Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Moonlite]

Notice steam is taking a hit down to 40%. How much lower can it go before the plushie sellers answer? Also a little surprised more people also not voicing their displeasure at http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fi...xiv-stormblood. Some companies take customer scores very seriously if enough sites show a bad score based on customer service. Might be more motivation to discuss the problem and try to find a compromise. It is a digital purchase let steam extend refund time. If other companies can eat digital losses to work with customers why cant SE?

[IzumiOgata]

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You sir opened a whole new can of worms.


I like you.

[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.

[ArcanoJones]

Moonlite...You do realize however Steam sales is not a huge % of SE customers. Most people purchased this game from SE long before Steam started selling it.

[Vizu00]

The prices where not raised higher than what anybody else is paying.

UK prices are cheaper than those in Brazil and Russia though....

Also steam did bring more visibility to the game, and mmos have a high rate of playerbase changes, you at any given time have a significant amount of players leaving and starting, that is why new players zones are never truly empty in a healthy mmo

[Rofel]

LOL @ people saying we were paying less by exploiting a bug

Tetsuo is salty because his country did not got something like regional pricing. So instead of fighting for it, he is just glad we tanked? Dude... I was afected by the change and I dont wanna the EU price to match the dollar so its the same. You're barking at the wrong tree if you think everybody should be punished instead of gettin the so called better treatment.

To the other guy saying the brazilian price raised close to 50%, its almost the double actually.

[Moonlite]

Moonlite...You do realize however Steam sales is not a huge % of SE customers. Most people purchased this game from SE long before Steam started selling it.

I thought the price increase was people who pay through steam? Which if as small as you say eat the loss. If it was for every player in those regions grandfather the price in for a period. Like I don't know legacy players.

[ArcanoJones]

UK prices are cheaper than those in Brazil and Russia though....

What are they paying in the UK. I was under the impression . Everybody was paying appr. $15 US.

[Vizu00]

What are they paying in the UK. I was under the impression . Everybody was paying appr. $15 US.

9 gbp for a standard sub, that is around 11,86 usd

Brazil sub was around 9, almost 10 Usd for the entry sub
And Rus had 5 usd for the standard, Most russians were aware that a price change would come, but no one expected an unannouced change of 10 usd, making the base game cheaper than the sub

[ArcanoJones]

I thought the price increase was people who pay through steam? Which if as small as you say eat the loss. If it was for every player in those regions grandfather the price in for a period. Like I don't know legacy players.

If that is so. I am not completely familiar with the issue. I thought the raise was for everyone. If thats the case just drop Steam and subscribe through SE.