Faraway Oct 25, 2023 @ 3:54am
Steam will switch Turkey to USD pricing beginning November 20th
This is absolutly a disgrace and unacceptable. Steam is going to lose a lot of purchases. because game pricing are even know exceeding most people budget. this isnt the way to go. and should reconsider wiith the pricing and also improve their location detector. just because other people are making accounts in Turkey from foreign countries they are implementiing this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. fix your damn system.

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Yujah Oct 31, 2023 @ 1:22pm 
Pardon; allow me to rephrase that, as I'm noticing that I don't in fact know whether or not you're Turkish.

Yes. And however much that may suck it means that only the Turkish are or might be able to solve something. No one else can. Sorry.
JVC Oct 31, 2023 @ 1:34pm 
Originally posted by Faraway:
Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

And the change to USD was made due to your unstable economy so...

Technically speaking the whole economic situation iin Turkey is because of Biden. he openly said that the U.S will attack Turkey economically. So the triple even quadrupple inflation rate is because the Pandemic and on top of that Bidens economic warfare.
What a load of bull. Erdogan chose to let inflation run rampant instead of tightening up the money supply by raising interest rates. So Erdogan could have tried to stabilize the econony - which was already weak. Instead he chose to keep interest rates unnaturally low which led to the inflation becoming a lot worse than necessary. Now he's trying to clean up a bit but it's too late.

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.
Last edited by JVC; Oct 31, 2023 @ 1:37pm
Uyên PT Oct 31, 2023 @ 5:46pm 
The best solution is to reduce your shopping frequency if they are too expensive.😁
steam wont lose anything bro
Originally posted by Faraway:
Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

And the change to USD was made due to your unstable economy so...

Technically speaking the whole economic situation iin Turkey is because of Biden. he openly said that the U.S will attack Turkey economically. So the triple even quadrupple inflation rate is because the Pandemic and on top of that Bidens economic warfare.
are you serious?
Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Nov 1, 2023 @ 8:03am 
Losing native currency support only to pay is USD instead, unless your country government forbid you from using USD, or EURO for whatever reason, are they?

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.

Originally posted by redgold:
just here to ask epic doin that too ?
if not ♥♥♥♥ steam i will switch
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. :yaranaika:
nullable Nov 1, 2023 @ 8:19am 
Yeah, not sure why people entertain the idea that the status quo will never change. That Valve is doing something so insane other stores will never follow suit.

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. :KentWinning:
Last edited by nullable; Nov 1, 2023 @ 8:19am
sadegmike Nov 20, 2023 @ 6:32am 
Today is 20 so what happen?
nullable Nov 20, 2023 @ 6:35am 
Originally posted by sadegmike:
Today is 20 so what happen?


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.
Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Nov 20, 2023 @ 7:10am 
Originally posted by sadegmike:
Today is 20 so what happen?
Don't think they meant 12AM on 20th Australia time from the US lol as still in the 19th, or 20th 12am of US.

So sometime today in couple hours from now, give it 3 - 6 hours.
snickii Nov 20, 2023 @ 8:49am 
1hour and 12 Minutes left
Rusalky Nov 20, 2023 @ 8:58am 
Imagine software developers that find it too hard to update prices every 3 months, if needed. It is just too hard for them, so Valve used the hammer. :tbpangry:
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.
Last edited by Rusalky; Nov 20, 2023 @ 9:00am
Nico Nov 20, 2023 @ 10:13am 
Well hopefully it is today, because it would be an inconvenience and probably not even possible, to refund all my games for buying again on the autumn sale lol
Oz Nov 20, 2023 @ 10:26am 
Originally posted by Faraway:
Average sallary in Turkey is 420-440 dollars a month.
a cheap game you can buy after 20 Nov is gonna be 20 to 30 dollars
a expensive one will go up to 150 dollars which is 1/3 of a Turkiish ciitzens sallary.
People are already struggling with the economy. Steam was a way to relax and play some games just cause foreigners figured out it was cheaper to buy games in Turkey and Argentina they mplemented this strategy and camoflaged it as the economy is bad so its gonna be dollars now.

there are so many other countries struggling with their economy but Argentina and Turkey werer the main focus of foreign game hoarders. Valve doesnt care we know this. even now I bought a game for 20 TL 4 months ago and now the game goes for 450 TL after nov 20 its gonna be going up to a min of 550-650 so lets give an example of COD MW3 that game costs standard costs 2000 lira Ultimate costs 2800lira (average sallary in lira is 13.000 lira)

This in my opinion is a easy way out for steam. they were to lazy to do something about their shi ty VPN control or whatever is allowing foreigners to make an Turkish Account to come steal and ♥♥♥♥ up the whole game market. Turkey will just stop buying games on steam and will start using other services until they follow Steams bs path. after that its gonna back to the era of 2005 cracking games. most my friends are already started getting theiir games cracked online. so this wasnt a smart move. its only gonna lead to milliions of users to piracy.
the issue is not region hoppers, this upcoming currency swap will not fix it since its still cheaper in turkey&argentina after nov20, the turkish lira is not stable, it keeps jumping up and down, so steam is swapping to a stable currency instead. so devs wont have to adjust their prices every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ week.
Last edited by Oz; Nov 20, 2023 @ 10:28am
Faraway Nov 22, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
Originally posted by sadegmike:
Today is 20 so what happen?


(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.
Last edited by Faraway; Nov 22, 2023 @ 4:51pm
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