Alienoutlaw wrote: »
belial5221_ESO wrote: »It's nothing to do with ZOS setting regional prices,it's the government of different countries destroying their monetary systems,causing extreme inflation.Vote differently next election and hope they will change things to reduce inflation.Only thing that can be done,else the scammers will buy in other countries again and resell high,which was part of the issue with gold/crown site sellers,and all the bots.
As you may have heard or experienced, Steam prices in many South American and Middle East countries switched from local currency to USD on November 20th.
Steam has suggested a price for developers to automate the transformation, but that price is much MUCH higher to what they used to be.
ESO+ used to cost me 130 ARS/month (Argentine Peso), but now it costs 9 USD/month, which is >3230 ARS.
Needless to say from 130 to 3200 is quite the jump, and frankly none will afford ESO+ the affected countries if it continues that way.
I know ESO devs probably just applied Steam's suggestions, yet it is up to the developers to use it or not. They can set the price manually to whatever they want.
This is a plea for ESO devs to please consider the pricing of ESO+ in the two new pricing regions: LATAM - USD (South America) and MENA - USD (Middle East). You have always been compassionate and open with the community and I hope you'll see this through.
Thank you and see you all in Tamriel.
i11ionward wrote: »As you may have heard or experienced, Steam prices in many South American and Middle East countries switched from local currency to USD on November 20th.
Steam has suggested a price for developers to automate the transformation, but that price is much MUCH higher to what they used to be.
ESO+ used to cost me 130 ARS/month (Argentine Peso), but now it costs 9 USD/month, which is >3230 ARS.
Needless to say from 130 to 3200 is quite the jump, and frankly none will afford ESO+ the affected countries if it continues that way.
I know ESO devs probably just applied Steam's suggestions, yet it is up to the developers to use it or not. They can set the price manually to whatever they want.
This is a plea for ESO devs to please consider the pricing of ESO+ in the two new pricing regions: LATAM - USD (South America) and MENA - USD (Middle East). You have always been compassionate and open with the community and I hope you'll see this through.
Thank you and see you all in Tamriel.
I am sorry that you personally are in this situation.
But it seems to me that the situation is not as bad as in some other countries. For example, I live in a country where GDP (nominal) per capita is 4000-5000$ (wikipedia data), and for me 9$ is not such a big price per month, I can afford to spend that much on a game. Just for example 10$ in my country is about breakfast (eggs, toast, sausage), lunch (chicken soup, bread) and dinner (potatoes or porridge with meat) for two people, if you cook your own food at home.
Argentina according to wikipedia has a GDP (nominal) per capita of $13,297, and it's really hard for me to imagine that compared to my country that $9$ is too much for the average Argentine to spend on a game.
Of course statistics do not reflect the real situation, so I apologize for my statement.
Alienoutlaw wrote: »this is inline with the cost worldwide,
most of us have been paying $9 since the start, 130 ARS equates to $0.36.
also because of this some ppl were using a vpn to buy crowns/ESO+ etc etc for way below the normal cost.
belial5221_ESO wrote: »You don't need eso+ or crowns to enjoy game.People can gift items,you can get what you want when you can afford it.I don't have eso+ or buy crowns but twice,cause can't afford it,but can play game still and enjoy it.
i11ionward wrote: »As you may have heard or experienced, Steam prices in many South American and Middle East countries switched from local currency to USD on November 20th.
Steam has suggested a price for developers to automate the transformation, but that price is much MUCH higher to what they used to be.
ESO+ used to cost me 130 ARS/month (Argentine Peso), but now it costs 9 USD/month, which is >3230 ARS.
Needless to say from 130 to 3200 is quite the jump, and frankly none will afford ESO+ the affected countries if it continues that way.
I know ESO devs probably just applied Steam's suggestions, yet it is up to the developers to use it or not. They can set the price manually to whatever they want.
This is a plea for ESO devs to please consider the pricing of ESO+ in the two new pricing regions: LATAM - USD (South America) and MENA - USD (Middle East). You have always been compassionate and open with the community and I hope you'll see this through.
Thank you and see you all in Tamriel.
I am sorry that you personally are in this situation.
But it seems to me that the situation is not as bad as in some other countries. For example, I live in a country where GDP (nominal) per capita is 4000-5000$ (wikipedia data), and for me 9$ is not such a big price per month, I can afford to spend that much on a game. Just for example 10$ in my country is about breakfast (eggs, toast, sausage), lunch (chicken soup, bread) and dinner (potatoes or porridge with meat) for two people, if you cook your own food at home.
Argentina according to wikipedia has a GDP (nominal) per capita of $13,297, and it's really hard for me to imagine that compared to my country that $9$ is too much for the average Argentine to spend on a game.
Of course statistics do not reflect the real situation, so I apologize for my statement.
gdp per capita means the whole country's output divided equally to the whole population. you should take a look into the average wage or minimum wage statistics. for this argentina example the minimum wage is 400usd/month. compared to the gpd that is 13300 usd. 9$ for a person with barely above minimum wage would be a real issue in this example. in countries with ongoing economic crises, working for or barely above minimum wage is optimal as well unfortunately.
so in short your gdp per capita statistic could work if the country was doing fine distrubiting the income of its residents, to the residents, well a.k.a in optimal cases, which this is not
im talking purely from experience since i also live in a country that is going through similar stuff, not an expert.