They increased the price

[min3r95]

What the heck????

[Prashanth]

they want you to sub gamepass

[Terminator]

thank god i bough it when it was cheaper

[min3r95]

Originally posted by Terminator:

thank god i bough it when it was cheaper

Same here, it's like 200% more expensive now.

[I'm the walrus]

they removed regional pricing , now we pay same as those guys in USA

not cool Microsoft not cool

im glad i bought it when it had region pricing

[Anfia /s]

They buy ABK for make the gamer happy.
But increasing the price? that's a red flag yo

[ModerNertum]

They increased the MCC prices?
Glad I had bought the game when it was on regional prices.
They increased since when?

[r3ach5stars1]

the same happened on hell let lose they increased the price well good luck selling the game

[Z I A D]

They also removed regional pricing in my region went from 60 sar to 180 sar even more than the us

[Jackkel Dragon]

They also removed regional pricing in my region

Steam does not support removing regional prices. Every region always has its own price.

As for price changing, the USD price is still the same, so I assume Microsoft simply switched to Valve's new recommended conversion rates that started a few months ago. Unless a publisher specifies a region's price manually, updating the prices will reset everything to the recommended rate. Back when the conversion rates changed, Valve made a big deal about switching to the new recommendations and changed the UI to give warnings if the price was significantly different than the expected conversion.

Regarding the pricing being too expensive in some regions, I believe the conversion rate that Valve uses is based on global trade ratings, which is upsettingly subjective and based primarily on confidence and security. If global banks thing your region is "high risk", your conversions get worse. (Thus the crash of the GBP right after the UK referendum to leave the EU.) As I'm sure the affected people have already noticed, this isn't quite the same as PPP (purchasing power parity?) ratings.

As for why Valve (and in this case, Microsoft) would want the conversion that leads to worse prices, it's due to how those conversions affect the amount paid out. For instance, if I sell a game for 10 dollars on Steam, I usually should get ~7 dollars after Valve's cut. But if I get a sale from a region with a lower conversion rate from the old auto-recommendations for prices, I might get as little as 1 or 2 dollars from selling that 10-dollar game. I suspect the current recommended prices are meant to give the developers (and Valve) the same value per sale no matter what region the sale is from, even though the PPP isn't the same between regions.

Short version: Inflation and fiat currency strikes again, and Valve wants to maximize their profits. The only reason this didn't happen for Halo sooner is that someone at Microsoft didn't press a few buttons a few months ago when the main change to Steamworks happened.

[Cardboard Crack]

What? Its always been 40 base price unless a sale comes around???

[Cardboard Crack]

Originally posted by Dumpster Fire:

What? Its always been 40 base price unless a sale comes around???

im in the usa so idk about other countries my bad i didnt think about that haha

[I'm the walrus]

Originally posted by Dumpster Fire:

Originally posted by Dumpster Fire:

What? Its always been 40 base price unless a sale comes around???

im in the usa so idk about other countries my bad i didnt think about that haha

it was Rs 899 in India before which is around 10 USD

now its 3499 rs which is around 40 USD

they removed the regional pricing

[I'm the walrus]

on sale it used to go as low as 399 rs which is 4-5 USD

[ModerNertum]

I just confirmed. Without sales in my region is still 39, 99 EUR (saw yesterday, on Steam)

[Rogue285]

for which country?? I'm not seeing it in my page since it's set to US.