You read me too fast. I said prices must be the same within a region. If SA gets its own region, of course they should get their own prices.
Make Crystal <> Gold exchange global
I don’t agree because the in-game gold doesn’t have the same value when it comes from different regions with different regional pricing.
PS : I think we don’t talk about the same thing when we say “region”. A region is a group of servers restricted to a geographical area. People can play cross-server within a region but not from / to another region. Same for the AH.
If SA gets its own region, of course they should get their own prices.
I think we don’t talk about the same thing when we say “region”. A region is a group of servers restricted to a geographical area.
We already been confirmed to have our own region, it will be NA, EU and SA on release, unless you consider only different clients a “region”
That is why I said “bind it to SA region” because we will have our own group of servers, I never asked it to be inside NA or EU group, that is exactly what my example (Tree of Savior) does, they have special packs that can only be claimed in servers in the SA group of servers with regional pricing
the European single market does not mean prices are the same everywhere though. " The single market seeks to guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people" it doesn’t have anything with that
well, this has been happening forever and right now you need to have your steam account set to the region you want to buy from, you need to have a VPN set to that region I think and you also need a credit/debit card from that region.
yea man, that has been happening with Turkey’s prices. That’s why I said it may not be a good idea. However, my request was that if AGS decides to implement it anyways; to do it for more countries - the problem wouldn’t get worse lol
every thing you say they “can’t” do is already being done for countries from the European Union. Look at Poland for an example. I don’t get why we are arguing about this lol. (read the previous replies, this has already been talked about)
I still don’t think that’s how it works. it’s about allowing EU members to access markets from any EU country. It doesn’t mean that the same product won’t have very different prices in (using your example) Germany vs Romania. Because that does happen quite a bit. We do get different prices for the same stuff if we buy from our country (sometimes it’s cheaper, sometimes it’s more expensive)
But yea, you’re right; it does seem like Valve shouldn’t be able to block EU members from getting the same prices as the lowest price in EU. But it’s happening anyways. Weird
If the EU fines geo blocking ok, then don’t do it. In south America there is not such thing so they can geo-lock steam purchases. Only being able to purchase that item from an account from that specific country, with a debit/credit card from that country and without the ability to trade it. Steam has already banned acounts that used VPN to exploit Turkey’s prices, and no, Turkey’s prices didn’t change.
Hey folks, I believe Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG dictate all pricing on Steam. I will make sure the feedback in this thread continues to be shared with the team.
Do we have any updates on this topic? Right now on Brazil the exchange rate for the dolar is 4.76 reais, 100 dollars(the 1200 royal crystal pack) should then be around 476 reais(I think, I know it’s not that simple but I assume it’s pretty close to that) but we’re paying 556 reais for that pack, that doesn’t make any sense, this is honestly disrespectful with the community, we want to support the game but Amazon Games and Smilegame RPG seems to be too greedy to pay attention to what we want and just want to milk the people that can pay for it, frankly a big let down, I did support the game by buying some of these packs but I’m just done being disrespected like this, please update us if you’re planning on doing regional pricing or at least giving us a the price you said we’d have, because right now we’re paying 116 dollars for a thing YOU said would be 100 dollars. Pictured below the price when buying on steam:
Here is the past month conversion chart, highest value being around 5.16 reais, meaning the pack should be at most 516:
