Steam should open a region for Bangladesh

[Jim Barret]

Steam International price is infuriatingly high for people of 3rd world countries. To the point that, it is literally impossible for most players to buy ANY AAA game ever.

Now some people may say that, Bangladesh don't have enough players to justify Steam going through such trouble. But I'd argue it's the opposite, gamers can't play BECAUSE of the price. Hence, they are stuck playing Free-to-Play games (for multiplayers) and Pirate the single player games.

Given the fact that USA have a designated region, I can't find any for why the "International" pricing is same as US pricing.

[Zukabazuka]

Valve doesn't set the prices of the game, the producers of the game do. Yes it sucks that the price is high in those countries but it doesn't make sense selling games that cost you way to much for 50cents in those countries just to please the people.

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Shouldnt this be looked into by your government and your consumer law departments...

its the game makes that set the prices...

[wuddih]

there is no "international pricing" and bangladesh already has local pricing that is consolidated together with other countries of the area, internally called SASIA - USD
These countries are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

partners are recommended to set a discounted price for those but what they ultimately do is up to them.


also just checked what Valve recommends for SASIA - USD ... about 60% of the USD price, ergo, 40% discount and + sales ... that should make things affordable.
if the AAAs dont follow the recommendations ... well, tell them that with your wallet by not buying their crap.

[Jim Barret]

Originally posted by Zukabazuka:

Valve doesn't set the prices of the game, the producers of the game do. Yes it sucks that the price is high in those countries but it doesn't make sense selling games that cost you way to much for 50cents in those countries just to please the people.

Of course not. Game development is an expensive process and companies do take risks investing a lot of money in games. But then again, selling single player games for lowered prices should be better than not selling at all. Even the price level of Argentina would be perfectly tolerable.

[Jim Barret]

Originally posted by ragefifty50:

Shouldnt this be looked into by your government and your consumer law departments...

its the game makes that set the prices...

Yes I know the companies set the price. But opening a region for Bangladesh, that's a decision from the Valve Corp. If they don't separate Bangladesh from the rest of the world as payment region, the Game publishers can't price them accordingly.

And no, I don't think it was a problem with local government or its law.

[Jim Barret]

Originally posted by wuddih:

there is no "international pricing" and bangladesh already has local pricing that is consolidated together with other countries of the area, internally called SASIA - USD
These countries are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

partners are recommended to set a discounted price for those but what they ultimately do is up to them.


also just checked what Valve recommends for SASIA - USD ... about 60% of the USD price, ergo, 40% discount and + sales ... that should make things affordable.
if the AAAs dont follow the recommendations ... well, tell them that with your wallet by not buying their crap.

S.Asia region does NOT have prices at anywhere close to 60% of US price. Most cases I've encountered were 5-10% price reduction at best.

I should remind you that Bangladesh have GDP (PPP) 1/3rd of Argentina. But still, price equivalent of Argentina would be MORE than good enough. I'm speaking too much for Bangladesh but the whole South Asia is in more or less similar economic condition.

If companies do hope to reduce video game piracy, increasing in availability and better affordability is the way.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Jim Barret:

Originally posted by wuddih:

there is no "international pricing" and bangladesh already has local pricing that is consolidated together with other countries of the area, internally called SASIA - USD
These countries are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

partners are recommended to set a discounted price for those but what they ultimately do is up to them.


also just checked what Valve recommends for SASIA - USD ... about 60% of the USD price, ergo, 40% discount and + sales ... that should make things affordable.
if the AAAs dont follow the recommendations ... well, tell them that with your wallet by not buying their crap.

S.Asia region does NOT have prices at anywhere close to 60% of US price. Most cases I've encountered were 5-10% price reduction at best.

I should remind you that Bangladesh have GDP (PPP) 1/3rd of Argentina. But still, price equivalent of Argentina would be MORE than good enough. I'm speaking too much for Bangladesh but the whole South Asia is in more or less similar economic condition.

If companies do hope to reduce video game piracy, increasing in availability and better affordability is the way.

And as said.... Valve can only make recommendation of price levels. They can't force the publishers to set their games to those price levels. If game prices are too high for your region, it is because of those games' publishers charging more than the recommended prices. Valve has already provided them with the ability to set a lower price. There isn't anything more that Valve can do.

[Munna96]

They can't do that. That will happen only if a Bangladeshi agent secures the license of selling Steam games in regional price. That's how Spotify came in Bangladesh, that's how business works.

[☎need4naiim☎]

I don't think Bangladesh government cares for the Bangladeshi gamers living there more than Valve does. Yes, Western governments are in bad shape but Eastern ones are even worse, not even comparable.

Dark times for People who are on a budget. We can not even show support here for those unfortunate ones without being shredded to bits, ridiculed, piranhaed.