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It's not the first time that the Turkish lira has become worthless. Remember that the current currency was officially introduced as the "New Turkish Lira". Because the first Turkish lira was worth so little that Turkey had to remove six zeros from the values around 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revaluation_of_the_Turkish_lira
Sellers of games and all other products want to see payment in a currency they can use themselves to pay their own bills. And Turkey's currency is worth so little that selling in lira at a price Turks will find acceptable basically means that the foreign seller receives no payment when converted back into hard currency. It's exactly the same story with Argentina.
The issue that your currency is really unstable hence the crazy inflation as it causing mass problems such as financial issues, and poverty in your own country, I'm just saying there should be priorities taken care of before worrying about hobbies.
Well don't make a Pikachu face if Epic drop TRY in the future, when you start seeing USD, or prices skyrocket all of a sudden.
Aside from that consumers should shop at stores that best suit them. Everyone affected should shop on Epic until Epic changes something. Although the tradeoff is for users that are multi-launcher adverse will have to get over that.
Well one would expect sometime today for the switch to happen. Not necessarily midnight where you live. And it's only 6:30AM in Vales time zone. Most store updates occur around 10AM pacific time. Which is about 3.5 hours away. Regardless you'll just have to be patient.
So sometime today in couple hours from now, give it 3 - 6 hours.
Actually this move is not too bad, except one part where new price default will be US price. Fair and correct decision would be convert current local pricing in US$. Current solution will make older games abnormally expensive and forgotten games will keep these unreal prices forever.
(22-11-2023)
Update on whats been going on
Prices are extremley high and people are in general really upset about the situation in Turkiye. and are already planning on stopping to use steam for game purchases.
For example I bought games at 19 Nov
1 dollar equals to 28,86 turkish lira at 22-11-23
Grounded- 224 turkish lira 19 Nov vs 39.99 dollars 22 Nov (so 39.99 x 28.86) equals to 1154 turkish lira
games havent doubled or trippled in price but 5x as a midle range of price increases in almost all games especially on games that are not on sale.
and
Tropico 6 which I bought for 165 turkish lira and on sale right now for 15.99 dollars (15.99 x 28.86) equals to 461 turkish lira on sale.
Most AAA games are priced at 59.99 or 69.00 without sale
59.99 dollars equals to 1731 turkish lira for a standard edition up to 4,329 turkish lira for 150 dollar ultimates/deluxe edition etc.
estimate income in Turkiye is 11.400 turkish lira
So the pricing is extremly high for what they thought the right regional pricing would be.
its a dissapointing situation but purchasing games in general is becoming something only the rich will experience and enjoy in Turkiye. People are already flocking to uTorrent and other services like that. even Epic has more attentioin while it lasts. even I will eventually stop buying games here.