Turkish and Argentine computer game lovers are waking up to a new reality today. After their native currency was removed from the Steam system and the US dollar was introduced, the prices of many games skyrocketed. Some directly say that the new cost of purchasing a particular game exceeds their monthly salary.
As of yesterday evening, payments in US dollars are available on the Valve platform in the above-mentioned countries. This was announced at the end of October.
It’s worth noting that both Turkey and Argentina have terrible inflation. The previous prices for games on Steam in these countries were low enough for foreign users that some of them sought to “shop” in these countries through a VPN. The Steam owner explained that the reason for the currency change is the instability of the Turkish lira and the Argentine peso. Additionally, it was difficult for Valve to support normal payment methods in these markets. However, such arguments are unlikely to please the Turks and Argentines. Moreover, in extreme cases, prices for games increased to several thousand percent.
Now there is a discussion going on, which talks about the end of Steam in these countries. To illustrate the situation, two cases described by local players can be cited.
One Argentinean wrote that just yesterday he spent 46,000 pesos (about 11,376 rubles) on games from Steam. Now, taking into account the new prices, he will already pay 701 thousand pesos, or about 173,370 rubles. A Turkish gamer, on the contrary, says that he spent a little more than two thousand liras (about 6,000 rubles) on dozens of games. He then added that now Psychonauts 2 alone will cost him 1,700 liras (about 5,198 rubles).
One of the Argentinian users X prepared a table that, in particular, shows the percentage increase in the price of each game. It shows that the price of Civilization VI has increased the most – by a dizzying 4298%.
It is worth noting that not all publishers have gone crazy; Bandai Namco and NISA, for example, try to adhere to recommended regional prices.
Valve has not yet responded to these votes. Perhaps in the coming days the giant will make some attempt to stabilize the situation. We can only wait for new news on this issue and sympathize with the Argentine and Turkish players.
2023-11-21 14:40:56
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