Not sure how accurate this quote is, and I agree that it is mainly a service problem, but a pricing problem is a giant chunk of it too. Otherwise Steam wouldn't

Not sure how accurate this quote is, and I agree that it is mainly a service problem, but a pricing problem is a giant chunk of it too. Otherwise Steam wouldn't have such a significantly different regional pricing on games. Pick any AAA game on Steam, and then check its price on SteamDB for each region (SteamDB provides a nice table for it, so you don't need to bother with VPN and checking it on Steam manually yourself). For example, here is one for the recent Yakuza game[0]. $59.99 in the US, $27.61 in Russia. I can pretty much guarantee that without that kind of regional pricing, the sales in Russia for Steam games would be many mani magnitudes lower. 0. https://steamdb.info/app/1235140/ https://steamdb.info/app/1235140/