Yes this is good for us. For comparison a digital copy of New Super Mario Bros. 2 on eshop costs R$149,99 for us... this is ≃ $73,67... same price for Art Academy and Crosswords too... but only retail too games are that high priced, the eshop exclusive ones are actually cheaper than in US's eshop.
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Brazil gets its own special pricing policy on Steam (and its currency)
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Yes this is good for us. For comparison a digital copy of New Super Mario Bros. 2 on eshop costs R$149,99 for us... this is ≃ $73,67... same price for Art Academy and Crosswords too... but only retail too games are that high priced, the eshop exclusive ones are actually cheaper than in US's eshop.
dinosaur_hunter2
Member
Yes, all sales are controlled by Steam and it will be the same as usual. We are not getting a brazilian Steam store, we're being given the opportunity to buy in reais instead of dollars with brazilian credit cards.
We still don't know if we'll be able to change it back to US dollars, that's to be confirmed.
I can confirm that
EDIT:
Pretty much HAHAHA
4 years? I became one 2 or 3 days ago, and been here for only 3 months, lol.Must... not... quote... dinosaur's avatar...
Offtopic: Just noticed, I became a member, after 4 years!
Your avatar has glasses and a hat .... I never saw him before xD
Paypal payment will still be an option, right ?
....just making sure =x
Paypal payment will still be an option, right ?
....just making sure =x
Dehumanizer
Member
Oh Gabe, I love and worship you
It is official .... this thread has more brazilians than the BrazilGaf |OT|
dacuk
Member
Dehumanizer
Member
I'm new here, didn't know about the BrazilGaf thread
"You Make My Dreams" was totally being played in the background.
everyone who pays in Euro on Steam is paying too much
thats why I never buy new games on Steam anymore. Just buy directly from Steam when they have sales. Otherwise I buy Steamgames on greenmangaming or amazon.com.
Must... not... quote... dinosaur's avatar...
Offtopic: Just noticed, I became a member, after 4 years!
Oh god I will wait forever T___T
To the Brazilians thinking things like available games and deals are going to change: they already have. Steam has had a Brazil region, with different prices and content for over a year already. All Valve's games are actually a bit cheaper. A few games are more expensive (mostly EA stuff) and a very few aren't available (famous banned games like Carmaggedon and Manhunt).
Also, TF2's Brazilian Portuguese translation is excellent and clearly done by (internet-savvy) natives. Some comedy gold stuff in the achievement names. I also couldn't stop laughing at the translation for Pyrovision's "BEST FRIENDS" and "BROKE UP" messages.
Why not? The competition is already selling $59.99 PC games for R$99, why couldn't Valve?
Also, TF2's Brazilian Portuguese translation is excellent and clearly done by (internet-savvy) natives. Some comedy gold stuff in the achievement names. I also couldn't stop laughing at the translation for Pyrovision's "BEST FRIENDS" and "BROKE UP" messages.
Why not? The competition is already selling $59.99 PC games for R$99, why couldn't Valve?
LukasTaves
Member
It's VERY good, the suggested prices are actually cheaper than direct dollar conversion.
Chile >>>> Brazil
It's the only country I would like to live in South America, too bad my Portuguese will be good for nothing in there
we even have better women
I'm brazilian and honestly I don't think this changes much. Right now the real is a bit undervalued, but I can see it easily falling back to the 1,85-1,90 range next year.
We save a bit with their current conversion rates but might have to suffer different release windows, different DRM schemes, etc.
The main appeal IMO is for lower class people without international credit cards (I can easily see a lot of kids spending money on the Dota 2 store and not much else).
Oh, and at work pretty much everyone on my department have a steam account with lots of game purchases and/or a ps3/360. Gaming is extremely mainstream for middle/upper class young adults.
We save a bit with their current conversion rates but might have to suffer different release windows, different DRM schemes, etc.
The main appeal IMO is for lower class people without international credit cards (I can easily see a lot of kids spending money on the Dota 2 store and not much else).
Oh, and at work pretty much everyone on my department have a steam account with lots of game purchases and/or a ps3/360. Gaming is extremely mainstream for middle/upper class young adults.
I don't post that much, once a month probably. Nowadays I'm more active, most of the time I'm too lazy to post, specially lengthy texts.
I used to joke that I was the oldest junior here, apparently not anymore
lololololol
MrChocolate
Member
Seriously, no.
I can't say that brazilians are better, but chilean women are far from good.
TouchMyBox
Member
Can someone give me the cliffnotes on this guy? Can't find any English articles on him on Google.
His name is Moacyr Alves Júnior, he is the president of ACIGAMES, a association created to help to improve the brazilian games market (digital or retail) and stimulate the cultural perception of the game industry in Brazil.
A few months ago he tried to convince Valve to use servers in Brazil and open a office here but they declined, one of the reason is to tax Steam, but users in Brazil already pay taxes when they buy games on steam, is called IOF( tax over credit operation).
People accuse him of trying to protect the traditional retail market that exist here, but it seems that he already give up the idea.
TouchMyBox
Member
Fun, thanks.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
This may finally kill the Brazillian market for the Sega Genesis.
No, never.
The_eJoker
Member
In the beggining, he had this movement called Jogo Justo (something like 'Fair Game'), that claimed lower prices for games. Our gaming community really supported him. This guy now works for the Brazilian goverment and speaks about taxing Steam games and stuff.
I am in China and my prices are the same as NA. I wish they had Russian style pricing.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Yeah Steam has been a bit slow getting to it and they've just done Russia/CIS and now Brazil, but I more meant the principle of just generally selling software or movies or any other intellectual property at deep discounts in piracy-ridden developing markets.
toddhunter
Member
Don't worry, special pricing for Australians has worked out well with more and more publishers taking better advantage of the scheme.
R$99 are not US$99, we would actually pay less, R$99 is around $100000 pesos (Actually a bit less, like $88000 pesos).
However right now it would not be convenient for us because the peso is freaking strong right now, so paying in dollars is way better for us.
Well for you because you still live in Colombia, even the real is falling behind the peso, as seen by that conversion. Stupid rising economy, the colombian peso had to start rising right after I left the country :/ sending money home is painful.
Wiktor
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413 mln dollars is nowhere near enough to be placed fourth. Germany is over 2 billions a year, CHina is over 5 billion, Russia is 1,5 billion. Small Poland alone is 400 mln
Isn't the 1 usd = 1 eur thing partly because of sales tax in eu? Granted it should still be a little less even with the sales tax included.
Buying anything at full retail on steam over here is ludicrous, often times the games cost half as much at retail compared to steam prices. Outside of sales Steam is pretty pointless for me when it comes to "big" games. I've never pre-ordered a "AAA" game on steam and at this rate never will.
Indie and smaller games like CS:GO are fine though and I don't mind buying them straight from steam.
Genesis maybe ... but Master System ??? NEVAH !
To be honest, Brazil also has one of the biggest piracy rates in the industry. The fact it generates over 400 million despite that is pretty interesting, and ultimately shows why it is placed in 4th market-wise.
I fucking saw an official "Master System Evolution" on sale yesterday at a big retail chain, so I really doubt that.
You know, this one: http://www.tectoy.com.br/produto_interna.php?id=70, with 132 games built in!
Product Description said:
...BATTLE outrun ?
It is like ... Twisted Metal with beaches and ferraris ?
sanji_blue
Member
Pretty good news I think. I already have a giant backlog of games that I don't even started yet, but based Gabe sure know how to make me buy more...