Question about price in cis countries

[sullen token]

i really enjoy the game and i wanna buy it in steam, but I do not understand the price difference, in Russia the game costs 690 rubles, which is translated into 8.25 dollars, and in Kazakhstan 6500 tenge is 14.39 dollars, I am from Russia and would like to purchase at a Russian price, steam support cannot transfer my account.
Is there any way to buy it in russian price ?

[regal plank]

same problem with friends. and friends from Kazakhstan also do not want to take the game because of the price

[regal plank]

great. everyone plays and they don't give a fuck about the problems of some homeless people. Kazakhstan is actually not a small country. why do admins ignore her so much? the second largest in the CIS and not the first among the rich for sure. why even for Russia, hated by many, they made a regional price, and for Kazakhstan they didn’t even try to throw off a fucking dollar...

[sullen token]

yep, for most games price is almost the same

i just cant afford it for such high price

btw for 5 dollars i can eat few days(student)

[elder raven]

as far as i believe this is a steam issue not a battlebit issue

[mint bobcat]

should be focusing on more pressing issues if you cant buy a 15 USD game

[sullen token]

In russia avrg mounth salary around 400$(not part-time job), i cant do anything with that

[mint bobcat]

Still, should probably focus more on living then if you can afford a game :/

[distant current]

Be in Russia I assume

[sullen token]

Im in Russia rn, cuz of steam terms i cant add cart to my account

As support says only way to transfer account is add card and buy smthng from it

[regal plank]

while the white people are enjoying the game, the kazakhs have to pay full price for the servers! (just kidding, don't hurt me)

[slim agate]

Can Russian players even use Steam due to the sanctions? But I presume not and it's fully intentional. So yeah don't expect to find a way

[mint bobcat]

We are all paying full price, some countries just have money worth less than others

[sullen token]

Yep, but some games unavailable in Russia, thats why a lot of us swiching region to Kazakhstan or Turkey

We, as other gamers around the world wanna play games and enjoy normal life, but our goverment said no(

[sullen token]

Not at all, food and things cost the same, just salary difference

3rd world countries

Labor is much cheaper, for exampe after graduation a lot of people will get around 40-60k rubles wich is 475-715$

or even less if you live not in big cities

In my region, the average salary is 20k rubles ~ 235$

[mint bobcat]

Like i just said

your currency is worth less therefore salary is way more

but it doesnt matter when the thing you want is from a place with one of the highest worth of currency beside GBP and a Euro

[regal plank]

your knowledge of economics is simply amazing. but you don’t wonder why then they came up with regional pricing at all?

[regal plank]

I don't want to defend the government, but don't lie. The government of the Russian Federation is only to blame for the fact that Steam and others cannot accept our banks for payment. All other restrictions are imposed solely by the rights holders of individual products.

[knotty holly]

Me too. The 6.4k tenge price tag irritates me so bad

[random umbra]

The price is too high for Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is a CIS country.

[knotty holly]

⬆️

[mint bobcat]

So you actually have a chance of buying the game, the price was already lowered quite a bit for cis countries and i doubt they can lower it anyfurther or else they will be losing money which is needed for the support of the game

they techincally already are with the prices

[knotty holly]

Kazakhstan isn't included in the price lowering.

[regal plank]

most likely you are not aware ... in Kazakhstan the price has not been reduced and it still costs the same $ 15. and in Russia, for some reason, it is almost two times cheaper, although Kazakhstan is a little poorer than it. I repeat: in Kazakhstan, the price did not decrease.

[knotty holly]

If you lower the Russian prices, why not lower the Kazakhstan prices? Why make a country pay full price when the one next to it can save half of their money?

[sullen token]

Yep

[errant jackal]

Deprived Kazakhstan as usual

[desert dawn]

i hate this kind of entiltled people so much just because you live in a wealty country and have an absourd view of the world

[sage flame]

valid

[sage flame]

how is that entitled, i have worked my ass of for every game i own and my pc, earlier i had to focus on work to be able to buy my setup. it is liturally just him prioriticing complaning in a discord over taking extra shifts. BTW yes the pricing should change not against that

[summer plaza]

average racist not understanding how regional income works. you live in denmark bro, average salary for you is 85k, average salary in russia is 15k. its not a matter of extra shifts, he would have to work 5x more than you to receive the same amount of money. thats an over simplification that doesnt take into account educational and job opportunities etc that even allow you to work for a wage in the first place.

[sage flame]

average idiot who anwsers before reading. first of all know youre terms, that wasnt rasicm, secondly read what i wrote.

[sage flame]

btw quick tip, read what racism actually is

[regal plank]

And you should read everything that is written besides the word "racist"

[rigid plover]

6k kzt for a game is not much, average factory worker in kazakhstan makes like 300k tenge

[rain sequoia]

Hey um, hate to be "that guy" and I don't want conflict. I feel like people should really do more research before they start going like "just work harder!" I probably need to do more research myself, and I don't know much about the world. But I'm pretty sure that pricing is different around the world. And even if this isn't you being racist, at least to me it comes off as somewhat discriminatory. Of course, I'm kind of dumb so don't take my opinion too seriously.

[sage flame]

i did smartass, what made you think i didnt

[sage flame]

well, first off i actually wrote that i agreed that the prices should be changed and saying that if you can barely afford food, maybe buying a game isnt the smartest idea. pretty simple logic, dont understand you guys find that racist

[rain sequoia]

Mm

Sorry about that

[sage flame]

no problem

at all

[rain sequoia]

Thank you

[sage flame]

maybe i could have made the point about me agreeing on the price change more clear

but the racist thing im baffled makes no sence to me

[rain sequoia]

Yeah, I didn't pick up on that for some reason

[sage flame]

a few people didnt lol

[rain sequoia]

Ye

[haughty linden]

It actually seems to be an option that steam offers as most games seem to use it. They will price the game by purchasing power within region, to then only permit using the game within that region. There're few games on steam that are over 20$ with most around 10$, as in, in kazakhstan.