UAE Currency - Games priced differently!

[Gr€€d]

For players in the UAE, games have been recently changed from the $ to the DH (dirham). However, the conversion is rather... odd.

Fallout 4 is priced at $80 (300 DH) meanwhile Black Ops III is priced at $60 (220 DH). Before the change in currency, both Fallout 4 and Black Ops III were at the same price of $60.

Not only is that one of the issues, but also I have noticed many games not having an option to even BUY them! By that, I mean that simply in place of the "Buy X Game for $30" all it shows is just... nothing.

However, it is not only that some games may have gotten more expensive, but rather some other games have become cheaper.

Video about this: https://youtu.be/WLYg1qZPdRQ

[Rageass]

I agree, GMG is great for cheap keys and its even cheaper than steam, you can try G2A too.

most games are a little cheaper but those new games are the problem(eg: I bought ARK for 55.6sr which convert to 15$ while the game priced at 20$ in US store).

Another problem is the region lock, I can't gift friends outside of KSA and UAE games.

the store was fine as its but they ruined it.

[klogw]

I feel your pain, the same happened to the Turkish store with currency update. Many console games that belong to big publishers were priced around 85 dollars, and Turkish Lira was already bleeding, so it felt rather like 100-120 USD. No matter how hard we tried with campaigns with tens of thousands gamers, it didnt change the mind of publishers, because they rather want to protect their local distribution partner and dont care the rest. Mostly because their sales expectations are low in these countries? So they rather want low sales with high price tag and open space for local partner to do whatever shady business it wants.

There is one distributor in Turkey, they have the monopoly and charge whatever they want depending on the game's popularity. Maybe that is the same situation in your country with these games.

But overall I am happy, I actually decided not to buy any stupid console games after that, I dont care even if it is sale for 1 penny. But as I said, they dont care either.

[cheavyIZspy]

I got one example on the top of my head. Party hard is below 10 euro (in euro) but 13 Swiss Franks (which is worth more than euros).

Lol...

There goes me buying games on steam. It was good while it lasted. But swiss people already get shafted on so many costs that I'm not gonna get shafted on games too.

Luckily there's retail stores, with much better pricing and hardcopies.



wog.ch I call you!

Fallout 4 & Season pass costs 106.99 Swiss Franks, that's like 115 euros right there, you guys lost it. The same package, english version on wog.ch = 93.9 swiss franks with harcopy. You cost 13 Swiss Franks more yet you offer less value. Sad.

GG steam, greedy punk :)

Back to supporting local suppliers, where I came from years and years ago.

[TheStoryteller01]

melano eredeti hozzászólása:

Like this I think people will have to go back to the game pirated market for 5$ pirated game copy installation in no time.

I'm sure the publishers have taken that into account and their calculation still is positive.

[Satoru]

cheavyIZspy eredeti hozzászólása:

I got one example on the top of my head. Party hard is below 10 euro (in euro) but 13 Swiss Franks (which is worth more than euros).

https://steamdb.info/app/356570/

Party Hard is 12.89 Euros not 10.

The game is just slightly under the conversion rate. Not even accounting for any foreign transaction fees you would have normally paid when purchasing in Euros.

GG steam, greedy punk :

Publishers set pricing, not Steam. go scream at Bethesda

[cheavyIZspy]

Satoru eredeti hozzászólása:

cheavyIZspy eredeti hozzászólása:

I got one example on the top of my head. Party hard is below 10 euro (in euro) but 13 Swiss Franks (which is worth more than euros).

https://steamdb.info/app/356570/

Party Hard is 12.89 Euros not 10.

The game is just slightly under the conversion rate. Not even accounting for any foreign transaction fees you would have normally paid when purchasing in Euros.

GG steam, greedy punk :

Publishers set pricing, not Steam. go scream at Bethesda

So the publisher of steam valve? sets the prices on tf2 keys and cs:go keys. Switzerland is now paying the most worldwide on them, I believe.

[Satoru]

cheavyIZspy eredeti hozzászólása:

So the publisher of steam valve? sets the prices on tf2 keys and cs:go keys. Switzerland is now paying the most worldwide on them, I believe.

You were whining about Fallout 4

Fallout 4 pricing is set by Bethesda

Go whine to them

CSGO keys are normalized to USD pricing because keys are ultimately price normalized to the USD price

$2.49 USD => 2.53 Franc

Accounting for the fact that you'd pay forieng tranasction fees if paying in USD/Euro, the price in Francs is about the same as the normalized USD pricing.

[محمد عباس علي شهي]

melano eredeti hozzászólása:

Check it out just got Fallout4 + DLC for 76.50$, less than steams original price... deal till 20th og november.

Proof [s13.postimg.org]

Just take the key and redeem your game.

this

[Gr€€d]

Well I'm terribly mad at this currency thing. Not only can I not buy games for their original price, but also games are being region-locked from the UAE! I really wish there was a way to go back to the way things used to be. :(

[zeren]

Same here I wish they just let us use USD, we where more happy with that!

[Gr€€d]

A video has been uploaded to Youtube about dis.