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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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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 46 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 32 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I think what is talked about is coutries like Poland where the currency is weaker than the $ but they still cave to pay more.
Having to pay less when earning less is good but paying more while earning less is bad.
And the problem with at least poland exists now for a few years

Edit: i should have first read the article. And ut was indeed about poland where they pay (converted) like 100 for a 70$ game while earning less

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Steam pushing Poland towards the eurozone, wasn't expecting that one tbh

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

we still wouldn't get paid more if we converted to Euros, we'd just be paid in smaller looking numbers

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Not immediately, anyway.