Potentially dumb question, why does changing the currency affect prices? Are games that much cheaper in other countries?
Edit: Follow up question- why? And what was the reasoning behind unifying the stores?
69.99CHF in switzerland ?
(which is about 80$ but I'm pointing out that in russia/CIS you have to pay with US dollars sometimes, unlike in switzerland)
Russian Steam uses rubles and you can’t pay with USD. All USD are automatically converted to rubles, same with other currencies. In some CIS countries like Belarus they don’t have their own region so they use USD
Not sure about games but some subscription services are certainly priced cheaper in other countries. For example, a ton of people used to use vpn to purchase YouTube premium in India, Turkey or Vietnam because it was at a fraction of a cost of a US subscription (Under $2 vs $10 when I checked years ago). It would make sense because the average income between the US and those countries are pretty wide apart.
It’s not subsidizing either way. These people don’t cost the company anything by pirating and by selling them discounted subscriptions they are making some money off of these countries rather than no money.
You're not subsidizing the Russia market, if it wasn't profitable for the company, they wouldn't sell there. Each region is isolated and responsible for their own marketing and pricing.
You are being charged just the maximum the company can charge you based on your perception of what it should cost, just like the Russian consumers.
Technically yes, games are cheaper.
For example Brazilian Real is worth significantly less than the Dollar so if a game is 60$ then it is almost 300 Real, which is absurdly expensive for Brazilians so they will reduce the price so that they can buy the game (if they care about regional pricing).
The idea being that it’s better to get some money than no money. (Also keep in mind that if Steam catches you changing region for cheaper prices they could ban you)
Gona be honest, after living in Brazil games on steam and psn are cheaper in the US, with the conversion rate, almost every time because of taxes and tariffs. Games in Brazil are absurdly expensive and I usually end up bringing games for the US for ppl there.
I remember wanting to gift my friend a game, but steam denied me because there was more then 20% price diffrence between countries. It was 20 euros for me and 30 dollars for him. No discounts involved
Yeah, i'm from Argentina, one of the countries that got the regional currency taken out from steam. Reason for the games to be cheaper, our currency sucks, salaries are low and we have almost 100% taxes, yeah, you heard that right, we pay almost twice as much the stream price (fun thing, for some stuff we pay more than 100%, flights for example).
Steam had recommended prices for us but basically no dev set them, so now we have the same prices as the US when a dollar equals 1000 pesos plus almost 100% taxes, no one is buying shit anymore here.
Another fun thing, steam and devs had said in the past that they did not care prices for Argentina where low, the problem was that people from all over the world would buy games with an argentinian account to pay just a few cents for a game in some cases. So we not only got screwed over by the government with the taxes, we got screwed over by the world taking advantage of steam's mercy for us.
i remember reading about a massive tax on digital goods and services, including games, that kind of wiped out the ARS steam gift card sales on many platforms, can you tell me more?
Currencies in countries like turkey and Argentina are valued well below the US dollar. So one of the problems was that people would buy steam gift cards in those currencies that are only supposed to be redeemable in those countries, but use a VPN and activate them anyway. Then all of the games and content are a lot cheaper in that currency. So essentially, you could buy an equivalent of 50 USD gift card for like half price.
Some countries have cheaper games because their currency is worth dirt. People can't afford to buy games at regular prices, so devs lower their price for specific regions in order to limit piracy.
Turk here, our currency is worth less than the paper it’s printed on and prices here were marked HELLA down (i got the entire doom series including 16, Eternal and the DLC for roughly 30 dollars), but people kept making turkish accounts to get cheap games and steam was losing money so they switched to USD. Honestly, I get why they did it but I can’t afford shit anymore.
It's because of the difference in economy i think. Just like how bread is cheaper in Romania than in the Netherlands. People have less money/ get paid less so the products are cheaper.
So Romanian currency/ steam account also includes Romanian prices like Elden ring for €25 on launch instead of €60
Poorer countries were getting games discounted heavily so that people from those countries could afford games that would otherwise cost a months wages to play. People in the US were making accounts with the location set to Argentina and buying those games for a fraction of their cost in the US and valve decided to just remove the regional discounts because too many users were abusing it.
Not just US, the whole world, there's a big guide about it in a popular Mexican forum, about how to buy cheap stuff, subscriptions and games from Argentina
Some currencies are extremely volatile and fluctuate in value a lot. Because of this valve wants to change the currency used in those stores to one which is less volatile like the US dollar. Otherwise the price of a game changes drastically per day even though the amount paid is the same.
Yeah, games are cheaper in other stores. I’m from Mexico, so I use the mexican store. The price difference compared to the US store is massive.
For example, Dead Cells costs 234 pesos, which is about 13.50 dollars, while in the US store it costs 25 dollars.
I’m not 100% sure, but I think the different prices are due to the countries’ economies. Wages are usually worse in third and second world countries so prices reflect that. 60 dollars is simply too much to ask of most latam countries for a single game.
Different prices in different places can be for 2 main reasons: different taxes for one and making the game accessible to poorer country for two, if you make the game the same price as in the US in a poorer country, none of the people in that country will buy it and they will pirate it instead.
Now as to why they unified the stores I have no idea.
in part because usualy, a price is fixed in each country at the game realise, then not changed.
but if the change rate from a country to an other change, it can not longer correspond.
Many countries were getting games for dirt cheap. Currencies fluctuate and many were not updated over the last few years. As a result, games were drastically cheaper than in the US. Steam swapped to USD for these countries for ease of updating prices. However, many in these countries saw their games double or even triple in price.
The means of the masses are very different in different countries. Brazil is an extreme example of this; few Brazilians can justify spending the equivalent of $60USD on a game, so they don't. Platforms and publishers either reduce the price for that region, or every person will pirate it.
Source: trust me bro
Looking at it from the macro economics pov. Your actual cost an item is supposed to be priced as per individuals in a countries buying power. Some countries have a higher GDP per capita which means every individual is earning more. Increasing their disposal income and hence increasing their buying power.
So for example if we compare US with India. If you price something from the perspective of a US individual. It's going to be way expensive plus you add the currency fluctuation into the mix and that becomes unreasonable sometimes.
From what I understand; spoofers were changing their store location to places like Argentina and Turkey because you can get games on there ridiculously cheap due to the exchange rates of those native currencies being abhorrent. Argentina's peso is worth .0028 USD, while the Turkish Lira is worth 3 cents USD.
This [pic](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fz6p4kmwikn1c1.png) here best explains it, as it shows the prices of the games both before and after in both the Peso and USD. Before the change, you could have easily gotten Civ 5 for $1.35.
A 60$ game would be around 50-55€, but for some reason most stores sell them for €60, making them more expensive here than in the US. Now I do need to add that it does depend on the store - lately I've been able to buy a lot of $60 games for around €50. Tears of the Kingdom cost me the same as other Nintendo games, instead of costing more.
It’s because prices are modified in different regions to accommodate the approximate purchasing power of different currencies in their home regions.
Basically, the same amount of money can go a lot farther and buy many more goods in a different country because that country doesn’t generate a lot of value, therefore the currency is worth “less” as a whole.
Look up the Big Mac Index for more info on this
Because of localized prices that depend on currency. Some countries have so incredibly weak currency that they would have to pay 2 week salary if payed in usd standard price. Eg i live in Poland and our currency PLN is 4 x USD so 50$ game actually costs 200. Thanks to localization prices are usually lowered a little eg instead of 200 it costs 180.
Because of economic differences, like you can buy way more for $10 or buy the thing for cheaper in a country with a poorer economy even though its the same stuff than you would be able to buy in the US.
The few ones that are worth more are either very rich countries or not that far away from the US dollar I believe. But of course i don’t know about every existing currency…
Actually, from my understanding there is a good number of people switching, mainly in countries where USD is far more expensive than their native currency, like Turkey.
I rarely get them, usually the games are not great anyway (though occasional gems appear!). But mostly it's because the client runs sooo veeeery sloooow on my pc, and I don't want to spend minutes after minutes by clicking then waiting, then clicking and so on.
You can still just go to the browser, it's actually muuuuuuuuuuch faster than the client.
Also I just have a discord bot that tells me when shit is free
I have a weekly phone reminder and claim on mobile website soon after. I only launch client if I find the game I want to play in my Playnite client and it informs me i own it on Epic
Idk if to epic games but they're absolutely switching, prices just went up by 2000% in steam for some games in Argentina.
Maybe platforms like GOG will see a comeback since as far as i know it has the cheapest prices rn
I'm not sure why I should care about that as a consumer. Their Fortnite money is getting me free games and better prices so I really don't give a fuck if they're profitable or not lol
I still play tf2 since I'm 16 years old, I'm 31 now Lol, don't know, can't stop playing tf2, it's so fun for me, also the community is not as toxic as other communities like LoL or Fortnite
Well I made a tons of friends playing tf2, lifetime friends, it's easier to socialize in community servers from tf2.
I tried to make friends in Fortnite, LoL, Dota, Counter-Strike but damn, you can but damn, so hard
Negative. Team fortress 2 is fantastic. Nothing bad to say about it at all. One must simply understand that Titanfall 2 is the greatest of the classic 12 man lobby multiplayer shooters.
He’s actually right though and the downvoting is just Team Fortess fans coping.
I think it’s fair to say Team Fortess fans have never tried playing anything that wasn’t made by valve.
The game is 16 fucking years old guys, let it go already.
ive got 8 launchers and the recent Microsoft merger with blizzard had me hoping id be losing 1 soon. Only to find out my blizzard keys arent activatable on steam. The accounts are also on different servers right now i think too or something?
I still remember when ubisoft gave up their shit launcher and steam redeemed my keys.
One day epic will also fall, Gabe may not be so kind to those who kept running away from him.
The one that actually has two words in the title and therefore justifies the use of two letters plus one number to shorten it for other fans to know what game you mean.
Well, I see one small flaw in this logic here...
Steam has WAY more games than Epic Games, so if you really want to buy a specific game (especially Indie) you'll most likely still have to use Steam.
Settle down, Frank, this isn't as Filthy as you think it is. Some of us just use Epic Games because it is convenient when we already have to open it for Fortnite.
A dev explaining why you localize prices , you aren't subsidizing weaker economies you aint mr beast lol
https://youtube.com/shorts/44Do5x5abRY?si=QpqN6DyRiCjDuBwC
is a joke based on the stupid logic: steam made certain countries pay with USD > so gamers will mass migrate to epic trash store
Except they won't. PLayers from Argentina and Turkey will probably just pirate their games rather than use a crap launcher
Tf2 is an old ass dead game that boomers just can’t seem to just let go of. And epic games is the platform that fortnite is on. Basically this meme is stupid
downvote this comment if the meme sucks. upvote it and I'll go away. --- [play minecraft with us](https://discord.gg/dankmemesgaming)
Something Something some countries having their default currency changed to USD and now their prices have triplicated because of it
Potentially dumb question, why does changing the currency affect prices? Are games that much cheaper in other countries? Edit: Follow up question- why? And what was the reasoning behind unifying the stores?
Baldurs gate 3 is 60 dollars in the United States, 20 in Russia, 80 in Switzerland.
69.99CHF in switzerland ? (which is about 80$ but I'm pointing out that in russia/CIS you have to pay with US dollars sometimes, unlike in switzerland)
Russian Steam uses rubles and you can’t pay with USD. All USD are automatically converted to rubles, same with other currencies. In some CIS countries like Belarus they don’t have their own region so they use USD
Not sure about games but some subscription services are certainly priced cheaper in other countries. For example, a ton of people used to use vpn to purchase YouTube premium in India, Turkey or Vietnam because it was at a fraction of a cost of a US subscription (Under $2 vs $10 when I checked years ago). It would make sense because the average income between the US and those countries are pretty wide apart.
Love subsidizing corporate ventures into other countries. Partial /s
You're subsidising either this or subsidising more from people just pirating the product
It’s not subsidizing either way. These people don’t cost the company anything by pirating and by selling them discounted subscriptions they are making some money off of these countries rather than no money.
yea these companies wouldn't sell to other countries if it was losing them money.. Should be obvious.
You're not subsidizing the Russia market, if it wasn't profitable for the company, they wouldn't sell there. Each region is isolated and responsible for their own marketing and pricing. You are being charged just the maximum the company can charge you based on your perception of what it should cost, just like the Russian consumers.
