Oh oh, gamers in Japan, you'd better get ready for a 30-35% price increase on all games.

[TokyoDan]

https://www.eurogamer.net/valves-new-steam-pricing-tool-could-result-in-increased-game-prices?fbclid=IwAR0mQCqfMDq6RjMKTC4-NnLVHsEb8i2Ab0TudkRhTDQHhlHN5d91TthJfgk

[Chompman]

We have multiple posts about steams price recommendation and the price falls on the games devs to set it.

[✨Saint✨]

Life is going to be 30% more expensive (at least) all over the world, I do not need links to prove it, it is already happening.

[Chika Ogiue]

The recommended price increase for Japan is 3% not 30. It's also moot as Japanese (and an increasing number of overseas) publishers have been ignoring Valve's recommendations for years and have followed console pricing instead. So this won't cause a significant sudden change. The rate of price increase will remain the same. That is, it'll steadily go up by about 1000 JPY over the course of 12 months.

But it's funny how all these articles blame "VPN hopping" when that hasn't been possible for years. Steam store region isn't based on IP address. You can use a VPN all you want, but your store region won't change.

[[☭]-Soviet-Triumph-]

+5% for KRW, eh, I can pay that much.

[Start_Running]

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

The recommended price increase for Japan is 3% not 30. It's also moot as Japanese (and an increasing number of overseas) publishers have been ignoring Valve's recommendations for years and have followed console pricing instead. So this won't cause a significant sudden change. The rate of price increase will remain the same. That is, it'll steadily go up by about 1000 JPY over the course of 12 months.

But it's funny how all these articles blame "VPN hopping" when that hasn't been possible for years. Steam store region isn't based on IP address. You can use a VPN all you want, but your store region won't change.

You mean online journalists aren't completely trustworthy in regards to their dilligent research?

[[☭]-Soviet-Triumph-]

引用自 Start_Running：

You mean online journalists aren't completely trustworthy in regards to their dilligent research?

Not only online. I actually emailed few of em here in korea and they were so proud of their 'research' which consists of browsing 3 different twitter accounts and copypasting the content.

[Odra]

So according to that price chart, instead of paying 43$ for a 60$ game, they have to pay ~$44...

[Cozy Fawn]

+13% in Canada with a 15% provincial tax ON TOP. Good thing I have nearly a years backlog if not two years and only buy things 75% off.

[Qbert ⭐]

引用自 Ambi：

+13% in Canada with a 15% provincial tax ON TOP. Good thing I have nearly a years backlog if not two years and only buy things 75% off.

I been getting some games from my whislist now just in case they start raising a lot

[Thermal Lance]

引用自 Ambi：

+13% in Canada with a 15% provincial tax ON TOP. Good thing I have nearly a years backlog if not two years and only buy things 75% off.

Heh. As a retrogamer, these pricehikes don't really affect me that much. Just think it sucks when for the vast majority the quality didnt exactly go up either.

[Chika Ogiue]

引用自 Odra：

So according to that price chart, instead of paying 43$ for a 60$ game, they have to pay ~$44...

No. That 60 USD game actually costs us nearer 90 USD when the economy is stable. It should indeed cost us LESS than the USD price, but publishers don't use Valve's recommendations. So where 60 USD should be around 6000 to 7500 JPY (based on NORMAL exchange rates) it's actually priced at 8500 to 10,500 JPY.

Let's take a recent example. Yomawari. 40 USD, should thus equate to around 4000 to 5500 JPY, but it's priced at nearer 8000 JPY. Which with the current tanking economy is 60 USD (during normal, it would be nearer 80 USD).

In fact as a good rule of thumb look at any game with a digital deluxe version. Whatever the US is paying for that is still LESS than we are charged for the BASE game.

引用自 Start_Running：

You mean online journalists aren't completely trustworthy in regards to their dilligent research?

The amount of damage western journos did to the Japanese PC gaming scene with their lack of research... >=/

[TokyoDan]

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

引用自 Odra：

So according to that price chart, instead of paying 43$ for a 60$ game, they have to pay ~$44...

No. That 60 USD game actually costs us nearer 90 USD when the economy is stable. It should indeed cost us LESS than the USD price, but publishers don't use Valve's recommendations. So where 60 USD should be around 6000 to 7500 JPY (based on NORMAL exchange rates) it's actually priced at 8500 to 10,500 JPY.

Let's take a recent example. Yomawari. 40 USD, should thus equate to around 4000 to 5500 JPY, but it's priced at nearer 8000 JPY. Which with the current tanking economy is 60 USD (during normal, it would be nearer 80 USD).

In fact as a good rule of thumb look at any game with a digital deluxe version. Whatever the US is paying for that is still LESS than we are charged for the BASE game.

引用自 Start_Running：

You mean online journalists aren't completely trustworthy in regards to their dilligent research?

The amount of damage western journos did to the Japanese PC gaming scene with their lack of research... >=/

A lot of games developed by Japanese are a lot more expensive in Japan than one would think they should be based on the Dollar price and the exchange rate. But I am not familiar so much with these games as I tend to dislike anything from Japanese developers.

But I am talking about games developed in the west. For example, find a game developed in the USA that is on both Steam and GOG. Get its Steam Dollar price. The Steam and GOG Dollar prices are usually the same. Now with your Steam location set to Japan look at the Yen price. It works out to about 110 yen per dollar. But when you buy the game on GOG (no yen pricing) and you use a Japanese based credit card or Paypal, the final price will be 30 to 35% higher (after conversion to yen) because the Credit Card exchange rate is adjusted daily which is now 145 to 150 yen per US Dollar. So on Steam a 10 USD game is 1100 Yen (because Steam, not your credit card, does the conversion). On GOG it is 1450 to 1500 Yen because your credit card does the conversion.

The final price for gamers in Japan is not so much affected by what the developers determine as it is by Steam's out of date exchange rate. Just you watch and see what happens in the very near future after Steam brings its Yen to USD conversion rate up to date.

[76561198156670952]

Dont know man i think al prices all the same since im not the one who pays my games purchase heheh

[secuda]

What i am fearing is devs see this as accaptible rather then how we se it as recomendation.
So yea 30-400% increase is pretty insane in my book even if it is a "recomendation".

[Vodka]

I think that's pretty fair since 90% of asians are either a doctor or just stupid rich