Buying your games on the digital stores of poorer/cheap regions.

[gossi the dog]

9 hours ago, partious said:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/972660/view/3632752322771082194?l=english

 

 

 

The prices in Turkey and Argentina were ludicrously cheap. 32 Turkish Lira for a USD 20 game. That's around GBP 1.50. 

[thesnwmn]

But what's the average income of the individuals in Turkey? A quick search suggests 4-10 times depending on how you think about it (pure after tax salary is one way but it doesn't quite factor in how far that income goes in each country).

[Halo]

Regional pricing and region locking is peak neoliberalism and should be illegal.

[rafaqat]

18 hours ago, partious said:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/972660/view/3632752322771082194?l=english

 

 

 

There's an easier solution to this rather than hike the prices. Occasionally check the ip where the game is being played to see if it matches the ip it was bought from .   Country rather than exact ip match. 

 

And I'm sure someone will say "But what about me, I travel around the world so my ip won't always match"   You can have 3 strikes per game.  I'd imagine that's a tiny tiny percentage of gamers.

 

 

[Quest]

That's not great for people living abroad who still use an account set to their home country (me). 

[bear]

Seems like a great way to get people paying for VPN services. 

[Gabe]

21 minutes ago, rafaqat said:

 

There's an easier solution to this rather than hike the prices. Occasionally check the ip where the game is being played to see if it matches the ip it was bought from .   Country rather than exact ip match. 

 

And I'm sure someone will say "But what about me, I travel around the world so my ip won't always match"   You can have 3 strikes per game.  I'd imagine that's a tiny tiny percentage of gamers.

 

 

So your suggestion is for companies to move from passively spying on people (and anonymously using our data to do things) to actively spying and using our data to identify and then take action against people?

 

Sounds great, sign me up!

[rafaqat]

4 hours ago, Gabe said:

So your suggestion is for companies to move from passively spying on people (and anonymously using our data to do things) to actively spying and using our data to identify and then take action against people?

 

Sounds great, sign me up!

 

I do love me some  internet hyperbole.

 

ip address. the piece of info they already have and many companies use. 

 

But no you'd much rather they raised the prices in poorer countries.

 

Wait let me try that internet hyperbole.  You mean you'd rather they starved poor people?  You sick fuck!!

[rafaqat]

5 hours ago, Quest said:

That's not great for people living abroad who still use an account set to their home country (me). 

 

Ah that's pants. How come you do that?

 

[MattyP]

13 minutes ago, rafaqat said:

 

I do love me some  internet hyperbole.

 

ip address. the piece of info they already have and many companies use. 

 

But no you'd much rather they raised the prices in poorer countries.

 

Wait let me try that internet hyperbole.  You mean you'd rather they starved poor people?  You sick fuck!!

It's the old thing though and in similar way to piracy. Would the people using the stores in other countries to get cheaper games buy the games anyway at their regions store prices? I expect not. Who knows.

 

There are plenty of ways of stopping this however just to inflate prices in poorer territories is just a bad show really. Just means they'll end up selling bugger all games in that area completely and people will just move to another area or just pirate the games anyway.

[Fry Crayola]

5 hours ago, rafaqat said:

 

There's an easier solution to this rather than hike the prices. Occasionally check the ip where the game is being played to see if it matches the ip it was bought from .   Country rather than exact ip match. 

 

And I'm sure someone will say "But what about me, I travel around the world so my ip won't always match"   You can have 3 strikes per game.  I'd imagine that's a tiny tiny percentage of gamers.

 

What happens when I emigrate?

[Halo]

They should really just force everyone to provide a copy of their P60 (or local equivalent) and adjust prices accordingly.

[rafaqat]

58 minutes ago, Fry Crayola said:

 

What happens when I emigrate?

Give them the address linked to your payment method. Proves you’ve moved? 

[gossi the dog]

10 hours ago, Fry Crayola said:

 

What happens when I emigrate?

 

Depends on the service. Xbox is simply linked to your email address. Your home country doesn't matter. PSN requires a separate account and email for each country's store, which means you're stuck with whichever country's store you originally set up.