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I can certainly understand it being frustrating from the Polish side but saying 'they don't care' and the like is seriously such a show of self-righteousness it disgusts me. They are a small studio, not some big one. The majority of the examples provided in the original post are from studios/publishers who have plenty of spare resources to conduct regional analysis and can eat a loss in profit. They are making quite good efforts at post-launch support which is obviously a far more important issue - providing a satisfactory experience to people who already paid. Hopefully they will be able to do region based pricing in the future but them making pennies on the value for their hard work has to sting as well - it's a lose lose situation where the only thing they gain by region pricing is a bit of moral clout but barely any actual financial benefit.

I'm sure it feels good to say they don't care about you but you clearly don't give a rats ass about their situation either so why SHOULD they care about you? I feel bad for the people who legitimately are suffering from this situation, both devs and polish folks who want to play the game, but not elitist pricks like you who just want to shout from your moral high ground that you are a victim just to feel good about that.
There are plenty of examples for smaller studios as well. Pocketpair, Supergiant, Dandylion (they in particular acknowledged the issue almost immediately when it was brought up and adjusted their prices in about two weeks), the indie stone and many other. Another thing that you mention that doesn't really make much sense is eating "loss of profit". Their business strategy should revolve around selling specific amount of copies at specific price meanwhile our price is higher than said plannned price. Lowering it would not magically make them bankrupt or even somehow lose them sales. what it could do is bring more attention to the game and increase their sales from people that are tired of having to deal with unfair prices on steam (which is an issue for over 2 years now).

While I feel it is entirely past the point...Pocketpair and Supergiant 'smaller'? Smaller than AAA? Yes. They are absolute behemoths that barely can be called Indie anymore though, both are the cream of the top crop compared to this studio and have an absolute behemoth amount of resources. Dandylion...Good on them, Troubleshooter is amazing and them being able to do that is truly wonderful. I feel that is an exceptionally good spirited thing though, not something that should be expected as a norm at their level of dev team.

Why should their marketing be planned around anything but the regional pricing that the platform they sell on proposes? They are not market analysts. While going above and beyond would be incredibly kind them planning their budget and sales based on the projection Steam, the platform they are selling on, provides seems EXTREMELY logical and reasonable. Anything below that being a cut to their profits is a pretty reasonable viewpoint.

That said I am not a Steam dev so I don't know how things work. What if the cut Steam takes is based on what they evaluate regional pricing should be so they lose money? What if the cut from Steam is based on the hosts currency so selling at the lower price actually costs them more than the price of the sale? That's worst case scenario but even the best case scenario could easily be that selling at a significantly lower amount does mean that the profit of each copy sold in that region becomes nonexistent. At that point no amount of extra word of mouth would really help because it would only, at best, be making up for what they lost - and most of those sales would probably be in the same region they are technically earning little to no profit.

Of course in the end as long as it is not the 'worst case scenario' where due to Steam cuts they actually lose money on sales, which I doubt actually would happen, they would still make money on the sales - of course. Them saying something about the situation would be nice too. Them actively changing the price though? I think that would be a very kind and generous gesture on their part but them not doing it does not reflect on them badly as a company at all. It reflects badly on Steam for misleading companies and setting an expected financial forcast with their pricing that would be extremely difficult for a smaller company to make up for. Saying the dev team 'does not care about their customers' or similar is just beating up the completely wrong people.
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