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..

[SamiSha]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Black Blade:

Początkowo opublikowane przez DoomBuster:

Added. Does CCP have a famous title? (Sorry for not searching but I'm in the middle of something.)

Edit: Updated the names with links

CCP has a VR game and EVE
There prices is lower
Activision seem to be on the shekal
Bluehole Inc. seem to be lower then the dollar in shekal

So now it either the shekel is higher than USD price or lower, neat.

Edit: Google keyboard auto edit is bad for your forum health.

[Black Blade]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Sami:

So now it either the she'll is higher than USD price or lower, neat.

Or around the same in Activision case

Edit

Ok thanks for fixing that

[SEVERUS SNAPE]

Each time since this awful update I open Steam Store I feel like I entered in Shufersal... Bring back $!

[SchnitziLad]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Blind Dog ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.com:

Each time since this awful update I open Steam Store I feel like I entered in Shufersal... Bring back $!:bpcharge: :bpcharge: :bpcharge:

Yeah, tell me about it. I used to come look at the store just for joy. Now there's no joy, nope, nothing, klum, zevel.

[kaguana]

Początkowo opublikowane przez DoomBuster:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Blind Dog ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.com:

Each time since this awful update I open Steam Store I feel like I entered in Shufersal... Bring back $!:bpcharge: :bpcharge: :bpcharge:

Yeah, tell me about it. I used to come look at the store just for joy. Now there's no joy, nope, nothing, klum, zevel.

That what I said: "Also I couldn't care less that there is 0 change for the currency to go back to US it annoying me just to look in store and see it in shakels that I don't even wanna look in store and see games that is also something that ruin the enjoyiment of using steam..."

ממש מעצבנים, ולא אכפת להם בכלל, הם גם לא ממש מסבירים מה ההגיון שמאחורי השינויי הזה מה שעוד יותר מעצבן, אנחנו לא חבורת מטומטמים שאומרים לנו ככה זה וזהו, זו בכלל לא תשובה.

Początkowo opublikowane przez Black Blade:

Well we have more stuff that already divided us, like our currency, our weather are location, are languages, maybe one day will be able to live the dream "and the world will live as one" but for now that is not the case
And overall doing the local currency thing works for both sides depending where the currency is going and where the seller lives, I mean if let's say the seller lives in country S that uses S$ and the buyer lives in country B that uses currency B$

It works for the seller if the B$ becomes stronger and its worth go up compare to S$ as they will get more, however, it can also work badly for them if the S$ become stronger as then the local B$ is worthless for them
However it goes, the Buyer cost does not change, and the price then remain the same that overall I think is not a bad thing as long as the price is set correctly to fit the economic state of the country

Anyhow with that users we need them to talk, its nice that they talk on a few treads in a group but as i said before we need them to voice first of all in English so who we need to hear it will be able to read it, and second they need to post there own storeys in status and stuff, and make sure its public, its easy to follow a post and comment on it, making your own status, however, show a much stronger key
I recommend on that to add the hashtag that no one seems to suggest better one there for is #SteamPriceIsreal to help the ears find and hear the sound they need to hear

Yes yes we all are divided in many thing, but steam works on US for a long time, so why change that ? I didn't hear a good reason for it and I don't accept that like I said before it just annoying and ruin the fun to even go through steam store even if I'm not gonna buy anything from there anymore, it ruin the eye shopping as well.

True if we want to make wave we need to blow air for the water to move, if you want them to do that you can just go on FB and talk in that group it not like it a secret one or anything.

[SchnitziLad]

I suspect the reason for the change is legal or regulatory, and has nothing at all to do with customer or dev satisfaction.
Steam has grown big, and possibly it is running into legal issues with different countries.
Just my hunch, of course. They're not telling.

[DrgnLive]

Początkowo opublikowane przez kaguana:

Początkowo opublikowane przez DoomBuster:

Yeah, tell me about it. I used to come look at the store just for joy. Now there's no joy, nope, nothing, klum, zevel.

That what I said: "Also I couldn't care less that there is 0 change for the currency to go back to US it annoying me just to look in store and see it in shakels that I don't even wanna look in store and see games that is also something that ruin the enjoyiment of using steam..."

ממש מעצבנים, ולא אכפת להם בכלל, הם גם לא ממש מסבירים מה ההגיון שמאחורי השינויי הזה מה שעוד יותר מעצבן, אנחנו לא חבורת מטומטמים שאומרים לנו ככה זה וזהו, זו בכלל לא תשובה.

