Originally posted by shak59:

Give everyone 5%-20% every month

Imagine, a generic single use 5% discount every month. Use on anything on the steam store.

Valve will be rolling in cashmoney.

And randomly sometimes it's like 20%-30%.

Imagine.

I would literally buy the whole store.

Why does Valve need to incentivize this?

They already did away with normal coupons, that no one used.

The one's paying for this discount would be Valve. What's in it for them?

You already have it
https://store.steampowered.com/specials#tab=TopSellers

Valve pays game developers the money you use to buy a game. If they forcibly sell games for a discount, who pays for it? The developer who did not agree to a sale? Valve? Some magical genie?

You are all not seeing the big picture.

Imagine you randomly got a one time 30% discount, right now, usable on a single basket of games, think of the thousands of dollars you would spend.

That's what I'm talking about here.

Thats how you get Yacht 7.

I like how people believe their ideas to be so unique that they must work only because it sounds nice on paper.

Originally posted by shak59:

You are all not seeing the big picture.

Imagine you randomly got a one time 30% discount, right now, usable on a single basket of games, think of the thousands of dollars you would spend.

That's what I'm talking about here.

Thats how you get Yacht 7.

GabeN owns the yacht company.

https://www.oceancoyacht.com/new-chapter-gabe-newell/

Originally posted by shak59:

think of the thousands of dollars you would spend.

May I ask how many games you currently got on steam?

Originally posted by shak59:

Imagine, a generic single use 5% discount every month. Use on anything on the steam store.

Valve will be rolling in cashmoney.

And randomly sometimes it's like 20%-30%.

Imagine.

I would literally buy the whole store.

How exactly would Valve be rolling in money when they would only be giving discounts for Valve games?

They cannot discount 3rd party games because they do not own the IP to dictate any price.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/pricing

Partners on Steam are responsible for setting and managing pricing for their products.

Secondly there are games on sale on Steam throughout the year, which is what the wishlist is for.

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Valve pays game developers the money you use to buy a game. If they forcibly sell games for a discount, who pays for it? The developer who did not agree to a sale? Valve? Some magical genie?

Worse than that.
Remember when EGs did something similar ...it lead to dev/pubs pulling their games. from sale.

Though it's rather hilarious. I mean the idea of a store giving you money to shop at their store kinda seems ass-backwards. Especially since what you give would generally offest if not eclips whatever you'd gain from the sale.

Valve is already rolling in money, no?

"But guys!!!! YoU hAvE tO sPeNd MoNeY tO mAkE mOnEy!!!!"

Originally posted by shak59:

Imagine, a generic single use 5% discount every month. Use on anything on the steam store.

Valve will be rolling in cashmoney.

And randomly sometimes it's like 20%-30%.

Imagine.

I would literally buy the whole store.

Already a thing, it's called sales.

And you already are buying a ton of games, 4K+.

/Have a nice day.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Valve pays game developers the money you use to buy a game. If they forcibly sell games for a discount, who pays for it? The developer who did not agree to a sale? Valve? Some magical genie?

Worse than that.
Remember when EGs did something similar ...it lead to dev/pubs pulling their games. from sale.

Though it's rather hilarious. I mean the idea of a store giving you money to shop at their store kinda seems ass-backwards. Especially since what you give would generally offest if not eclips whatever you'd gain from the sale.

It seems backwards because in your eyes Steam can do no wrong and is the perfect company but in reality discounts based on customer loyalty are extremely common and are offered by thousands and thousands of companies.

EGS tried something like this, developers complained.

The whole point of steam is that the developers control almost everything about how the sales work. Regional prices, discounts, when they go on sale and if they participate in seasonal or special events.

How much would you spend if you got a 30% off all purchases for 24 hours, right now?

Exactly. Quad digits. 1000's of dollars PER CUSTOMER flowing into Valve. In a single purchase.

Now imagine on a random day, per customer, once a year.

Money is money.

That 10 game becomes 7, insta buy. That 20 game becomes 14, insta buy, 30 becomes 21, insta insta buy. The hype alone would instantly double the cashflow.