Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[gustavray]

Well, that's unfortunate. They really should have informed you guys in advance that a change in price was due to occur. It's only fair.

As a European player, I'm unfortunately well aware of how easily players in regions outside of North America and Japan are screwed over in this game. The way in which the promotions for special items were handled is proof enough of that for me. It could very well be unintentional, too - but ultimately they need to do a much better job of keeping players informed.

Yeah, even promotional events like the one with Dr. Pepper. It's a lot more expensive for you guys than it was on NA.

[Askaniz]

Hello there. I'm a brazillian player who's been playing the game for about 3 years now. I always praised FFXIV for their decision to keep a "fair" price for certain regions. When I said "fair" It does not mean that Final Fantasy XIV was cheap for brazillian players to start with. For comparison World of Warcraft brazillian players always paid 15BR$, in Final Fantasy XIV the price was 32R$(a bit more than double), which is in no way shape or form cheap but it was POSSIBLE for people with a decent income to pay for monthly. Now that Square Enix decided to just increase the price by currency conversion, and judging the wages in this country are less than a third(and even less if currency conversion applied) if compared with the US and the fact that the money of a country plagged by corruption is worth very little. Paying the current price of almost 50BR$ is even more expansive than what I pay for internet and cable TV services combined. Continues...

[Askaniz]

Now is it fair for people to have to quit the game because Squre Enix wants a reason to squeeze their customers the most they can? I've been here for a long time and I was lucky to find amazing people who are willing to help me out with my subscription, but most are not so lucky. This may seem fair to some people but this is probably a goodbye for a huge part of the Russian and Brazillian playerbase in the game. Some may say that it's fair since the price is now through conversion equal to the US, it's extremely unfair to assume that since the general living standards here and in Russia are in no way equal to the US. But oh well, It's nothing surprising from the company who came up with the idea of "Upgrading your pre-order".

[GTBB]

i bought the game 2 days ago and now i want a refund
so pls stop with your damage control policy and deal with support ticket
no way i will deal with SE anymore

[Zarabeth]

i bought the game 2 days ago and now i want a refund
so pls stop with your damage control policy and deal with support ticket
no way i will deal with SE anymore

If you bought the game two days ago you should be able to get a refund. I believe the return policy allows you 30 days to return. So stop playing and return it now and you will be able to get your money back.

[GTBB]

If you bought the game two days ago you should be able to get a refund. I believe the return policy allows you 30 days to return. So stop playing and return it now and you will be able to get your money back.

i know
they simply do not respond to a ticket :> thats just annoying
probably they will change their position cuz of all that bad press but it will not change anything for me
i liked the game(thats why i cant request a refund on steam :> 20 hours in 2 days) but this attitude towards consumers... meh

and the most mind blowing thing that i found out about that only cuz of random youtuber who reported this

[Zarabeth]

i know
they simply do not respond to a ticket :> thats just annoying
probably they will change their position cuz of all that bad press but it will not change anything for me
i liked the game(thats why i cant request a refund on steam :> 20 hours in 2 days) but this attitude towards consumers... meh

Well that is awful.

[gustavray]

Ppl talk about fairness without knowing the meaning of it. Fairness and equality are two different things . for example, Making a poor person pay 10% of their incomes as taxes has a much stronger impact on their lives than making a rich person pay 10%. But that means everyone pays equal, at least percentage wise. THAT is equality.
Now if they take in account that the amount is a bit too much for a poor person and decrease that amount, or like I heard they do it in Germany(rich ppl pay more taxes to make up for what the poorer ones can't pay) is fairness.
Another example would be: homicide and selling without receipt. Both are crimes in some countries. So should both be punished equally? Or take into account the gravity of it?
And cmon these are examples simply to illustrate difference between equality and fairness.

[DoppelShifter]

A funny note for whoever was thinking that the BR and RU player base was far too small to make any kind of difference...

...Overnight, the lifetime user review score for FFXIV on steam dropped from 85% to 83%. Might not seem like much at first, but take into account that:
- This is for lifetime reviews, from 2014 up until now.
- All of these reviews are actual players who bought the game (you have to be one to be able to post a review)
- A good chunk of the reviews are from players with hundreds or even thousands of hours of play, so basically veterans
- This all happened overnight, in less than 12 hours, and the score keeps going down.

As for their "Recent" score (last 30 days), it has dropped to 56% and keeps lowering. Keep in mind that this time slice includes the bulk of the highly-rated Stormblood (88 on Metacritic).

Even considering that this is "just" the Steam portion of the PC players, this is no negligible thing, specially considering it happened in such a short notice.

Is this 280 a week? Because at the minimum wage in the USA, people bring home less than that after taxes. Quite a bit less.
I'm disabled after working for many many years and I get about 120 USD less than you in a month. Just because some of us live in "rich countries" doesn't mean that we are all rich. Also almost 2/3 of my monthly income go to my rent electricity and heat/cooling.
What Squeenix just pulled on you guys is wrong, but comparing yourselves to "rich countries" has nothing to do with your problem.

That's a 280 a month, not a week.

[Zarabeth]

That's a 280 a month, not a week.[/QUOTE]

Ouch, how much does rent and utilities cost there? I could not even live indoor for 280 a month here.