Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Legewiel]

If those company's do that then their calculations probably just show them they will make more money that way,that's all there is to it and this may just not be the case here company's are not a charity after all so they don't do this out of the kindness of their heart.

Also as far as i know some of those company's operate directly in those country's so all their expanses for servers and wages for the staff is payed in the local currency.This isn't the case here you are playing on servers located s in a more expensive country so that fee is used to pay the salary of people living in a country with higher living cost and pay the higher expenses there.

Exactly, that is why we would like someone from square talking about it and not just a post from a gm saying "that is it", we play for years already we deserve more than that and why are you defending so much square enix? they're a big company they can talk by themselves and that is what we want.

[Envell]

That may be true in an ideal world but in all honesty there is no fairness in our current form of capitalism in the world and there never was.
If they did fair pricing they would need to adjust their prices exactly to the economy of every country in the world, that's just not possible and would loose them a huge amount of income.

Well they just used steam to adjust prices. The price was lower than actual dollar value even at the time game released in steam. Stop treating it like they fixed some annoying bug, they set this price themselves to attract russian and brazillian players.
It's their right to increase it, but it's our right as costumers to know about it beforehand. It's obvious EULA breach and im very disappointed to see american and european community defending it.

[Moragen]

Btw, when you set auto-renewal. There is line that saying "you agree to pay blah-blah". And there is old price. If they charge you more, then that. You can just call for Steam support, because price don't match.

[Aronys]

So, if you just set it to auto-renewal, you get back to old price? There we go. They didn't change the auto-renewal price, just the one off price. TOS states that for auto-renewal price they have to notify, nothing about the one off price.

[Aronys]

Blizzard doesn't do that. I pay exactly the same as someone from a rich country on Blizzard app.

[Legewiel]

Blizzard doesn't do that. I pay exactly the same as someone from a rich country on Blizzard app.

They do in Brazil, it costs 7,50 USD if u pay for 6 months you can even pay 6.15 USD p/month

[Montt]

Blizzard doesn't do that. I pay exactly the same as someone from a rich country on Blizzard app.

Blizzard use regional prices for WoW. I dont play, but the last time I checked the price was arround 23BRL(~7,41 dolars). They know that BR have a huge playerbase for WoW and that helped a lot.

[Aronys]

But that's just it. They didn't break anything as nothing in the ToS was stated about the one off payments, only about the recurring subscription. Which apparently didn't change at all. And as was mentioned countless times, there are countries with much worse economies that don't have and never did have this regional pricing, so how is it fair for them to pay the same as rich countries while Brazil and Russia pay less?

[Aronys]

Again, Brazil seems to be special. But you said that Blizzard does that for every country, which is not true.

[Moragen]

Again, Brazil seems to be special. But you said that Blizzard does that for every country, which is not true.

And where are you from exactly?