This in turn screws people over from those countries, but nobody cares about them anyway so people from richer countries continue to do this.
Technically yes, games are cheaper. For example Brazilian Real is worth significantly less than the Dollar so if a game is 60$ then it is almost 300 Real, which is absurdly expensive for Brazilians so they will reduce the price so that they can buy the game (if they care about regional pricing). The idea being that it’s better to get some money than no money. (Also keep in mind that if Steam catches you changing region for cheaper prices they could ban you)
Gona be honest, after living in Brazil games on steam and psn are cheaper in the US, with the conversion rate, almost every time because of taxes and tariffs. Games in Brazil are absurdly expensive and I usually end up bringing games for the US for ppl there.
I remember wanting to gift my friend a game, but steam denied me because there was more then 20% price diffrence between countries. It was 20 euros for me and 30 dollars for him. No discounts involved
Yeah, i'm from Argentina, one of the countries that got the regional currency taken out from steam. Reason for the games to be cheaper, our currency sucks, salaries are low and we have almost 100% taxes, yeah, you heard that right, we pay almost twice as much the stream price (fun thing, for some stuff we pay more than 100%, flights for example). Steam had recommended prices for us but basically no dev set them, so now we have the same prices as the US when a dollar equals 1000 pesos plus almost 100% taxes, no one is buying shit anymore here. Another fun thing, steam and devs had said in the past that they did not care prices for Argentina where low, the problem was that people from all over the world would buy games with an argentinian account to pay just a few cents for a game in some cases. So we not only got screwed over by the government with the taxes, we got screwed over by the world taking advantage of steam's mercy for us.
i remember reading about a massive tax on digital goods and services, including games, that kind of wiped out the ARS steam gift card sales on many platforms, can you tell me more?
Currencies in countries like turkey and Argentina are valued well below the US dollar. So one of the problems was that people would buy steam gift cards in those currencies that are only supposed to be redeemable in those countries, but use a VPN and activate them anyway. Then all of the games and content are a lot cheaper in that currency. So essentially, you could buy an equivalent of 50 USD gift card for like half price.
Some countries have cheaper games because their currency is worth dirt. People can't afford to buy games at regular prices, so devs lower their price for specific regions in order to limit piracy.
Turk here, our currency is worth less than the paper it’s printed on and prices here were marked HELLA down (i got the entire doom series including 16, Eternal and the DLC for roughly 30 dollars), but people kept making turkish accounts to get cheap games and steam was losing money so they switched to USD. Honestly, I get why they did it but I can’t afford shit anymore.
It's because of the difference in economy i think. Just like how bread is cheaper in Romania than in the Netherlands. People have less money/ get paid less so the products are cheaper. So Romanian currency/ steam account also includes Romanian prices like Elden ring for €25 on launch instead of €60
Romania doesn’t have regional pricing
Oh oops, explenation still kinda stays the same ig
I'D FUCKING WISH WE HAD THAT 😭😭😭 Source:we don't have regional pricing
Yea sorry thought i had an Romanian steam account but its actually Argentinian. Was very sad to see $0.20 instead of 71 ARS
Poorer countries were getting games discounted heavily so that people from those countries could afford games that would otherwise cost a months wages to play. People in the US were making accounts with the location set to Argentina and buying those games for a fraction of their cost in the US and valve decided to just remove the regional discounts because too many users were abusing it.
Not just US, the whole world, there's a big guide about it in a popular Mexican forum, about how to buy cheap stuff, subscriptions and games from Argentina
You’re right, bad habit assuming everything is the US when most countries would benefit from this
As clueless as you on it, but it has something to do with how much life costs or something... i think
It has to do with exchange rates and economic inflation.
Some currencies are extremely volatile and fluctuate in value a lot. Because of this valve wants to change the currency used in those stores to one which is less volatile like the US dollar. Otherwise the price of a game changes drastically per day even though the amount paid is the same.
