Wednesday, November 22nd 2023
Steam Switches to the US Dollar for its Turkiye and Argentina Stores
Valve Software today announced that the Steam store will switch to the US Dollar as currency for Turkiye and Argentina. The stores for both countries have implemented this change as of November 20. The reason cited for the change is the high degree of volatility of the local currencies in the two markets, which is causing game developers to struggle to find the right pricing for their games. Gamers from other regions have been using VPNs to shop from these countries as the volatile exchange rates would mean low pricing. Those with Steam Wallet balances in the local currencies from these two markets will see their wallet balances convert to US Dollars at the day's exchange rate.
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Steam Support
36 Comments on Steam Switches to the US Dollar for its Turkiye and Argentina Stores
In local currency: Diablo 4 is 47000 now with the USD convertion, before this steam stupidity it was ~12000
Starfield is 34000 WITH DISCOUNT, it was ~18000 in august.
So much for "regional pricing" Exactly, they're unpayable now, it's back to epic free games, or waiting for 90+% off and even then it's going to be unpayable There was, with local pricing, now that it's in USD i don't belive so... but i could be surprised...
The other issue is that our "credit card USD rate" was 731 (minus that stealing tax which was called steam tax), now steam moved to "regional" USD AND our CC exchange rate shot up to 950 (and rising), so we get a double whammo
From the PoV of the official exchange rate, a 70 bucks game costs 180 USD now. Hope the dog necromancer wigman's policies work...
Meanwhile, I'll enjoy all the games I bought before this change.
Tho I can joke around and say I'm a millionaire :P
After all Chainsaw Man is a demon who fights other demons for power and pay back a massive debt, fitting I'd say.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei
This may be more direct and too the point:
apnews.com/article/milei-argentina-chainsaw-fed35a37c6137b951e4adada3d866436
Personally I'm more bothered that he cloned his dead dog to form his advisor cabinet. Seriously couldn't have made that sentence up if I tried.
I'd like to steer back towards the topic however. All I'm saying is he'd deny none of what I said, or consider it insulting.
Never knew "Turkey" to be referred to as "Turkiye" in any anglicized/English writings.
'Guess, it's just a popular thing to do these-days: Re-spellings and re-namings of internationally-recognized Cities and Countries.
Also, how is it appropriate to post news on this?
One cannot separate International Politico-Economics from the topic, and Politics are banned here from discussion here, last I checked...
Funny thing is turkey the bird got it's the name from turkey the country and not the other way around www.npr.org/2008/11/27/97541602/why-a-turkey-is-called-a-turkey