New Currencies

[Roronoa]

So about the new currencies, are only a few games affected? PUBG for me is 10$ base price rn but other games are on normal prices. I thought currencies are supposed to change the entire store price and not just one game? I'm in Nepal btw.

[Ogami]

It depends on the publisher of the game, they set the prices. Most publishers change the prices for different regions according to the average income of the population there.
But some dont bother and just ask the same price in all the region shops.
Nothing much you can do.

[Roronoa]

Originally posted by Ogami:

It depends on the publisher of the game, they set the prices. Most publishers change the prices for different regions according to the average income of the population there.
But some dont bother and just ask the same price in all the region shops.
Nothing much you can do.

Well, as far as i've seen, PUBG is the only game currently that seems to have the prices lowered lol, too bad sigh

[Ogami]

Prices are generally bound to the store your account is set to, even if you are in another country.
So what is your account store set to?

https://store.steampowered.com/account/

You can check that here.

[Roronoa]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Prices are generally bound to the store your account is set to, even if you are in another country.
So what is your account store set to?

https://store.steampowered.com/account/

You can check that here.

its set to nepal

[Ogami]

I dont think that there is a special price region for the Nepalese store, that region is pretty much bound by the Indian Region Prices. Which could explain your high prices. A few months back a lot of publishers rasied their prices for that region to nearly EU levels which was a big outcry.

May i ask what currency the Nepalese shop uses? And if you buy a game, does this game have some region retrictions? Should be a orange banner on the store page, something like " this game can only be played while in the following countries bla bla bla" with a list.
If you have something like that we could further corner the price region you are in.

[wuddih]

nepal uses a "discounted", or better wording, seperate usd price. they have their own price region together with some other countries. just like CIS countries have one.

it is not a hard discount on everything. as already said, pricing is done by the dev/pub for each product and they have to enter a price for every currency and currency region.

[Roronoa]

Originally posted by Ogami:

I dont think that there is a special price region for the Nepalese store, that region is pretty much bound by the Indian Region Prices. Which could explain your high prices. A few months back a lot of publishers rasied their prices for that region to nearly EU levels which was a big outcry.

May i ask what currency the Nepalese shop uses? And if you buy a game, does this game have some region retrictions? Should be a orange banner on the store page, something like " this game can only be played while in the following countries bla bla bla" with a list.
If you have something like that we could further corner the price region you are in.

Nepal's currency is NRs which is nepali rupees, but steam didnt have the currency as one of the region based, but recently ( https://www.neowin.net/news/steam-games-will-become-much-cheaper-in-select-regions-soon ) they added or plan to add our currency among others according to the article, and this today, the price for pubg suddenly chnged so i thought maybe they implemented the new currencies. like i said, we pretty much currently have to buy games in us dollars base price which is really expensive lol

[wuddih]

read the article again. you have seperate usd pricing.

[Roronoa]

Originally posted by wuddih:

read the article again. you have seperate usd pricing.

does that mean like nepal currency is not region based like india or russia but just discounted prices from the usd? so is it still usd that we are using?

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Ａｋａｍｅ:

Originally posted by wuddih:

read the article again. you have seperate usd pricing.

does that mean like nepal currency is not region based like india or russia but just discounted prices from the usd? so is it still usd that we are using?

Seems that way.

[cheddarchezz]

You can look up which Tier your country belongs too this is how they do the pricings.

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/541907867786881961/

[wuddih]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡callipygian:

You can look up which Tier your country belongs too this is how they do the pricings.

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/541907867786881961/

partly wrong from the very get-go and highly outdated. Euro had tier'd pricing but that has been removed completely in 2016. the other currency prices are manually defined and not in any tiers.

Originally posted by Ａｋａｍｅ:

Originally posted by wuddih:

read the article again. you have seperate usd pricing.

does that mean like nepal currency is not region based like india or russia but just discounted prices from the usd? so is it still usd that we are using?

nepal belongs to a price region that uses usd.
you will use usd on steam, yes. seperate pricing, not necessarily a cheaper price. Valve communicated this in an email as "discounted usd price" and their price suggestions fill the price field with a cheaper usd price then the original usd price, but in the end it is up to the pub/dev to define the prices.

since this is no secret, here is the tutorial video for Steam Partners on how they enter and update their prices on Steam.
https://youtu.be/EQHt1X33MKM

[teri maa ki chuut]

Yes this is a serious problem u know....Well lets hope steam decides to add NR to the steam market