Steam payment HUGE price increase!

The funny thing about all this is that in Russia now the base game costs less than 1 month of the subscription(Afaik in NA the base game costs 19$ and subscription is at 13$ vs 700P for base game and 900P+ monthly in Russia). And another funny thing is that it only affected the one-time-payment method, if you are on an auto-renewal the price is almost 3 times less than that(About 330P, it's still higher than before but this is a more reasonable price increase). The raise in price is tremendous, i can tolerate 40-50%, but not TRIPLE increase. And all this without any warning. And at the start of the expansion.

According to Google:
41.99 Brazilian Real equals
13.31 US Dollar

Assuming you have the cheap one character per world sub, that's only 32 cents more than US players pay.

Of course they could not give anyone a warning .
How many would have passed on the expansion if they knew there were such a price increase on the way and they would not be able to continue to subscribe ?
Can not loose those Storm Blood sales !

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Originally Posted by Chekir

Steam says that these are not their changes with the prices, so apparently these were changes from SE. So we need more clarification from Enkrateia.

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Confirm! Steam says the same to me too.

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Originally Posted by Nixxe

According to Google:
41.99 Brazilian Real equals
13.31 US Dollar

Assuming you have the cheap one character per world sub, that's only 32 cents more than US players pay.

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Again, this isn't just about the subscription fee going up, it's about it happening out of the blue with no previous warning a month after Stormblood launched, when many of us are about to renew our subscription. Also, Steam uses a different exchange rate so that people in countries such as Brazil/Russia/etc. can actually buy games without having to pay a small fortune for them (they wouldn't be able to get many sales in these countries otherwise).

Steam prices has an real conversion rate and a "adjusted/suggested" conversion rate. This is for countries that are quite less monetarily developed than most.

The currency conversion is set by the publisher, in this case, SQEX itself.

Since two years ago,the rate was 1:2, 1 usd = 2 brl. So, 12.99 USD was in fact 24.99 BRL (Brazillian Real) for the entry subscription.
Now that the switch has been flipped, the current cost is 41.23 BRL, an astonishing 67% increase. On Russia it was quite more worse, as it seems it doubled(almost triplied?).

Well, for me it also was quite bad, because i have three extra retainers. Now the cost went from 45 BRL to 70~ BRL.
There's no way i can afford this, with minimum wages here being 680~ BRL.
I'd have to commit 11% of my monthly earnings only to ffxiv, and even with the updates and new expansion, i wasn't playing it that much.
I was around and paying the subscription because of my friends that play here too, so i was hopping in sometimes to help.


Well, i hope they revert this decision soon, and if not, it was a fun ride. I'm glad for the many friends i have made over the years, and all the enjoyment i got from this game.
I've made good and bad decisions over the course too. Some of which i regret, some of whom i don't. Anyway it all boils down to a single word: "Enjoy".

I understand the decision to flip the switch, but i hope you understand why i'd leave too.

In worst case scenario, farewell, and may all have great adventures. It was fun while it lasted. In best case scenario, see you all in Eorzea!

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Originally Posted by aekh

Again, this isn't just about the subscription fee going up, it's about it happening out of the blue with no previous warning a month after Stormblood launched, when many of us are about to renew our subscription. Also, Steam uses a different exchange rate so that people in countries such as Brazil/Russia/etc. can actually buy games without having to pay a small fortune for them (they wouldn't be able to get many sales in these countries otherwise).

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Many people are about to renew their subs literally every day. There's no point in time during the month when that isn't the case.

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Originally Posted by Nixxe

Many people are about to renew their subs literally every day. There's no point in time during the month when that isn't the case.

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A lot of people came back to the game because of Stormblood's launch. And it still doesn't change the fact that we weren't warned about such a big change at any point.

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Originally Posted by Nixxe

According to Google:
41.99 Brazilian Real equals
13.31 US Dollar

Assuming you have the cheap one character per world sub, that's only 32 cents more than US players pay.

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We already discussed stuff like this, and mentioned a bit of economics to counter these arguments. But half the thread got deleted by a moderator because:
'However, the discussion should likely focus around the change in price, instead of more subjective terms like "fairness" and "entitlement", since those discussions can be very inflammatory.'

So whether you feel it's fair or not it's not up for discussion.
The fact remains that the change was sudden with no previous warning or notification.

I got a response from SE support

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