Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Denner1623]

@Enkrateia
The conversion rates aren't actually as simple as Brazillians use 3.12 reals the same way US uses $1 USD. 47R$ for us may be around 15$ for you guys, which may be around 1% of your minimum wage, but for us, still 47 bucks which would be 5% of our minimum wage, and if we add up a VPN that its most likely mandatory to use, cuz there is no South America servers like WoW has (specially now with the servers moving to west coast, making thousands of people to have high latency), we will be spending almost 10% of our minimum wage. Monthly.
That goes for Brazil, idk about how the other countries are dealing with this, but i do believe that alot of people will just quit cuz of this.

And still, support says that those regions were paying lesser prices.
http://imgur.com/a/rkHuK

I think that SE should understand that they made deal with a plataform like Steam which always make the prices so that people from a specific region can afford buying, instead of paying the real price doing a stupid money conversion, or else AAA games would cost 300+ in brazil.

[DoppelShifter]

@Enkrateia
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Not only that, but look at other games that have subscription models (World of Warcraft) or that rely heavily on microtransactions (Warframe): they actually changed their prices across regions to try to adequate it to the playerbase's economical situation. For example, a WoW sub costs 15USD (same as FFXIV, which converts to over 50BRL after taxes), but the official sub price in Brazil is 23,90 BRL , and that's AFTER a price update (it used to be even lower, at 14,90BRL). Warframe also practices much lower prices for their microtransactions, with their 5USD tier costing 10BRL rather than over 17BRL.

Basically Square Enix is walking backwards in regards to their global pricing policies. Even worse, they're doing worse than ACTIVISION in that regard.

[Rsmeers]

Exactly. We're able to buy many games with the price we'll be spending with a game that doesn't mind its playerbase and changes prices without previous warnings. Doesn't sounds great.
And it happened right after i bought a renaming service; Guess i'll be asking for a refund, as i won't be able to play the game anymore anyway.