Interesting little thing. Too bad they didn't include Battleborn in there; that would have messed up the trends a bit. =)
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In all honesty, the game was a flop. They got desperate.
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Oh yeah, I know. This is why it would set things off; how long did it take to get bundled? I cannot recall if it was 3 or 5 months.
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But the average wouldn't be impacted all that much. The article even discusses the impact of one big outlier per year, discounted half off within 3 months.
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It was the $15 tier though, so at least there's that.
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That's actually pretty interesting. It won't change how or when I buy my games, but the information is interesting nonetheless.
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Is there any way to know the number of owners of a steam game?
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Thanks this was useful. Anyway how can number of owners drop by 50k in a month for ertain games?
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SteamSpy gives educated guesses based on statistical analysis of available data; Steam itself doesn't disclose the exact amount of owners.
Also, many games now are refunded. Either because the owner really didn't like or could run it, but there are also card farming refunds and the bought/fake/joke review refunds. And on top of all that, people can now remove games from their accounts, and sometimes one just gets fed up with all the pointless bundle clutter in their library and starts getting rid of them.
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"I mean, when else are you going to play that copy of Bad Rats?"
xD
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ill be back to bump this thread in 7 months when its on sale
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Ah, just watch, they will return flash sales and screw up all those stats again.
Either that, or we should all just be patient consumers / collectors and see if the game goes on sale in about 7-9 months to a price range we prefer.
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They will not return flash sales - even through discounts were noticeably lower during Winter 2015 and Summer 2016 sales (according to SteamSpy, in case of Summer Sale 2016, it was around 15% lower than during Summer Sale 2015), number of purchases were much bigger than in previous years.
We got to the point when they could make -1% sales for Xmas and people would still praise them and buy games in millions...
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I failed in making my first line in that comment sound sarcastic enough. I am sorry.
I read the article. I do agree, sadly, that Valve is getting more and more greedy and we could possibly be seeing the start of the downfall of Steam.
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Ahh, tes, the old "can't give my tone though text" problem.
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I thought this was an interesting article worth bringing to people's attention ..
How long does it take games to be cheap on Steam?
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