Utnayan
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Hey you can buy that on the Steam sale for $19.99 at no discount! What a bargain
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Steam Deals and Digital Sales
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Hey you can buy that on the Steam sale for $19.99 at no discount! What a bargain
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I bought the complete Age of Wonders 3 pack with all the DLC last night from GreenManGaming using the christmas code and it was 9 bucks and change.
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GOG has some decent sales too, lots of older RPGs for cheap.
Also, got Spore complete collection from them for $7.49. old ass game I know but I got nostalgic the other day after my GF saw the case for it in my junk room and asked about it. Steam had the complete collection for like $42 in comparison, on sale. So I jumped on the GOG.
Also, got Spore complete collection from them for $7.49. old ass game I know but I got nostalgic the other day after my GF saw the case for it in my junk room and asked about it. Steam had the complete collection for like $42 in comparison, on sale. So I jumped on the GOG.
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Amod Requesting title change to "Steam sales suck this year - Go to GMG"
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Make a GMG thread if you want to sing the praises of a steam competitor.
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You know that it isn't Steam choosing for it to not be on sale on Steam, right?
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Utnayan
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Course I do. I also knows Valve charges through the ass to place games on there and publishers will respond with adjusting their prices. So better off going to GMG, buying it there for 20% less than the sale on Steam, activating it on Steam, and off to the races.
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So you're arguing that Capcom is deciding to drive sales from the biggest digital PC game market in the world to a relatively unknown pile of shit site that has one of the worst reputations in PC gaming as they offer a slightly better cut of the revenues, during one of the biggest sale periods of the year, despite having had the game on an equal sale on Steam previously?
Have you stopped and thought about how it's because Capcom has access to sales metrics that tells them they make more money by offering it at a smaller % off rather than a bigger % off on Steam?
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It's been that way for like, 5+years? The 3rd parties basically cut their share to less than the 30% steam requires, to do better prices. Steam is ok with that because they get traffic and people end up buying shit on Steam eventually. 3rd parties don't sell everything(especially indie games) and sometimes Steam still will have the historical lows due to daily/weekend sales and such. Their big sales aren't nearly as good because of the duration and their cut, this is known, whining about it every sale isn't going to make them better, they don't need to. Oh and just for the record, the only reason 3rd parties can actually sell for less is because Steam is letting them do it by providing free keys to the devs to sell to 3rd parties, unlike every other storefront. If Steam felt threatened by the 3rd parties selling for less, they could shut that shit down real quick.
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You think you guys would know by now that it takes prices some time to roll out on Steam when their sale starts, for some strange reason.
For example, No Man's Sky is now $30. Far Cry 5 is $24.
I get that other places (GMG, HB) offers some extra discount on top of that but some of the hyperbole can be softened here.
For example, No Man's Sky is now $30. Far Cry 5 is $24.
I get that other places (GMG, HB) offers some extra discount on top of that but some of the hyperbole can be softened here.
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DickTrickle
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And, you know, another part of the reason the sales aren't as amazing is that developers now have better tools provided by Steam to determine how to price things. A 90% sale often didn't benefit the developers as much as a 75% sale.
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The historical low is 22€, on Steam, a year ago. The devs decide the sales, they don't want to make it cheaper evidently. The fact many devs never reduce their base price lower than 60bucks and then don't do sales for much more than 50% means a lot of games don't get discounted even several years later. It isn't Steam's fault that the devs don't feel like lowering the prices more because people still buy the games at these prices. If they didn't they'd lower them. No Man's Sky was on the top selling like a couple patches ago when there was renewed hype for the game and it was 30bucks then.
Steam's cut is probably too high for the market now, but it's not as though the publishers are just going to translate that into lower prices for the customers even if it was reduced. They'd still just sell it at the same prices on Steam. The third party sites which have already bought the keys are of course going to sell it for less because they're the ones controlling the prices and it's the only way to drive people to their shitty websites.
Seriously, I get that buying from GMG can be great to save some bucks, but they're a horrible anti-consumer company that needs to eat a giant bag of dicks. Stop supporting them.
Seriously, I get that buying from GMG can be great to save some bucks, but they're a horrible anti-consumer company that needs to eat a giant bag of dicks. Stop supporting them.
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