Exactly, you use a VPN to shop in the Argentinian or Turkish version of the store (probably 2 most popular countries right now - both fighting with enormous inflation) and for people in other regions (like in Europe or USA) this means much cheaper games.
Its the inflation that caused the switch, plenty of other countries still have much lower prices but aren't being switched to USD. But constantly having to update prices as the currency changed was likely a colossal pain.
Sheesh.
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If only there was a single factor that could explain how a country could go from top 10 wealthiest in the world to where they are now... I guess we will never get to the bottom of this mystery.
I bet in some places that aren't Buenos Aires yes. Living cost and quality there is much better than and more costly than your average Argentinian city. I've been there a couple of times and despite the continuous decadence of their nation, Buenos Aires is better than 95% of the cities in the whole Latam.
That is beyond dumb, but what can you expect. Not like the previous administration did anything smart.
Nah.
I dont know, but must be some corrupt fuckery going on. Venezuala is another country in SA that has economic issues. The country with historically among the most oil reserves in the world and only 28M people. They should be raking it in, but it's a shit show.
It is. It may "seem" this is a smart move to stabilize the currency but it will put Argentina at the mercy of US Fed and they never worked out for anyone else.
Well, we all know why with Venezuela. Argentina is a lot more complex but has to do with turning economy inward in the '60s I think.
Wow they had some CHEAP prices before.up to 4000% increase in prices for some games.
Oh, believe me, a lot of dunning-kruger cases think that it is the smartest move...
When people would post Steam country comparison charts, Russia, Turkey, South America were always dirt cheap. Each game varies, but I remember those charts where a typical $60 US game would be like $12. So I thought the general bottom price might be around $10 for a game.
wow... that's a comic book villain line IRL if ever I heard one.
The commie-socialism cases that caused all their economic downfall of printing more and more pesos created this move...
Wow, these taxes are brutal...
haha yea imagine that, a government full of people who think that deficits don't matter and they can just print as much money as they want no problem haha that would SUCK
Sounds eerily familiar. So many patterns. So many.
I think something that gets lost in the conversation is that games still cost as much as they do to make and support regardless of the economy in the places where people play. Some smaller developers probably struggle a bit selling in countries where the suggested prices are so much lower, especially with the number of people who live in higher-priced countries who price cheat with VPN.
It'll go over most people's head that you're talking about the US federal reserve lol.
Yep, a movement that started in the 40s and led the country for 80 years, transforming a country that used to compete with USA and now at 130th in world position
Congratulations your salary is now 50 cents.
I was about to write about it. Regional pricing in current state is a joke. The idea is nice, but developers/publishers do not give a fuck.
Everything is a bit more expensive because we have tax included and because fuck EU I guess
The prior government banned the USD so it traded super high on the black market. Like 60,000% to their peso, or some obscene number.
Politics in Latin America is an absolute mess
Yeah, and it kind of worked still in the 1950s, but once globalization and international trade started hitting hard, this didn't quite function anymore.
Fuck you MileiSteam's new pricing policy for Latin America and the MENA region came in yesterday. Valve followed through on its promise to change Steam's regional pricing for Argentina and Turkey on November 20, meaning games in those countries will now be priced in US dollars instead of the Turkish lira and Argentine peso:
