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I unfortunately also have to announce some rather disappointing news for our Argentinian and Turkish communities:
Effective immediately, we're raising the price for Eco in these regions to mitigate abuse via Steam region changes.
As other development studios have recently observed, we also see a very notable increase in purchases there while the player counts from these regions don't raise accordingly.
We are really sorry that we need to take this step and hope that Steam will soon address the problem, so we can keep the effects on all the players living in those countries as low as possible and lower the prices to what they were before again.
At least for LATAM region we work with Nuuvem who sell region-locked keys for still affordable prices (though notably more than the three USD it was before), so there is an alternative for users living there.
Its $30 USD, more than half the price of a typical new release AAA game in dollars. If 500 Turkish Lira is enough to get a AAA game it’s cheaper for me to buy AAA games and even another copy of Eco at that price (Google says 500 Turkish Lira would be 26.89 USD right now)
That's precisely the problem people have been abusing, which is why we had to raise the prices. Just that it's even cheaper than that calculation, especially for Argentina. Plus in both countries it's super easy to get steam cash via VPN without needing a local credit card to make purchases, so anyone can basically do it in one two three.