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Steam to add a 30-day price history feature for games

I think PSN does that too? I swear I saw that the other day. Pretty cool!

Awesome feature to let me know that my FOMO radar has been pathetically weak in the last 30 days and I need to up my game.
 
Topher said:
True, but you give up the 2 hour/2 week refund option when you buy outside of Steam.
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Sometimes they even make exceptions to those rules. I have received refunds outside both periods. Hell they even refunded ppl with hundreds of hours due to scummy devs/broken products.
 
The Cockatrice said:
Sometimes they even make exceptions to those rules. I have received refunds outside both periods. Hell they even refunded ppl with hundreds of hours due to scummy devs/broken products.
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Yeah.....stuff like that is why, if I'm iffy on a game, then I'd definitely rather pull the trigger in Steam than elsewhere. Good to have options though.
 
Topher said:
True, but you give up the 2 hour/2 week refund option when you buy outside of Steam.
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Good point. I've only used that feature 2-3 times. I think in the long run, I still would have spent less money if I bought those games on a keyshop and was stuck with them. I guess another thing to consider is that (I'm assuming) you don't get Steam Shop points for redeeming a key.
 
Did they do this voluntarily or did someone have to sue them like Australia did for the refund stuff (thank you, Aussies!)?

If they did this voluntarily, then the actual reason is probably not because they love their customers but rather something that either saves them money or any other hassle.
 
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The Cockatrice said:
There already is a 30 day price history in Europe at least. They're probably updating how it looks.
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In Europe it's to prevent "fake sales". Where they put the price up before claiming a massive percentage sale/price drop. They can still do it though by maintaining an inflated price for a month. The best thing to do is to just look at price trackers and not rely on the stores themselves.
 
Hudo said:
Did they do this voluntarily or did someone have to sue them like Australia did for the refund stuff (thank you, Aussies!)?

If they did this voluntarily, then the actual reason is probably not because they love their customers but rather something that either saves them money or any other hassle.
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Continuing to add features and value to their store is how Valve maintains Steam's popularity. This isn't new.
 
Valve constantly stealing my ideas from years ago
 
Hudo said:
Did they do this voluntarily or did someone have to sue them like Australia did for the refund stuff (thank you, Aussies!)?

If they did this voluntarily, then the actual reason is probably not because they love their customers but rather something that either saves them money or any other hassle.
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This might shock you, but no company out here is "pro-consumer" out of the kindness of their hearts.

That said, whether it's required by law or not, Steam is definitely ahead of Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo when it comes to overall amount & polish of useful, beneficial platform features in addition to breadth of content.

Which is funny because a lot of PS and Xbox guys are now thinking just making a handful of games per year exclusive will suddenly make their platforms equal to or better than stuff like Steam in areas of content quantity and features, but IMO it doesn't. Sony's releasing 1-2 single-player games per year now internally, and those are the only games the rumor of exclusivity pertain to. Xbox might be releasing more games, but when they're the quality of things like Starfield on PS5, who gives a shit?
 
I think is based on this, which is an EU Law "Unfair pricing". In my country you are not allowed to promote a "promo price" if is not lower than the minimum price available in the last 30 days. Is applying even on the discount on cash register and not in price, so is very strict.

Unfair Pricing

Misleading price reduction claims

Price reduction claims such as "was € 50, now € 25" can be misleading if the initial selling price (known as "anchor price") has been inflated. In all EU countries traders are obliged, when offering a discount, to indicate the lowest price applied to the item at least 30 days before the announcement of the price reduction.
This information allows you as a consumer to assess whether the discount is genuine or not.
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:
This might shock you, but no company out here is "pro-consumer" out of the kindness of their hearts.

That said, whether it's required by law or not, Steam is definitely ahead of Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo when it comes to overall amount & polish of useful, beneficial platform features in addition to breadth of content.

Which is funny because a lot of PS and Xbox guys are now thinking just making a handful of games per year exclusive will suddenly make their platforms equal to or better than stuff like Steam in areas of content quantity and features, but IMO it doesn't. Sony's releasing 1-2 single-player games per year now internally, and those are the only games the rumor of exclusivity pertain to. Xbox might be releasing more games, but when they're the quality of things like Starfield on PS5, who gives a shit?
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That doesn't shock me because that was exactly my point.
 
Wow thought this was already a thing.

Noticed PSN has been doing it for a long time. Good to see they are following suit, it's handy to see that information.
 
More of Valve doing a thing because of laws in one large region, but still nice nonetheless.

Plenty of other features in Steam beneficial to consumers I'm still waiting on others to replicate though.
 
diffusionx said:
PSN has been doing this for a while
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What? I'm pretty sure I've seen this for months and months (EU).

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Yeah "Normal price", "Lowest 30 days", "Now"
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Once again something that's standard in EU is introduced to the rest of the world. ;)

Even with this feature I still use other sites to check the entire price history, especially the lowest price on record.
 
So EU requires this but fucking Epic Game Store still don't have it.

So I guess Steam deserves praise here, good job Valve.
 
ok .. so .. if someone misses a sale, will this also allow them to buy something within that 30 day price history?

other than for cataloguing purposes, what is this serving the buyer?
 
Still not as good as the info I get from extensions like Augmented Steam and SteamDB, which show the lowest price the game has ever reached and when that happened but hey, better than nothing and way more transparent than the competition
 
adamsapple said:
ok .. so .. if someone misses a sale, will this also allow them to buy something within that 30 day price history?

other than for cataloguing purposes, what is this serving the buyer?
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You learn how much discount that game can get and you get to decide if you want to wait for it to reach that low price again or if it's not worth the wait and buy it at full price right now.
 
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