I thought that localising prices was made to increase affordability of a certain product in each region. But i guess NOT.
Polish users can choose between using Euro and Polish Złoty to pay for nitro. In Euro the price is 9.99€ and in the Złoty the price is 47.99zł(~11.38€).
The thing to consider is that median european salary is ~3300€ per month, while an median salary in poland is only around ~7100zł(~1684€) which is only half as much. Yet the localised price is requiring us to pay 11% more than others. Which means an average pole who wants nitro will have to take 2x bigger cut from their salary to buy it.
When comparing to the worldwide nitro price in USD things become more absurd. Nitro normally costs $9.99, but localised price in poland is an equivalent of around $13.80!!! Thats like ~40% more expensive!!! In a country where median salary is around 3X SMALLER THAN IN THE USA!!
What is the point of localising prices to make them HIGHER in a country where people earn LESS? Thats like an exact opposite of what localised pricing is meant to do. That is also why none of my polish friends bought nitro.
What's up with these companies hating Poland? Steam's prices are way too high, too.
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Literally 2 scrolldowns from this post hahahah
Third party sites use regional pricing from either poland or turkey to resell games, steam points, or nitro, for 1/3rd the price. Both steam and discord are cracking down on it and the only way to prevent that is make regional pricing less "regional".
1/3rd of the price? Where did you get that from? The previous USD:PLN conversion on steam made the games only around 10% cheaper (vs the 30% more expensive now)
They dont. Polish people live well above their means and expect that to translate into everything, such as gaming
it used to be like 5 bucks too before they "improved it"
I agree, had to cancel everything because it was just stupid paying this much for essentially nothing. Multiply this by 12 and see how much yearly you are essentially throwing away.
I still don't understand why Discord gook away our 20 zł deal
I had it still for 20 zl, but they false banned me, didn't bother to check my appeal for a month, the sub couldn't renew and now I'm stuck at twice the price again despite begging them to let me pay the old price back because they literally scammed me
Same, i even now want to buy it cause they genuinely finally improved the Android app well,, but the price is too high.
I envy USAnians here that they can afford digital stuff way easier :)
The day they try to take away my 200 PLN nitro I grandfathered before they raised these prices to this complete nonsensical degree will be the day I never use Nitro again.
It's the same in India, they don't give a fuck.
Poles may not earn much, but at least they pay a lot...