Steam will switch Turkey to USD pricing beginning November 20th

[Faraway]

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.

[BJWyler]

Developers have bills to pay as well. Selling their games for little to no profit, or even at a loss does not get the bills paid. And why should they even consider people who would just as soon resort to theft anyway?

Gaming is a privilege, it is not a right. If you can't afford this expensive hobby, that's not for Developers or the rest of the industry to solve.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Първоначално публикувано от Faraway:

Първоначално публикувано от 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.

Grounded defaulted to full USD price since the dev/pubs did not update the prices for the new regions.

Same for Tropico 6.

[Rin]

As per the thread I had opened earlier that got removed, the TL/TRY being what is is exactly due to Erdogan. And your TL/TRY prior to that was also bad, so nothing has changed in the last 10/20 (more like 40) years. How you can forget that the TL was in the millions is the biggest question, or are all Turkish steam users less than 20 years old? Because that would EXPLAIN A LOT in fact.

In other words; stop being poor. You are your own problem. The voting age for Turkey is 18. Be the change. Or simply don't

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Fun fact devs can choose set custom price in USD for those countries, if devs forget to set the custom prices before 20th, Steam just default their prices to what they had in the USA, that why if you see high price that same as USA you just contact dev, here game example BG3.
https://imgur.com/a/6Kredw6

Here example from dev.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/180bdsf/comment/ka50pck/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Also Devs are not gonna lower their prices to pennies because someone told to, if they think they should get $X ~ $Y on their game, well that what they're gonna set their price to be, the main issue people face that using ARS/TRY is because the currency is VERY unstable due to the fact it collapse. See the problem is, if the devs/publisher has to keep changing the prices, it shouldn't be shocker why prices keep going up using ARS/TRY hence why there people been complaining for past year, but now it's on a stable currency they have no reason to keep raising the prices, the only issue gonna face is the exchange rate from ARS/TRY to USD.

[Okeee]

Wait, that mean every Steam Wallet Lira code are useless after Nov 20th right guys?
Hope someone talk to me about it

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Първоначално публикувано от Toi la Linh day:

Wait, that mean every Steam Wallet Lira code are useless after Nov 20th right guys?
Hope someone talk to me about it

Last I check they just auto convert to USD to whatever the exchange rate for it. If there a problem, have to contact Steam support.

[TristanMike]

OP, you know, you are right. Valve is stepping over the line in converting to US dollars because of your countries trash economy.

Valve should just get out completely.

[☎need4naiim☎]

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Първоначално публикувано от Faraway:

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?

About 90% of Turkish media is being controlled by the Erd-ogan's Family and/or Party, since 2014 or so. At "shoehorning the facts into the mold they wish", they are much more capable than that of Russian Media. That post above is a product of this mentioned perception management built by that controlled Media over multiple years.

As i said before November 20th, Steam will again change this regulation in a future date, most likely during 2025. But this is a gut feeling rather than a proven fact.

[Faraway]

Първоначално публикувано от BJWyler:

Developers have bills to pay as well. Selling their games for little to no profit, or even at a loss does not get the bills paid. And why should they even consider people who would just as soon resort to theft anyway?

Gaming is a privilege, it is not a right. If you can't afford this expensive hobby, that's not for Developers or the rest of the industry to solve.

Their income doesnt depend on Turkey or Argentina they make more than enough money from the rest of the world. Piracy isnt inevitable its already happening. Steam has already noticed the insane drop of sales all over the country. its the peoples choice to do what they want to do so now people will just pirate games because thats what they ended up causing.

[Faraway]

Първоначално публикувано от TristanMike:

OP, you know, you are right. Valve is stepping over the line in converting to US dollars because of your countries trash economy.

Valve should just get out completely.

This is just prove you are talkiing out of hate not common sense.

[Faraway]

Първоначално публикувано от Toi la Linh day:

Wait, that mean every Steam Wallet Lira code are useless after Nov 20th right guys?
Hope someone talk to me about it

No it will convert to dollars

[Faraway]

Once more numbers and statistcs come up I will share here and show how badly this has affected the gaming market in Turkey. most of you dont care because of the hate you guys carry for Turkish people. but the ones that actually care and see that this wasnt the right move I will show the effects with time when there is more information

[Yujah]

Първоначално публикувано от Faraway:

most of you dont care because of the hate you guys carry for Turkish people.

Sigh. As said in one of these threads, the average Turk will forever be too busy yelling "Turkiye!! Turkiye!!" into the nearest megaphone to ever solve anything.

[Vertigo]

If you care for the country, wouldn't you stop the guy in charge who did this to the economy?

Nope! Blame everyone else!
Because Erdogan tells you how great you are!
Well... His pockets are lined with money.
But surely not lira, cold hard dollars and euros.

[Ravagexe]

On other news, Argentina went batsh***t crazy and just increased the taxes over buying stuff outside the country to a freaking insane %155. This applies to Steam and pretty much every tax they pay for like Aliexpress and Ebay.

Take note children, this is how a country commits economical suicide. Im expecting nothing less for Turkey at such state. Maybe a tax even higher like %850.