Steam, which broke a new record by exceeding 30 million in the number of simultaneous users in the past days, has recently taken a decision that will upset the players in Turkey. As it is known, the digital game distribution platform, dollar rate 1.8‘to by fixing It allowed the players in our country to buy the games relatively more affordable despite the increasing exchange rate and game prices. Because this situation has changed as of now and the platform has increased the recommended dollar rate to 10 TL. As such, game prices skyrocketed.
Steam updated the suggested dollar rate to 10 TL
It is the most widely used all over the world, including our country. digital one of the game distribution platforms Steamwill no longer offer affordable games to players in Turkey. Because for a long time, most of the games 1.8 TLCalculated from and lower sold at prices. Thus, 18 TL up to the levels dollar We were not affected much by the exchange rate, at least in the game market.
However, this has unfortunately changed. Because the platform is the price tool that publishers use to sell their games. algorithm updated and recommended for our country dollar exchange rate 10 TL from 1.8 TLMade it up to . From now on, the tool will alert publishers to games below the current recommended prices. At this point, there are no restrictions for publishers to enter their own prices. However, it is stated that the majority of them use the automatic pricing suggested by the price tool.
Finally, let’s take a look at Left 4 Dead 2, the first-person shooter game developed by Valve after the change in question. The production, which was sold for 18.50 TL until yesterday, is currently sold for 105 TL on Steam. There is an increase in the price of many games like this.
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