Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Texa]

The reasoning for regional pricing is exactly that, you reduce the profit margin to increase the number of units sold, increasing the profit overall, MMOs have the worse scaling of all digital goods (it never reaches the ridiculous100%u0025 profit margin) but even then it is way more profitable to offer a regional pricing since it still scales really well.

It increases brand recognition and presence internationally too, which is desirable for a game like FF XIV which is seeking to be viewed as one of the best mmos to play and invest time in.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

FFXIv does not have 6 million subscribers, it has had 6 million accounts created. Vastly different things. It is much closer i believe to 800k-1mil subs.

[Vizu00]

FFXIv does not have 6 million subscribers, it has had 6 million accounts created. Vastly different things. It is much closer i believe to 800k-1mil subs.

I believe you are correct, however, the amount needed to break even probably won't be more than 5usd, the 200 M USD for 4 years was during the time WoW had around 10M active subscribers and blizzard herself said that the bulk of the costs were with costumer support, if you wish I can do another estimative with a 800k sub number, however I would also have to tweak the costs.


Doing some head math ...

200 - 4 years, 10m subs

Should bring everything to 30-50M per year using the same ridiculous parameters...

10,4M usd per month income .. 4,166M of upkeep
5.1 USD of upkeep price per 13 USD sub

The Russian sub most probably returns a profit anyways

[AdrikRuk]

Game price didnt change, auto-reneval price didnt change. Its still looks like a steam bug that no one wants to fix. We still have only one response from SE, but it too looks like excuse from lazy forum moderator.

[Texa]

Game price didnt change, auto-reneval price didnt change. Its still looks like a steam bug that no one wants to fix. We still have only one response from SE, but it too looks like excuse from lazy forum moderator.

There have been a multitude of identical responses from customer support tickets that also state it was intentional. Please don't blame the mod for doing their job and posting what they were told by their superiors.

[Sinistral]

There have been a multitude of identical responses from customer support tickets that also state it was intentional. Please don't blame the mod for doing their job and posting what they were told by their superiors.

Also, the forum mods are just contractors. They arent even part of SE.

[AdrikRuk]

There have been a multitude of identical responses from customer support tickets that also state it was intentional. Please don't blame the mod for doing their job and posting what they were told by their superiors.

I just think its very strange that only entry subscription price has been adjusted. Also now its one and only steam purchase in Euro not Rubles in entire russian Steam shop, at least i never saw another.

[Texa]

I just think its very strange that only entry subscription price has been adjusted. Also now its one and only steam purchase in Euro not Rubles in entire russian Steam shop, at least i never saw another.

Because there's some kind of contract involved with changing the price for the other ones that they can't just do a facepull on.

[gustavray]

That's of course very sad and i really feel for you guys but a lot of country's in the world are far worse off then yours and they didn't get any special treatment only your 2 country's where affected and only payment's through steam wallet, so in fact even people from your own country's which payed directly through Mogstation or on the PS4 allrdy had to pay the correct fees, i don't really see why you guys deserve any special treatment you had it good for a few years and now it's over, be happy it lasted as long as it did.

Dude, what if u wake up tomorrow and your sub goes up with no warning? Start placing yourself on other's shoes, cmon. I could be paying 200 USD for this idc, but they didn't warn us that's all. How hard is it to understand?

[gustavray]

OK English lesson now. Recurring means repeating or occur again. The sub has to be repeated in order to continue playing, hence recurring. The ToS itself also mentions you need a recurring sub to keep playing, so how am I playing if it's not a recurring sub.?That would only apply, if anything, to 60 days game time card. Those are the One Time only subscriptions.