Questions about Israel currency change from USD to ILS.

[Vash Baldeus]

Some games since the change are not available to purchase.

I.E COD WW2, GTA V, Undertale .. Just some games I noticed.. Why is that, before the change we could buy those no problem..

[PhantasosK]

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Vote with your wallet, don't buy games from Steam as long as the current situation continues. I'm no longer buying any Steam games, plenty of resellers out there who can sale you the same game in a fair, sometimes even cheaper price.

Still supporting the publisher who raised the price on their games does not seem logical.

From my point of view it is Steam's fault for allowing this to happen in the first place. For many years I have paid for my games in USD and had no issues, now they are forcing on us to pay more due to currency change.

Either way, and regardless who should I support or not, the facts are that Steam is now selling in a much higher prices than is fair and reasonable. I'm not willing to pay 99$ for a 60$ game, therefore I'm going to use resellers from now on.

[Vash Baldeus]

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Still supporting the publisher who raised the price on their games does not seem logical.

From my point of view it is Steam's fault for allowing this to happen in the first place. For many years I have paid for my games in USD and had no issues, now they are forcing on us to pay more due to currency change.

Either way, and regardless who should I support or not, the facts are that Steam is now selling in a much higher prices than is fair and reasonable. I'm not willing to pay 99$ for a 60$ game, therefore I'm going to use resellers from now on.

Steam should enforce the developers to sell according to the Daily currency rate of the price they are placing, this way they can't charge more than they should. Like AC Origins is 240 ILS which is 68$ due to the conversion rate of 4 ILS equals 1$ when the current ILS rate to USD is 3.5ILS equals 1$

[Pink]

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Vote with your wallet, don't buy games from Steam as long as the current situation continues. I'm no longer buying any Steam games, plenty of resellers out there who can sale you the same game in a fair, sometimes even cheaper price.

Still supporting the publisher who raised the price on their games does not seem logical.

I just want to play games that I like.
These guys rip off in ILS on Steam alone, everywhere else they're behaving.

These publishers / devs aren't my friends, they're just doing business. It seems perfectly logical to me to get the same product they're selling for cheaper somewhere else.
They can be ♥♥♥♥♥ on Steam all the want, who gives a flying ♥♥♥♥.

[PhantasosK]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez PhantasosK:

From my point of view it is Steam's fault for allowing this to happen in the first place. For many years I have paid for my games in USD and had no issues, now they are forcing on us to pay more due to currency change.

Either way, and regardless who should I support or not, the facts are that Steam is now selling in a much higher prices than is fair and reasonable. I'm not willing to pay 99$ for a 60$ game, therefore I'm going to use resellers from now on.

Steam should enforce the developers to sell according to the Daily currency rate of the price they are placing, this way they can't charge more than they should. Like AC Origins is 240 ILS which is 68$ due to the conversion rate of 4 ILS equals 1$ when the current ILS rate to USD is 3.5ILS equals 1$

Yeah, either that or reverting back to USD.
As long as prices are unified and reasonable. Until then, I'm no longer buying from Steam.

[SchnitziLad]

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[Best4Gamers]

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[SEVERUS SNAPE]

Each day I arrive to home from my work and launch Steam.... I want to scratch out my eyes! That's how bad are shekels as default currency on Steam! I'm not used to them! Since registration on Steam I always used $ and this new update is something that I can not accept! I really don't understand why I can't see prices in $ while on EACH other site or service I can see them in $!

Steam! There is no other serious company who will suddenly force their clients to use some currency - ALWAYS there is an available option for clients to choose currency! This is NOT hard to implement! WHY?! we, clients must ask so much for such minor things?! And I'm not even talking about HIGH PRICES on some games! This is RIDICULOUS!

[TorMazila]

Two problems:
1. Do you observe double currency conversion (like top up 10 ILS and get charged 10.10 ILS instead). If that is so - I've a topic for that, please describe your experience:
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3183345176714670794/

2. screwed prices. Look at RU - they havewhat they have now due to ruble crashing from 30rub/usd to 60 rub/usd. Prices are set by the publisher - you should tell them, not Steam, that they are wrong. and then you are either charged in ILS or price gets converted back to USD and you get charged in USD, converted to ILS = double conversion happens and you are charged extra :).

[SEVERUS SNAPE]

Początkowo opublikowane przez TorMazila:

Two problems:
1. Do you observe double currency conversion (like top up 10 ILS and get charged 10.10 ILS instead).

I can't believe someone will have problem with 0,10 ILS added. We have much more problems with HIGHEST prices in Steam Store and retarded impossibility to change currency from shekels to $....

[TorMazila]

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Two problems:
1. Do you observe double currency conversion (like top up 10 ILS and get charged 10.10 ILS instead).

I can't believe someone will have problem with 0,10 ILS added. We have much more problems with HIGHEST prices in Steam Store and retarded impossibility to change currency from shekels to $.... :JacksAxe: :JacksAxe: :JacksAxe:

The 1-1,5% can easily grow to whatever when the rate becomes unstable - we, in Ukraine, have already seen banks putting buy/sell rates with over 10% difference (even while they are limited by laws to 5% or smth). And international institutions aren't even limited by that.

Besides, Kuwait guys write about significant prices increase also.
In xUSSR - we do have some titles increase up to 40% (mostly cheap games) and no more $0.07 games in store.

[SEVERUS SNAPE]

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I can't believe someone will have problem with 0,10 ILS added. We have much more problems with HIGHEST prices in Steam Store and retarded impossibility to change currency from shekels to $....

The 1-1,5% can easily grow to whatever when the rate becomes unstable - we, in Ukraine, have already seen banks putting buy/sell rates with over 10% difference (even while they are limited by laws to 5% or smth). And international institutions aren't even limited by that.

Besides, Kuwait guys write about significant prices increase also.
In xUSSR - we do have some titles increase up to 40% (mostly cheap games) and no more $0.07 games in store.

Only league of geologists will help us! 4tobi obossat' etix yebkov!

[Ankh]

It slowly starts to seem that this is the way things are going to stay, Valve says there is nothing they can do and publishers out right ignore us.

https://isthereanydeal.com/ > Vote for your region > Other > Israel

[SEVERUS SNAPE]

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It slowly starts to seem that this is the way things are going to stay

Only if we will sit quietly and not protest this awful update.

[Agent]

Maybe if enough people protest Valve will finally give in, who knows.

[Vash Baldeus]

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It slowly starts to seem that this is the way things are going to stay

Only if we will sit quietly and not protest this awful update.

Thing is, Valve should just enforce the publishers to use the current daily rates of currency. This way they can't over charge. Like what happened with AC Origins that they coverted 4 ILS to 1 USD instead of sticking to the current rate which is 3.5 ILS to 1USD which caused the price to rise from 60$ to 68$.