Steam payment HUGE price increase!

Really hoping it's just some sort of error and not a permanent thing :\ This is a big increase in the subscription price for many of us, but the worst part for me is not being informed about this happening, especially with Stormblood's launch - lots of us have paid for this expansion expecting to be able to play it for months, paying the same subscription value we're all used to. And now a lot of players (including me) might become unable to pay their sub fee, which means we've wasted a lot of money when we bought Stormblood.

To the people thinking we shouldn't voice our concerns because now we're just 'paying the same' as NA players, please imagine how you'd feel if your subscription fee went up $10-20 with no explanation whatsoever, no previous warning, nothing, after you just bought a game expansion. There was no attempt to warn us about this.

That's almost double the price without warning whatsoever.
Completely unacceptable because the lack of communication.
I feel so bad for Brazilians and others effected by this.

The "pay as we do" arguement is understandable, but there are few points that needs to be mentioned:

1. Steam regional pricing was like that for years. This seems to be way too long to be simply an oversight in pricing policy to be corrected.

2. If steam pricing is intentional, when people would like to hear an official announcement of why SE decided to change the pricing policy.

3. If steam pricing was NOT intentional, why did it took so long to correct it for a standarized price?

Personally i too got affected and i am able and willing to pay more, but a closure for this change would be much appretiated.

I believe this is mostly steams fault though, since they are the ones ultimately responsible for that update on their site, but it is still something square should have cleared up just in case by posting it on their region forums atleast.

I live in a country that has the same average income as you in Brasil and I always had to pay the same sub amount as everyone else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sure, it's a big change for you guys, but there were some other countries that have as bad economy as yours and it was always the norm for us to pay as much as EU or NA players, just saying.

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Originally Posted by Reaperking386

Due respect, but isn't there a South American forums to bring this issue up rather than the NA?? If there is none then idk I will shit up, but it feels like this has nothing to do with NA region since this is in summary a price change for Brazilian players who were not given proper warning from steam or square enix. I believe this is mostly steams fault though, since they are the ones ultimately responsible for that update on their site, but it is still something square should have cleared up just in case by posting it on their region forums atleast.

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There is no NA forum. This is general forum for english speaking people.

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Originally Posted by Aronys

There is no NA forum. This is general forum for english speaking people.

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Ah very well.

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Sure, it's a big change for you guys, but there were some other countries that have as bad economy as yours and it was always the norm for us to pay as much as EU or NA players, just saying.

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If this situation was from the start, no problem. People rage because they already bought new expac and suddenly can't afford to play it. Without any warning from SE.

Any word from steam? I thought they were pretty good for answering questions in the past.

I hope they'll fix it as soon as possible... There're a lot of questions to both SE and Steam. The price increased too much for russian (and as I can see for brazilian) players. It doesn't mean we're special or something. We just want some kind of explanation why it happened.
Just imagine guys that you paid about 280 rubles and now you should do the same for 880 rubles without any announcements.