ADD EGYPTIAN POUNDS!

[mrsweatyballsack63]

Egypt has a growing gaming audience and a high population of 110 Million while countries like Russia have their own currency supported by Steam and Egypt doesn't! The reason to add support for Egyptian pounds is the fact that Egyptians cannot pay in USD due to restrictions placed by Egypt itself due to growing inflation and lack of foreign currency and it is really annoying having to overpay to get Steam wallet balance from third party sites. I would also like to see Steam wallet gift cards being in Egyptian store since not everyone in Egypt has a credit card or at least add SIM card payment like paying by using Vodafone cash since there is a provider for easy access to SIM card payments that's called Gediea. I would love to see Steam adding this so it can help the Egyptian audience.

[Hikari Light]

Overall population means nothing.
There needs to be an actual USERBASE of a sufficient size and the currency be stable and have value.
100 million people in population does not equal a userbase of 100 million.

Also, 1 Egyptian Pound equals $0.02 USD.
That's not really worth adding as a unique currency.
And your admittance to inflation does not help either as that means the currency will drop in value.

The USA has an average of 40 million users online on Steam at peak hours, and the USA population is at 340 million.

So a location with a pop of 100 million won't have anywhere near that number of users.

[Chronocide]

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

Egyptians cannot pay in USD due to restrictions placed by Egypt itself due to growing inflation and lack of foreign currency and it is really annoying having to overpay to get Steam wallet balance from third party sites.

Without meaning to be apathetic, isn't that good reasoning on why steam wouldn't accept Egypt pounds? Unstable currency seems like a big problem on steam's end.

And your method of paying the steam wallet sounds like your government might consider it criminal...Definitely don't admit to crimes here...

Plus, ethically, should you be spending money on games when you could be out feeding the poor or working? I'm no better, but I feel I should at least mention it.

[mrsweatyballsack63]

Originally posted by Chronocide:

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

Egyptians cannot pay in USD due to restrictions placed by Egypt itself due to growing inflation and lack of foreign currency and it is really annoying having to overpay to get Steam wallet balance from third party sites.

Without meaning to be apathetic, isn't that good reasoning on why steam wouldn't accept Egypt pounds? Unstable currency seems like a big problem.

And your method of paying the steam wallet sounds like your government might consider it criminal...Definitely don't admit to crimes here...

It's not a crime to buy from G2A.

[Chronocide]

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

It's not a crime to buy

Good! I was hoping it wasn't.

[mrsweatyballsack63]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Overall population means nothing.
There needs to be an actual USERBASE of a sufficient size and the currency be stable and have value.
100 million people in population does not equal a userbase of 100 million.

Also, 1 Egyptian Pound equals $0.02 USD.
That's not really worth adding as a unique currency.
And your admittance to inflation does not help either as that means the currency will drop in value.

The USA has an average of 40 million users online on Steam at peak hours, and the USA population is at 340 million.

So a location with a pop of 100 million won't have anywhere near that number of users.

Still adding egyptian pounds or at least adding SIM card payments since they are in local currency would be a great option for egypt and a lot of other countries in my opinion

[Hikari Light]

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

Originally posted by Chronocide:

Without meaning to be apathetic, isn't that good reasoning on why steam wouldn't accept Egypt pounds? Unstable currency seems like a big problem.

And your method of paying the steam wallet sounds like your government might consider it criminal...Definitely don't admit to crimes here...

It's not a crime to buy from G2A.

That site uses stolen CD keys, Accounts, and payment methods to obtain CD keys from legit sites.
That whole site is a scam.
CDkey SELLERS are safe. Such as thos found on isthereanydeal.com.
CDkey REsellers, such as G2A, are a scam.

[mrsweatyballsack63]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

It's not a crime to buy from G2A.

That site uses stolen CD keys, Accounts, and payment methods to obtain CD keys from legit sites.
That whole site is a scam.
CDkey SELLERS are safe. Such as thos found on isthereanydeal.com.
CDkey REsellers are a scam.

That's why I wanted Steam to add Egyptian pounds since I don't want to buy wallet codes from shady sites.

[Chronocide]

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

That's why I wanted Steam to add Egyptian pounds since I don't want to buy wallet codes from shady sites.

Well, good luck to you. Definitely a good goal.

Sounds like things are pretty bad in Egypt now. Hope it gets better.

[Hikari Light]

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

That site uses stolen CD keys, Accounts, and payment methods to obtain CD keys from legit sites.
That whole site is a scam.
CDkey SELLERS are safe. Such as thos found on isthereanydeal.com.
CDkey REsellers are a scam.

That's why I wanted Steam to add Egyptian pounds since I don't want to buy wallet codes from shady sites.

Then use isthereanydeal.com.
All the sellers listed there are SAFE, as they legitimately obtained their CD keys from the source.

[mrsweatyballsack63]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

That's why I wanted Steam to add Egyptian pounds since I don't want to buy wallet codes from shady sites.

Then use isthereanydeal.com.
All the sellers listed there are SAFE, as they legitimately obtained their CD keys from the source.

Thanks, Ill check it out and see if it supports my currency/payment methods.

[nullable]

Originally posted by mrsweatyballsack63:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Overall population means nothing.
There needs to be an actual USERBASE of a sufficient size and the currency be stable and have value.
100 million people in population does not equal a userbase of 100 million.

Also, 1 Egyptian Pound equals $0.02 USD.
That's not really worth adding as a unique currency.
And your admittance to inflation does not help either as that means the currency will drop in value.

The USA has an average of 40 million users online on Steam at peak hours, and the USA population is at 340 million.

So a location with a pop of 100 million won't have anywhere near that number of users.

Still adding egyptian pounds or at least adding SIM card payments since they are in local currency would be a great option for egypt and a lot of other countries in my opinion

Of course it would be a great option for the demographic you're advocating for.

The problem is it takes resources to do that. And the first hurdle is, is it worth it to Valve?

Second hurdle is Valve has to consider it's other customers, publishers and developers. Are they really going to want to manage another near worthless currency?

The reason for regions like MENA and LATM says no to both.

I'm not saying it with glee. Being poor sucks, and often makes things more expensive, which exacerbates being poor. We all get that. Valve is a games company, not a fix capitalism company =/

[󠀡󠀡]

Valve wouldn't cripple its own system by adopting a currency that folds under scrutiny. If they did, the usual parade occurs: Argentinian outrage. Turkish uproar. Wouldn't just knock - it'd break down the damn door. Again. And then we're right back where we were.

Nobody wants that.

[I B Sickness]

What he is saying that the goal is not to make it special currency for Egypt
(Which it would have been really cool like Microsoft) But what we want right now is a support of local purchases instead of needing to pay in US Dollars
Some of us can buy games from here normally plus the sales and deals are becoming better so more people can buy games in those prices but sometimes it gets a waste when you buy through 3rd party seller
So what we are asking for is local payment even with the same prices that's all
And you can change the prices however it gets or keep it in dollars but have a system to calculate the currency and takes our money in Egyptian pound
Idk a lot of ways can be done

[Ben Lubar]

If it's illegal to convert EGP to USD, why would Valve be able to do it? They can't pay game developers in a currency most of them can't use at all.

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.