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Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I suspect piracy will become increasingly popular in these countries

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I hope they don't expect people to actually pay in usd and instead offer the conversion themselves. Because I can't imagine people maintaining usd credit cards just to purchase games from steam.

Otherwise, this could be a positive change as publishers can now set prices without the "what if the currency loses half its value tomorrow" insurance margin.

Edit: steamdb has a chart of the new regional pricing. It's 50% higher than the current one for tl and 150% higher for peso.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

You can purchase in foreign currency with any international card, there's a bit of a fee though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean... If the currency is that unstable... I would expect people doing that and having accounts with dollars or euros, saving money in a currency that moves more than a rollercoaster it's not great.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They have savings accounts in dollars or pinned to the dollar, not spending accounts. But looking it up it seems tl credit cards can pay in usd + maybe a conversion fee so I guess it wouldn't be such a deal breaker