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How is Steam regional pricing where you live?
| When you convert local currency to USD, games seem much cheaper here. Signalis costs 166 TRY here, whereas it costs $19.99 USD elsewhere. 166 TRY is $6.3 USD, that's a significant difference. Sounds great if you're Russian or German.
But then you realize we have runaway inflation and wages haven't adjusted, and it doesn't sound so nice anymore.
| I'm living in Taiwan, and a lot of games seem to save the equivalent of around $5-$10 usd off. Not bad, but I have no idea how proportional it is. I'm making considerably less than full-time minimum wage in my home state, but also pay way less for rent, so idk.
| It used to be really good, with most releases up to a few years back being fairly cheap, but at some point it started ramping up.
Now games have very similar prices to their USD price, which in the country I live means I jusy straight up can't afford games anymore :/
So nowadays I pretty much only buy indies and older games if they're on sale
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| I'm actually curious. Are Steam games cheaper or more expensive where you live? Are you happy with it?
Where I live it can be cheaper than half the USD price, which actually make them reasonable compared to living cost/wages. Steam's regional pricing might be a major reason why piracy isn't so widespread anymore here.
I feel kind of bad for small indie games though. Sometimes it feels too cheap.