Steam is changing bundle pricing, bundles to cost less if you own some of included games

It should always have been like this, seeing as you don't get a gift copy of games you already own.

they probably only doing that so we don't notice that

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If your still paying less for the games you do not own,you are still saving...

People are just ticked because it not the same discount,people just want to have there cake and eat it also,they give you a way to save money and not buy all the games for one set price..

And people are up in in arms because the discount is a bit lower even if you still pay less then all the games

Then they sometimes wonder why PC players get treated like they do,as you can not please them at times even when they try do something to help they find something to pick apart.Valve finds a way to help you save over buying a whole package but since the discount is lower but still saves you more then buying the whole package..people pick that apart.

I sometimes think some pc gamers have become entitled pricks lol :) Thinking everything should always be fair and how they want it.

I am glad they finally did this,there been quiet a few games i never bought the base game just to try it because it would be better to and cheaper to buy the whole package then try it,then later add the missing DLC if you so wanted.Now if this moves to all packages with DLC or Franchise packs.I will be more willing to buy the base game and add stuff later as i can afford it.

Wait wait wait.

If i want buy Overlord bundle, and get first game. I will got in lower price?

This is very nice, especially for episodic games like RE Rev2 where a lot of people got episode 1 but the discount for the upgrade was just temporary, now we have to pay the same as people that don't own episode 1. This game isn't included yet in this new method, but hopefully it will soon.

there is a bug with the " valve complete pack " pack.... i got l4d2 from that free holiday christmas promo back 2 years ago,and right now the steam page is telling be i am only missing two games from valve and the price of the pack would be 13.50€... but when i add it to the cart it's 22.50€.

Individual price of the 17 items you don't already have: 40,35€
Bundle discount: 15%
Your cost: 34,28€
Here's what you save by buying this bundle 6,07€

Slightly cheaper than the full bundle but I'll need a couple more examples before I blindly trust the system

Thank fucking goodness. Hopefully this gets more fully implemented and works right.

More love for STEAM:)

More bundled games incoming.

meh, still useless. better to wait for a 3rd party site to bundle games.

i'd rather have them giving me the copies i already own from a package, instead of having those games magically disappear into thin air... *facepalm*

yea, sounds like a positive change i have passed on many sales because i had already had the base game etc.
lets hope for some good price glitch's as they work out the bugs lol

It seems like a nice concept but as the comments of this thread has shown... they are not doing this in a way that's best for us...

Has potential to be good, I'd like if there was an option to take the full bundle and get what you already own as an item in your inventory that you can gift, but since so many of those don't do that a discount is a nice alternative.

It is nice that they are doing that, and long overdue, it would be even better if they gave us the option to either take the discounted price based on the games we already own in the bundle, or, pay the regular price, and receive a giftable copy of the games we already own.

It's a nice idea that definitely deserves to be shoved up Bethesda's pricing policy.

Honestly I'd rather get a choice of a discount if I already have part of the bundle, or giftable copies.

In some cases the extra discount for having a game already might be only pennies, especially if it's a base game that they're selling a lot of DLC for. In that case it'd be worth it to pay the normal bundle price but get a giftable copy of that extra base game to give a buddy who is even poorer than me :)

Meh, can't buy gifts of these new style bundles. Bleh.

So basically, Steam is now running bundles the way GOG has been for years.

I haven't recived any cut on the price by buying the bundle owning 1 game

Wow, and it only took them a decade since i noticed most bundles cost more than just buying the games separately, if you already had a couple of them.

It's not Steam's fault when sellers are to stupid to set up their bundle discounts properly. I could profit from additional discounts occasionally so not all is lost.