Steam increases the suggested price for all currencies. We’ll explain here if that ultimately means more expensive games.
How far do players have to dig their pockets to buy a new title? The subject is certainly not new, but a constant companion. Just last month, Ubisoft announced that its next-gen games for consoles will cost 80 euros in the future.
Steam has now adjusted its price recommendations. This will make it easier for development studios to convert the US dollar price into 39 currencies supported by Valve. The Turkish lira and Argentine peso were hit particularly hard, but the proposed euro price also fell short.
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What is the allowed cost of a game? And what should it cost?
What exactly does it say?
The price recommendations provided by Valve are intended to help studios price their games in different currencies in other countries. For example, if a developer has already determined that their game will cost $20, Steam’s suggested retail price may help to estimate the amount in Norwegian crowns or Hong Kong dollars.
Will games be more expensive in 2022?
We asked 17 publishers, these are the answers
What are the new suggested prices?
As SteamDB has summarized, the percentage of price increase differs from the US total. The value for the euro is mainly just under 20 percent.
For a $60 game, the previously suggested retail price was 50 euros, but now Steam is now offering 59 euros, up 18 percent.
But when you compare it with the Turkish Lira, we survived relatively lightly. because he has to increased by 454 percent – The original 92 pounds for a $60 game has now increased to 510 pounds. In Argentina, the new price recommendation was even increased by 485 percent.
Percentages are rising for all currencies, with the lira particularly hard hit. Source: SteamDB
So games will soon be more expensive?
It is not certain whether prices will increase in the same way anytime soon. After all, so Valve recommendations onlythe studio still has the final say in the end.
Existing AAA games also show that major development studios don’t quite follow this advice anyway. Let’s take Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as a current example: it will cost $70 in the US, and €59 in Germany according to the original Steam recommendation. With the new arrangement it will be 68 euros, but this still does not come close to the real price of 70 euros.
By the way, the shooter costs 80 euros for the PlayStation 5. If you want to know more about the price differences between console and PC, have a look here:
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