We are considering using itch.io as our primary store and not selling on Steam at all, however it seems itch does not support regional pricing, which blocks out a lot of our community as we come from developing countries.

We need the ability to set different prices per country or currency.

This is a brief overview of how this system works on steam – basically steam suggests some recommended prices for each region when the seller puts in their USD base price.

I understand that it is not difficult to abuse this – some of my friends still use their old credit cards on Steam for this reason even though they have moved abroad.

This will be opt-in by default, and if calculating good recommended prices is too difficult (note there’s purchasing power indexes for it) then just use the currency exchange rates to calculate recommended prices and let the developers change them as needed.

Please let me know if this is something you are working on, as this feature is a blocker for us using itch.io to distribute our games. From what we understand itch.io aims to be inclusive and indie-friendly and regional pricing is essential for this.

Best, Kotob

Interesting idea. So, yes, different countries has a different status of economic sytem. And USD prices can be extremely high. I even say that it should be at least half ot the world, if not even more. So USD is for USA direction. And some more, some more countries, people. But, this is a USA dev, so they do it for USA first. And yes you can be a guest here. A guest. And play the game. USD prices and so on. This is the way i see it. 

From other hand, you know, i have read article. And it tells, that if you are not from USA, you can be enough about 200-300 USD for minimum or normal, or have 500USD or more to be very cool about earning. So US residents i heard, they need 3000USD per mounth to have a minimum. 

So in result, it has some different points.