Half of the publishers on Steam increased their prices for Turkey. And my salary stays the same (340$), how the f**k am i supposed to buy games with a quarter of my salary ? I hate my country so damn much ...

I've always been saying Paradox is shit together with their DLC policy.

I'm pretty sure deceptive pricing is illegal in some of those countries.

This sucks -.-.

Oh well, they are super bundle friendly so I'll just wait for the next HB to come around for their games :D

At least Reaper's Due and Monk & Mystic are 50% off :D

this next sale already feels like black friday in brazil: pay the half of the double.

I have seen Ubisoft do this as well. If they did any publisher can do it.

Don't forget they stopped having more than 50% discount on dlcs in the past two years (once or twice they were 66%, every other sale up to 50%). It may not sound as much, but when you have 200 EUR worth of dlcs, those few % can really make a difference.

There will be no price drop after sales if anyone is wondering

Admin at Paradox's Forum explained why there was a price change:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/price-increase.1022680/#post-22833834

Screenshoot of it -> http://i.imgur.com/cbjIbLN.png

They just matched it to purchasing power of those areas and make it more "equal" across globe

Yay for price gouging. Gotta love greedy publishers. Another publisher for the shitlist.

Another publisher goes into blacklist....sigh.
On the other hand, I'll save more since I'll never buy their games unless 90% off or in a cheap bundle.
I'm a really patient gamer.

Make it -90% on a 100$ game or make it -50% on a 20$ game, if I have 8$ to spend you won't get my money either way. This marketing policy is just blind

Paradox is bigger cancer of gaming every year. They're making good (and sadly even great) games but their DLC and pricing policy is just pure shit.

Oh noez, that must be the capitalism we've been warned about in the like last 100 years. 😆

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This makes me appreciate ITAD and enhanced steam so much.

UPDATE: After Paradox Ubisoft also jumped to the train. Let's hope they are the last one.

Here an example from Russia
http://i.imgur.com/S0d6aqU.png

You can check it yourself here
https://steamdb.info/pricechanges

List of Affected Countries:

Azerbaijan
India
Mexico (Few Titles)
New Zealand
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
South Korea
Turkey
UAE

I wonder if all this pre-sale price rising was what made my CV go slightly up without me giving away any game in the last week.

This just means look elsewhere for sales and deals. Steam is not always, or even usually, the best place to buy from. I'm not even talking murky grey area stuff, I'm talking about other legit digital retailers.

The Good Old Days

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Why, thanks for notifying about what games we should not buy during sale :3

And Bethesda changed price for some games in some regions Fallout 4/DOOM/Dishonored 2 in all regions ^^ (Price decreased!!) 😮😮😮
For example
Europe - Fallout 4 59,99€ ---> 29,99€
Russia - Fallout 4 and DOOM 1999р---> 859р
Canada - Fallout 4 C$79.99 ---> C$39.99

UPDATE:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads%2Fpricing-change-rollback-information-thread-latest-news-here.1031635%2F

Hello all and thanks for your feedback, Following up from yesterday, this will sound a bit schizophrenic but I have really appreciated the reactions from this forum. I have spent the last 24 hours reading your comments and feedback and replying to email (fredrik.wester@paradoxplaza.com for all of you who didn't know it); during this time I came to a couple of conclusions:

1. In regards to the price changes you are absolutely right. You deserve more transparency and better communication from Paradox when it comes to changing of our prices and pricing policy. Therefore I have decided to roll back all price changes made; any price changes will have to be for future products well communicated in advance. I just came off the phone with Steam and they say we can't do the roll-back before the Summer Sale is over (otherwise it would mean we have to take all Paradox products off the summer sale) but it will be done right after. For anyone who bought any of the games during this time (including during the summer sale) we will try to refund (if possible in the Steam platform) or reimburse with games of a value exceeding the difference. If none of this is possible (I do not in detail know the limits to the Steam platform) we will internally calculate the difference in revenue before and after the price change, double the value, and donate the money to the UNHCR.
2. Some of the frustration has been expressed due to our DLC policy and how we handle additional content for our games. Since the release of Crusader Kings 2 (Feb 14, 2012) we have adopted a policy where we release paid content and at the same time content for free even if you do not want to pay for the DLC. This means that if you only paid for the original game, you still have a completely different game today with thousands of additions, upgrades and changes. This doesn't mean you should stop giving us feedback on how we conduct our business but if you straight out just hate our DLC policy I respectfully say that we have to agree to disagree.
3. I have promised myself never to give in to mob mentality; it's one of the worst things I know and a terrible way to convince me. In fact, being a pig-headed CEO of a company that has grown from 7 people to 225 during time I have had the privilege to run it, I have probably from time to time been more prone to say "no" than "yes" when people gang up on me/us to make us change our minds - I guess partly by principle not to cave in due to pressure. In this case, my change of stance has been made from communicating with people who have been active in our community for 10+ years, people who spent thousands of hours in our games and coming to the conclusions you find above.

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Finally - as much as I love a good conspiracy theory; to be frank, the whole "Tencent bought 5% of Paradox and now they're all greedy" and "They're now a publicly traded company and therefore do things the market wish for" is below the level of intelligence of this community. I still hold 33.3% in Paradox, I am still CEO, board member and avid gamer. All you need to know is that the buck stops here. All problems/feedback can easily be sent my way, I will not always agree but I promise to listen.
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Best
Fred
fredrik.wester@paradoxplaza.com

in brazil we are used to pay the double of the half since someone came with the "black friday" idea.
this is pretty much expected here. nothing new.