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What's up with all the $99 games with a 95+% discount on Steam? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My guess would be that heavily discounted games might be getting an advantage by the steam recommendation algorithm. So they'd rather go for 99,99 and constantly discount it instead of starting with 4,99