Have you forgot about us, PDX?
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Yeah. You would almost think it was the language of the overall forum except specific subforums.
Weird.
Wiz and cKnoor should only steam in Swedish to further the combat the oppressive English language.
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Yeah. You would almost think it was the language of the overall forum except specific subforums.
Weird.
Wiz and cKnoor should only steam in Swedish to further the combat the oppressive English language.
Acting like dicks for no reason at all doesn't really have much to do with what language you speak. It's just an attitude problem.
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I would consider making outraged threads every time this Scandinavian developer makes a game that doesn't cater to Russian culture or users in some way, and answering every reply with making a hyperbolic strawman out of the poster, to be dickish behaviour, but maybe that's just me.
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Not at all irrelevant. I don't know the percentages that Paradox receives but they receive a hell of a lot more from the rest of Europe than Russia. And your link of average wages shows that Russia is actually higher than a number of other eastern European countries. Also I don't know about other countries but in Hungary you pay the same as other Europeans with considerably more avarege income. Weird that Russia gets this very special treatment from Steam actually. Russian privilege detected...
It's a concession to reality. Increase prices any higher and people pirate instead or never bother with the game. Their current price represents the sweet spot of maximed profits compared to piracy numbers.
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This depends on publisher, actually. Some high-tier companies such as Bethesda, Rockstar, Blizzard sell their games in Russia with prices closer to international. But I suspect that Paradox would get nowhere with such prices.
Historically western videogames publishers did not sell their games in Russia themselves, considering it to risky. They sold rights to sell it to Russian "middleman" publishers, who had to put a very low prices, because of rampaging piracy. Pirates even had their own "publishers" with names, logos and translation with voice acting crews, and their CD discs were sold on every corner very cheap, so official publishers had to compete. Customers get used to it and would not accept rapid change to international prices, so Steam choose a sort of middle ground between original prices and international ones. Prices in steam are slowly rising, though, so I expect they will all eventually be around international. Unless some catastrophe happens.
But all of this slightly off topic of course.
Historically western videogames publishers did not sell their games in Russia themselves, considering it to risky. They sold rights to sell it to Russian "middleman" publishers, who had to put a very low prices, because of rampaging piracy. Pirates even had their own "publishers" with names, logos and translation with voice acting crews, and their CD discs were sold on every corner very cheap, so official publishers had to compete. Customers get used to it and would not accept rapid change to international prices, so Steam choose a sort of middle ground between original prices and international ones. Prices in steam are slowly rising, though, so I expect they will all eventually be around international. Unless some catastrophe happens.
But all of this slightly off topic of course.
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That's funny considering your first post in the thread was being a dick for no reason. Pot calling the kettle black, much?
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