Steam Switches to the US Dollar for its Turkiye and Argentina Stores

theouto · Nov 24, 2023

GoldenX said:
155%.

So you buy a copy for massa and massa's dog, got it

L'Eliminateur · Nov 24, 2023

GoldenX said:
This is a 470% price increase in games for us Argentinians.
Thank you for the games tax, Gaben.

yeah pricing is absolutely stupid right now.
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"

GoldenX said:
Valve switched from demanding local prices here to suggesting them.

We can't pay full price for games, and now EA charges 70 bucks for their unfinished trash.

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

theouto said:
Isn't there a 100% tax on games too? So if you buy a copy of dead by daylight then the government too gets a copy, truly multiplayer I guess.

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

GoldenX · Nov 24, 2023

L'Eliminateur said:
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

It's the same. Official rate is 370 or so, any USD purchase is turned into ARS, but with the taxes applied, basically turning the exchange rate from 370 to 950 ARS, so yeah, 155%.

From the PoV of the official exchange rate, a 70 bucks game costs 180 USD now. Hope the dog necromancer wigman's policies work...

R-T-B · Nov 24, 2023

GoldenX said:
Hope the dog necromancer wigman's policies work...

I wish you the best, but us Americans know a thing or two about thinking "it can't get any worse" and being wrong. Of course different situations but still. Hope that's not the case with dog/chainsaw man.

GoldenX · Nov 24, 2023

We knew we were tied between the two worst possible options, we can only hope the best comes out of the winning one.

Meanwhile, I'll enjoy all the games I bought before this change.

caroline! · Nov 24, 2023

"Well, it can't get any worse", said everyone, moments before it got worse

Tho I can joke around and say I'm a millionaire

the54thvoid · Nov 24, 2023

Just a polite request to lay off the nation bashing. Thank you.

R-T-B · Nov 24, 2023

the54thvoid said:
Just a polite request to lay off the nation bashing. Thank you.

I don't think anyone here was? The semi-mockery of argentinas new President is actually, just who he is. He publicly embraces it.

caroline! · Nov 25, 2023

R-T-B said:
I don't think anyone here was? The semi-mockery of argentinas new President is actually, just who he is. He publicly embraces it.

A CSM LARPer? omegalul actually

After all Chainsaw Man is a demon who fights other demons for power and pay back a massive debt, fitting I'd say.

R-T-B · Nov 25, 2023

caroline! said:
A CSM LARPer? omegalul actually

Read his wikipedia page and come back.

Javier Milei - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This may be more direct and too the point:

A man, a plan, a chainsaw: How a power tool took center stage in Argentina's presidential race

Politicians usually talk about belt tightening, or trimming spending with scissors. Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei is ready to attack the system with a chainsaw.

apnews.com

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.

LabRat 891 · Nov 25, 2023

Well, I learned something new today

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...

trsttte · Nov 26, 2023

LabRat 891 said:
Well, I learned something new today
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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...

That was a recent change, Erdogan probably woke up on the wrong side of the bed one day and decided he didn't want to have the country associated with the Turkey bird so issued a decree and submited to the UN to change their designation, most people don't know or care about it in the sligthest (as you can see, wikipedia still didn't bother to change it

)

Funny thing is turkey the bird got it's the name from turkey the country and not the other way around https://www.npr.org/2008/11/27/97541602/why-a-turkey-is-called-a-turkey

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Steam Switches to the US Dollar for its Turkiye and Argentina Stores

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