Hello people, as you can see from my post count I'm not exactly an old experienced LOTRO player, just got here. I'm not even sure if this is the right section for a post like this but I'm guessing this is where people read more often. First of all, I'm playing in Landroval pretty much for RP but I do enjoy questing and doing different instances (if you ask me, Inn of the Forsaken is the best MMO instance I've ever played) and I'm ejoying my time here.
But there is an issue that makes things a little bit harder for me. I'm not playing from USA or Europe. I'm playing from Brazil (before huehuehue jokes or instant fear of hordes of brazillians destroying your servers with hax, poor english and annoying behavior, relax. I'm not the first one and I'm intended to play on Landroval for Heavy-RP and I've been on managing staff of the Heavy-RP community I played and all of my friends were either admins, staff or respected players.) So prices and access to premium subscriptions and expansion packs are not only hard to acquire, they're also pretty expensive. Paying with international credit card is something I can't do right now. I have one, but I'm unable to use it in this moment. And before you guys tell me that the high pricing is caused because of the Dollar conversion there is a solution for my problem (and other International players), that Turbine apparently gave up. Steam.
LOTRO used to avaible on steam for Brazil. I had it downloaded when it was launched (but couldn't really play because my computer was horrible and I had no time to play), I know players that bought even the triple pack on steam. How does that help us? Well, let me put that into numbers. The Triple pack of expansions costs US$39,99. In local money (aka BRL), today's dollar conversion is something around BRL92,00. But how does steam helps? Well, steam have local payment methods and alternative conversion. Officialy, there is a table of conversion wich makes US$39,00 games and packages, to be sold for BRL59,00. I have a friend that bought the triple pack on the Steam 50%off sale, for BRL29,99. I've only bought one VIP subscription (trough alternative methods out of turbine, it was... PayByCash that allowed me to pay with bank account debit with RIDICULOUS TAXES much much above the dollar value)and I'm really looking foward the rest of the expansions, but prices and payment methods are such a block.
(### a quick edit note, DDO was also avaible some time ago on Steam, it was also removed)
So turbine, why did you guys have stop with steam publishing on Brazil? Some might argue that LOTRO's migration to Free-to-play required a heavier filter of players, and to be honest Brazillian reputation is not the best on the internet, but that would be illogical since the the game was being published on steam with no restriction to buying LOTRO points or expansion packs via Steam!
If someone from the management can help me clear this out, or at least point me to a vehicle where my voice will be heard by the management or even give me an alternative way to pay the game in fair prices I would be really thankful.
Sorry for the long post!
But there is an issue that makes things a little bit harder for me. I'm not playing from USA or Europe. I'm playing from Brazil (before huehuehue jokes or instant fear of hordes of brazillians destroying your servers with hax, poor english and annoying behavior, relax. I'm not the first one and I'm intended to play on Landroval for Heavy-RP and I've been on managing staff of the Heavy-RP community I played and all of my friends were either admins, staff or respected players.) So prices and access to premium subscriptions and expansion packs are not only hard to acquire, they're also pretty expensive. Paying with international credit card is something I can't do right now. I have one, but I'm unable to use it in this moment. And before you guys tell me that the high pricing is caused because of the Dollar conversion there is a solution for my problem (and other International players), that Turbine apparently gave up. Steam.
LOTRO used to avaible on steam for Brazil. I had it downloaded when it was launched (but couldn't really play because my computer was horrible and I had no time to play), I know players that bought even the triple pack on steam. How does that help us? Well, let me put that into numbers. The Triple pack of expansions costs US$39,99. In local money (aka BRL), today's dollar conversion is something around BRL92,00. But how does steam helps? Well, steam have local payment methods and alternative conversion. Officialy, there is a table of conversion wich makes US$39,00 games and packages, to be sold for BRL59,00. I have a friend that bought the triple pack on the Steam 50%off sale, for BRL29,99. I've only bought one VIP subscription (trough alternative methods out of turbine, it was... PayByCash that allowed me to pay with bank account debit with RIDICULOUS TAXES much much above the dollar value)and I'm really looking foward the rest of the expansions, but prices and payment methods are such a block.
(### a quick edit note, DDO was also avaible some time ago on Steam, it was also removed)
So turbine, why did you guys have stop with steam publishing on Brazil? Some might argue that LOTRO's migration to Free-to-play required a heavier filter of players, and to be honest Brazillian reputation is not the best on the internet, but that would be illogical since the the game was being published on steam with no restriction to buying LOTRO points or expansion packs via Steam!
If someone from the management can help me clear this out, or at least point me to a vehicle where my voice will be heard by the management or even give me an alternative way to pay the game in fair prices I would be really thankful.
Sorry for the long post!