Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Kuwagami]

What? No, you make it sounds as if we were exploiting a bug or something lol!

I did not mean it like that. I just meant that SE didn't bother to check conversion rates for a few years, keeping you with preferrential prices (good for you! I couldn't care less unless my sub suddenly got affected by it in a bad way). I don't even know if they are right or not about the new conversion rates they applied. Just trying to understand (if the new rates are good) why people are acting like SE robbed them. As far as I can tell, they didn't.

(I do agree SE should have warned 1 month prior as per their own ToS agreement though)

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I do understand. What I don't understand is what they are upset about. People should be upset about SE waking up after 4 years and suddenly realizing that exchange rates have changed, not because SE adjusts the price to adapt to the new rates.

I wish I lived in America so things would always be so convenient for me lol

Now that's a snarky comment if there is one.

Nope, I am not living in the USA. I'm European, which you could guess from my world I guess. And while I understand why people are attached to regional pricing and all that it entails, you seem to ignore (or refuse to acknowledge) that there are people with horrendous minimum wage, and suffering from € when it comes to pricing. Should we stop caring about them because "they just had to live in a country with a lower currency"? Of course not.

It's just a matter of logic. If you want SE to practice prices based on living standard per country, then all the more power to you. But the be fair to everyone, not just some (no offense, BR and RU players). However, SE apparently thinks that they prefer "one price for all" policy, and that's their decision. Now all you can do is accept it or petition them for a change of policy

[Drakanoth]

Snip.

Whats upsetting us and making us feel "robbed" is that SE only bothered to change it right after we bought the expansion, exactly after most people bought the expansion, its money we can't get back on a game some might not keep playing.

[Ailis]

People should be upset about SE waking up after 4 years and suddenly realizing that exchange rates have changed

The USD price was way higher back then, actually. SE knew that and offered the price we had for over 3 years.

What I don't understand is what they are upset about.

People are upset because the change was made and no one was notified, the only way people actually became aware of this was through this thread or other players, not from SE themselves. I also mentioned that it was changed 1 month after Stormblood released so people bought the expansion but cannot afford to play it anymore and they can't be refunded because the time for it has expired. Also you said yourself you'd care if your sub got affected suddenly in a bad way, I'm not sure why you don't understand why people are upset right now...

[IzumiOgata]

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As far as I've seen, the majority of people are complaining about the sudden nature of this, if you go back to the start of the thread you'll see that most people thought it was a bug.

Some other people have said it a couple posts ago, had they announced it beforehand there would be some grumble, but no one would be outraged, because it's completely within their rights to change their policies, what really pisses people off is the fact that they tried to hide it.

[Ckrownz]

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Like people already said here, equality does not mean equity. Try to see for another perspective outside of your country, Brazil is a poor and corrupted country, we like to say that we do not live, we just survive, you want us to pay the same amount as you do just because you think this is fair ? even with the disparity of power of acquisition? Plus we are paying for things that we do not have, like servers, translation, support in your language and so on. Maybe if we had all of this them would be fair to pay the same as you.

Is sad seeing people that think that this is fair, just show the lack of empathy.

[Vizu00]

Subscription price is 9gbp in the uk, this equals to 36brl.
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/product/#usage_fee

This means that square haven't removed the regional pricing from all places, and they havent brought all currencies in line with the global pricing structure.

Thus the official explanation is suspicious as there are still places officially with a cheaper subscription

(Also this kills the "it wasn't intended the existance of the cheaper sub" and the "everybody should pay the same" arguments, since officially square enix is offering a cheaper sub for uk residents)

[Aishary]

Subscription price is 9gbp in the uk, this equals to 36brl.
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/product/#usage_fee

This means that square haven't removed the regional pricing from all places, and they havent brought all currencies in line with the global pricing structure.

Thus the official explanation is suspicious as there are still places officially with a cheaper subscription

(Also this kills the "it wasn't intended the existance of the cheaper sub" and the "everybody should pay the same" arguments, since officially square enix is offering a cheaper sub for uk residents)

Ok now it moves from a probably scam to guaranteed scam. GJ SE you are now scamming your customers.
And UK is not even have the russian and brazil income to justify that discount.

[Ailis]

Subscription price is 9gbp in the uk, this equals to 36brl.
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/product/#usage_fee

This means that square haven't removed the regional pricing from all places, and they havent brought all currencies in line with the global pricing structure.

Thus the official explanation is suspicious as there are still places officially with a cheaper subscription

(Also this kills the "it wasn't intended the existance of the cheaper sub" and the "everybody should pay the same" arguments, since officially square enix is offering a cheaper sub for uk residents)

Whoa I just checked that info and you're right...... I have no words

Edit: Also I've found out that £8.99 is the equivalent of $11,68 vs the standard $14.99

[SiegW]

Subscription price is 9gbp in the uk, this equals to 36brl.
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/product/#usage_fee

This means that square haven't removed the regional pricing from all places, and they havent brought all currencies in line with the global pricing structure.

Thus the official explanation is suspicious as there are still places officially with a cheaper subscription

(Also this kills the "it wasn't intended the existance of the cheaper sub" and the "everybody should pay the same" arguments, since officially square enix is offering a cheaper sub for uk residents)

now we're sure that BRs and RUs some kind of unwanted players. :/

[Korihu]

Nope, I am not living in the USA. I'm European, which you could guess from my world I guess.

Oh, so another area where prices are nicely adjusted for your currency. Wait, Europeans have regional pricing too... and pay a bit less than Americans do. WUH OH


edit: to be more productive:

Yes, absolutely, if SE decides that everyone must have a 'one price for all' policy, then whatever, they can do what they want, I absolutely wouldn't agree with it and you would see your prices going up too and it would make the game inaccessible for some people. BUT. They absolutely could have and should have warned people in advance before suddenly raising their subscription price by up to 300%, right after the launch of an expansion. Everyone here has the right to be annoyed and angry and ask what is up with this. People who don't live in Brazil and Russia also have the right to be suspicious, because if this isn't some weird stuff then I don't know what is.