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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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[–] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Valve set the prices? I thought it was the publishers/developers/who ever manages the steam product listing.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it's the devs/publishers yes

    some time ago Palworld devs lowered the regional price for Poland as they noticed it was relatively more expensive for Poles to buy the game, they got a lot of praise for that

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    I think Poland is just in the crappy position of not being on developers/publishers radars and being lumped in with other nearby countries when it comes to pricing.

    I've heard similar complaints of polish people for all sorts of platforms, not only steam.

    And I think them not having the euro probably adds to the situation since the value of the polish zloty has been going up compared to the euro.

    So if publishers set the price to the euro equivalent in 2022, and the Zloty rose by 20% compared to the Euro in the mean time, you end up with the prices that are there now.

    The difference to the USD over the same time is even more stark at 36%.

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