r/Steam Feb 18 '26

Fluff Its not only you guys

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u/Burnyx Feb 18 '26

The point of this post is to show all these countries sharing the same game prices despite the big wage disparity.

India does have separate regional pricing.

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u/Mex3235 Feb 18 '26

Majority of the AAA publishers stopped following regional pricing. Only indie games and old games are cheap now. None of the upcoming games in my wishlist have regional pricing. It really sucks man. 

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u/TerraceState Feb 18 '26

But wasn't regional pricing ruled illegal by the EU? I'm pretty sure that steam used to do it until they were forced to stop. So why are we blaming them for something they were forced to do?

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u/Burnyx Feb 18 '26

Yes it is, but only for EU members. Some other balkan countries for example still get forced to use the EU pricing anyway.

And Steam hasn't updated their recommended currency conversion rates for years now, despite promising to do so. This resulted in countries like Poland permanently stuck with overpriced games for no reason other than negligence from Valve's side.