase in price or the price was initially high for your region?
As far as I know people in Argentina and Russia have experienced a similar increase in cost and initially high price
Have a good day, everyone

[Grimzy]

its called regional pricing. The whole point of it is to have the game cost the exact same regardless what currency its in so people cant just fake regions and buy them cheaper.

[lil_thot]

Originally posted by Grimzy:

its called regional pricing. The whole point of it is to have the game cost the exact same regardless what currency its in so people cant just fake regions and buy them cheaper.

Regional price work little different. Its not just the same price in all regions but in different local currency.
Regional price = a price that is based on various factors, the standard of living of the country, average wages, etc.
But the fact that people started abusing it and change region- it's really true, unfortunately

[Qpax ツ]

Why do you care to support DEVS so much? I mean DEVS doesnt make a fair regional pricing for your region so you can't buy the game with the current currency of your country. All that's left is just to pirate the game like all students or other people who can't afford the game. Steam has become really weird price with their policy towards regional pricing. If Steam did protected rights of people who live in poor countries and didnt let the people change their region and detected abusers and banned them then this wouldn't have happened. So in short just move on and try to get the game and play in other means.

[lil_thot]

Originally posted by Qpax ツ:

Why do you care to support DEVS so much? I mean DEVS doesnt make a fair regional pricing for your region so you can't buy the game with the current currency of your country. All that's left is just to pirate the game like all students or other people who can't afford the game. Steam has become really weird price with their policy towards regional pricing. If Steam did protected rights of people who live in poor countries and didnt let the people change their region and detected abusers and banned them then this wouldn't have happened. So in short just move on and try to get the game and play in other means.

I can afford this game, but it's not that important.
I'm surprised that there are more and more cases of price hikes for games now, especially in poorer regions. Epecially this case is exemplary, the price was initially acceptable for the region and later increased significantly.
So I decided to create a discussion to see what other people think

[Iovvas]

I'm not too sure whether or not the price was changed, but this game is also really expensive here in Indonesia. This game is 870.000 IDR. For comparison, Armored Core 6 (60 USD), is 600.000 IDR here. And Starfield (70 USD), is 759.000 (!) here.

There was a game I wishlisted two years ago, Ender Lilies, where the initial price was slightly more expensive than the current price. But the developer/publisher then posted an update explicitly pointing out that they're adjusting the regional pricing.

From the fact that Starfield is cheaper than this game, the developer/publisher of this game most likely just didn't care that much about regional pricing. Which is weird, because their other games are all sanely-priced here.