If you thought for a long time about what game from Steam to give for the New Year to a friend who lives abroad, you can relax and throw such thoughts out of your head. Valve Forbade users of its service for digital distribution from Russia, Southeast Asia, North America and Turkey to send gifts to addressees from other countries through the GIFTS system.
In an official statement Valve I admitted that this measure was prompted by a sharp fall in the ruble, as well as an unstable exchange rate in some other countries. The company will continue to monitor the development of events and promises to take all the necessary measures so that Russian gamers can continue to buy new games at Steam at affordable prices.
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I am glad that they want to leave games in affordable prices. So, sort of like, we will take at advantageous prices for us and we will not be able to give someone abroad. So that we are soar?)
Stormy surge of emotions in the comments.
At the same time, no one thought that Uncle Gabe took care of us (once again. ). Prices will remain at the same level. And hucksters and other guys who sell games to foreigners for frantic money will eventually remain with nothing.
For comparison, based on a course of 1 $ = 60 rubles, the price of games in Europe and America is more than our 300% or more. The same GTA 4 we have 299 r., there is 1500 r. (in accordance with the new course).
Lack of opportunity to send gifts is a much smaller fee that we, the Turks and Asians, paid to stay with normal prices for us.
And the post of Soviet https://wikibetcasino.co.uk/mobile-app/ space Gabe considers for different territories or as a single market?
And if suddenly at different prices, then how things will be on the territory of Crimea, which the West does not want to admit so stubbornly, although everything was carried out as legally as possible, unlike the same anti -constitutional coup in Kyiv, which they supported by all hands.
Naturally, I’m sorry for the money, I am not ready to spend 2500 rubles each shit in a chocolate wrapper like Unity and the like.
And how do you find out that you can’t play shit yet? Or you rely only on the opinion of video reviews and assessments from methasritis?
PFF, I live abroad, I buy games through friends from Russia, I use VPN to bypass restrictions. Nothing will change in short.
Meanwhile, Apple simply took and covered the AppStore in the Russian Federation, norms. I can immediately see who does not give a shit for his audience.
Please, let’s not discuss about what is legal and what is not. Let the politicians be beaten instead of us for each other.
And regarding your question: for Steam Ukraine is included in the same region as Russia. Here I got a pruf: www.3Dnews.RU/Assets/EXTERNAL/ILLUSTRATIONS/2014/12/18/906928/Steam%20Gift.JPG
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Well, in general, in this aspect, you can do without proof. If for Crimeans, Steam shows prices in dollars, then Valve considers it part of Ukraine, if in rubles, then Russia.
If purchases in Steam were regulated only by the dollar, then all the games would have to be twice as many for a long time. And as far as I know, the prices are set not by Valve, but by the developer; All that Valve offers them is the recommended conversion of the dollar into rubles – so we have less prices (pop recommendations, this is so). And in the world, as it turned out, there are a lot of people who wanted to save, so the purchase of games from us and the resale of the Zabugor became a trend.
The result of such actions, dragon methods of protecting the Working wallet, in the form of restrictions on gifts, raising prices closer to European, the affordability of not all languages, the work of keys only in specific regions. Now, most likely, Valve understands that if you start to sharply increase the prices of games (and this by 2 times) people will not like it, so Valve is trying to keep people who want to save in f Ute, by means of regional gift restrictions (if the ruble is tired, Valve will certainly revise the converting of the dollar into rubles, but until then they will be settled).
And personally for me, this approach is correct. If the purchase, the work of the keys and the ability to give the game will be regulated only by the region, then this should remove restrictions on the availability of languages, the fact that some games cannot be presented at all and price adjustment for specific regions will not be dictated by European standards.
I want to say that I personally often come across good games who give low ratings in reviews and vice versa like an assessment of the game is high and you praise in the reviews, but you start the game and you understand not mine, I can not and will not play it.
I have been waiting for 7 years of blocking already. And if prices will rise, well, well, I will be like all honest bourgeois for full price buy.
I have a decent foreign friends and this news was somewhat saddened. But since prices will remain adequate to us, I am quite calm.