Stram forgot Turkey and Prices are too high

[KawaiiNeko]

After steam changed our currency to Mena-USD, the prices are getting too high for many of the games and didnt even have reasonable prices for indie games, they just made them full price.

Many of the people around me talking about they will be changing their main platform to ones other than steam because of the high price ratio that steam has now and I kinda know why steam did that but we are not the ones that change our country to Turkey and try to buy games for cheaper prices.

I hope steam would understand this major problem and take an action. My friends are starting to quit

[Zarineth]

The thing is: Valve notified game developers before the currency change, that they have to adjust their prices. And as we can see, not everyone did either because they forgot or don't want to. Valve can't force anyone to change their prices, they can only suggest it.

[[N]ebsun]

You needed to buy all the games before the price change.

[Lithurge]

Also it's not down to people trying to region hop, it's down to your very high inflation, causing your currency value to plummet.

[KawaiiNeko]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

Also it's not down to people trying to region hop, it's down to your very high inflation, causing your currency value to plummet.

Yeah we all know that at this point our economy is part of the problem but unfortunatey many devolopers dont know about Turkey and many games have full prices now. Steam might not care what we buy and play anymore.

[Crazy Tiger]

It's not unusual that developers/publishers don't update pricing when currencies change. It happens every single time. They got memos up front, so they knew about it.

Contact the game devs/publishers who haven't adjusted their pricing. They're the ones who actually seem to not care that you can't buy their games.

[Tito Shivan]

Steam didn't forget. The devs did.

[nullable]

Originally posted by KawaiiNeko:

Originally posted by Lithurge:

Also it's not down to people trying to region hop, it's down to your very high inflation, causing your currency value to plummet.

Yeah we all know that at this point our economy is part of the problem but unfortunatey many devolopers dont know about Turkey and many games have full prices now. Steam might not care what we buy and play anymore.

Part ofnthe problem? Most of the problem.

Developers know about turkey, they've been complaining about the currency situation for a while according to Valve and the new USD-MENA region exists in part of publishers/developer issues with Turkey/Argentina and similar countries.

The developers/publisher need to make decisions about pricing for USD-MENA that's all, it doesn't need to happen on your schedule. And if it's not a priority for them, you'll just have to wait. A lack of patience, or mismanaged expectations on a user's part isn't a problem for Seam or developers to solve.

[KawaiiNeko]

Then its takes time for game devs to update Mena-usd prices and hope we will se them updating mena pricess, I dont know Latam prices has the same issue but I guess we have no choice other than waiting.

[Satoru]

Either

1) the developer did not update their pricing for the new regions
2) the developer did update it and that is the final pricing

[Darkbull]

This whole thing, how steam manages it is so disgusting. Thats a clue, how america sees the rest of the world...
Long ago, when I was a child, we could buy music and game cds half the price in Germany and Austria as here. Because of huge taxes, mostly. The difference of the earnings was much bigger between that countries and Hungary, like now, thats why everybody was using dc++, later torrent.

That was not good, so it was very good, when stores came up with their unitified prices.
But now? steam has to support ukraine with the lowest prices of the world, some countried have their own prices, some not, looks like all the things are involved with politics, firendly or not friendly countries. Of course usd prices are lower than Euro prices, GDP per capita explains the opposite... Thats so disgusting.

Give back unitified prices and these arguements are no more.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by KawaiiNeko:

Then its takes time for game devs to update Mena-usd prices and hope we will se them updating mena pricess, I dont know Latam prices has the same issue but I guess we have no choice other than waiting.

Most developers, when currencies were added, seem to forget about it until after the Autumn sale and have it corrected by the Winter sale, after they notice a drop in sales for that region. This is no matter how many times Valve notifies them.

This one is a bit different though. When adding a currency, the game is not available until the developer puts in a price. Now that a price was set (USD price) until the developer updates it with a regional price, I can't say for sure if they will by the Winter Sale Event or when after.

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Steam didn't forget. The devs did.

Yep, the main issue. And Valve can't force a lower price for them either.

Originally posted by Darkbull:

Of course usd prices are lower than Euro prices, GDP per capita explains the opposite... Thats so disgusting.

US prices don't include tax. That is added on check-out. EU prices include tax.

Where I live, there is 9.25% tax, $70 game cost is $76.48 at check-out.

While a 70 euro game is $75.97 usd and taxes are included already.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Darkbull:

This whole thing, how steam manages it is so disgusting. Thats a clue, how america sees the rest of the world...
Long ago, when I was a child, we could buy music and game cds half the price in Germany and Austria as here. Because of huge taxes, mostly. The difference of the earnings was much bigger between that countries and Hungary, like now, thats why everybody was using dc++, later torrent.

That was not good, so it was very good, when stores came up with their unitified prices.
But now? steam has to support ukraine with the lowest prices of the world, some countried have their own prices, some not, looks like all the things are involved with politics, firendly or not friendly countries. Of course usd prices are lower than Euro prices, GDP per capita explains the opposite... Thats so disgusting.

Give back unitified prices and these arguements are no more.

Please don't make up silly things.

[Balduran di Midgard]

Just go on Epic like I did during the recent sales. Epic still has good regional pricing.