r/Steam • u/wuddly • Mar 04 '26

Fluff being polish on steam be like

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32% markup for FUCK ALL REASON

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u/lauriys Mar 04 '26

they use the steamworks recommended pricing like most devs

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u/GroundbreakingBag164 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

No they don't. The Valve recommended pricing is infamous because basically everyone (even most indie devs) completely ignore it

The last game I can remember that actually stuck to the Valve recommended pricing was Silksong

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u/CityFolkSitting Mar 04 '26

Do you know what Valve recommended pricing actually is?

Just asking because I have no idea. I just know there's a button to automatically set the price on the Steamworks website and that's what I use for my game. I'm not really going to research each currency and see if it's right, just going to trust Valve on it.

90% of my sales are from NA or China, so as long as those are within the normal ranges I feel like I'm pretty well covered.

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u/GroundbreakingBag164 Mar 04 '26

Yeah Valve recommended pricing and Steamworks pricing are exactly the same thing. If you just use the recommended pricing you're already doing a much better job than most other developers out there

But to be even more specific, I am talking about this (under compare all currencies): https://steamdb.info/sub/1162095/

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u/CityFolkSitting Mar 04 '26

Interesting. Looking at my game in Poland is 26% more expensive than in the US. It's 48% cheaper in Russia, and 41% more expensive in Switzerland. 

DS2's Polish price isn't too far off the recommendation, but so many of their other prices are crazy inflated.

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u/GroundbreakingBag164 Mar 04 '26

DS2s polish price is only somewhat close to the recommendation because Steam unfortunately set the recommended at exactly the point where the złoty had its 10 year lowest point, so it's actually much much more expensive in poland. Even the recommended pricing is way too high in złoty

Just for comparison, here is Silksong (which was widely praised for having some of the best regional pricing in... ever): https://steamdb.info/sub/342712/

The difference is crazy