Please separate Turkey from the MENA region.

[korsanemre]

There are wealthy Arab countries in the MENA region. Because of this, game prices are very expensive. We can't even afford to pay $10 for a game, or at most, we can buy one $10 game per year. Separate Turkey from MENA, lower the prices by half. We can't buy games, and we miss purchasing them. Steam, I hate you.

[clonazepηk]

wow

[Mr. Smiles]

Oh of course, it's not that Turkey's economy is in a hyper volatile state of flux and no one wants to risk exchanging your currency, it's those other nations in the region jacking the prices up.

It all makes sense now.

Also publishers and devs set prices on their games, steam only makes a recommendation.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by korsanemre:

Please separate Turkey from the MENA region.

There are wealthy Arab countries in the MENA region. Because of this, game prices are very expensive. We can't even afford to pay $10 for a game, or at most, we can buy one $10 game per year. Separate Turkey from MENA, lower the prices by half. We can't buy games, and we miss purchasing them. Steam, I hate you.:csgoct:

Valve already suggests reduced USD prices for the MENA region.

If no price is set, it defaults to full USD price.

And game devs/pubs can simply ignore Valve's suggested price and put in their own.

[korsanemre]

Turkey is on the same level as Venezuela and Russia. It is not possible for it to be grouped with other countries. If Steam reveals game sales figures by country, we would have the chance to see how many hundreds of times sales have declined. But of course, ignorant, empathy-lacking, egotistical commentators who think they know everything and look down on everyone may criticize this topic I’ve raised.

[NakiBest]

Remove local dictator, improve local economy - try again. :)

[Diogenes49]

You get the government you vote for g

[pckirk]

There are no valve / steam employees or staff, server techs, steam support, or moderators in the 2 steam related sub-forums. No one in this USER only sub-forum can help you.

[Lystent]

Originally posted by NakiBest:

Remove local dictator, improve local economy - try again. :)

As if there hasn't been such effort already?

Originally posted by Diogenes49:

You get the government you vote for g

Am I missing something? Did the opposition get released?

[NakiBest]

Effort, yes. Results, no. Try harder! :)

[Hikari Light]

Originally posted by korsanemre:

Turkey is on the same level as Venezuela and Russia. It is not possible for it to be grouped with other countries. If Steam reveals game sales figures by country, we would have the chance to see how many hundreds of times sales have declined. But of course, ignorant, empathy-lacking, egotistical commentators who think they know everything and look down on everyone may criticize this topic I’ve raised.

Improve your government then.
Your politicians are the reason your currency has become so unstable and worthless that no one wants it outside of your nation.

The actual size of the Turkish user base combined with the unstable nature of the currency shows that the region is not worth giving its own separate currency for use on the store.

The Lira, by the time Valve would send money from the sale, would drop in value.
Meaning the devs would be getting LESS than the asking price.

Remember, gaming is a luxury, not a human right.
So if you cannot afford it, no one is required to nor obligated to ensure you game afford it.

[nullable]

Originally posted by korsanemre:

Turkey is on the same level as Venezuela and Russia. It is not possible for it to be grouped with other countries.

Venezuela is in the the LATM region, so it kinda seems like they can be grouped with other countries after all.

Originally posted by korsanemre:

If Steam reveals game sales figures by country, we would have the chance to see how many hundreds of times sales have declined. But of course, ignorant, empathy-lacking, egotistical commentators who think they know everything and look down on everyone may criticize this topic I’ve raised.

Keep in mind Valve specifically ceased TRY support. That wasn't on a whim or a mistake, and the underlying causes for that decision remain. Complain all you want, ignore the inconvenient all you want. The TRY is nearly worthless and it's getting more worthless by the day. Turkey being in the MENA region protects everyone else from your volatile and constantly inflating currency. And in this case the consequences for Turkish gamers are preferable to the consequences for everyone else.

[Hikari Light]

Once Turkey became part of the MENA region, the number of users using the Lira dropped DRASTICALLY.
This was because the actual userbase of Turkey is much smaller than everyone thinks.
Many were abusing regional pricing, and once that loophole got closed it was revealed just how many users were actually from Turkey. Which it was mearly a fraction of what it was, because most of the 'users' were not from Turkey.

[Abby Shapiro nursing ASMR]

get ur bread up lil jit

[...yet]

Just buy from Epic Games Store, also you can play cs2 and earn some USD selling stuff, and buy games on discounts etc. I rarely play and I have 20 USD on my Steam.

It sucks that Ukraine etc. has lower prices but we also have a lot of people paying high prices to games in Turkey because a cup of coffee is already 5 USD, same as tavuk döner and any decent food is already around double that.

One last tip is that sometimes eneba and similar sites have very cheap keys depending on the popularity of the game.

[x]

Originally posted by korsanemre:

There are wealthy Arab countries in the MENA region. Because of this, game prices are very expensive. We can't even afford to pay $10 for a game, or at most, we can buy one $10 game per year. Separate Turkey from MENA, lower the prices by half. We can't buy games, and we miss purchasing them. Steam, I hate you.:csgoct:

Maybe instead of complaining to steam, you should complain to your government.

Games cost the same to make, be it in the USA, Turkey or Timbuktu. When valve (obviously with the accordance of game publishers) lower a price for a specific market, they are taking into account the financial situation of the region, but just because a specific country is in the pits, you can't expect them to give game away for nearly nothing. I understand the situation in Turkey isn't great, but neither is it in other places. But it's not steam's fault. They are in no way obliged to lower prices for specific markets.