Why there's no BGN on Steam ?

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I've been using Steam for years and I'm still wondering why where is no BNG on Steam . For the people from Bulgaria is quite expensive to pay 60 euro for a game with is equal to 120 BNG. The problem is that Bulgaria's economy is not the best.

[Cathulhu]

Valve is working on supporting more currencies.
Keep in mind that not everything will get better when your currency is actually supported. If a developer doesn't bother to set a price for your currency, then that game will no longer be available to you.
Australians are still waiting on being able to buy some games and they got their currency supported last year.
They laughed when i told when they'd regret that change. Now i am the one laughing.

[SuperTim]

Do you believe that, if there is BGN pricing, it would be any cheaper?

Well, Bulgaria is in the Euro Zone, so one of the laws is that they are not allowed to sell something cheaper for one person in the EU than for someone else. Therefore you won't really get a game much cheaper than someone else in Europe. It can differ a little bit because of the currency exchange rate, but it will not differ very much.

You might also notice that Poland has their own prices on Steam. Those prices are (almost) just as expensive as the euro prices, and most of the times, even more expensive.

So having prices in BGN will not make your games cheaper. The EU laws forbid it. If this law wasn't there, we would all ask our friends in Bulgaria to buy stuff for us and no one will be buying stuff in other parts in Europe, and the other countries don't want that.

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To be honest yeah . It can be like rubles.

[Cathulhu]

You only read the first line of the reply, did you?

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Ofc

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by ItzBunnY:

To be honest yeah . It can be like rubles.

That's wishful thinking. Think more in these lines:

Originally posted by SuperTim:

You might also notice that Poland has their own prices on Steam. Those prices are (almost) just as expensive as the euro prices, and most of the times, even more expensive.

[ambershee]

Originally posted by SuperTim:

Do you believe that, if there is BGN pricing, it would be any cheaper?

Well, Bulgaria is in the Euro Zone, so one of the laws is that they are not allowed to sell something cheaper for one person in the EU than for someone else. Therefore you won't really get a game much cheaper than someone else in Europe. It can differ a little bit because of the currency exchange rate, but it will not differ very much.

Bulgaria isn't in the Eurozone (currency is the Lev), and other European countries with their own currencies have different regional prices (e.g. the GBP copy of Terraria is 30% cheaper than the EUR copy).

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Valve talks about adding currencies and other payment options here. Some where after 35:00. They just use Russia as the example...

https://youtu.be/wrvr02SiHY4

~5:42

https://youtu.be/g2rT0Ji3BWI

The answer is, they're looking into it.

But just remember that if it does happen, publishers still need to update the prices for the new currency. That will either mean the prices might be lower/higher after or if no price was set, the game is unavailable for purchase until they do.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by ambershee:

Originally posted by SuperTim:

Do you believe that, if there is BGN pricing, it would be any cheaper?

Well, Bulgaria is in the Euro Zone, so one of the laws is that they are not allowed to sell something cheaper for one person in the EU than for someone else. Therefore you won't really get a game much cheaper than someone else in Europe. It can differ a little bit because of the currency exchange rate, but it will not differ very much.

Bulgaria isn't in the Eurozone (currency is the Lev), and other European countries with their own currencies have different regional prices (e.g. the GBP copy of Terraria is 30% cheaper than the EUR copy).

but bulgaria is in the EU. so the EU trade commission requires stores to use euro or your own currency. they cannot use russian pesos for you and even when your currency will get introduced on Steam i hardly disbelieve that it will be much cheaper for you.

[ambershee]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by ambershee:

Bulgaria isn't in the Eurozone (currency is the Lev), and other European countries with their own currencies have different regional prices (e.g. the GBP copy of Terraria is 30% cheaper than the EUR copy).

but bulgaria is in the EU. so the EU trade commission requires stores to use euro or your own currency. they cannot use russian pesos for you and even when your currency will get introduced on Steam i hardly disbelieve that it will be much cheaper for you.

With the exception of Bulgaria being in the EU, everything you just said is false. There are several EU countries that don't use the Euro, and the example I gave (GBP - United Kingdom) is a perfect example of that.

[Crazy Tiger]

Bulgaria has the same status as Poland, which means they committed to entering the Eurozone at one point. And currently Bulgaria is aiming to start using the euro in january 2022.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by ambershee:

Originally posted by wuddih:

but bulgaria is in the EU. so the EU trade commission requires stores to use

euro or your own currency

. they cannot use russian pesos for you and even when your currency will get introduced on Steam i hardly disbelieve that it will be much cheaper for you.

With the exception of Bulgaria being in the EU, everything you just said is false. There are several EU countries that don't use the Euro, and the example I gave (GBP - United Kingdom) is a perfect example of that.

you can not read, can you?