Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Kuwagami]

You understand that its againts their ToS?

I do. Do YOU understand that they can just slip through it by saying that they "didn't change the pricing but rectified it to be in line with the "one-for-all" price they intended all along"? That's why it's shady. Unless the ToS explicitely specifies regional prices, the sub price change notice can be abused in many many ways for pricing changes out of USD and sorta kinda Euros.

Just... be angry at the right thing, or SE may as well ignore you for all they care

[FedorSumkin]

I do. Do YOU understand that they can just slip through it by saying that they "didn't change the pricing but rectified it to be in line with the "one-for-all" price they intended all along"? That's why it's shady. Unless the ToS explicitely specifies regional prices, the sub price change notice can be abused in many many ways for pricing changes out of USD and sorta kinda Euros.

Just... be angry at the right thing, or SE may as well ignore you for all they care

There is that one thing i want to tell to you and others acting alike. When SE screws other you, i want you to come here and read your own comments.

[NaelVega]

I see the point why they made prices in UK cheaper - they have SQUAREENIX UK and they have point of view in UK and they know probably gamers not gonna pay 13-15 pounds for sub, but still it half cheaper then in Russia now lol

[Velxeor]

At the expense of price leveling around the world, for a company like the SE and the more so because they are rumored that the new sales manager is the most stupid mistake.
For example, you have a cheap used car (for $ 500) for which you pay just as not a big tax as a cheap vehicle, you drive along the same road that a rich man drives to Porshe last model, which pays dozens Times more taxes on your own.
The result is the same, the road is the same! But the fee is calculated in different ways!
The first months of the SE will not feel the difference, but in 2-3-4 months people will change FF to WW or other MMOs

[Gouto-douji]

I'm a bit depressed that the prices for carbonized matter which they warned us about are more important to SE than all the people that live in Brazil and Russia, who apparently don't deserve that kind of warning, even if SE didn't violate the User Agreement by silently adjusting everything that falls under one-time payment on the Mog Station for Steam users.

As someone who is just not able to pay for the sub anymore because of how expensive it became for me, I am going to quit as soon as my current sub runs out.
And I can't say I'm actually enjoying these last days in the game now after I learned of the way SE chose to make adjustments.

[gustavray]

I see the point why they made prices in UK cheaper - they have SQUAREENIX UK and they have point of view in UK and they know probably gamers not gonna pay 13-15 pounds for sub, but still it half cheaper then in Russia now lol

That's the thing though. Brazilians wouldn't pay 50 BRL on a service either. The economy broke 2 years ago, we one president suffered impeachment this year, the new one is being investigated for corruption and the 2nd previous one was just given an arrest warrant. Those 3 have been doing shady business for over 14 years and only now they are being punished so the economy is very unstable. Since what we pay isn't even a stable currency anymore but the conversion straight from dollars on the day u resub, this is pretty much a bye bye Brazil move.

[Montt]

That's of course very sad and i really feel for you guys but a lot of country's in the world are far worse off then yours and they didn't get any special treatment only your 2 country's where affected and only payment's trough steam wallet so in fact even people from your own country's which payed directly trough Mogstation or on the PS4 allrdy had to pay the correct fees, i don't really see why you guys deserve any special treatment you had it good for a few years and now it's over be happy it lasted as long as it did.

Do we really need to say again the main reason we are not complaining its about the price increase, but we didn't have ANY ANNOUNCEMENT about it exactly 1 month after the launch of Stormblood.

Because of that many of us, whom have bought Stormblood, can't keep playing and get a refound for that.

That hurts man, a lot.

[Aronys]

That's a point, if you set up a recurring fee, would that get you back to your old prices?

[Taika]

No only those who had an active sub bevore they adjusted the currency exchange rates still get the old prices.

So this whole issue doesn't even concern players who were active subscribers to the game? Or the players who were paying their sub through Mog Station? So in other words, the only people actually affected are those who got the game through Steam and did not have active subscription running.

[Paladinleeds]

That would be a pretty great way to erode away any sympathy UK players have for those affected. Especially since we've already been screwed over in the past by the way in which promotion campaigns have been handled.

I disagree, and at the same time I feel it would increase the empathy of the UK playerbase. And if we created a massive stir about it, and got the UK pricing changed, it would then set a precedent for RU/BR players to follow. As someone who is British myself, I believe our country's players would be more sympathetic due to the empathy towards the situation that we would gain due to going through it ourselves.

So this whole issue doesn't even concern players who were active subscribers to the game? Or the players who were paying their sub through Mog Station? So in other words, the only people actually affected are those who got the game through Steam and did not have active subscription running.

I don't let my sub expire, but I prefer to manually renew my subscription each payment time, so I foresee it and can ensure I can see when it's going out. There's probably a lot of players like that here. Does that make me any less of an active subscriber? The fact I keep my subscription topped up but paying for it manually (and in the last year I'm almost certain it hasn't lapsed once)