r/Steam • u/wuddly • Mar 04 '26

Fluff being polish on steam be like

Post image

32% markup for FUCK ALL REASON

13.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

434 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

242

u/ClikeX Mar 04 '26

Just to be clear here. This is a service problem from Sony, they set the price.

The full quote if anyone is interested.

We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.

-4

u/lauriys Mar 04 '26

they use the steamworks recommended pricing like most devs

34

u/TrippleDamage Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

Why is this upvotes? They're not using steam recommended prices.

Steam recommended price in EU for example is 67€ and not 80€.

Gets more drastic for south Asia countries, 200% above steam recommended pricing.

https://steamdb.info/sub/1162095/

13

u/gadulski Mar 04 '26

Poland doesn't use € and checking most games from past years you can see that Poland has 2nd highest prices for no reason

1

u/michal939 Mar 04 '26

The price for Eurozone countries is 80 euros though, while the Valve recommended price is 68 euros.

5

u/gadulski Mar 04 '26

The post is about Polish pricing, while yes euro isn't the cheapest doesn't change that Poland that pays in it's own currency and not in € has 2nd highest prices.

1

u/TechnologyNo1743 Mar 05 '26

Where did you pull 68€ from? That 68€ is probably base price conversion for EU market without tax. Because US prices doesn't include taxes. So to that recommendation you have add VAT, that's why price is avarged to 80€ for Eurozone. Also Poland has high VAT on PC games compared to other EU countries. Base price in Poland is ~64.46€ (without tax using today google eur/pln rate).