Let Israelis to buy in US dollars

[Foxlight]

No one in Israel like that you change it to NIS

[wuddih]

Originally posted by BaerSLK:

Whats wrong with the Schekels?

nothing, they just didn't get the general "poor" country treatment like the other introduced currencies.

[Foxlight]

Originally posted by BaerSLK:

Whats wrong with the Schekels?

Lots of stuff are more expensive now, community market in shekels is more confusing.
we don't have the advantage of The isreal shekel getting stroger and thus games cost less when converting to dollars.

[Foxlight]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by BaerSLK:

Whats wrong with the Schekels?

nothing, they just didn't get the general "poor" country treatment like the other introduced currencies.

This as well, Israeli Purchasing power is lower than America, our salaries are lower and we pay more now that America or most countries.

[Foxlight]

Originally posted by BaerSLK:

Originally posted by Foxlight:

Lots of stuff are more expensive now, community market in shekels is more confusing.
we don't have the advantage of The isreal shekel getting stroger and thus games cost less when converting to dollars.

Ok but you need to buy in Schekels as Israeli because otherwise your country makes less income and then you pay even more for games, basics of economy.

It's not like buying steam games in US dollars going to change anything...
Now the price is static and high, we can't enjoy when NIS is worth more US dollars.

[Washell]

Originally posted by Foxlight:

Lots of stuff are more expensive now

It'll settle down. It's a common complaint when Steam adds a new currency and it always settles down.

Originally posted by Foxlight:

community market in shekels is more confusing.

You'll get used to it soon enough, depending on how often you use the market.

Originally posted by Foxlight:

we don't have the advantage of The isreal shekel getting stroger and thus games cost less when converting to dollars.

You also don't have the disadvantage of the shekel getting weaker and paying more.

Originally posted by BaerSLK:

I should have google it before posting the last response but 1 Schekel = 0,28 Dollar.
So this means games should be cheaper then in US Dollars,

No. It does not mean that. The price of a game on Steam is mostly determined by local historical store prices, gpd per capita, freely disposable income, willingness to pay, and a few more factors. The exhange rate barely goes into it, other than if it's an unstable currency, they might put the prices up a little higher to cover that.

[Evil's Bane]

Originally posted by Washell:

Originally posted by Foxlight:

community market in shekels is more confusing.

You'll get used to it soon enough, depending on how often you use the market.

Not just the community market the whole store is confusing, and thats putting it lightly. The store looks like utter chaos and its not a matter of getting used to. There is no consistency between prices because devs and publishers don't know how to price in NIS and its not their fault. It is Steam's responsibility to get it together set a standard in their own store.
Imagine if the US store, heck any country's store had the prices all messed, why would anyone shop there?

if you didn't get i'm talking about think that all the 60$ games would be priced between 60$-70$, lets say (hypothetically speaking) COD costs 68$ and GTA costs 63$ and AC costs 65$ and so on. Now do that to every game on the steam store, the none AAA too, convert that to NIS and you got how the Israel store looks like.

[Washell]

Originally posted by Evil's Bane:

It is Steam's responsibility to get it together set a standard in their own store.

There was a leaked e-mail on the old forums that showed communication from Valve with pricing matrices for conversion when the Russian Ruble was added. So they have it together, and they have a standard. Getting a couple hundred developers and publishers to agree to the same interpretation of the standard is a different thing altogether.

[Dario]

buy your keys from external (legal) stores. The only way Valve will get the measure of your disappointment is: Oh look, our sales have been dropping dramatically in Israel, what happened?
I think this is the most effective (and convenient for you) way to act.

[999999999]

Originally posted by Dario:

buy your keys from external (legal) stores. The only way Valve will get the measure of your disappointment is: Oh look, our sales have been dropping dramatically in Israel, what happened?
I think this is the most effective (and convenient for you) way to act.

And it won't make them change back to USD. So, totally fruitless.

[Dario]

Originally posted by 999999999:

Originally posted by Dario:

buy your keys from external (legal) stores. The only way Valve will get the measure of your disappointment is: Oh look, our sales have been dropping dramatically in Israel, what happened?
I think this is the most effective (and convenient for you) way to act.

And it won't make them change back to USD. So, totally fruitless.

The base price is generally lower. Also, if you buy from, let's say, g*ameplanet.uk, you buy in pounds, from other stores you'll pay in euros, from other in US, so you can still play with the change.

[999999999]

Originally posted by Dario:

Originally posted by 999999999:

And it won't make them change back to USD. So, totally fruitless.

The base price is generally lower. Also, if you buy from, let's say, g*ameplanet.uk, you buy in pounds, from other stores you'll pay in euros, from other in US, so you can still play with the change.

But it won't change the Steam currency back.

[Dario]

Originally posted by 999999999:

Originally posted by Dario:

The base price is generally lower. Also, if you buy from, let's say, g*ameplanet.uk, you buy in pounds, from other stores you'll pay in euros, from other in US, so you can still play with the change.

But it won't change the Steam currency back.

It will, if valve loses enough money.

[999999999]

Originally posted by Dario:

Originally posted by 999999999:

But it won't change the Steam currency back.

It will, if valve loses enough money.

Not at all.

[Dario]

Originally posted by 999999999:

Originally posted by Dario:

It will, if valve loses enough money.

Not at all.

It's worth a try.

[wuddih]

the thing about boycotting something as a completely unorganized random group of people is:
https://i.imgur.com/pprCJI2.jpg