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Lemiru 5 hours ago
Update recommended regional pricing
Since it was already few years since last real update to recommended pricing on Steam, it's finally time to update it. There are countries in which situation was very different in 2022 than it is right now and now suffer unreasonable prices due to this (look at Poland and #PolishOurPrices, for example). And before anyone will try to respond that it's the devs that aresetting the price, it's not always the case, and even when it is, many of them are too lazy to do their own research and just use Valve's suggestions instead, sometimes not even attempting to adjust it afterwards.
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Pchlak 4 hours ago 
Gaben pls. Fix prices
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Ettanin 4 hours ago 
Originally posted by Lemiru:
And before anyone will try to respond that it's the devs that aresetting the price, it's not always the case, and even when it is, many of them are too lazy to do their own research and just use Valve's suggestions instead, sometimes not even attempting to adjust it afterwards.
In that case your best option is to make a case before your relevant consumer protection agency for price discrimination. Unless Valve is forced by law, i.e. to make automated adjustments to avoid price discrimination, they won't change their ways.
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Start_Running 3 hours ago 
That recopmmendation change probably wouldn't go the way you hoped m8.
Especially in the current economic climate
Also keep in mind the dev/pubs don't have to follow the recommendation. Quite a few odon't, especially the major dev/pubs
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Lemiru 3 hours ago 
Originally posted by Start_Running:
That recopmmendation change probably wouldn't go the way you hoped m8.
Especially in the current economic climate
Also keep in mind the dev/pubs don't have to follow the recommendation. Quite a few odon't, especially the major dev/pubs
Oh, so you saying that they could look at current situation and think they should start charging even more than 10% higher price than the Euro price? Because that's what we are dealing with for a long time now. Also, read second half of my post.
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Hikari Light 2 hours ago 
Changing the recommended pricing is not going to change anything.

Since the game devs have final say in the games price, changing the recommended pricing wouldn't do anything.

Steam could recommend $10, but the devs can still put the price at $60.

Steam has no control over the final price.

And if a dev uses the recommended pricing, that is because they chose to do so.

So demanding that Steam do anything involving prices, you are wasting your breath.
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Nx Machina 1 hour ago 
Originally posted by Lemiru:
Oh, so you saying that they could look at current situation and think they should start charging even more than 10% higher price than the Euro price? Because that's what we are dealing with for a long time now. Also, read second half of my post.

Get your country to join the Euro then you will have price parity.
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Start_Running 1 hour ago 
Originally posted by Lemiru:
Originally posted by Start_Running:
That recopmmendation change probably wouldn't go the way you hoped m8.
Especially in the current economic climate
Also keep in mind the dev/pubs don't have to follow the recommendation. Quite a few odon't, especially the major dev/pubs
Oh, so you saying that they could look at current situation and think they should start charging even more than 10% higher price than the Euro price? Because that's what we are dealing with for a long time now. Also, read second half of my post.
They might cause remember, the devs have to account for the added cost and risk of trading in a low value and volatile currency.

This is a harsh reality of the business world.
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Lemiru 17 minutes ago 
Originally posted by Start_Running:
Originally posted by Lemiru:
Oh, so you saying that they could look at current situation and think they should start charging even more than 10% higher price than the Euro price? Because that's what we are dealing with for a long time now. Also, read second half of my post.
They might cause remember, the devs have to account for the added cost and risk of trading in a low value and volatile currency.

This is a harsh reality of the business world.
Yea because a currency that has been either quite stable or was steadily raising in value for years is "volatile". The only time we saw real drop of it's value was over 3 years ago (you know, the period where pandemic was still ongoing and Russia started their war against Ukraine), which annoyingly coincided with Steam updating their recommended pricing for the last time.
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