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tongsau5150 30 Aug @ 12:20am

The Problem With Steam

isn't the platform, as a platform it works fine, the problem is the way these games are priced on the platform, modern games are garbage, and games older than a year or 10 years are priced at more than they were when released, Games aren't worth the prices steam ask. and people aren't buying this garbage. Purchasing overpriced ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games on steam is what fools do.

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Zarineth 30 Aug @ 12:21am

Considering, that prices are not set by Steam, your take seems to be pretty flawed.

datCookie 30 Aug @ 12:23am

Originally posted by Zarineth:
Considering, that prices are not set by Steam, your take seems to be pretty flawed. :LWN_LittleBlackCat:

Not only this but, the OP has already made a thread on this topic.

Why make another?

Sciencemile 30 Aug @ 12:26am

Very few games maintain or raise their price on steam 10 years past release date, and in fact the prices when they don’t change nominally effectively continue to lower over time with sales at deeper and deeper discounts.

People wouldn’t have these huge backlogs otherwise.

FFL2and3rocks 30 Aug @ 12:42am

As you were told in your other thread, "Steam" doesn't set the prices. Nobody's stopping you from selling a game on Steam and only charging a dollar for it.

Crazy Tiger 30 Aug @ 12:45am

Why a new thread? https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/0/601913886224151810/

Anyway, the answers don't change. Prices are the same across various shops, that alone shows it's not a Steam issue.

That said, that older games have to be priced lower is something people make up because they try to compare two different business models (physical vs digital) and don't understand how either actually works. There is no set rule or anything for how pricing works.

Last edited by Crazy Tiger; 30 Aug @ 12:45am