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Citation de "Zanpakutou"

To have a base, the collector's package is on sale on Steam and the Steam price is 50% lower than the price paid by buying directly from the site of my.com (price based on our currency - Brazil).

But if we can not tie our my.com account with Steam account, we can not appreciate the prices and payment methods - That's really discouraging.

Wait wait wait a minute...So you're saying if you start playing Allods on Steam right now from never having played before (a new account) you can get stuff cheaper but if you're a veteran and have been supporting this game for some time already (some up to even 6.5 years)...we have to pay more?
You're kidding...right?

Citation de "IAmGroot"

I think ... you're seeing this wrong. (This is what I originally thought, however, I have recently been told differently...unless they're wrong.)

Oh, my bad - apparently I have some issues with reading comprehension then.
In that case it's pretty good, I initially thought they did the same just like with Russian servers. I believe they just added a new F2P server there, which people couldn't join to from outside of Steam and it didn't even have cross-server BGs enabled. A lot of people were really pissed, I'm glad it's not the case here then.

Citation de "Mhuldoon"

Hello,

The prices are absolutely no different. You can check the CE page and compare it to the steam store page for reference (14.99 & 44.99 as before, identical content).

This seems like a unique issue - can you provide more information on it via PM, please?

Regards,
Mhul

That's not an issue, it's Steam's regional pricing and by no means it's unique. Basically certain countries get rather significant discounts tailored to their economy, except for countries in Europe, because screw Europe.

You can find info about the CE prices here:
https://steamdb.info/app/477781/

Citation de "Mhuldoon"

Citation

To have a base, the collector's package is on sale on Steam and the
Steam price is 50% lower than the price paid by buying directly from the
site of my.com (price based on our currency - Brazil).

Hello,

The prices are absolutely no different. You can check the CE page and compare it to the steam store page for reference (14.99 & 44.99 as before, identical content).

This seems like a unique issue - can you provide more information on it via PM, please?

Regards,
Mhul

In short, when you put Allods and its CE packs on Steam as DLC, you didn't increase the price for each region to match the $19.99 / $49.99 converted price. So Brazilians pay 49.2% less than North Americans. What he likely wanted you to do was also let people link their my.com account to Steam so that when they filled up on boutique crystals, they could pay via Steam. That would mean that Brazilians would pay 49.2% less per crystal that North Americans. Considering the state of the Brazilian economy, this would be entirely fair to do.

This doesn't account for the fact people have the ability to falsify the place they're purchasing from, though. While I would say this would be lethal to the in-game economy, CS items NEED to be reduced by half or more in order to achieve any level of success on Steam. As they are now, I cannot see the game gaining any new players from this move. If anything, we're going to get slammed by reviews.

Citation de "Mhuldoon"

This seems like a unique issue - can you provide more information on it via PM, please?

Done.

I think it's price because the region. The steam usually put prices as the country's reality ... for this reason the news was well received in the BR community and other I think.

In any case, I send you the images to see if there is any error.



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Citation de "rozetri"

While I would say this would be lethal to the in-game economy, CS items NEED to be reduced by half or more in order to achieve any level of success on Steam. As they are now, I cannot see the game gaining any new players from this move. If anything, we're going to get slammed by reviews.

Yes...please..............
I've been saying this since we went to My.com......
Drop prices or we're fooked.

""What he likely wanted you to do was also let people link their my.com account to Steam so that when they filled up on boutique crystals, they could pay via Steam. That would mean that Brazilians would pay 49.2% less per crystal that North Americans. Considering the state of the Brazilian economy, this would be entirely fair to do.""


In reality, you cannot purchase crystals from steam, you still go through the my.com transaction. The only benefit you get from using steam is social interactions and a slightly reduced price on Collectors edition ONLY.

Correct me if i'm wrong.

~ GliTchY

Citation de "Frakkerz"

""What he likely wanted you to do was also let people link their my.com account to Steam so that when they filled up on boutique crystals, they could pay via Steam. That would mean that Brazilians would pay 49.2% less per crystal that North Americans. Considering the state of the Brazilian economy, this would be entirely fair to do.""


In reality, you cannot purchase crystals from steam, you still go through the my.com transaction. The only benefit you get from using steam is social interactions and a slightly reduced price on Collectors edition ONLY.

Correct me if i'm wrong.

~ GliTchY

You are exactly correct. That's why I said it was likely what he wanted, not what actually happens to be the case. It's likely a moot point anyway, even in other F2P MMOs on Steam I doubt you can go through Steam directly for purchasing in-game currencies. Everything goes through each game's respective publishing/development company.