Steam payment HUGE price increase!

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Originally Posted by albertopin

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First thing, why this keep cyclical? Because SE still don't gave us all the answers, the only solid thing we got from them is "yes, we did it"

Second, its not a simples retaliatory action, its a legit reaction for the company action, also if you stop to read the reviews you will see that people are being really fair and saying that game its great and adressing the problem to the company.

Third, we show no respect for the company? It was the company who showed no respect to its playerbase, its unbelievable how someone can try to picture the company as the victim now...

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Originally Posted by Freyar

They made no announcement, the price change is almost double, and it is 97% more than other games offered.

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Price that your not gonna pay it, because yo u dont have a recurring fee. So no money has been taken from you yet.
If you do The math the saving from almost 2 years of subscription is more than you payed for stormblood.

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Originally Posted by albertopin

Price that your not gonna pay it, because yo u dont have a recurring fee. So no money has been taken from you yet.
If you do The math the saving from almost 2 years of subscription is more than you payed for stormblood.

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Doesn't affect me directly. I pay in 6-month intervals in USD. This is a service, the price was changed for some regions without a word, the cost compared to income is crazily high for Brazil compared to the US. I did the math earlier km the thread.

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Originally Posted by albertopin

I really consider that this thread should be closed. When the discussion becomes cyclical and erratic (we have talked about ToS and fairness of price).
I understand people have their concerns but there is a thread that is handling the problem with actions.
In my opinión as a community you have taken a retaliatory action kind of cynical by downvoting the game on steam solely based on this change of
Price, especially when its know that there people exploiting the steam wallet.
You showed no respect for a company that allowed to save an important amount of money by regional prices and for years! And in less than a week you deemed evil and shady.

Pls Moderator close the thread.

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If you read the reviews you\\\\'ll see that the absolute majority praises the game, and condemns SE action. This is a mmo, the behavior of the publisher is of Paramount importance in a review.

The resellers can simply start buying from the UK mogstation since they still have cheaper pricing, only difference is that the profits will be smaller.

At least in Brazil SE had a nice reputation, they offered regional prices for all the games at steam, and the FFXIV playerbase was growing, you only had minor complains regarding the server move.
Now saying that it is right to punish 2 regions because a small group of people were doing shady stuff is at least unfair. If you want to point fingers and say, you guys did wrong so 2 countries have to pay, you should actually stop a think a little about who was buying the keys, I can assure you that you wouldn\\'t have a reseller site if people only bought from SE, so the fault in this case is actually from the NA/EU/JP/etc players that bought from the resellers.

However the method used to stop the resellers (that won\\'t succeed btw) is akin to dousing a whole room in poison to kill a single fly, square could have increased only the mogstation item prices and kept the subscription prices intact (jump potions already had the full value for example) or just blocking gifting with the steam wallet

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Originally Posted by Legewiel

Well, we just wanted some attention from square enix oo to see that they care for their customers at least a little. and it's funny that after 100 pages we got none, even though must ppl are frustrated here and would probably be fine with just some explanation or trying to find to a middle ground.
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I understand it, because I am Russian customer too. But for getting attention it is exist second thread already, where Russian and Brazilian wrote a good letter with asking to explanation and normal decision in this situation and it's none disputes there. Here - it is. Cycling, again, again, again. Even if moderator will write something important people will not notice it because people here are too concentrate on bittering other. :(

And btw we still don't have any SE(not moderator) official answer or news on site or client. Still nothing.

Guys, don't forget to sign here!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...for-BR-and-RU/

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Originally Posted by Texa

The UK is paying less because their currency has devalued since the Brexit announcement, it's at a unprecedented low. Here's an article from a year ago about it https://www.theguardian.com/business...the-uk-economy .

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Russians got in the same situation - our currency was devalued due to some political garbage.
But now many people explained this as "russians is robbers and british is innocent victims"

Now that I think about it, I find it interesting that this topic is being threatened with closure if it doesn't remain "respectful" or repeats itself when we have dozens of different threads over the exact same issues with Ixion, job changes, the undercutting thread, hunts, novice network, and mogstation. So far this thread has done an excellent job of keeping in topic and directing all posts about the topic to itself.

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Originally Posted by albertopin

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It's not an ethical problem. Here I go again talking about business and not fairness--
What SE did was throw away customers. As me and several other people mentioned before, the MAIN reason why a company sets up regional prices lies in the company's efforts to either gain more customers or maintain the loyalty of old ones. In this case, it's mostly to keep the loyalty of brazilian and russian customers, because less profit is better than no profit at all.
And then, all of a sudden, the company decides to discard said customers by removing the regional price entirely and not saying a word about it. For the 100th time, I agree price adjustments were in order, but that's not what happened and it came with a terrible timing (just a month after SB launched) and silently. The company reputation will be stained by such actions because it speaks of immense disregard for its customers, hence the reviews saying the game is good, the company is not.

The discussion becomes cyclical because everyone wants to share their 2cents about how they feel, and thus the thread keeps growing, and people who don't have the time or patience to read it in full miss some points, which causes us to come back and explain the same thing over and over again.

As for the insults, you just told a guy his ethic is wrong and selfish. He replied in kind. You don't really have the right to call him out for "insulting" you. Plus your reactions and words make it seem like you really came here just to stir up some trouble, instead of trying to join a discussion and listen to what others have to say.
Or perhaps if you really want this thread to be closed and you're sick of it, just leave it be and it might as well soon be closed.

@everyone else, please refrain from further feeding discussions like these, as it's actually just bound to bait you into disrespecting someone and repeating yourselves. If anyone asks, just sum it up for them and leave them to their own conclusions.