Steam is getting new currencies including the Australian Dollar

When Australians use Steam, the prices are displayed in American dollars. So the user has to check the conversion rate themselves. However, it looks like Steam will be fixing this soon and Australia, in addition to other a short list of other countries, will be getting an updated store page. Valve is updating their price matrix to give a single price for each of these countries.

Brightrock Games, the developer of War of the Overworld, has posted a new blog post on Steam. While this in itself isn’t anything to rave about, the contents of the blog are very interesting. It confirms that an update to their price matrix is coming as eleven new currencies will be supported by Steam.

The blog post from the developer is about the changes they’ll be making to their regional prices based on this upcoming change. Brightrock Games has submitted changes to allow these currencies and they “expect them to be approved in the coming days and weeks”. “These changes have been approved by Valve now and should be live”

“These changes have been approved by Valve now and should be live” states the blog post. However, it’s noted that Valve has not officially launched them yet. So these new prices may not be visible on Steam.

Here are the upcoming currencies to be added to Steam:

Vietnamese Dong
Ukrainian Hryvnia
Australian Dollar
Polish Zloty
Argentine Peso
Israeli New Shekel
Kazakhstani Tenge
Kuwaiti Dinar
Qatari Rial
Costa Rican Colon
Uruguayan Peso

The studio adds that there’s no timescale for the launch of the addition of these currencies. Brightrock Games suggests that Valve may be waiting for more developers to submit price changes for these regions. They expect the change to arrive this year, “probably in the coming weeks”.

In addition to this, the developer has also submitted price changes for a number of regions. This is to reflect their new price matrix by reducing the price for the game on Steam. These changes are now live. Here are the currencies affected by this change:

Indonesian Rupiah
Malaysian Ringgit
Philippine Peso
Singapore Dollar
Thai Baht
Korean Won
Indian Rupee
Chilean Peso
Peruvian Nuevo Sol
Colombian Peso
South African Rand
Hong Kong Dollar
Taiwanese Dollar
Saudi Arabian Riyal
Emirati Dirham
CIS Territories USD Regional Price

Here’s the full blog post.

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Clare Lunawolf

Clare has been a dedicated gamer for almost all of her life and grew up playing a wide range of games such as Tekken, Pokemon, Unreal Tournament and Roller Coaster Tycoon. While she loves engaging action games, there's nothing that can beat a nice tycoon game and jazz session... especially if there's hot chocolate involved.