Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Legewiel]

Blizzard doesn't do that. I pay exactly the same as someone from a rich country on Blizzard app.

They do in Brazil, it costs 7,50 USD if u pay for 6 months you can even pay 6.15 USD p/month

[Aronys]

Again, Brazil seems to be special. But you said that Blizzard does that for every country, which is not true.

[Moragen]

Again, Brazil seems to be special. But you said that Blizzard does that for every country, which is not true.

And where are you from exactly?

[Aronys]

Where you see anything on ToS about exactly recurring sub? There is nothing there about it.

4. BILLING PROCEDURES AND RECURRING TRANSACTIONS
4.1 FINAL FANTASY XIV Subscription Fees.
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A "Recurring Fee" is a fee that will be charged on a recurring basis until you terminate your subscription. A "One-Time Fee" is fee that is only charged once.
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Square Enix may change fee rates at any time in its sole discretion, and will use reasonable efforts to notify you at least 30 days in advance of any changes to any Recurring Fees.

[Moragen]

If those company's do that then their calculations probably just show them they will make more money that way,that's all there is to it and this may just not be the case here company's are not a charity after all so they don't do this out of the kindness of their heart.

Also as far as i know some of those company's operate directly in those country's so all their expanses for servers and wages for the staff is payed in the local currency.This isn't the case here you are playing on servers located s in a more expensive country so that fee is used to pay the salary of people living in a country with higher living cost and pay the higher expenses there.

Please tell that to Apple, Samsung, Blizzard, Riot. They don't know it.

[Aronys]

And where are you from exactly?

I am from Croatia. Our average monthly income is around 600-700€. According to Google, that's similar to Brazil.

[Legewiel]

If those company's do that then their calculations probably just show them they will make more money that way,that's all there is to it and this may just not be the case here company's are not a charity after all so they don't do this out of the kindness of their heart.

Also as far as i know some of those company's operate directly in those country's so all their expanses for servers and wages for the staff is payed in the local currency.This isn't the case here you are playing on servers located s in a more expensive country so that fee is used to pay the salary of people living in a country with higher living cost and pay the higher expenses there.

Exactly, that is why we would like someone from square talking about it and not just a post from a gm saying "that is it", we play for years already we deserve more than that and why are you defending so much square enix? they're a big company they can talk by themselves and that is what we want.

[Moragen]

I am from Croatia. Our average monthly income is around 600-700€. According to Google, that's similar to Brazil.

Croatia is in EU. If your country didn't choice to enter EU and still had it's own currency you would had lower prices. That's problem of EU. In EU prices are similiar like it is one country and no one gives shit about income of Spain(or Croatia) versus Germany(income 2000+ euro). Only UK said get the hell out with your euro and guess what? They have lower price.

[Montt]

Blizzard doesn't do that. I pay exactly the same as someone from a rich country on Blizzard app.

Blizzard use regional prices for WoW. I dont play, but the last time I checked the price was arround 23BRL(~7,41 dolars). They know that BR have a huge playerbase for WoW and that helped a lot.

[Aronys]

Croatia is in EU. If your country didn't choice to enter EU and still had it's own currency you would had lower prices. That's problem of EU. In EU prices are similiar like it is one country and no one gives shit about income of Spain(or Croatia) versus Germany(income 2000+ euro). Only UK said get the hell out with your euro and guess what? They have lower price.

We still have our own currency. We don't use €, but we are required to pay in €. As are our neighbours who aren't in EU. Many countries in EU still use their own currency but are required to pay in € because SE doesn't differentiate that, and neither does Valve.