Possible Glitch In Steam s South Asian Storefront Sets Assassin s Creed Unity s Price At 84 000 Dollars

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Possible Glitch In Steam s South Asian Storefront Sets Assassin s Creed Unity s Price At 84 000 Dollars

There's a glitch on Steam's storefront where Malaysian players need to spend $84,000 to buy Assassin's Creed Unity. via Ubisoft Assassin's Creed Unity So there’s a bit of a glitch on ’s Southeast Asian storefront when it comes to Assassin’s Creed Unity. In some countries, it’s selling for less than a cent, while in others it’s selling for the equivalent of $84,000 USD. We get it: currency conversion is hard. Prices are changing every day and sometimes you just pick the wrong country or the wrong conversion and suddenly everything is going crazy. Which seems to be exactly what happened to someone at Valve when they were setting the prices for Ubisoft’s classic action-adventure murder-in-the-French-Revolution simulator, . This was spotted by a couple of users in the and was later picked up by . If a game on Steam went on sale for less than a cent in America, you’d better believe the North American news sites would pick it up, so we can’t really blame Asian sites for making this headline news. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY Let's go from top to bottom. , Assassin's Creed Unity is currently on sale in Malaysia for 345,000 Ringgit. Using Google for the conversion, that works out to be roughly $84,000. So you can buy yourself Assassin's Creed Unity or you can buy a Maserati. It's hard to say which is the better deal. RELATED: But moving on to Indonesia, you can pick up Assassin's Creed Unity for 28 Rupees. That's roughly one-fifth of a cent in US dollars ($0.002). It gets better. In South Korea, the game is on sale for ₩120, or about a dime ($0.10) US dollars. The Philippines? Just ₱105, or about two bucks. via Steam In China, Unity is on sale for ¥35, which is about $5, but that’s probably on purpose. The Chinese government is offering steep discounts on games right now to encourage people to (including so that they never leave their rooms). This is obviously just a mistake and will surely be corrected soon, but in the meantime, Korean and Philippino gamers should definitely pick up Unity. Malaysian players might want to wait for the game to come back down to its usual price of $29.99 USD. Source: , ,