Leet | Steam is preparing for a significant price increase
Valve came up with new guidelines.
Updated by Valve on October 18th guidelines and conditions for regional pricing. These do not always represent the company separately, the international media received the news about the new amounts after the SteamDB.info staff wrote. We can’t say that the lack of money was the cause of these changes, as Valve’s store has also broken records in recent days.. It was simply the international situation, the strengthening of the dollar and the weakening of other currencies that forced them to take this step.
A few regions, such as Argentina or Turkey, may be exceptions. Due to the previous, very favorable pricing, many players resorted to tricks by purchasing the games. There was a game where a significant part of its sales came from Argentina, so it was clear from the IP and other identifications that hardly any games were played there.
Let’s see how European prices are developing!
Even for in-game content that costs 1-2 dollars, we can read some price increases, but in the easy-to-understand example, we present the changes through the price tag of an average AAA game. $49.99 title we need to prepare for the following changes:
Currency | Old price | New price | Difference |
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English font | £32.99 | £41.99 | +27% |
Euro | €41.99 | €48.99 | +17% |
Russian ruble | 930 ₽ | 1600 ₽ | +72% |
Domestic players can buy in euros, so we can expect an average increase of 17-19%. It is important to point out that the above pricing is only a guideline, but that most developers will also use a method. In addition, the exchange rate of the euro does not help Hungarian users, so they have to pay double the surcharge.
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