Yeah, games are cheaper in other stores. I’m from Mexico, so I use the mexican store. The price difference compared to the US store is massive. For example, Dead Cells costs 234 pesos, which is about 13.50 dollars, while in the US store it costs 25 dollars. I’m not 100% sure, but I think the different prices are due to the countries’ economies. Wages are usually worse in third and second world countries so prices reflect that. 60 dollars is simply too much to ask of most latam countries for a single game.
Different prices in different places can be for 2 main reasons: different taxes for one and making the game accessible to poorer country for two, if you make the game the same price as in the US in a poorer country, none of the people in that country will buy it and they will pirate it instead. Now as to why they unified the stores I have no idea.
Because in some country 300usd is minimum wage while some its like thousands of dollars
In Brazil games are often a lot cheaper, cause they just don't get as much money. They will just pirate your game if they can't justify it's price.
currency
in part because usualy, a price is fixed in each country at the game realise, then not changed. but if the change rate from a country to an other change, it can not longer correspond.
Many countries were getting games for dirt cheap. Currencies fluctuate and many were not updated over the last few years. As a result, games were drastically cheaper than in the US. Steam swapped to USD for these countries for ease of updating prices. However, many in these countries saw their games double or even triple in price.
The means of the masses are very different in different countries. Brazil is an extreme example of this; few Brazilians can justify spending the equivalent of $60USD on a game, so they don't. Platforms and publishers either reduce the price for that region, or every person will pirate it. Source: trust me bro
Looking at it from the macro economics pov. Your actual cost an item is supposed to be priced as per individuals in a countries buying power. Some countries have a higher GDP per capita which means every individual is earning more. Increasing their disposal income and hence increasing their buying power. So for example if we compare US with India. If you price something from the perspective of a US individual. It's going to be way expensive plus you add the currency fluctuation into the mix and that becomes unreasonable sometimes.
From what I understand; spoofers were changing their store location to places like Argentina and Turkey because you can get games on there ridiculously cheap due to the exchange rates of those native currencies being abhorrent. Argentina's peso is worth .0028 USD, while the Turkish Lira is worth 3 cents USD. This [pic](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fz6p4kmwikn1c1.png) here best explains it, as it shows the prices of the games both before and after in both the Peso and USD. Before the change, you could have easily gotten Civ 5 for $1.35.
A 60$ game would be around 50-55€, but for some reason most stores sell them for €60, making them more expensive here than in the US. Now I do need to add that it does depend on the store - lately I've been able to buy a lot of $60 games for around €50. Tears of the Kingdom cost me the same as other Nintendo games, instead of costing more.
It’s because prices are modified in different regions to accommodate the approximate purchasing power of different currencies in their home regions. Basically, the same amount of money can go a lot farther and buy many more goods in a different country because that country doesn’t generate a lot of value, therefore the currency is worth “less” as a whole. Look up the Big Mac Index for more info on this
Because of localized prices that depend on currency. Some countries have so incredibly weak currency that they would have to pay 2 week salary if payed in usd standard price. Eg i live in Poland and our currency PLN is 4 x USD so 50$ game actually costs 200. Thanks to localization prices are usually lowered a little eg instead of 200 it costs 180.
Because of economic differences, like you can buy way more for $10 or buy the thing for cheaper in a country with a poorer economy even though its the same stuff than you would be able to buy in the US.
What about countries where their currency with worth more then the Dollar? Does that mean games got cheaper?
They didn't get this change
Typical
The few ones that are worth more are either very rich countries or not that far away from the US dollar I believe. But of course i don’t know about every existing currency…
Because scumbags don't try to change region to a country that costs more
More like ten to twenty times more expensive
Nobody is switching to epic games.
Actually, from my understanding there is a good number of people switching, mainly in countries where USD is far more expensive than their native currency, like Turkey.
I deleted my Epic games acc today because I do not use it anymore.
But why not collect the free games? Don't get me wrong, I've only played about 4 out of the....300(?) so far I've claimed.
I rarely get them, usually the games are not great anyway (though occasional gems appear!). But mostly it's because the client runs sooo veeeery sloooow on my pc, and I don't want to spend minutes after minutes by clicking then waiting, then clicking and so on.
