Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Drakanoth]

Then this revelation makes the situation sketchy AF. They'd not need to hike up the Steam Wallet prices to stop sales on the other site. That method alone should do it, no?

You were right about gift codes, though. I can't say 100% if the codes could be redemeed for people outside South Americas but you could get gift codes buying with Steam Wallet. But as people already mentioned, there were other ways to go about this that could fix this problem. And well, yes, sketchy as it gets. Its just the timing, you know? Even if they did lower it without previously warning us, but did so before Stormblood people wouldn't be here as they are right now. Its hard not to feel backstabbed when its right after we bought the expansion.

[Miscanth]

You were right about gift codes, though. I can't say 100% if the codes could be redemeed for people outside South Americas but you could get gift codes buying with Steam Wallet. But as people already mentioned, there were other ways to go about this that could fix this problem. And well, yes, sketchy as it gets. Its just the timing, you know? Even if they did lower it without previously warning us, but did so before Stormblood people wouldn't be here as they are right now. Its hard not to feel backstabbed when its right after we bought the expansion.

Why can't they just LINK steam account to your Mogstation account (just like PSN works) and set regional prices? And make gifts not benefit from regional prices at all.

[IzumiOgata]

Why can't they just LINK steam account to your Mogstation account (just like PSN works) and set regional prices? And make gifts not benefit from regional prices at all.

They can, the question is: Why didn't they?

They already have a way to tell accounts apart, via the product key that was registered (reminder that you can't register any of the regular PC versions with the steam version), they already have an integration with the steam API, so why didn't they take the steps to cut the people abusing the system while still letting players that were using it legitimately untouched?

[Katsuragi_]

Because then Valve wouldn't get any money.

You don't know under what sort of contract is FF XIV on Steam.

[IzumiOgata]

Because then Valve wouldn't get any money.

You don't know under what sort of contract is FF XIV on Steam.

As long as you're selling things on their store valve will make money from it, they just take a cut from the sales, like with any other payment service, credit card companies charge companies to use their cards, paypal charges companies to implement their service, every single money exchange service charges their clients, be them people or companies.