USD pricing is killing gaming and sales in Pakistan !!

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DragonNotHere 7 Ιουλ, 3:22

Hey Fellow Gamers and Steam officials,
I’m a gamer from Pakistan and I wanted to request that Steam should consider changing the default currency for Pakistani users from USD to PKR (Pakistani Rupees) or at least INR( Indian Rupees) . Currently, buying games in USD makes them very expensive and less accessible for the average gamer here. Other platforms like EA App, Microsoft Store, and the Xbox App already use INR and PKR (Pakistani Rupees) for Pakistani users, and it makes a huge difference in affordability. INR pricing is much closer to PKR and would allow more players in Pakistan to buy games which will boost sales of steam games as Pakistan population wise is a big country and has unexpectedly high amount of users. Please consider this regional adjustment—it would help a lot of us who love gaming but are limited by USD prices.
Thank you!

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peppermint hollows 7 Ιουλ, 4:27

Even though Pakistan uses the USD on Steam, Valve has already assigned it to a special region called South Asia USD which means that you can already have different USD prices compared to other USD regions. I wouldn't expect Steam to add support for the Pakistani Rupee anytime soon or to swap Pakistan to the INR anytime soon. In the meantime I would suggest you try contacting developers and publishers and ask them to adjust their price for the South Asia USD price.

DragonNotHere 7 Ιουλ, 10:35

Thanks for the reply,
But You are wrong cuz right now Fc 25 has the same 13.99$ price in both America and Pakistan... For Americans maybe its normal but for us who earn in PKR this is not a very normal price.... Other than that every other Game is also listed for the same price as in America....

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 7 Ιουλ, 10:40

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USD pricing is killing gaming and sales in Pakistan !!

Hey Fellow Gamers and Steam officials,
I’m a gamer from Pakistan and I wanted to request that Steam should consider changing the default currency for Pakistani users from USD to PKR (Pakistani Rupees) or at least INR( Indian Rupees) . Currently, buying games in USD makes them very expensive and less accessible for the average gamer here. Other platforms like EA App, Microsoft Store, and the Xbox App already use INR and PKR (Pakistani Rupees) for Pakistani users, and it makes a huge difference in affordability. INR pricing is much closer to PKR and would allow more players in Pakistan to buy games which will boost sales of steam games as Pakistan population wise is a big country and has unexpectedly high amount of users. Please consider this regional adjustment—it would help a lot of us who love gaming but are limited by USD prices.
Thank you!

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Thanks for the reply,
But You are wrong cuz right now Fc 25 has the same 13.99$ price in both America... For Americans maybe its normal but for us who earn in PKR this is not a very normal price.... Other than that every other Game is also listed for the same price as in America....

Pakistan is in the USD_SASIA region.

USD_SASIA

We also recommend a discounted USD price for several South Asian countries where we don't have local pricing. This is presented as "USD_SASIA" in the pricing tools. These countries are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/pricing/currencies

Ask the EA for better pricing in your region as they are the ones that ignored Valve's own suggested prices and increased it +204% to be in line with regular full USD prices...

https://steamdb.info/sub/956400/

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DragonNotHere 7 Ιουλ, 10:41

Oh!
That's very bad and sad for us gamers in Pakistan if they don't change the currency because the prices for each game is very high... People rather buy from Microsoft Store and EA app or they just play the pirated game! STEAM HAS GOOD NUMBER OF USERS FROM PAKISTAN IF THEY ATLEAST SWITCH THE PRICES TO INR...sales will double up from Pakistan!

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 7 Ιουλ, 10:42

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Oh!
That's very bad because the prices for every game are very high... People rather buy from Microsoft Store and EA app or they just play the pirated game! STEAM HAS GOOD NUMBER OF USER FROM PAKISTAN IF THEY ATLEAST SWITCH THE PRICES TO INR...sales will double up from Pakistan!

Valve has no control over how EA prices their games. And EA wants you on their service or to subscribe to EA Play or get Game Pass which includes EA Play.

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DragonNotHere 7 Ιουλ, 10:47

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από DragonNotHere:
Oh!
That's very bad because the prices for every game are very high... People rather buy from Microsoft Store and EA app or they just play the pirated game! STEAM HAS GOOD NUMBER OF USER FROM PAKISTAN IF THEY ATLEAST SWITCH THE PRICES TO INR...sales will double up from Pakistan!

Valve has no control over how EA prices their games. And EA wants you on their service or to subscribe to EA Play or get Game Pass which includes EA Play.

:nkCool:

BRO ITS NOT JUST ABOUT EA EVERY GAME IS THE SAME PRICE AS IN AMERICA.... THE AFFOARDIBILITY HERE IS LESS MAYBE IN AMERICA A 40$ GAME IS CONSIDERED TO BE A MID RANGE GAME BUT HERE ITS WAYYYY TOO MUCH... RARELY SOMEONE BUYS GAMES THIS EXPENSIVE... IN INDIA PRICES ARE IN INR AND MUCH REDUCED, ATLEAST WE CAN GET INR AS THE CURRENCY FOR PAKISTAN??
#affoardibilityforpakistanigamers

Ettanin 7 Ιουλ, 10:51

Ask the publisher of the specific game or games to adjust their USD_SASIA prices. Valve cannot force the publisher to price better.