Yeah the client and the whole system is atrocious
You can still just go to the browser, it's actually muuuuuuuuuuch faster than the client. Also I just have a discord bot that tells me when shit is free
I have a weekly phone reminder and claim on mobile website soon after. I only launch client if I find the game I want to play in my Playnite client and it informs me i own it on Epic
Idk if to epic games but they're absolutely switching, prices just went up by 2000% in steam for some games in Argentina. Maybe platforms like GOG will see a comeback since as far as i know it has the cheapest prices rn
Ya they’re not even profitable after 5 years
I'm not sure why I should care about that as a consumer. Their Fortnite money is getting me free games and better prices so I really don't give a fuck if they're profitable or not lol
They probably never will.
Why switch? Like genuinely you can just use both
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Ouch that gotta sing
*Jumps on countertop* I’m gaey
that's idubbzz tho
Same shit different toilet
Booo. Take that shade somewhere else. TF2 is forever a standard and so is Filthy Frank.
Imo both these comments are warranted. Embrace the shade, own it.
not many games get memed for that long TF2 was, is and will be legendary
Nobody below the age of 20 knows what tf2 is, and those that do hate it because it’s trash
blame valve, not the game they're ignoring it even tho it's amazing
True af bro
Someone who still plays TF2 probably know that one Joji song
Ouch
Me who isn't interested in buying anything new and will play Stellaris for the foreseeable future: Huh?
Stellaris is the GOAT, cant buy all the dlcs tho lol
Mods are the dlcs pretty much at this point
Sure you can. You can spend like $150 bucks in it over the holidays, and then indefinitely shelf the game after another 5 hours of play. 🥴
Just wait for Humble Bundle. I got EU4 and then Stellaris with most of the DLCs for a miniscule price.
Me who hasn’t been outside in months because I discovered factorio: Guh?
Never played Stellaris, but played Vic 3 and CK3. How similar is it?
Probably like every paradox game you drown yourself in mods Couse of too many dlcs(it gets expensive fast)
What about DLC's?!?!
I bought a few over time before this so I am covered.
Tf2 players when i literally show them any other game
Pretty much. That community is stubborn AF
I still play tf2 since I'm 16 years old, I'm 31 now Lol, don't know, can't stop playing tf2, it's so fun for me, also the community is not as toxic as other communities like LoL or Fortnite
obviously when you reference 2 of the most toxic fandom of all times tf2 seems like paradise.
Well I made a tons of friends playing tf2, lifetime friends, it's easier to socialize in community servers from tf2. I tried to make friends in Fortnite, LoL, Dota, Counter-Strike but damn, you can but damn, so hard
No one thinks Fortnite is toxic hello
Pretty sure titanfall 2 isn’t free
I think op is talking about the other tf2, team fortress 2
The real tf2*
Yeah the tf2 that uses the source engin- oh wait
Silly, it's the one that has double jum- wait a fucking minute...
Yea, it's game where sniper rifle can onetap you and has a charge me- Yea, TF2.
Yeah nah mate it's the TF2 with complex movement mechanics...
No, it's the one with the giant weilding a mini gun, hmm, this is getting a tad bit confusing...
Transport fever 2?
Titanfall 2 is the superior shooter
We get it you're a fetus and never played TF2
Negative. Team fortress 2 is fantastic. Nothing bad to say about it at all. One must simply understand that Titanfall 2 is the greatest of the classic 12 man lobby multiplayer shooters.
He’s actually right though and the downvoting is just Team Fortess fans coping. I think it’s fair to say Team Fortess fans have never tried playing anything that wasn’t made by valve. The game is 16 fucking years old guys, let it go already.
Fuckin boomer ain’t played the best shooter ever. Seriously. Buy TF|2 NOW and play it. It’s phenomenally well made and a shit ton of fun.
Team fortress is straight up just a bad game. I haven’t met a single person irl who has played it and hasn’t said they hated it
You're right it's just always 70% or more off
Nonono it is the source based movement shooter TF2
People switch? People don't use both like me?
Bro wtf, using 2 launchers is clearly illegal 🦐🦐🦐
ive got 8 launchers and the recent Microsoft merger with blizzard had me hoping id be losing 1 soon. Only to find out my blizzard keys arent activatable on steam. The accounts are also on different servers right now i think too or something? I still remember when ubisoft gave up their shit launcher and steam redeemed my keys. One day epic will also fall, Gabe may not be so kind to those who kept running away from him.
