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4 years ago
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Regional Pricing for Turkey

 These type of posts are pretty annoying for me and probably for other players but I need to say these.

 The Turkish currency got deacreased in valuse so hard that is it no more affordable for average Turkish players. Currently, Turkey has no regional pricing and you need to pay approximately 11.45 dolar (109.99 TL currently on steam) and on the website it is the same. The minimum wage here is 2825 tl which makes 294 dollar. So in order to sub to this game, you need to spend %4 procent of your income if you earn the minimum wage.

 Most of the games already uses regional pricing but some companies still dont use it in Turkey. For example, FF14 has no regional pricing, Elder scrolls online has it in Turkey for 42.99 tl (4.46 dollar), WoW has it for countries like Russia but dont have it on Turkey so we need to give the same amount as swtor to play it. İt may be seem it is normal that is has not a regional pricing but it hurt the Turkish swtor community so hard. We are getting everyday smaller and smaller. The ground is that so many games which have regional pricing appeals the Turkish player more. The newest hit New World costs in the Turkish steam just 110 while swtor 1 month sub costs exactly the same. You can buy 3 month of eso sub with that amount. İt is even more awkward when you compare the prices with non service games. My friends are right now playing hades and they can buy 3 hades copies(40 tl each) with the sub price and even 4 while it is right now in a %30 sale (28tl each). Dead by daylight just costs 30 Turkish liras and we were able to build a surviver group with one sub price. It maybe sounds crazy what I want, I actually say that 1 dead by daylight copy costs 3 dollar, which with the steam cut the related company will just get 2 dollar from a single sale. İt seems like a joke but these prices are not even considered as cheap here in Turkey. Probably the biggest company in the world Amazon, reduced the price of amazon prime at the beginning of this year to only 8 turkish liras, less than 1 dollar.

 What I want is not something new, it is something that EA already does. Applying regional pricing like they do in Russia. Right now in Russia you can sub for 299 Rub which is 40 turkish liras (aproximately 4 dolar). Why not give Turkey the same benefits. Not because we want because we need it. İt were highly appreciated if this request could find the related people. Maybe it is not possible, but it is worth to try.

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