The prices of games in Brasil are a joke! Does Steam think here are only millionaires?

[Oliver]

What is wrong with the responsible of steam and some game companies. I guess they want to force more illegal copies and don't care much for the market in south America.

The prices we have to pay here for some games are really a joke and actually offending. Some examples are Doom 4, Dishonored 2 or Fallout which are all about R$230,00!

Now this does not sound like much if you just convert in US$ but to understand better the madness you need to consider the average wages here. Lets take the normal common worker which makes about R$1000,00 a month. Would this person buy 1 single game he spend about 25% of his monthly income. In compare with the USA where you can buy the same game for US$60 but with a minimum wage of about US$2000.

This means an Brazilian user can buy about 4 games with a month worth of income during in the states or Europe e user can buy about 30 games!!!!

Cant they make the prices a little bit more fair??? Of course nobody buy the games like this and prefer buy illegal copies or download their games.

The next question is why this happen only in some countries during other countries get very well adjusted prices like china where all games cost about 50% of the prices in the USA.

I dont understand the price politics to be honest.... I just feel things should be more fair. The game industry make billions of profits and could really adjust a little bit their prices based on the living and income conditions of different places instead of sucking us try and buy bigger jets!

[The Rock God]

If games are too expensive, there's no way you can afford to buy a computer to run them on.

[Charanth]

Цитата допису Oliver2000:

What is wrong with the responsible of steam and some game companies. I guess they want to force more illegal copies and don't care much for the market in south America.

The prices we have to pay here for some games are really a joke and actually offending. Some examples are Doom 4, Dishonored 2 or Fallout which are all about R$230,00!

My understanding is that Brasil's government has large tariffs on goods like Video Games.

[Myth]

Inflation son, inflation. If the price of a game costs more it's because the value of your currency is low.

[MercilessHobo]

US minimum wage is nowhere near $2,000. About half of that. And giving our cost of living, it's barely enough to get by on. Let alone waste it all on $60 games. You've clearly never learned about inflation either.

"Some examples are Doom 4, Dishonored 2 or Fallout which are all about R$230,00!"

230 Brazilian Reals is equal to $68 USD. Only $8 higher. It's not our fault your currency isn't worth anything.

[Bara Bada Basto]

Eu has a normal Income of 1500-1800euro, rents here are from 500 up to 1000euro, buying 30games? where did you get that from?

[Lathrim]

Quit being absurd. Brazil's Steam store is not significantly worse than the American or European ones. In fact, it has been cheaper for years. Valve is not to blame for R$ inflation.

[GamerWolfOps]

At least your not in Canada where the new games are over 90$/100$

[AH-1 Cobra]

Its not the fault of western video game developers that your countries economy and currency sucks. What would you have them do? Give pittance free copies to people living in Brazil because they're QQ poor? Blame your own government, and its policy makers. Not steam or the developers.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Brazil has one of the lowest Steam prices worldwide. Prices are consistently around 50% lower than in the US store, doing a direct currency conversion.

Dragon Quest Heroes, Toukiden: Kiwami, and Arslan: Warriors of Legend, all of which are $60 games, cost 105.99 in the Brazilian store, according to SteamDB. Google says this is slightly above $30 for each game after conversion. But I don't see anyone complaining.

Also, publishers set the prices, not Valve. The three games you mentioned are published by Bethesda. The three games I mentioned are published by Koei Tecmo. It is a huge difference, and I think you should be glad not all prices are like Bethesda's, since other companies are making so little money in comparison by selling to your people.

Fallout and Doom are both on sale anyway. Or is paying $30 for each too much as well?

Edit: and I forgot to mention. The games you mentioned won't run on any potato pc. They require up to date hardware to run. I know from experience that electronics in Brazil are real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ expensive, we're talking up to 5 or 6 times their NA prices. If you can afford to buy a top notch pc in this kind of economy, I'm sure you can spare a couple hundred to get a couple games that will put it to use.

[Pedro-NF]

Цитата допису Eri:

Brazil has one of the lowest Steam prices worldwide. Prices are consistently around 50% lower than in the US store, doing a direct currency conversion.

I'm in Brazil and can confirm this. Example: CS:GO costs US$ 15 in the US, the equivalent to around R$ 50, and what's worse, if a Brazilian were to buy it from a site outside Brazil using a credit card, taxes on the foreign purchase would raise the cost to over R$ 60. From the Brazilian Steam store, people here can buy the game for R$ 25 (~US$ 7), or half that price when it's on sale.

I manage two game servers located in New York, so I'm always in contact with lots of people from the US, Canada and Europe, and most of them can't buy expensive just released AAA games all the time either. OP needs to get a clue.

[SnakeonaStaff]

Op is just an example of what goes on in the Portuguese forum most of the time.

Prices in Brazil are cheaper in almost all of games. You can check this anytime in isthereanydeal. And while a lot of games are 50% cheaper there you are complaining that a small number of recent AAA games are 8% more expensive.
And you are clueless about Europe and the USA. Yes, there are people who receive a lot of money but there are also people that are extremely poor.
To just end this post I'll finish with a notion i believe you are lacking: gaming is a luxury not a necessity. If you have soo much trouble paying for games maybe you should prioritze other things first. (And let's not forget that to play those AAA, recent games you'd need a PC that could run them - which is a bit expensive - so if you can't muster 60$ for a game i doubt you have a pc that can run the game. If you have such a pc then you obviously have conditions to pay for the game)

[Pedro-NF]

Every country has this kind of people who seem to live in a bubble and are quite misinformed about how things are in other countries. Anyways, just to prove that Brazilians have no problems buying games from Steam, Brazil's download traffic on Steam corresponds to 2.5% of the platform's global traffic, which is 5 times the download traffic of Mexico, for example, and is considerably higher than the download traffic of Spain, Italy, Poland and Sweden, to name a few countries. Source: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

[SnakeonaStaff]

Цитата допису Pedro-NF | NoobsForever.net:

Every country has this kind of people who seem to live in a bubble and are quite misinformed about how things are in other countries. Anyways, just to prove that Brazilians have no problems buying games from Steam, Brazil's download traffic on Steam corresponds to 2.5% of the platform's global traffic, which is 5 times the download traffic of Mexico, for example, and is considerably higher than the download traffic of Spain, Italy, Poland and Sweden, to name a few countries. Source: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

I was in no way trying to badmouth Brazil. I know quite some people there and even have family there. My issue is with the Portuguese forum. 90% of posts are about "Unfair" Vac Bans and from time to time this type of threads pop up. That forum really needed some moderators.

[Pedro-NF]

Цитата допису André:

I was in no way trying to badmouth Brazil. I know quite some people there and even have family there. My issue is with the Portuguese forum. 90% of posts are about "Unfair" Vac Bans and from time to time this type of threads pop up. That forum really needed some moderators.

No problem, André, I wasn't trying to contradict you, I was actually expanding on what you wrote. But about the VAC ban whining, that's 90% of the CS:GO forum too.

[tmwfte]

Цитата допису GamerWolfOps:

At least your not in Canada where the new games are over 90$/100$

Except new games, even AAA games, aren't over $90/$100 in Canada. The current standard for a new AAA is $79.99 on Steam (and dropping if Total War: Warhammer and the $69.99 price point that many retail stores are charging for other titles is any indication). In terms of Steam's default exchange, though, Canadians are actually paying less. They set up the exchange when the dollar was at a rate of about 10% and haven't changed it as the value of the loonie dropped. On the average game, Canadians are paying about 12% less than their American counterparts right now and certainly not what the current currency exchange is.