Need to add more regions for regional pricing support

[WolfEisberg]

Most countries and territories around the world are not supported with regional pricing. Like almost every country in Africa, except for South Africa, are not supported they are put into the USA region. Only half of South/Central America has regional pricing support. Plus many other countries

Then there are many territories around the world that are not supported either.

Extend your regional pricing support to cover all countries/territories around the world that Steam is legally allowed to do business in.

This way dev/pubs can choose to pick prices that are appropriate for more countries/territories.

[HikariLight]

Steam has nothing to do with the prices. That is all set by the devs.

[Nx Machina]

There are 54 countries in Africa. Epic only supports regional pricing for 6 of them.

Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania.

For Central America they only support 3. Argentina, Brazil, Mexico.

Epic needs to step up it's game.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

Extend your regional pricing support to cover all countries/territories around the world that Steam is legally allowed to do business in.

It's not as easy as typing it out on a forum post.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

Dev/pubs can only set prices for the supported regions, any country/territory that is not supported by Steam for regional pricing support are put into the USA region. For example all of Africa, except for South Africa, is not supported by regional pricing, all those countries are put into the USA region. This means that no dev/pub can make a different price for those countries of Africa at all, they can only set the USA price and that automatically includes Africa.

So yes, Steam has everything to do with it, because dev/pubs can only price their games using the supported regions on Steam.

I am asking for valve to extend their regional pricing support so that it supports all countries/territories around the world, so that the dev/pubs can then choose pricing for those regions.

https://epicgames-db.info/en-GB/p/deathloop

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

There are 54 countries in Africa. Epic only supports regional pricing for 6 of them.

Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania.

For Central America they only support 3. Argentina, Brazil, Mexico.

Epic needs to step up it's game.

Argentina and Brazil are in South America, Mexico is in North America. Why are you talking about Epic, though?

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Argentina and Brazil are in South America, Mexico is in North America. Why are you talking about Epic, though?

Did i type Central, damn i meant to type South America.

Why Epic? because they need to step up their game with regard to regional pricing which the OP ignores in favour of another dig a Steam.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

first of all this is off topic, because this suggestion has nothing to do with Epic Store.

Second of all, that site hasn't been programmed to look at all pricing in all regions that Epic supports. You can see Epic's regional pricing support here:

https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/services/en-US/EpicGamesStore/StorePresence/CustomPriceTiers/index.html

Though this is a good example of what Valve can do to extend their regional pricing support.

Nope it is on topic as it is about "regional pricing" which is applicable to all PC stores and Epic's regional pricing is dismal.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

Well, as I have already shown using information directly from Epic, Epic's is actually better than Steam's because Epic has more regions and more countries covered than Steam does. If Epic's is dismal, then Steam's is even worse than Dismal.

So what Epic is doing is a good example of what Steam should do, or even better, to support more countries for regional pricing.

And Epic does support all countries in Africa that they are legally allowed to do business in, as shown in the link I provided.

I provided a link to Epic's regional pricing for Deathloop and ALL of Africa is not covered by Epic for regional pricing, so why does Steam need to up their game why Epic is given a pass.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

Epic Games DB is a hobby project and is not affiliated with Epic Games.


The guy that is working on that site is not showing pricing for all supported regions at all. This is why I provided information directly from Epic themselves, the information that developers use.

So you are wrong for using a site that is not affiliated with Epic and is a hobby project, instead of using first party information like I did.

Epic Store is a great example that Valve can use to set up more regions to cover more countries, perhaps Valve can make it even better than what Epic is currently doing.

So is SteamDB yet people consult it for prices.

Epic can do no wrong in your eyes despite their failings because your bias for Epic dictates your narrative. You will always turn a blind eye to it's failings.

So again Epic does not support all regions in Africa. A very clear failing.

[fluxtorrent]

What exactly is the point of this suggestion when valves program already works towards new regions and you are already aware of that. Was it just your next thinly veiled "epic is better" thread?

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

So apparently Epic having better regional support than Steam does is Epic doing wrong

Ok, you are free to deny literal facts from the first party and believe a hobby project instead. You do you.

At this point it looks like you are just wanting to fight against making Steam better to have greater potential for more gamers to have fairer prices for their region.

Moving on.

It doesn't because it does not support all regions in Africa and that was one of your main points regarding Steam and trips you up while defending Epic.

Originally posted by WolfEisberg:

Like almost every country in Africa, except for South Africa, are not supported they are put into the USA region.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Steam has nothing to do with the prices. That is all set by the devs.

While devs obviously choose the main price of their game (in USD, I suppose), I find it hard to believe they'll choose all other regional prices. Perhaps an automated system suggests regional prices and the devs have the option to agree or not.

[fluxtorrent]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Steam has nothing to do with the prices. That is all set by the devs.

While devs obviously choose the main price of their game (in USD, I suppose), I find it hard to believe they'll choose all other regional prices. Perhaps an automated system suggests regional prices and the devs have the option to agree or not.

nope. Devs can just choose to convert but they can manually set prices for every region. In addition they can choose NOT to set a price for a region so the game isn't available there at all

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Steam has nothing to do with the prices. That is all set by the devs.

I've heard that Steam suggests price points to game devs/pubs.

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Steam has nothing to do with the prices. That is all set by the devs.

While devs obviously choose the main price of their game (in USD, I suppose), I find it hard to believe they'll choose all other regional prices. Perhaps an automated system suggests regional prices and the devs have the option to agree or not.

Note that currency is not the same as region. Some games are sold in non-US regions using USD, for example. So it's a little weird sometimes.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

While devs obviously choose the main price of their game (in USD, I suppose), I find it hard to believe they'll choose all other regional prices. Perhaps an automated system suggests regional prices and the devs have the option to agree or not.

nope. Devs can just choose to convert but they can manually set prices for every region. In addition they can choose NOT to set a price for a region so the game isn't available there at all

You know, I'm afraid most devs know nothing about the economy of different regions... so setting a supposedly "fair price" for all of them would require some study and research from devs. It's more than reasonable to assume Valve already uses some automated system that suggests a different price for different regions, if devs are interested in using it.