While I get the underlying point, any schedule for changing prices is going to cause a proportional gap as well. Even changing annually will have points in time where purchasing power relative to the dollar changes.
Plus constantly changing would seem like they are trying to get more at certain times. Honestly there isn't a pricing scheme that involves the US dollar that isn't just converting local currency to dollars at the time of purchase and that is a whole can of worms too.
Does Valve set the prices? I thought it was the publishers/developers/who ever manages the steam product listing.
YouTube charges ≈$1.50 USD in some countries and charges $14 USD in the United States. I just thought this was standard. Shitty, but normal.
In theory, this should make games "more accessible to a larger audience." But, as Water CS2 says, "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.
The Polish price includes 23% VAT, no?
Please don't post this trash propaganda on lemmy.
"bawww I come from a rich country and wanna pay less"
All I hear from this trash
Gonna go to GoG. Sucks to be Steam
Not directly related to post but. The steam sale prices are honestly ridiculous. Barely even discounted. Like 30% off games that are over 5 years old.
Useful idiots deserve to be charged as much as they're willing to pay.
Anything less, and they will legitimately get upset at the business not ripping them off.
But Steam is not making the prices, its the decision of the publisher. And we should be thankful that Steam does not have the power to say how publisher price their game all over the world. You don't want Steam to have this much power. It's just a platform where publishers are allowed to publish their games, at the price they wish. That's called free market.
Yes, it comes with some downsides, but you can't fault Steam for it.
I've been buying keys from the legit shops like Instant Gaming, Fanatical, and Green Man Gaming for years now because the prices on Steam itself are usually higher more often than not for Canada anyways.
This isn't a new thing, nor is it unique to Steam. Most major platforms price their services differently between markets- it's in any business's interest to bring in as much revenue as possible from a market without pricing everyone out. For every country with higher pricing than the US, there are at least as many priced below the dollar.
https://steamdb.info/app/2417610/
Holy shit, it's really is. I wonder what factor they used to adjust the pricing, it isn't like this before.
Remember when people said that since Steam is privately held and the largest distribution platform.
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