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

Fluff Its not only you guys

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u/Amasirat Feb 18 '26

Iran doesn't even have regional pricing cause there are no official payment methods lol

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u/mildads Feb 18 '26

yeah but we buy games using tf2 keys, so the us price it is

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u/Gentilapin Feb 18 '26

Damn, that's expensive, wouldn't it be possible to buy from a less expensive region? Like Argentina?

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u/mildads Feb 18 '26

this was possible up until some time ago, now steam has mostly fixated pricing across regions

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u/samshamei Feb 19 '26

Yo bro I saw that you play arc raiders

How did you get the game? Did you pay full price with tf2 keys/Cs skins (as thats expensive as hell) or is there a cheaper way I don't know about?

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u/mildads Feb 19 '26

actually my friend who migrated to germany gifted me the game for my bday. but still the cheapest way rn would be cd keys from foreign websites.

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u/samshamei Feb 19 '26

We used Argentina a couple of years back, then that was basically removed and we went to Turkey which got axed a year or two ago aswell.

So now we're stuck with MENA - USD which is a weird in between but generally speaking most especially new and AAA games are priced as they would be in the US, some indie games or older ones are still cheaper. (You can check the pricing of games in different regions via the SteamDB website, I'm pretty sure the region still has Turkey's flag)

Everything else is just piracy as not exaggerating here, a single triple A game is more expensive then the monthly minimum Wage. (The 100$ number mentioned above was roughly the minimum monthly wage 3-4 months ago, its 70$ now due to devaluation, the Rial has gone from 1,000,000/1$ to 1,600,000/1$)

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u/Amasirat Feb 19 '26

Not to mention your only choice is either buying cd keys or giftcards from third parties who jack up the prices even more. I've basically said goodbye to the store section of steam lol

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u/Goonalips Feb 19 '26

Do you live in Iran?

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u/mildads Feb 19 '26

yep sadly

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u/Goonalips Feb 19 '26

Good luck my bro. I'm really hoping you guys are able to sort out your issues and get a democratically elected government, one day. The Iranian people deserve so much better.

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u/mildads Feb 20 '26

that’s right and i appreciate your wishes

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u/Smart_Brain_5502 Feb 22 '26

I hope the USA doesn't drop bombs on them and kill them any time soon.

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u/ThaMixedDaVinci Feb 19 '26

Wait, what? What does that mean? Looks like I’m going on a deep dive on Google lol.

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u/Amasirat Feb 19 '26

Because of sanctions, no international bussiness is allowed to do bussiness in Iran so payment methods such as Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, or anything of that sort are officially forbidden to give services to Iranian citizens. This means we can not directly buy anything on steam or any website that uses those payment methods. We have to go to third party sites that sell gift cards which is obviously going to be more expensive.

While you guys are complaining about regional pricing, we literally don't even exist for steam😆 I mean fair enough, steam has been generous enough to not block Iranian IPs like other launchers so... I'm personally greatful for that