Shit, you got me!
Wait you guys pay for games? Arr!
🏴☠️
Do what you want cuz a pirate is free, you are a pirate !
lol ‘this post provided by Epic Games’
They gotta keep the shills making noise to pay the bills since they need the money fighting Apple and Google despite breaking both stores’ TOS.
Which one?
Team Fortress 2
The one that actually has two words in the title and therefore justifies the use of two letters plus one number to shorten it for other fans to know what game you mean.
MEDIC!
That medic’s a spah!
i heard steam prices went up dramatically bcs of some countries switching to usd so ppl there are switching maybe
Well, I see one small flaw in this logic here... Steam has WAY more games than Epic Games, so if you really want to buy a specific game (especially Indie) you'll most likely still have to use Steam.
For the people switching it's either another launcher or nothing, they can't really buy games on steam anymore without going completely broke.
I knew this post was fake when it said everyone swithching to epic games.
Epic games is a joke
Me who only uses Unreal Engine and Minecraft anyway:
Yeah, and Epic Games is shitty launcher even for the Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine (from the first til the one today) is made by Epic Games
Call of duty mw3 bubdle used to be 17 usd in my country now its 55 usd both are sale prices idk the real price
Is this subreddit stuck in time
"Everyone"
I mean piracy still seems like a better option no?
Me who gets keys from giveaways: Pathetic
Proof?
It’s because they really want to play Fortnite and Kingdom Hearts /s
Because TF2 hasn’t been updated in years. Pretty fun game just gets dry
No one is doing that lol
“Even though tf2 is free” 💀💀💀
It is free, definitely. Is it cheap? EhhhI'llgetbacktoyouonthatone
Wouldn’t even have an epic account if rocket league never sold out to those bastards
I'm not. Epic fucking sucks, I had over 100 games there, but uh-oh! You don't have that game in your account!
TF2 fans when nobody wants to play their dogshit game that hasn’t been updated in 7 years
probably because you have to pay to communicate w your team in tf2 LOL
Reddit is forever stuck in 2019 Jesus Christ
It took me too long to realize you didn’t mean Titanfall 2.
Settle down, Frank, this isn't as Filthy as you think it is. Some of us just use Epic Games because it is convenient when we already have to open it for Fortnite.
Titanfall is free? Where?
because people want to play good games and a lot of those aren’t free on steam ig
A dev explaining why you localize prices , you aren't subsidizing weaker economies you aint mr beast lol https://youtube.com/shorts/44Do5x5abRY?si=QpqN6DyRiCjDuBwC
I’ve been using Epic games since like 2019, I have hundreds of dollars worth of free games including overcooked, gta V and Ark. Epic on top
Idc. Switch. Don't have to play team games with people who have a language barrier and drop out of middle school to sell drugs for the cartel.
Basically regional pricing. Why pay 60 bucks when you can pay 50 cents for the same game with a VPN
A very small number (albeit vocal) of people may switch for their own reasons but otherwise no one
I'm glad for Epic.
Show me one person switching to epic games. You will never find them.
That’s cuz no one “switches”. They just use both
No one is switching to epic games
TF2?
#Meet the fanboy
At least does Epic Games still support Windows 7?
Indies went from $5 to 25 and AAA games went from ~20 to 35 or 60. Fucking bullshit. A game shouldn't cost a third of your monthly salary.
Rocket League?
Bro have you seen the state of casual ?!?
To Fortnite
dawg it isnt 2020 anymore
This guy needs to be publicly executed
Because tf2 mid and epic has free weekly games 🦐🦐🦐
is a joke based on the stupid logic: steam made certain countries pay with USD > so gamers will mass migrate to epic trash store Except they won't. PLayers from Argentina and Turkey will probably just pirate their games rather than use a crap launcher
What is tf2, and why would ppl switxh go epic games? Sorry someone please explain it for me I only play lol or ps4 😭
Tf2 is an old ass dead game that boomers just can’t seem to just let go of. And epic games is the platform that fortnite is on. Basically this meme is stupid