Początkowo opublikowane przez Black Blade:

Well we have more stuff that already divided us, like our currency, our weather are location, are languages, maybe one day will be able to live the dream "and the world will live as one" but for now that is not the case
And overall doing the local currency thing works for both sides depending where the currency is going and where the seller lives, I mean if let's say the seller lives in country S that uses S$ and the buyer lives in country B that uses currency B$

It works for the seller if the B$ becomes stronger and its worth go up compare to S$ as they will get more, however, it can also work badly for them if the S$ become stronger as then the local B$ is worthless for them
However it goes, the Buyer cost does not change, and the price then remain the same that overall I think is not a bad thing as long as the price is set correctly to fit the economic state of the country

Anyhow with that users we need them to talk, its nice that they talk on a few treads in a group but as i said before we need them to voice first of all in English so who we need to hear it will be able to read it, and second they need to post there own storeys in status and stuff, and make sure its public, its easy to follow a post and comment on it, making your own status, however, show a much stronger key
I recommend on that to add the hashtag that no one seems to suggest better one there for is #SteamPriceIsreal to help the ears find and hear the sound they need to hear

Yes yes we all are divided in many thing, but steam works on US for a long time, so why change that ? I didn't hear a good reason for it and I don't accept that like I said before it just annoying and ruin the fun to even go through steam store even if I'm not gonna buy anything from there anymore, it ruin the eye shopping as well.

True if we want to make wave we need to blow air for the water to move, if you want them to do that you can just go on FB and talk in that group it not like it a secret one or anything.

כל מילה בסלע מסכים איתך :)

בכלל הורידו ממני לקנות משחקים
אפילו באתרים אחרים אני מרגיש שלא ממש בא לי לבזבז כסף
בקיצור עם לא יחזור המחירים בדולר
בינתיים הפסידו להם לקוח

[kaguana]

Początkowo opublikowane przez DrgnLive:

כל מילה בסלע מסכים איתך :)

בכלל הורידו ממני לקנות משחקים
אפילו באתרים אחרים אני מרגיש שלא ממש בא לי לבזבז כסף
בקיצור עם לא יחזור המחירים בדולר
בינתיים הפסידו להם לקוח

כן, בהחלט הורידו את החשק, אבל אתה יודע מה, אני לא אתן לוולו ולשינוי שלהם למנוע ממני לקנות משחקים שאני רוצה במקומות אחרים, אני לא אמנע מעצמי להמשיך להנות מהמשחקים, הם רק מפסידים לקוחות כי את המשחקים לא נקנה מהם, ואם לא אכפת להם, זה הפסד שלהם.

Początkowo opublikowane przez DoomBuster:

I suspect the reason for the change is legal or regulatory, and has nothing at all to do with customer or dev satisfaction.
Steam has grown big, and possibly it is running into legal issues with different countries.
Just my hunch, of course. They're not telling.

Yeah that can be a very good reason, and I'm sure that if that the reason they will not talk about it, but you know what I'm sure the real reason for this all will come to light at some point, maybe not today or tomorrow but it will, becouse nothing stay hidden for long. in the mean time they did a mistake, why they care about small country like Israel, well I'm sure they don't care that the whole problem, and if they will keep making mistakes they are gonna lose big time.

[Black Blade]

Początkowo opublikowane przez kaguana:

Yes yes we all are divided in many thing, but steam works on US for a long time, so why change that ? I didn't hear a good reason for it and I don't accept that like I said before it just annoying and ruin the fun to even go through steam store even if I'm not gonna buy anything from there anymore, it ruin the eye shopping as well.

True if we want to make wave we need to blow air for the water to move, if you want them to do that you can just go on FB and talk in that group it not like it a secret one or anything.

Let's say something happens the shekel worth compare to dollar drops games will have come much more expensive for us or if the dollar becomes stronger
Having it in our currency does have the advantage for us that it changes with us, for good and bad
Also, no conversion rate if you pay with local currency that is an advantage over all I think

I don't know what you really expect them to say on the matter, Valve said they're going to give local currency everywhere, Isreal is one of many countries that got it, and honestly I think we are a bigger market then some will make one believe as we can see on the download stats we have a nice amount it seems:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

And i also post on the FB group, if you there i assume you have seen my comment, i am going to push a little more on the idea of the moves after it cool down a little, right now spirts are pretty high, so i prefer to wait for the guys to have a more cool mind before i make a long post to talk about what i think we can do, here on the other hand i think users are calmer, and are more likely to listen part of it as of the nice color back here that is helping the mind relax and think and not jump out

