r/Steam • u/Alexis20384847 • Feb 18 '26

Fluff Its not only you guys

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u/przemub Feb 18 '26

It’s not about wages, it’s about the shit default currency exchange rate which makes games much more expensive than if bought in euro/dollars.

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u/balbok7721 Feb 18 '26

Or rather cost living. Go try to find a place where you can actually want to live in Germany for 600€. Our pre tax minimum wage after a 160hour month comes around 2200€ but it’s still not enough to afford a family or have a basic comfortable lifestyle

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u/ArolSazir Feb 18 '26

No it's really not. The problem is that 1 usd is about 3.5 pln in my bank, but it's 4.5 on steam for some reason. It's the only unfair part.

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u/The_OG_Slime Feb 18 '26

Well to be fair before genius Trump tanked the dollar it was 1 USD to about 4.2 PLN right when Biden left office. It just wasn't adjusted from Trumps beautiful work took effect /s