Regional donation prices

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This topic for discussion should have been raised a long time ago, but since this has not been done by anyone, I will try to do it.

1/2 We all know that there are several options for presenting a game: releasing it on a platform like Steam, Epic Games etc. or through localizers in a particular region. We also know that with both options in different regions, players will have different prices for the product as a digital copy or as a donation if this game if its free. In general, the topic of buying and donating in the game also depends on the age factor of the audience, but I will omit this nuance, although it also has an important component. I will touch on the topic of solvency in relation to the average income in the region. I think its not a secret for anyone that the solvency in Europe or North America is much higher than in South (Latin) America, CIS and Africa, but the donation price is the same for everyone. Some may say that this smacks of communism, but it is clear that communism is an ideal model or simply an utopia. Both have a right to exist, but if a company wants to maximize its profits, then it should show some cunning, perhaps give way somewhere, and now I mean by this a change in the donation price for different regions. An American, Canadian, German or Swede can top up their gaming account with 100 dollars/euro without much damage to their wallet, while 100 dollars for a Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Brazilian, Peruvian or Congolese is a lot of money cuz depending on his work and city of residence, income can vary significantly. In Africa, they may not receive such money at all. Are you suggesting that they save up for a few years to get the game content they like? Ofc, someone will say that these are purely the problems of people in these countries. If they cant afford to top up their account cuz they dont have enough free funds, then no one is forcing them to do it, let them play with the standard ones. But why deprive them of this?

2/2 If they dont have the required amount, like players from a more affluent region, but have less, and they are willing to contribute to sponsoring a developers product, then why not help them with this? A conventional American or German will not lose anything by having a BP or a set, like a person from Russia, Colombia, Mongolia or Cameroon, however, the developer will receive extra funding, although it will not be as much if we consider a single player, however, if this is interpolated for 100 people, then the amount will be more significant, which will help in solving any problems. Yes, it will be trite to hire new employees to relieve your small team in terms of tasks. After all, Wiple is essentially behind the demands of the players for many years of work, they will not interfere with an extra injection of finance to expand the range of work.

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Is there any updated information from devs regarding my suggest? I think this suggest is one of the key ones, not a reason it was proposed by me, but it concerns a large number of players from different regions that could increase the company's income in the future.

[sudden owl]

Unfortunately I do not have an update but it is something we are looking into.

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[twin night]

This was already ruled out by Wiple, right?
Look at the date

[sudden owl]

This has not been ruled out, and I can confirm that our team is currently looking into it. However, it is unfortunately not a simple change and so requires time.

[twin night]

oks, good to know

[stark ice]

The biggest issue that hasn't been said is that with a VPN you can buy it from other countries Like Turkey (already widely used with Netflix or Amazon Prime for example)

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If im right u need not only VPN with Turkey and debit card or virtual card of turkish bank for it, cuz first of all, u need to change in Steam ur currency on Turkish Lira.

In view of sanctions on Russia, we were denied opportunity to deposit Steam wallet straightly cuz our banks and their cards disconnected from SWIFT and PayPal. Many Steam users from Russia searched loopholes how to deposit their accs without comm by WebMoney, Qiwi etc.
Virtual Turkish cards came to the rescue, but it only worked until Steam started issuing a block to trades and market, as well as banning accounts. They monitor particularly smart users who are trying to change their profile to a more profitable region in order to buy cheaper games and DLCs on it.

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guess what? yep, bump

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