Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[ArcanoJones]

While I feel badly for people in Brazil and Russia to all the sudden have a major price increase without any warning whatsoever. The prices where not raised higher than what anybody else is paying. I think it was a di ck move by SE just to dump it on them. They should have given them a 30 day announcement. However the prices have simply been brought inline with the rest of the world. Many countries that are just as poor do not get those kinds of low sub fees and never have. Poor people exist all over the world. I wish all of you good luck and hope you will still be able to continue playing a game you have come to love.

[IzumiOgata]

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First of all, I appreciate your sympathy, thank you for it.

But allow me to correct you in terms of the comparable pricing by referring to the EU product page

If you scroll down to the sub fees you'll find the prices in euro and pounds, look at the pound pricing, it's £9.


The Brazilian sub was 33 BRL:


Now the price for the Brazilian sub is 15 USD converted to BRL on the current exchange, so the prices were raised higher than some of the player base is paying (note that the UK is way better off than Brazil, but that's irrelevant).

Cheers, mate.