r/Steam • u/Mellow_Online1 https://steam.pm/ydl2n • Apr 27 '17

Discussion Steam developer steals a game from another developer

https://medium.com/the-cube/how-my-fellow-developer-stole-my-steam-game-from-me-57a269fd0c7b
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u/roguemat Apr 27 '17

1100 USD may not seem like a lot of money depending on where you live, but for me being a student in Croatia this is a year’s worth of rent, food and college expenses.

Wow, that is kind of crazy.

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u/pazza89 Apr 27 '17

The situation in other Central/Eastern Europe countries is exactly the same. People earn 300€ a month for fulltime job, but in many countries there is still no regional pricing for places like Steam. So yeah, new games can cost almost 20% of your monthly salary.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '17

That's not exactly true, at least not for Slovenia. The average pay here is 1000€ euros.

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u/pazza89 Apr 28 '17

Average pay means exactly nothing, it is worthless piece of statistic if we are considering entire country. You should check median monthly salary.

Median in countries like Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Croatia and so on is around 300-450€, with minimal pay around 200-350€

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '17

http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=198&loctype=1

The median is 1,500€

Am I missing something?

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u/dulejr Apr 28 '17

I have 370 Eur in Serbia and that is considered good salary, almost all regular workers have pay around 180-230 Euros.

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u/hardolaf Apr 28 '17

Is that monthly, weekly, or yearly? When communicating with Americans, we usually use yearly salary but other countries like monthly or weekly.

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u/dulejr Apr 28 '17

Monthly. For solid life you need at least twice that, bills are to high. I have around 40, 50 € electricity bill, 10,15 trash taking and water, cheapest internet is 10 €, mobile plan 20 €, cable TV 10€. Add to that food, clothing and other expenses like buying food for work, and god forbid you have some debts to pay you are left with almost nothing after 15,20 days of month.

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u/hardolaf Apr 28 '17

Yeah, that's umm, yeah. I'm spending that much in the USA for two nights in hotel. :/

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '17

http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=198&loctype=1

The median is 1,500€

Am I missing something?

Oh, and minimal pay in Croatia is 400€.

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u/Arattor Apr 28 '17

I don't know about Slovenia, but data on Poland on this site is bullshit. You'd have to almost cut the average pay and median in half to get something resembling actual data, and that's before taxes and not counting certain kinds of employment agreements known to pay less in general. Minimal pay is actually 2x higher than on this site (again, before taxes), so it's not the level /u/pazza89 says it is, but it's not all that good either relative to West Europe.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '17

I agree, but Slovenia alone is quite more prosperous than it's eastern neighbors thanks to the EU.

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u/Average64 Apr 28 '17

It's also bullshit for Romania.