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Any recommendations from the Steam Spring Sale? (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by Forgottengoldfish@lemmy.world to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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[–] index@sh.itjust.works -2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Can someone explain videogames sales to me? How can a game be 12$ and 8.99$ the day after?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 minutes ago

The same way your grocery can be selling something for $10 one day and put it on sale for $6 the day after.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 3 points 5 hours ago

Can you elaborate where your confusion lies? It's a digital good, there is no marginal cost. So they can pretty much price a game however they want. So pricing is mostly about maximising revenue, i.e. get as many sales as you can at the highest possible price.

A sale is a relatively straightforward strategy where you first sell the game at a high price to all the people who are fine with paying a lot, then you lower the price to sell more copies to the people who weren't willing to pay the higher price. The result is more total profit. There is a time limit too to create a sense of urgency ("I better buy now so I don't miss the opportunity").

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Its for the people that only buy when its a "good deal". Its usually for old games that are well liked or for newer games that are maybe a year old now. The non sale price is for people who can't wait for the discount. Sorta like waiting for a movie to go to video/streaming rather than go to the theater.