Why are so many games unavailable now???

[Himulaya]

So I get that there's support for new currencies. And I get that publishers can choose their price in the new currencies.

But... so many games are now unavailable in these regions. Can't you just use the default price in cases where the publisher didn't enter their own price, instead of making the game unavailable? In addition to forcing us to use these currencies without asking us, suddenly many games become unavailable.

Very bad customer relations Valve. Treat your customers better please. Don't take games away from them for no good reason.

[Tomasz79]

And what if publisher intend to set new price 50% more than 'default'? For this reason, I imagine, publishers rather have their game unaviable for a short period than - God forbit - have it being sold bu 'to little', and even without a discount/sale tag!

[Himulaya]

Originally posted by Tomasz79:

And what if publisher intend to set new price 50% more than 'default'? For this reason, I imagine, publishers rather have their game unaviable for a short period than - God forbit - have it being sold bu 'to little', and even without a discount/sale tag!

The default price would be the same price in which the game was sold up until the new currency was added, so if it was ok with the publisher to sell for this price until now, It's pretty safe to continue the same price until they bother/remember to set their own price.

[Tomasz79]

Originally posted by Himulaya:

Originally posted by Tomasz79:

And what if publisher intend to set new price 50% more than 'default'? For this reason, I imagine, publishers rather have their game unaviable for a short period than - God forbit - have it being sold bu 'to little', and even without a discount/sale tag!

The default price would be the same price in which the game was sold up until the new currency was added, so if it was ok with the publisher to sell for this price until now, It's pretty safe to continue the same price until they bother/remember to set their own price.

Well for same reason they didn't choose to apply this safe route, and if you don't know the reason, the reason is money ;) But who knows really, just speculating, I'd like it was as you described.

[Himulaya]

My point is that I'm mad at Valve, not the publishers.

They force a new currency on us without giving us the option to choose, claiming it's for our best interests, yet they can't do something as minimal as making sure we can still buy the games we could buy before their change...

[kabuki boy]

im from israel and the most ridiculous part is that you can't buy the new COD but you can buy their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ season pass nobody need.

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by theoriginalboi27:

im from israel and the most ridiculous part is that you can't buy the new COD but you can buy their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ season pass nobody need.

So compline to the company that needs to set the price that own the game, its there fault you cant

Originally posted by Himulaya:

The default price would be the same price in which the game was sold up until the new currency was added, so if it was ok with the publisher to sell for this price until now, It's pretty safe to continue the same price until they bother/remember to set their own price.

No, it will not be, what happens if they let say change the price from 1 USD to 1 RCU (Random Currency Unity for example) then 2 weeks later disaster strike and RCU drops to be worth 0.30 of USD?
The pub/dev then basically sale there price for a much lower price then what they originally set
Therefor Devs/Pubs have to set there price them self
In short: Currency is not static

[Himulaya]

Originally posted by Black Blade:

No, it will not be, what happens if they let say change the price from 1 USD to 1 RCU (Random Currency Unity for example) then 2 weeks later disaster strike and RCU drops to be worth 0.30 of USD?
The pub/dev then basically sale there price for a much lower price then what they originally set
Therefor Devs/Pubs have to set there price them self
In short: Currency is not static

And if they set their price manually to 1 RCU, as Valve expects them to, and then the disaster strikes? Same thing.

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by Himulaya:

And if they set their price manually to 1 RCU, as Valve expects them to, and then the disaster strikes? Same thing.

Same thing, but they set it
In any case that was the extreme case, the more likely case is it go up or down less then that, but i think you got the idea over all no?

[Himulaya]

Originally posted by Black Blade:

Same thing, but they set it
In any case that was the extreme case, the more likely case is it go up or down less then that, but i think you got the idea over all no?

Yes and I don't accept it as an explanation for making games unavailable. What Valve chose to do doesn't solve the Issue you describe, so it's no better in this regard. It's only worse in the other regard.

[999999999]

Most, if not all games should have their prices set by the time the Autumn Sale starts next week. The stragglers will have until the end of the year to get their prices in.

[Twotricks]

More than 80% of my Wishlist is unavailable right now

[Amar Hanoscia]

Out of 80 games from my wish list 18 became unavailable after currency change... I'm really sad. I don't know why I cant pay for them in euros, is this such a problem for Valve? Yesterday they were happy to accept my payment in euros, today they dont want it.

What's more 6 of 12 games recommended to me (on the store main page) are unavailable!

[Nihil]

Its a joke hahah. All of 2K, Rockstar and Activision games are unavailable. Not to mention many indie games.

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by Amar Hanoscia:

Out of 80 games from my wish list 18 became unavailable after currency change... I'm really sad. I don't know why I cant pay for them in euros, is this such a problem for Valve? Yesterday they were happy to accept my payment in euros, today they dont want it.

What's more 6 of 12 games recommended to me (on the store main page) are unavailable!

Overall i agree, will have been maybe better if they allow you to pay with the old price till the Dev/Pub gets around to set there own, even that its possible that there not doing it to push the dev/pub to get around to set it, and not just leave it as is

[serser52]

Originally posted by 999999999:

Most, if not all games should have their prices set by the time the Autumn Sale starts next week. The stragglers will have until the end of the year to get their prices in.

Source? I had thought that the publishers already had a lot of time to adjust their prices for the new currency before the currency was actually introduced, which is why I'm surprised why there are so many games still unavaible.