[kaguana]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Black Blade:

Let's say something happens the shekel worth compare to dollar drops games will have come much more expensive for us or if the dollar becomes stronger
Having it in our currency does have the advantage for us that it changes with us, for good and bad
Also, no conversion rate if you pay with local currency that is an advantage over all I think

I don't know what you really expect them to say on the matter, Valve said they're going to give local currency everywhere, Isreal is one of many countries that got it, and honestly I think we are a bigger market then some will make one believe as we can see on the download stats we have a nice amount it seems:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

And i also post on the FB group, if you there i assume you have seen my comment, i am going to push a little more on the idea of the moves after it cool down a little, right now spirts are pretty high, so i prefer to wait for the guys to have a more cool mind before i make a long post to talk about what i think we can do, here on the other hand i think users are calmer, and are more likely to listen part of it as of the nice color back here that is helping the mind relax and think and not jump out

Don't it annoy you to see the store in Shekels???? it annoy the hack out of me.
As for the dollar to become stronger well that happen before it will be nothing new for us, we accept it with the conversion rate that is less then what we need to pay for games now days on steam, so for this change no ty.

Tell me something when you buy thing on Amazon and ebay and the like you buy them in dollars right not in NIS ??? so what the differnert, we are use to the dollar and we are used for it change, true something you will wait on something to buy but all in all it not a foreign currency for us, so I see no different it using it here as well, but steam or if one wanna be accurate - Valve (like I care how they call themselves) don't know that, they know nothing (or almost nothing) about those countries they change the currency for, and it show in the way they are responding that they don't even care to know or listen and when a compeny that depends on her ccustomers don't listen to them thing goes bad for them in the end.

As for FB I don't know what group you post or what you post there, as FB can go really fast with what going on there I might have missed it, I don't know.

[alphap8]

Over priced games with new currency system!

Now that all prices are presented in NIS for Israel, GTA V costs 350 NIS !!!
The exchange rate is 1 USD == ~3.6 NIS.
That means that GTA V cost ~97 USD, right? Wrong! The real price is 59.99 USD !!!
What going on here?!?!?

[SchnitziLad]

Black Blade, I'd also like to know which group you're using on FB.
And the lack of conversion by credit companies would've been a nice bonus, had the conversion rate suggested by Valve itself wasn't actually higher.

[Falsus Te Deum]

Dev's set the price in any currency. Ask them. There is also a megathread on this.
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3183345000079428736/

[Black Blade]

Początkowo opublikowane przez kaguana:

Don't it annoy you to see the store in Shekels???? it annoy the hack out of me.
As for the dollar to become stronger well that happen before it will be nothing new for us, we accept it with the conversion rate that is less then what we need to pay for games now days on steam, so for this change no ty.

Tell me something when you buy thing on Amazon and ebay and the like you buy them in dollars right not in NIS ??? so what the differnert, we are use to the dollar and we are used for it change, true something you will wait on something to buy but all in all it not a foreign currency for us, so I see no different it using it here as well, but steam or if one wanna be accurate - Valve (like I care how they call themselves) don't know that, they know nothing (or almost nothing) about those countries they change the currency for, and it show in the way they are responding that they don't even care to know or listen and when a compeny that depends on her ccustomers don't listen to them thing goes bad for them in the end.

As for FB I don't know what group you post or what you post there, as FB can go really fast with what going on there I might have missed it, I don't know.

Can't say it really annoys me, it's little inconveniences yes, I got used to the dollars and helps me think I spend less , but honestly, i think I can learn to live with it like I know how much milk cost in the store nearby and so on

About FB:
I was mostly talking about the גיקיה as you seem to refer to it before

Początkowo opublikowane przez DoomBuster:

Black Blade, I'd also like to know which group you're using on FB.
And the lack of conversion by credit companies would've been a nice bonus, had the conversion rate suggested by Valve itself wasn't actually higher.

הגיקיה, הגיימרים החופשים, גיימרים בישראל, ועוד כמה קטנים יותר

I really do not think we need to think about it as a conversion rate as much, its the price they set not just a conversion of the dollar even if that is what they used to translate it, its not what it is now, now its a set price

[Black Blade]

Hey man recommend you join the mega tread on the topic:
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3183345000079428736/

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Wayyy too slow for Mortalio it seems... needed to reload the page before i reply