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1. Steam don't set the prices on 3rd party games. Game prices by 3rd party are set by game dev / publisher.
2. The only games Steam can set prices for is for Valve games. If don't know what Valve games are, here a list of all Valve games.
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/valve
3. Steam can only make suggestions on regional pricing, but most DO NOT follow Steam suggestions on regional pricing, and some charge much more than what being suggested.
1.whenever a publisher wants to set a price of a game in Steam , there is a suggestion price from Steam . Publisher can make a estimation using that suggested price . Publisher can ignore the regional price suggested by Valve , give exactly same price as suggestions or even give higher price than that price.
Valve has increased that suggested price from 80% to 500 % REGION WISE. That's why regional price having this kind of Crazy price hike.
So the problem is your currency isn't really able to generate good value.
https://steamdb.info/blog/valve-price-matrix-2022-update/
And if you're from Argentina, or Turkey you already WELL know the problem for your currency having a hyperinflation problem, so there not much can be done. Steam make the suggestions for PRICE value to USD hence the link above. If dev want $1 USD they look at what suggested for that price range to be around $1 USD, hence the point of it.
Again most do not follow what Steam suggest, and always been up to game devs/publishers, if you want prices to be lowerd, take it up with the game dev/publisher that are setting the price hence my point from last post.
And? Some regions need to have their prices increased, having absurdly low prices harms Valve, and developers and makes region hopping attractive. People don't like prices going up, and they're not keen to accept any explanation that upsets the status quo they were happy with. There's no point trying to appease them at the expense of all other concerns.
Valve is allowed to recommend whatever they want. And whether or not a publisher goes with their recommendation, or decides to set their own prices are both decisions made by the publisher. Hoping you can manipulate/trick publishers into under pricing games by exploiting Valve's recommendations is a fool's errand.
You don't like Valve's decisions. Valve didn't spin their Wheel-of-Cruelty to arrive at those values. Deal with it.
... They could have punished those people who have ips from western countries like USA , Uk but buys from Argentina... But what they did was punishing people from rest of the world.
Any countries with very little currency value have to help themselves to fix that problem. Going from hub to hub as most of the history if a Dev sees that, will most likely just make them double down on keeping the price. Some will even increase the price as a reaction. Indies are typically the only ones that will consider different prices, but if they also see 1.7k games on an account complaining about prices, they're going to know theres no issue affording games.
Perhaps "making a sale" at all costs, even for pennies on the dollar isn't the only/ultimate goal for a business.
So you say that like it's a problem, but either you don't understand why it's not, or you really think Valve might do whatever it takes to increase or maintain the volume of sales in low value regions at the expense of all other concerns. That's some misguided wishful thinking methinks.
When you own a stake in Valve your opinion will matter. Until then, it doesn't.
Price increases aren't punitive and the lost value of many of the currencies is much much bigger issue. If a currency loses a large amount of value, prices need to go up to offset the lost value. pretending otherwise isn't the sort of ignorance that gets results.
Not every market is equally important. And regions that got used a lot by hoppers to get cheaper games might not be up top the food chain.
You live in Germany but you removed that information from your profile after it was pointed out.
Secondly you have created numerous threads about the same topic because region hopping is no longer an option.
And finally developers, publishers set the prices of their products.
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/pricing
1) Partners on Steam are responsible for setting and managing pricing for their products.
2) Many games choose to ignore our recommendations and determine their own pricing in each currency, and that’s just fine. But we hope the recommendations are a useful data point for developers who don’t have the time or interest to research pricing in each currency themselves.