steam do not care seller increase price randomly?

[warriorkas5533]

there is a game i want i saw last week was 4000 pesos, now it is 9000. the game is not out so no price drop before, just normal price.

i don't understand why seller do that. so if people buy that game before they can keep it for 4000 but new people have to pay 9000? is unfair and steam do not care?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by warriorkas5533:

there is a game i want i saw last week was 4000 pesos, now it is 9000. the game is not out so no price drop before, just normal price.

i don't understand why seller do that. so if people buy that game before they can keep it for 4000 but new people have to pay 9000? seems unfair and steam do not care?

You have a thread in the correct location...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1448440/discussions/0/3782498683134995894/

Valve's own suggested price for Argentina for this game was ARS$ 3800,00 and the developer/publisher decided to ignore that suggestion and marked it up another +137% to ARS$ 8999,00.

https://steamdb.info/sub/509544/

The increase happened on February 15, 2023.

[Rootiga]

they probably would if it gets reported, rockstar did the same scummy thing with GTA5 a couple years ago and valve made them fix it

[warriorkas5533]

Originally posted by Rootiga:

they probably would if it gets reported, rockstar did the same scummy thing with GTA5 a couple years ago and valve made them fix it

thank you

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Let's just say, Valve made some updates a few months ago and the developer decided to wait until February to change it...

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3314110913449340511

Absolutely nothing wrong.

[Chompman]

It's not for steam to say what a dev and publisher can charge for their game and they can increase the price of their game as they see fit.

[happy]

No Steam doesnt care, as suggested by them increasing their "Suggestions" for low income Countries by up to 500%

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by happy:

No Steam doesnt care, as suggested by them increasing their "Suggestions" for low income Countries by up to 500%

You failed to see the developer ignored the suggested price and decided to make it more expensive.

[happy]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by happy:

No Steam doesnt care, as suggested by them increasing their "Suggestions" for low income Countries by up to 500%

You failed to see the developer ignored the suggested price and decided to make it more expensive.

:qr:

Okay and? Steam horrendously increases Prices, so it definetly wont matter if Devs go all out. Steam doesnt punish for the same Thing they are encouraging already.

[HistoricKombat]

Originally posted by Chompman:

It's not for steam to say what a dev and publisher can charge for their game and they can increase the price of their game as they see fit.

Actually Valve can. Valve can tell publishers to only charge up to a certain amount and follow whatever policies Valve has for sellers or tell them to take their games to another platform. Of course, Valve has to enforce their policies but that probably won't happen unless there is enough outcry from angry customers.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by happy:

Okay and? Steam horrendously increases Prices, so it definetly wont matter if Devs go all out. Steam doesnt punish for the same Thing they are encouraging already.

Steam does not increase prices. They recommend a price based on the current value of the currency for the region.
But in the end its 100% the developer/publisher ALONE who sets the pricing on the store.

Also, if you complain about the raising of prices for regions like Argentina, did you maybe took 5 minutes to research WHY?
The Argentinian Peso has dropped over the last 3 years from 40 Peso for 1 Dollar/Euro to now 225 Peso for 1 Dollar/Euro.

So of course Steam recommends to raise the prices. If they left it at the level from a few years ago a developer would earn like 3-4 bucks for a AAA release sale, often only cents for Indie games.
That is not sustainable.

Even the new prices are still FAR cheaper then what we in the west pay,
A 8000 Peso AAA game is still only about 30 bucks after conversion, that is less then half what US or European customers have to pay.
Of course it sucks when you live in a country with such a weak economy and its frustrating but you also need to understand that the developers need to earn a certain amount on a sale.

Video games are a business, not a charity.
If you cant afford the game right now, put it on your Wishlist and get it later during a sale.
There is no reason why you need to buy every new release right NOW.

[Chompman]

Originally posted by HistoricKombat:

Originally posted by Chompman:

It's not for steam to say what a dev and publisher can charge for their game and they can increase the price of their game as they see fit.

Actually Valve can. Valve can tell publishers to only charge up to a certain amount and follow whatever policies Valve has for sellers or tell them to take their games to another platform. Of course, Valve has to enforce their policies but that probably won't happen unless there is enough outcry from angry customers.

They can only recommend and not control it otherwise no game company would sell their game on steam.

You might be thinking of the discount rules on the limit they can drop the price of a game so they cannot do a 99% discount or a discount after a price increase for a set amount of time but not the normal price value for the most part and increasing their price of a game is on them to do as they please.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/pricing

Regional Pricing Recommendations
Developers on Steam have control over their own prices, in every currency. But researching and determining ideal prices for dozens of different currencies can be a challenge for some developers.

As a service for helping you manage pricing across all our different currencies, Steam offers a recommendation for all other currencies, based on whatever USD price you choose. When you are entering your pricing for your game, you will notice Steam fill in a set of recommendations based on your selected USD price. You can use our recommendations for some, all, or none of the other currencies, as you see fit!

So, how does Valve determine those recommendations?

It's tempting to treat pricing as a simple problem of foreign exchange rates and tie each currency's price equivalency to the exchange rate. But that kind of strategy vastly oversimplifies the disparate economic circumstances from one territory to another. And while exchange rates do have macroeconomic consequences, they generally don't have short term impacts on an individual consumer's purchasing.

Rather than just pegging prices to foreign exchange rates, our process for price suggestions goes deeper into the nuts and bolts of what players pay for the goods and services in their lives. This includes metrics like purchasing-power parity and consumer price indexes, which help compare prices and costs more broadly across a bunch of different economic sectors. But in the case of games on Steam, we also drill down more specifically to entertainment purchasing to better inform those decisions.
All of these factors have driven us towards the commitment to refresh these price suggestions on a much more regular cadence, so that we're keeping pace with economic changes over time.

Many games choose to ignore our recommendations and determine their own pricing in each currency, and that’s just fine. But we hope the recommendations are a useful data point for developers who don’t have the time or interest to research pricing in each currency themselves.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

this seems in line with the fixing the pricing thing...
if you want to sell your game for 500 all the time..
put it up to 1000 and offer 50% discount
a few times a year.... either way customers are losing...

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by ragefifty50:

this seems in line with the fixing the pricing thing...
if you want to sell your game for 500 all the time..
put it up to 1000 and offer 50% discount
a few times a year.... either way customers are losing...

Are they?
A person will generally only pay as much as they feel a good or service is worth, if not less.
So as long as the customer is paying, then it means the customer thinks they're getting a good deal.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by ragefifty50:

this seems in line with the fixing the pricing thing...
if you want to sell your game for 500 all the time..
put it up to 1000 and offer 50% discount
a few times a year.... either way customers are losing...

Are they?
A person will generally only pay as much as they feel a good or service is worth, if not less.
So as long as the customer is paying, then it means the customer thinks they're getting a good deal.

they are.... just watched a dev on youtube that was going to sell his game for $10
and was told to sell if for $15 so it looks good when its discounted...

a person will pay depending on their mental ability... the rest is upto devs and how much they think that can sell their product for...

if 2 people are selling the same product with different skins...
and one is charging $5 and the other is
charging $20

do you buy both and imagine the $20 product is so much better.....

[ZZZZZ]

yea the € price is over suggested price too, guess it will be normal in the long run to ignore the suggested price