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It is $1.
It's a lot when you consider regional pricing.
The minimum sale price is 0.99 USD which then gets converted to other regions depending on various factors. Steam simply updated the logic of what the minimum price is for more regions. Its not 0.99USD across the board for all regions regardless of ethe extchange rate. Its the 0.99 USD which is then converted using steam's set conversion rates for that price (which to be clear is literally how the system has worked since forever)
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3700310527377680732
Your country running your currency into the ground is not Valve's fault.
That's such a non-argument
It's a discussion forum. I gave my take, I don't like the change.
It really isn't. Valve is not responsible for hyper inflation due to your country's leaders mishandling of your country's currency.
and you 'take' is pointless. You don't say what the 'take' is. At which point why are you here. You're not even 'discussing' anything. Because 'discussing' means actually, you know, maybe trying to articulate an actual position?
Your 'take' it based on a gross misrepresentation of the actual issue. Steam's minimum price, in usd, is 0.99 now. you're whining this is 'too expensive' despite the fact that, this 0.99 USD is convereted via steam's utterly normal regional pricing scheme, just like every other game in existence. If you think a 0.99 USD game is 'too expensive' then literally EVERY game on steam is 'too expensive' for you. Note that the existing conversion imeans that the cheapest a game on Steam in your region can be is 3,49 Brazilian Riels which is 0.70 USD
If you think somehow that Elden ring is supposed to be 0.70 USD, I have some terrible news for you
They're in Brazil, while their currency has lost a lot of valuve over the last decade, they're not really in any kind of hyper inflation death spiral like Argentina or Turkey so I dn't know what they're whining about other than somehow thinking Elden Ring shold be 99 cents or something
forty nine cent!
from lord gaben
Did I say that?
Not as bad, no but it ain't pretty.
Well apparently you think the 'minimum' price of 0.70 USD is 'TOO HIGH' and since you utterly totally refuse to 'discuss' anything, well people are going to come to the most logical conclusions from your incohernet nonsense
You continue to completely miss the points:
1. Minimum prices will go up considerably outside the U$ currency.
2. If publisher doesn't adjust the price as per STEAM recommendation, the game will not be purchasable outside the USA.
3. Nothing to do with 'inflation' and all to do with closed market currency exchange.
Whatever the reason for your money being worthless might be, Valve has no interest in selling you games at a loss. Maybe your regional equivalent of $0.99/$0.49 is a lot, but payment processors are likely to not care about your local currency woes.
Also, going with an earlier example, publishers might not want to sell their games for mere cents as well, even if that means a monthly salary from your perspective.
For al these things, it's not your perspective that matters. If I'm a company outside of your country, with employees that want a salary according to their home country standards, selling into your country at prices that you like might just not be a feasible idea. Employees are paid in real currency, it's not like "we've sold 1000 units, so congrats -- 15 of those are on you!". And then you get home, no money in pocket, but at least your employer told you that he attributed 15 sold units to you.