Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Rofel]

Doppel, just wanna say you're DOPE. Those are grear examples for people outside the affected areas.

[albertopin]

I really wanna know what people are doing besides filling this forum with rage. I dont say your claim is wrong but some people think that SE havent pronounced yet, but they did! in this same forum.
About violation of the terms of service, i dont see anyome hiring a lawyer or filling a demand to steam and square enix.
Its good to rage in this forums as you know that wont change anything.

I havent seen press taking the matter, besides that what?

[DoppelShifter]

I really wanna know what people are doing besides filling this forum with rage. I dont say your claim is wrong but some people think that SE havent pronounced yet, but they did! in this same forum.
About violation of the terms of service, i dont see anyome hiring a lawyer or filling a demand to steam and square enix.
Its good to rage in this forums as you know that wont change anything.

I haven't seen press taking the matter, besides that what?

Well, aside from this forum:

- People are raising awareness about this issue in other places, including reddit, neogaf, facebook communities and other places. More than anything, we can't let this matter just "die down" and get cold and forgotten.
- The reviews keep coming to the Steam page (currently at 48% and still going down), which is helping to raise awareness and also warning people who were considering to buy the game, and are now giving up due to what happened.
- We're still contacting other outlets. SidAlpha reported on the subject, and some people are contacting other outlets. It would be nice that more and more people could help on that.
- Multiple players are asking for refunds for the game. Square Enix didn't authorize the refunds, but players are taking the complains to Valve. If more people continue to do that, we might have a situation like No Man's Sky or Arkham Knight, where Valve intervened and allowed refunds due to the circumstances. This would finally be a more high-profile impact on Square Enix's pockets, so they wouldn't be able to ignore the matter any longer.
- A lot of players are migrating to other games. Some FCs with a heavy number of Russian players are already planning their migration to WoW, and I myself will probably be migrating to Guild Wars 2. This kind of migration, coupled with the spread of awareness over the issue, might have a cascade effect that, if not exactly major, will be less easy to ignore.

Aside from that, we keep asking that other players keep spreading the word, reaching for press, youtubers, gaming communities and so on. We can achieve something, but we must keep acting on the subject for that to happen.

[albertopin]

No mans sky was an indie game. A d focus of tje problem was USA that
Has regulations and third party organizations who avail players.

As far i know your only leverage was the review thing that was used as a protest mensurae but the damage is done. Cant get worse unless USA,JP or UK take the case and ist unlikely to Happen.

[Annah]

yeah, this thread spiraled off the course and blew up in a glorious ball of fire and rage.

[Shedon]

What most people don't seem to understand is that we are not complaining ABOUT THE PRICE, we are complaining that Square Enix didn't warn anyone and they made this change exactly after the deadline for users to ask for a refound in the Stormblood expansion.
With that in mind, you start to ask yourself if that was a big scam from their part just to sell more Stormblood copies, since a big part of the users from Russia and Brazil wouldn't get the expansion if the knew about the changes in the subscription price.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The problem with steam reviews is they are not based on region, eo now there are a lot of "sub increased 3x with no warning" reviews with no explanation that wouldnt impact anyone other than those in 2 countries. The sub also only increased if you used steam, the base sub for the game did not change on the official site .

While this does suck for those effected, a lot of those reviews are misleading. Its also not the devs fault, they are not in control of the company financing.

[Nezia]

The problem with steam reviews is they are not based on region, eo now there are a lot of "sub increased 3x with no warning" reviews with no explanation

So? We had no explanation too, so why should we care to explain things in our reviews?

[SDaemon]

So? We had no explanation too, so why should we care to explain things in our reviews?

Better to be constructive with your criticism, without context and clarity a lot of the steam reviews I've read come off as whining. If someone came along interested in playing and noticed a ton of negative reviews without substance do you really think they'd give those reviews any worth?

[Taika]

The problem with steam reviews is they are not based on region, eo now there are a lot of "sub increased 3x with no warning" reviews with no explanation that wouldnt impact anyone other than those in 2 countries. The sub also only increased if you used steam, the base sub for the game did not change on the official site .

While this does suck for those effected, a lot of those reviews are misleading. Its also not the devs fault, they are not in control of the company financing.

Exactly this!!! Which is why it seems like a hateful revenge campaign instead of being a case of making your voices heard about this (truly!) unfair event. You were treated unfairly as customers, you should make a noice about it here on the forums and contact customer service and media and everything, but a misleading revenge campaign is not a great way to go on about it.