HikariLight 7 Ιουλ, 10:52

A single Pakistani Rupee is worth $0.0035 USD.

Not even worth 1¢ USD.

So, the reason why it's so expensive is because your currency has very little purchase power.

DragonNotHere 7 Ιουλ, 10:58

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Ettanin:
Ask the publisher of the specific game or games to adjust their USD_SASIA prices. Valve cannot force the publisher to price better.

If they cannot force so why they claim to offer discounted USD pricing (USD_SASIA) for Pakistan, but prices are usually the same as the U.S.—this defeats the purpose of regional pricing.... Either they give us INR or introduce PKR as the currency or force the developers to give that discount!

DragonNotHere 7 Ιουλ, 11:00

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A single Pakistani Rupee is worth $0.0035 USD.

Not even worth 1¢ USD.

So, the reason why it's so expensive is because your currency has very little purchase power.

NOPE the main reason why games feel so expensive is cuz they don't enforce developers to grant discounted regional prices and nor they introduce PKR as a currency

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AmsterdamHeavy 7 Ιουλ, 11:03

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Ettanin:
Ask the publisher of the specific game or games to adjust their USD_SASIA prices. Valve cannot force the publisher to price better.
If they cannot force so why they claim to offer discounted USD pricing (USD_SASIA) for Pakistan, but prices are usually the same as the U.S.—this defeats the purpose of regional pricing.... Either they give us INR or introduce PKR as the currency or force the developers to give that discount!

Valve. does. not. set. prices.

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HikariLight 7 Ιουλ, 11:07

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A single Pakistani Rupee is worth $0.0035 USD.

Not even worth 1¢ USD.

So, the reason why it's so expensive is because your currency has very little purchase power.
NOPE the main reason why games feel so expensive is cuz they don't enforce developers to grant discounted regional prices and nor they introduce PKR as a currency

Developers are not required to lose money on a sale because your country has such low value currency.

Your poor economy is not the problem of everyone else.

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 7 Ιουλ, 11:09

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Valve has no control over how EA prices their games. And EA wants you on their service or to subscribe to EA Play or get Game Pass which includes EA Play.

BRO ITS NOT JUST ABOUT EA EVERY GAME IS THE SAME PRICE AS IN AMERICA.... THE AFFOARDIBILITY HERE IS LESS MAYBE IN AMERICA A 40$ GAME IS CONSIDERED TO BE A MID RANGE GAME BUT HERE ITS WAYYYY TOO MUCH... RARELY SOMEONE BUYS GAMES THIS EXPENSIVE... IN INDIA PRICES ARE IN INR AND MUCH REDUCED, ATLEAST WE CAN GET INR AS THE CURRENCY FOR PAKISTAN??
#affoardibilityforpakistanigamers

I explained why EA does this.

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Anonymous Helper 7 Ιουλ, 12:02

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If they cannot force so why they claim to offer discounted USD pricing (USD_SASIA) for Pakistan, but prices are usually the same as the U.S.—this defeats the purpose of regional pricing.... Either they give us INR or introduce PKR as the currency or force the developers to give that discount!

Valve suggest pricing for region, suggestion developers and publishers are free to adopt or ignore as they see fit.
Valve creates regions, regions developers and publishers are free to sell their games at price they choose, or, if they so wish, not sell in given region at all.

Valve is moving away from creating local currency regions for regions with weak currencies and creates USD based regions for them instead as that moves the cost of currency volatility to the consumers of that region and developers and publishers can set one price and leave it at that no matter how local currency fluctuates.

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Crazy Tiger 7 Ιουλ, 12:06

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Valve has no control over how EA prices their games. And EA wants you on their service or to subscribe to EA Play or get Game Pass which includes EA Play.

:nkCool:
BRO ITS NOT JUST ABOUT EA EVERY GAME IS THE SAME PRICE AS IN AMERICA.... THE AFFOARDIBILITY HERE IS LESS MAYBE IN AMERICA A 40$ GAME IS CONSIDERED TO BE A MID RANGE GAME BUT HERE ITS WAYYYY TOO MUCH... RARELY SOMEONE BUYS GAMES THIS EXPENSIVE... IN INDIA PRICES ARE IN INR AND MUCH REDUCED, ATLEAST WE CAN GET INR AS THE CURRENCY FOR PAKISTAN??
#affoardibilityforpakistanigamers

Complain to the publishers who set the price.

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A single Pakistani Rupee is worth $0.0035 USD.

Not even worth 1¢ USD.

So, the reason why it's so expensive is because your currency has very little purchase power.
NOPE the main reason why games feel so expensive is cuz they don't enforce developers to grant discounted regional prices and nor they introduce PKR as a currency

Of course nothing will be enforced. Discounts, regional prices and such are voluntary, publishers decide how they handle the pricing of their products, nobody else.

They won't introduce every currency in the world cause that takes a lot of work and for most currencies it's questionable that it's worth it.

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