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Unless the Turkish economy improves, the Lira will not return as a usable currency on Steam.
The game devs got tired of receiving payments from a currency that would fall in value in-between the time of purchase and the time the money was sent to them.
Turkey is in the MENA region, MENA uses USD as the currency, and if I recall default pricing is about 50% of the USA region price.
This is all intentional as Hikari mentions Valve removed the TRY because of it's volatility and collapsing value, it was a pain point for developers and publishers. That pain existed for years before Valve removed the currency. It wasn't done casually and it wasn't a decisions that was rushed to.
I wouldn't expect the TRY to be re-introduced any time soon. And you're probably going to have to see it recover and stabilize for a number of years before it's worth a look at reintroduction.
In short your inconvenience is the smallest problem surrounding your currency. The whole point was to shift the burden of dealing with the TRY off Valve and other publishers/developers and place it on the TRY users. And there's no combination of "there's so many of us, and our very low value currency is actually worth infinite hassle" arguments that will change anything.
Good luck.
With the MENA region set up the real Turkish user counts are much much lower.
Ask the game dev/pub.
Yanıtlarınız için teşekkür ederim.
Türk Lirası'nın oynaklığıyla (değer dalgalanmalarıyla) ilgili endişeleri ve bunun oyun geliştiricilerini nasıl etkilediğini tamamen anlıyorum. Ancak yine de daha dengeli bir geçiş yapılabileceğini düşünüyorum — örneğin fiyatların kademeli olarak ayarlanması veya yüksek enflasyon yaşayan ekonomilere özel bir fiyatlandırma seviyesi getirilmesi gibi.
Türk Lirası’nın istikrarsız olduğu kabul edilse bile, Türkiye’de yıllardır geliştiricileri destekleyen büyük bir oyuncu kitlesi var. Bizim geri bildirimlerimiz hak talebinden değil, oyunları adil şekilde oynamaya devam etme arzumuzdan ve ekosistemin erişilebilir kalmasını sağlama isteğimizden geliyor.
Buradaki herkesin düşüncelerine saygı duyuyorum, ancak rica ediyorum: Lütfen Türk oyuncular hakkında genellemelerden kaçınalım. Her oyun topluluğu saygıyla dinlenmeyi hak eder.
Tekrar teşekkürler,
Mustafa
Hello,
Thank you for your responses.
I fully understand the concerns about the volatility of the Turkish Lira and how it affects game developers. However, I still believe that a more balanced transition could have been made — such as adjusting prices gradually or introducing a pricing tier specifically for high-inflation economies.
Even if the Turkish Lira is considered unstable, there is a large player base in Turkey that has supported developers for years. Our feedback does not come from a place of entitlement, but from a desire to continue playing games fairly and to keep the ecosystem accessible.
I respect everyone's thoughts here, but I kindly ask: Please avoid generalizations about Turkish players. Every gaming community deserves to be listened to with respect.
Thanks again,
Mustafa
Constantly adjusting prices for tjousands of games made by each developer and publisher is a big ask for a low value currency.
And developers did for years. Valve adjusted the recommended prices too. Turkish users pitched a fit about increases.
It's kind of embarrassing to criticize changes made by lecturing what should have been done, and then it turns out it was.
The TRY is just that bad and no amount of flim-flam or lazy entitled arguments are gonna change it.
No, it's pure entitlement. You don't appreciate or even acknowledge everything that was done to support the TRY before it was removed. And you don't care about about the burden it caused. You only care about how you're inconvenienced, and that's not a very strong position against the history and reality of the situation.
I kindly ask you to understand what you're talking about and stop repeating the same old uninformed and entitled nonsense about your low value currency.
It wasn't a mistake. It was a deliberate decision to shift the burden of dealing with TRY onto the TRY users. Your post hoc opinions don't have a lot of merit when you ignore everything inconvenient to your position.