The video game platform in digital format Steam updated its list of recommended prices for selling video games. The measure, in the case of Argentina, generated a 485% increase in some stocksa record that has even grown in a few hours.
Valve required to differentiated tariff plan for Argentina. There, video games were worth much less than the global market for competitive costs, as taxes on foreign currency purchases made the service more expensive.
Steam: How much does the price of video games go with the increase
After confirming shares to the “player dollar” and after the new conditions of the digital store, a game called AAA of 60 USD went from $ 649 to $ 3800 pesos: an increase of almost 500%.
As clarified by Steam, this announcement will be reviewed annually and will make corresponding changes. This means that the prices they will suggest for each region to developers e publishers (publishers) when a game is released it will be updated.
The new recommendations are now available, but as developers on Steam are always in control of their own pricing, there is no requirement or expectation for developers to make any changes.
But the case of Argentina is different because, having the cheapest shop in the worldit used to be a problem for VPN purchases in other regions.
SteamDB, the website showing Valve’s suggested pricing on each package page since 2020, lists what the increases will be for each currency. Argentina and Turkey were the hardest hit, as increases in these countries reached 536% and 525% respectively. For instance, a $ 9.99 set that used to be $ 129.99 is now $ 765.00.
As shared by several players on social networks, the price of Left For Dead 2, a zombie game in the survivor genre, went from around $ 120 to $ 765 in a matter of hours, which represents an increase of over 600. %.
The opposite case is that of an AAA video game like Cyberpunk 2077, which has chosen not to comply with the platform’s recommendations and has kept the price of its video game at $ 2,199.
It also affects the case of FIFA 23 (and most of the games developed by EA Sports), which has always kept an official dollar-based price at $ 150 – its new games sell for $ 60 or $ 8,999.
It should be remembered that Steam, like other platforms such as the virtual store of Nintendohas a recommendation system in which it indicates the value that games should have depending on their dollar price.
They do this with the aim of offering a tool for developers that enables them to reach more diverse markets and should not be tied to a uniform international value for all of their customers.
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Source: Clarin
