Recent Steam Price Change, Everything's Expensive?!

Each country has a currency with a different value and this affects changes in the price of games available on Steam.

Not only that, the inflation factor also affects the difference in game prices in each country. For example, you can buy games at a lower price through the currency of a country that has a higher inflation rate.

One such country is Argentina and Turkey. By using an account Steam Argentina or Turkey, you can buy games at a lower price.

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However, Steam has a solution to the issue. They announced that there is a recommendation to change prices according to currency for game developers.

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Game Price Change Recommendations by Steam

Steam Games Price Changes — Collection of Games on Steam. Source: Dealex

On October 25, Steam made an announcement and recommended price adjustments to game prices.

These adjustments depend on the currency value of each country. Because currency values vary, Steam provides recommendations to game developers regarding prices games.

The recommendations are based on currency values each year. Despite the price changes, these changes are just recommendations from Steam.

Fans of games available on the Steam platform may have a strategy of buying games at a lower price.

One such strategy is to use an Argentinian or Turkish account to buy games at a much lower price.

However, this price change recommendation will affect the way. Below is how the recommended price change might affect how to buy the game through Argentinian and Turkish accounts.

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Examples of Effect of Price Changes

Currency Steam Price Changes — Example of Price Change According to Currency. Source: SteamDB

There have been quite drastic changes, especially for the Argentinian currency, namely the Peso and the Turkish currency, namely the Lira.

Previously, you could buy the game for $34.99 USD for only ARS$ 389.99 (around Rp. 38,000).

However, the price changed to ARS$ 2400.00 (approx. Rp. 238,000) which means the price increased to 515%.

Not only the price through the Steam Argentina account has changed. If you use a Steam Indonesia account, the price recommendations for games also change quite high.

According to SteamDB, you can buy a game that costs $34.99 USD for IDR 159,999. Now, there is an increase of 78% to IDR 284,999.

Multiple currencies are affected by this recommended change by Steam. However, the following are currencies that are not affected by SteamDB:

Singapore Dollars
Kuwaiti Dinar
Costa Rican Colon
Israeli New Shekel
South Asia – USD
UAE Dirhams
CIS – US Dollars

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Game Developers Can Still Set Prices

Steam Game Developers — Steam game developer illustration. Source: Pulse College

Even though there are quite high price changes for games on Steam, the developer of each game still has the right to determine the price.

Changes from Steam are only as a recommendation to balance the price every year. However, Steam announced that each game should have a price for each currency.

If a game developer doesn't set a price for a currency, Steam accounts using that currency can't buy games from developers the.

For example, if a game developer does not set a price for Indonesian Rupiah, then an Indonesian Steam account cannot buy the game.

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