The change in price for lots of steam games (North American Steam Store)

for example: Batman AC is $30 instead of $50 now
LOTR War in north is $20 instead of $50
Borderlands is $20 instead of $30
Fallout 3 GOTY $20 instead of $30

theres a bunch more i cant think of atm.

its pretty sweet that NA steam store is finally reducing the prices a bit, but I was just wondering what made them decide to do this o.0

any ideas?

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Game prices fall. I assume Steam follows the rest of the retailers and have some sort of "recommended retail pirce".
Of course this is not true if you live in Oceania where the prices stay at a flat 200% mark-up, because fuck you.

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Because it costs millions to flip everything upsidedown, and to translate english to australian.

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+1

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+1

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Don't they do this ... all the time? After a few months prices go down. And wasn't Fallout 3 at 20$ for a few good months now?

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I don't think it has anything to do with the store, just the fact the games have been out for awhile and generally people don't play as many games in the summer (yay good weather) so it makes it a good time to drop the price

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has to do with MSRP, and the fact that they need to stay competitive with the other Digital retailers out there. no one will buy Batman AC on steam for $50 where its $30 on Impulse, only thing that would stall people from this is Achievements.

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Yeah, but retailers don't usually mark down prices, they take there sweet ass time.

steam does do this all the time but only with a few games at a time. ive seen bunch of games going down in price in the last 2 months or so.

That would make sense Monukai, drop prices as a last ditch effort to increase sales since summer is near and new releases are just around the corner and what not

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Every game's price drops after a while, it's normal. When released it can cost $60 after 6months price will fall to $40 and after 2years it will fall to $20. Nothing unusual

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The prices have dropped in the UK store as well.

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Yerp

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It's because of the goty coming out probably

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It's probably more of a price update, since you can find most of these games way cheaper on stores. For example, here on Spain I saw Saints Row the Third for 20 € (on Steam was at 50 €, now reduced at 30 €), Fallout New Vegas at 5 €, and a lot more games cheaper than those on Steam. Too bad that CoD saga is still way overpriced as hell, if only I could only pay for the single player campaigns.

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Games are old? Or alot of steam users have em so they want the rest of people to buy em....

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Wasn't Portal 1 originally like $19.99?

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None of that's new, OP... :/

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actually... batman ac, lotr, and a few others just reduced there prices in the past few days, the others are just examples.

and every1 is saying prices always go down and I understand that. What im sayin is that lots of games got reduced in price whereas they weren't reduced in other retail stores, etc.

If every old game gets prices reduced, pretty much every game should have dropped in price which did not happen

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If games are on US Steam on sale for 5$, in German Steam the Price is 5€...but it should be 3,80€...

They always calculate the price 1:1 instead of using the Dollar course..

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Well it's not always true. Some games are actually cheaper in € than in $ (e.g. Dead Space 1, and it was true also during the recent sale) but yes, does look like majority of it is done this way, it's like default action for Steam unless publisher specifically sets different prices.

As for the OP, well that's kinda normal, prices drop with time as more people already have the game, publishers got their ROI etc.

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Not only on Steam, I see that in more sites as well (GamersGate, GreenMan, etc...). Same publishers.

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Closed 12 years ago by OmarDMQ.