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"Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" (www.gamesradar.com)
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"The problem lies in the data Valve uses to make these suggestions." According to the YouTuber, Valve hasn't updated its conversion rates since 2022, when it first introduced the regional pricing system. At that point in time, "the Polish currency was near its weakest" – but Steam is still "using this weak old rate" from three years ago.

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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The whole thing is stupid anyway.

If I have a game that I'm selling for $30 that doesn't necessarily mean that I convert into the local currency and sell that game for $30 in Nigeria (I have no idea what currency they use in Nigeria).

I might not be able to sell the game for $30 in Nigeria because that might be 3 months of the annual income. But I don't want to totally give up on the Nigerian market so I sell the game for $5, that way at least I'm still selling the game for some money.

To be honest I would probably prefer not to be basin my game pricing on the US dollar anyway right now. It doesn't seem like the most stable currency. Not many never was anyway.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sure, but people just set their VPN to Nigeria and bought their games for $5. This isn’t the cleanest solution, but they can’t just do what you said.

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