Love to see when the game's price is increased by 100% in your country 5 years after it was released. Thanks Capcom!

[Sr. Tequila]

Not much to say. I'm from Mexico and I was finally planning to buy this game after some friends convinced me to get it, so I checked the sale history on SteamDB and surprise! Crapcom on their infinite wisdom decided to increase the price of this game by a whole 100% in my country a month ago. Great...

Not applying regional pricing anymore is one thing Capcom, but removing it from your "old" games that already had it? Guess I'll pay a visit to key websites from now on whenever I want to play a game from this company.

[Mr. September]

Major publishers are increasing their prices for ALL of their games in certain 3rd world countries like Argentina, Turkey and apparently Mexico too now.

If the price increase is just 100%, you should feel lucky because some stuff in my region increased by 10-fold or something (that's 1000%). I'm not saying "Shut up, there's worse." of course. I just wanted to point out that not only there are other regions who have it worse, but also it's not a change that's only for your country (or this publisher).

It's probably to prevent abuse since people have been abusing regional pricing for quite a while and Steam doing nothing about it led the developers/publishers themselves to take the matters into their own hands. Of course, the price change is not always due to that. Some big shot high brass decided that they want a new car, so they are increasing the prices, like it or not.

[Sr. Tequila]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Mr. September:

Major publishers are increasing their prices for ALL of their games in certain 3rd world countries like Argentina, Turkey and apparently Mexico too now.

If the price increase is just 100%, you should feel lucky because some stuff in my region increased by 10-fold or something (that's 1000%). I'm not saying "Shut up, there's worse." of course. I just wanted to point out that not only there are other regions who have it worse, but also it's not a change that's only for your country (or this publisher).

It's probably to prevent abuse since people have been abusing regional pricing for quite a while and Steam doing nothing about it led the developers/publishers themselves to take the matters into their own hands. Of course, the price change is not always due to that. Some big shot high brass decided that they want a new car, so they are increasing the prices, like it or not.

I swear these damn publishers realize Mexico is part of North America and suddenly they believe we have the same power acquisition than the US so they increase their prices. Because most of the time we are the ones who get the worst prices from all Latin America.

[Sharan]

Im from south America. Past year I had the chance of purchasing Master's edition pretty cheap on humble bundle. The game goes on sale from time to time there, perhaps you could acquire it there aswell.

[Sr. Tequila]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sharan:

Im from south America. Past year I had the chance of purchasing Master's edition pretty cheap on humble bundle. The game goes on sale from time to time there, perhaps you could acquire it there aswell.

If you dont mind me asking, how much you paid for the master edition on Humble bundle in dollars? Because from what i've seen HB doesnt have regional pricing but maybe that's just on my damn country.

[cruste]

imagine gas prices exploded in germany by 400%...
get your sunglasses and enjoy great reset

[Sr. Tequila]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από cruste:

imagine gas prices exploded in germany by 400%...
get your sunglasses and enjoy great reset

Damn that's rough, we all are gonna get f u c k e d sooner than later.

[Benjamin]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από cruste:

imagine gas prices exploded in germany by 400%...
get your sunglasses and enjoy great reset

I don't see what video game prices have to do with a silly conspiracy theory?

[Manticore]

Not just Capcom..
Bethesda, SEGA, and a lot indie game publishers increase the price of their games very significantly in recent months.

It's because they have noticed a lot of people abusing vpn and bought their games cheaply from countries like Argentina and Turkey (Maybe Mexico and other cheaper countries too).

Tho it's kinda understandable if we see from the perspective of those companies (Especially indies), i also agree this is nowhere a good method because they also dragged the native players into all this who did nothing wrong.

Valve themselves should be the one who fix all this problem since it's a flaw from their management and control..

[nitrometano]

A bunch of price hikes are hapenning in Brazil as well. Many publishers have been increasing prices for a while now.
I don't know how Mexico is doing, but in Brazil our currency have been seriously devaluated so maybe Capcom is trying to keep up with the currency fluctuations, disregarding how much consumers are able to pay.
So, like, our economy is bad but those random changes in regional pricing are a new thing. I have no idea if Steam changed its policies regarding regional pricing.

[Sr. Tequila]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από nitrometano:

A bunch of price hikes are hapenning in Brazil as well. Many publishers have been increasing prices for a while now.
I don't know how Mexico is doing, but in Brazil our currency have been seriously devaluated so maybe Capcom is trying to keep up with the currency fluctuations, disregarding how much consumers are able to pay.
So, like, our economy is bad but those random changes in regional pricing are a new thing. I have no idea if Steam changed its policies regarding regional pricing.

Our currency always fluctuates but is usually in such a minor quantity (10 cents at most) that I doubt that is the reason why Crapcom decided to give us the middle finger with the regional price.

Honestly I think these companies are just getting greedier after they saw how even the so called pc master race is stupid enough to buy games at a 70 dollar price from Activision and Square Enix. Today is the removal of regional pricing and tomorrow every single AAA game will cost 70 dollars.

[SteeamRentShop]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sr. Tequila:

Our currency always fluctuates but is usually in such a minor quantity (10 cents at most) that I doubt that is the reason why Crapcom decided to give us the middle finger with the regional price.

Honestly I think these companies are just getting greedier after they saw how even the so called pc master race is stupid enough to buy games at a 70 dollar price from Activision and Square Enix. Today is the removal of regional pricing and tomorrow every single AAA game will cost 70 dollars.

When that time comes,
*wipe dust from my old totally legal sea-captain hat*
I'll be ready.

Jokes aside, it seems steam is changing their regional pricing suggestion.
and ofc instant price-hike without considering anything from the greedier/big-ish publishers.
even indie dev/publisher like ludeon use that suggestion for their latest dlc and creating a funky situation which a dlc price is 4-5x more expensive than its base game.
They tone it down to a more reasonable price after much protest in argentina-spanish and turkic language.
As for aaa publishers? With them being tone-deaf, we'd better off screaming to a wall.

[Sharan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sr. Tequila:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sharan:

Im from south America. Past year I had the chance of purchasing Master's edition pretty cheap on humble bundle. The game goes on sale from time to time there, perhaps you could acquire it there aswell.

If you dont mind me asking, how much you paid for the master edition on Humble bundle in dollars? Because from what i've seen HB doesnt have regional pricing but maybe that's just on my damn country.

I paid around 30$ for this edition.

[Sr. Tequila]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sharan:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sr. Tequila:

If you dont mind me asking, how much you paid for the master edition on Humble bundle in dollars? Because from what i've seen HB doesnt have regional pricing but maybe that's just on my damn country.

I paid around 30$ for this edition.

If you are from South America I think you overpaid for the master edition. The master edition on steam is like 15 dollars in every country from Latin America except Mexico. Humble Bundle is awesome for their bundles but their store prices are mediocre unless you are in the US due to their lack of regional pricing.

[Western Civilization]

Why should games cost less in Mexico than they do in the US or Europe? Take the price in the origin nation, for example $60 USD for AAA game, and charge whatever the exchange rate equivalent is in other countries. Anything else is gamer welfare

[Ragdoll]

Damn that sucks, it's stuck at the same price here