"Pricing and Steam Wallets in Argentina will convert to USD starting November 20th"

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[naz239]

Summary for those who do not want to read all.... 👾👾👾GAME OVER👾👾👾

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Publicado originalmente por Red:

Publicado originalmente por Salvor:

And the Link dont work, we dont have information, no more regional pricing?

Maybe we'll have regional pricing, just not as "Low" as right now, which will be pointless anyway due to our 100% tax + being unable to easily put money into our steam wallet anyway.

No idea where this will go for now, but it's likely that the situation will be unsustainable for the ARG region and people will no longer purchase anything here. This is not going to fix the region jumping either, as people will just move to the next cheaper region and they'll eventually lose their regional pricing too.

Same dude i will just switch to epic games probably they dont have that stupid idea in mind!

[Golecom]

Publicado originalmente por Thordred:

Publicado originalmente por Golecom:

I never understood why steam never implemented local goverment face recognition validation. Many goverment apps use it to validate your identity. They could use it to validate that you are a real person and citizen of that country.

That might sound a little bit dystopian to some people.^^

Many bank apps use it. The national bank of my country uses a data base to validate you and you have to use the camera of the phone.

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Publicado originalmente por naz239:

people will come back to buy on GOG, Ubisoft, Epic, etc.... great valve movement 🤣🤣🤣

Nope,the prices there are even worse than Steam's right now...

Publicado originalmente por Lady Alcina Dimitrescu:

Publicado originalmente por Arionell:

What does this even mean?
You can't just make a ''new economy system'' and all the problems will go away after some time. There is no cheat code to salvation for Turkey's horrid economy. There never is for any country.

The only solution to economical recovery is by throwing out the people who have caused it and still refuse to take responsibility for it.

Also good luck finding a job that consistently pays 12.1K TL.

Do you even live in Turkey ?

Our economy will going to get fixed eventually.
Also almost every job pays 12.1kminimum wage

lol people been saying it'll get fixed since 2020.,yet it's only gotten worse since.

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Publicado originalmente por Golecom:

I never understood why steam never implemented local goverment face recognition validation. Many goverment apps use it to validate your identity. They could use it to validate that you are a real person and citizen of that country.

Nice try CIA. You´ll never get my data

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Publicado originalmente por Golecom:

Publicado originalmente por Thordred:

That might sound a little bit dystopian to some people.^^

Many bank apps use it. The national bank of my country uses a data base to validate you and you have to use the camera of the phone.

oh you're serious? LMAO

those are all government entities my dude. financial institutions have KYC policies that makes it mandatory for them to validate their customers through gov databases

governments around the world aren't going to compromise their citizen's privacy just because some foreign corporation needs a marginally better profit margin (unless of course they want the corpo to spy on their citizens wink wink). EU would have a field day with something incredibly stupid as this. and not to mention the flak steam would get from its users

[Golecom]

Publicado originalmente por fruit flavored ENERGY DRINK:

Publicado originalmente por Golecom:

Many bank apps use it. The national bank of my country uses a data base to validate you and you have to use the camera of the phone.

oh you're serious? LMAO

those are all government entities my dude. financial institutions have KYC policies that makes it mandatory for them to validate their customers through gov databases

governments around the world aren't going to compromise their citizen's privacy just because some foreign corporation needs a marginally better profit margin (unless of course they want the corpo to spy on their citizens wink wink). EU would have a field day with something incredibly stupid as this. and not to mention the flak steam would get from its users

Even private banks uses that validation and biometric too, through the national bank. I'm not saying the corporation should have access to all the citizinery data. just a simple confirmation that you are a real person of that country.

Steam: is this a real person of your country>validation:yes>you can buy from that store then.

That will make purchases from VPN useless

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Publicado originalmente por Golecom:

Even private banks uses that validation and biometric too, through the national bank. I'm not saying the corporation should have access to all the citizinery data. just a simple confirmation that you are a real person of that country.

Steam: is this a real person of your country>validation:yes>you can buy from that store then.

That will make purchases from VPN useless

yes when i say financial institutions that includes private ones. they do this to prevent fraud like money laundering. no government would cooperate with steam with something like this on the grounds of "bad people use vpn so we make a tiny bit less money :("

i'm guessing it's probably not even illegal so governments have no reason to care

plus it's not like they don't know which country the credit card being used is from. it already happens that there is a real person behind the credit card, so what the hell is the point? you're not creating a bank account in another country by using a vpn. you're just making steam think you've traveled abroad. you can still be a citizen of your country without physically being there you know

you'd just be creating a very annoying inconvenience for honest users no reason. also if you want governments to be able to track the entirety of your online activity, you can always swim to china. personally i wouldn't want to give my glorious dictatorship an easy way to link my online activity to me in real life, but you do you

also this is a gaming platform, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sheesh

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

At least your in game items will have actual value now.

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Publicado originalmente por Golecom:

I never understood why steam never implemented local goverment face recognition validation. Many goverment apps use it to validate your identity. They could use it to validate that you are a real person and citizen of that country.

Considering just proposing the gathering of some biometric data nearly brought down the whole Irish government once, we’ll be opting out of this option.

I don’t want Leo or Gabe to know me on a personal level - buy me dinner first.

[Scy]

Publicado originalmente por ThePuffer64:

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Only Turkey and Argentina, that's it.

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no lol. check out the web page ofit. they listed a bunch of other contries.

Nobody cares about those though, doubt their playerbase is even 0.1% of Steam.

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Publicado originalmente por Scy:

Publicado originalmente por ThePuffer64:

no lol. check out the web page ofit. they listed a bunch of other contries.

Nobody cares about those though, doubt their playerbase is even 0.1% of Steam.

It's an infinite loop anyway to begin with. No matter where the issue starts, it's a constant feedback loop with an issue that never ends.

1) Region is not important enough because not many people buy stuff from that region ->
2) Store does not offer a competitive price so everything too expensive for said region ->
3) People from that region cannot buy what the store is selling due to high prices ->
4) Go back to 1st item ->

[NekoCNB]

Will people with Turkish and Argentinian accounts pirate games again and there will be no more income for the developers?

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Publicado originalmente por NekoCNB:

Will people with Turkish and Argentinian accounts pirate games again and there will be no more income for the developers?

to be fair developers complained about "exploiters" exploiting our regions so they got less revenue,and with this change they will get none from people who actually live in Argentina and Turkey (like me) although the exploiters would still likely shop on Turkish shop

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Publicado originalmente por t+pazolite - chipspace:

to be fair developers complained about "exploiters" exploiting our regions so they got less revenue,and with this change they will get none from people who actually live in Argentina and Turkey (like me) although the exploiters would still likely shop on Turkish shop

that's not going to prevent that and i'm honestly starting to think it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ excuse. steam should be scrutinizing people who constantly change regions and buy games from cheaper regions. i doubt they don't have the capability to detect those things

also how do the devs themselves know for sure there are exploiters buying their games? just speculation based on sales by region?