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commander@lemmy.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 days ago

Valve Could Add a 30-Day Price History to Steam Games

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Valve Could Add a 30-Day Price History to Steam Games

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commander@lemmy.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 days ago
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Valve is implementing a number of new changes to its Steam platform, all aimed at enhancing the quality of the user experience for gamers. One of the latest updates involves adding a 30-day price history to all listed games. This feature will allow buyers to see if a game's price has changed recentl...
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    Up to two years of price history here:

    https://steamdb.info/

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      https://isthereanydeal.com/ has 3 years of price history and tracks valid 3rd party stores too (not greymarket sites like G2A).

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        Price histories for games on both ITAD and gg.deals seem to go back to 2014.

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          I forgot that since I usually just check 6 months/1y/3y but they do huh. Even better!

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      *while not signed in. Once you do, you’ll get access to the full historical data

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    Already mentioned but I’ll second https://isthereanydeal.com/ as existing.

    That said, Valve has a fairly generous refund policy and the real kicker would be if Valve would automatically give you the better deal if the price drops within the refund window, backed up by such a feature. I heard them doing that before but it was only special cases, iirc, and the period is only 14 days but still.

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      At the cart window before paying, there can be a notice if the game is available for cheaper price in a bundle in example. There were a few such cases in the past, which saved me a few Euros. I don’t know if any of the other store fronts on PC does that, let alone on console.

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    … obviously. They run the platform. They could do lots of things.

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    Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steam-database/

    Shows information directly on every page for game. I customized the settings and for me the most relevant information displayed are the lowest recorded price and how many players the game has.

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    Like, cool, but isthereanydeal exists. 30 days is not really that long to be useful imho.

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    feel like valve is retaliating against the gaming industry for its bad behavior recently

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    They should do a limited trial. Maybe just start with factorio?

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