Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[IzumiOgata]

Because then Valve wouldn't get any money.

You don't know under what sort of contract is FF XIV on Steam.

As long as you're selling things on their store valve will make money from it, they just take a cut from the sales, like with any other payment service, credit card companies charge companies to use their cards, paypal charges companies to implement their service, every single money exchange service charges their clients, be them people or companies.

[UnstablePersonality]

Can you even buy crysta with steam wallet? Because right now I can't add crysta to my account at all. Not through incognito nor through European VPN.

Everything. If it was only mogstation items I (and probably most people) would be completely ok with it.

Hopefully it's a mistake then.

[Rymm]

Hopefully it's a mistake then.

It's not. Well, at least it's not in the sense that it was done accidentally. The GM who responded earlier in this thread stated point blank that it was intentional and that's the only official word we have gotten on the subject.

I would, however, argue that it's a mistake in the sense that it was a really lousy idea on SE's part.

[Hitsuzen]

41,99 BRL is 13.36 USD, which is less than what most people make for an hour of work here lol. Technically US players still pay more too!

[NaelVega]

Gamers who take check from work with the dollars never understand ppl who take checks with other currencies. If say easier to understand - you paid 15$ for the game, lets say we all have to pay to Yen bcuz SQEX is japanese company and SQEX said USA can pay 15$ but next day everything changed and now you have to pay in Yen converted to USD and this cost you 45$ oh well because its business and noone cares about your feeling SQEX is JP company and need money as all companies on the world.
And if USA president will say something bad next day to Japan president or country, exchange rate drop down like hell and you have to pay 60$ or even more. And no your boss not gonna pay you twice next month you will got same sallary as always. Its not taken you when you dont have to take money from your wallet but when you have to its now your business too
Thats how we feel

[Ronivan]

Thats how we feel

Most likely, but by now I really doubt anything will change. If it would, they already have made an statement on this. SE is clearly don't give a furry about Brazil or Russian market, since this kind of changes always put in balance wins and losses, guess the losses were not that big for them. The amount asked is far beyond our reality and it will bring a major drop of players from SE, but the big chunk of their profits are not us anyway. What is left for us the inform our friends and others about it and so that they don't make our mistake of trusting SE. Time to move on, but never forget about this, specially every time you are looking to buy a game from this company.

[DarkPaladin]

41,99 BRL is 13.36 USD, which is less than what most people make for an hour of work here lol. Technically US players still pay more too!

probably no? I will use this as base, people here work +/- 23 days a month, 8 hours a week (R$40,56), for R$934 (minimum wage), that would be around R$5,07 per hour, you would need to work for 8 hours to pay 1 month of sub, US gets 7,25 USD per hour so, 2 hours of work would do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (at least that's what google said)

[Ckrownz]

Anything new about this ? Any new response or information ?

We can't let this go cold.

[Ronivan]

probably no? I will use this as base, people here work +/- 23 days a month, 8 hours a week (R$40,56), for R$934 (minimum wage), that would be around R$5,07 per hour, you would need to work for 8 hours to pay 1 month of sub, US gets 7,25 USD per hour so, 2 hours of work would do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (at least that's what google said)

Well 23 days a month and 8 hours a week used to be, until our delightful president decided to make a work reform that will make SE looks like a gentleman with its change. Believe, most common works will get even less than 934,00 a month.

[gustavray]

Ppl are saying this isn't a change in pricing but an adjustment of currency. No. Let's change the topic to mog station items then. We were able to use steam wallet to buy optional items too. Those items released before Stormblood could be purchased at a lower exchange rate. When they released Stormblood and jump potions and main scenario skip potions, they set those prices at a higher exchange rate. So they've always known about these prices. It even mentions on mog station that steam prices might be a little different than mentioned on mog station. What they did then wasnt an adjustment of currency. It was a change on pricing thru one of the payment methods. So yes it is a breach of contract.