When I Buy Skyrim Legendary Edition ...

u dont get a skyrim gift

Get the quakecon pack!

You won't get any extra shit unless it is mentioned otherwise.

Though there's few exceptions.

Meh, that Sucks...

And I don't understand why there is no Extra Copy o.O

I mean, I would pay for it like other buyers, which don't already have Skyrim, so why should I get less for the same money :O

That's not really fair :(

The closest analogy I can think of is... It's like you have dinner. And when you're done and full, someone invites you to an all you can eat buffet. You can go, but in order to eat, you have to pay full price, and you don't get to take home any leftovers. That's what you get for eating first. If you don't like it, just buy what you want. Instead of ordering the buffet, order what you want separately.

I still think devs and Steam lose out on not giving copies for games you have already, my friend wanted to buy the quakecon pack but owned a couple games and that swayed him away from it, thus Steam/Devs losses 90 dollars.

Some games have extra copies if you own them but they are mostly Valve's own games. They have a list somewhere. It's kind of sad that they don't just offer an upgrade or just give them to their loyal first day buyers. Instead, people like me who deliberately waiting for the legendary edition get rewarded with DLC so cheap it might as well have been free.

The Legendary edition is a combo pack of the game and its DLCs.

When you buy a combo pack on Steam, it's cheaper than buying the pieces individually. This makes sense for them to offer, since there's an incentive to buy the whole thing even if the customer might otherwise have bought just one item. For example, if two games cost $5 each but cost $7 together, someone who's mainly interested in one of the games might still buy the pack since it then effectively has 60% discount on the other game. By selling this pack, they make a $7 sale instead of a $5 sale.

However, if these combo packs could be split apart into tradeable gifts, it would be different. Two players could pay a total of $7 and each get the game they want. Instead of an incentive to buy something you might otherwise not have bought, it just becomes a general discount.

And that would also apply to the idea of getting giftable copies of the games you already have in your library; there would just be fewer opportunities to perform such a split. The example I gave would still work; it would just require that one of the players already own the game they don't want.

Note that I'm not really supporting this system; I'm just explaining why it exists. Personally, I'd love it if there was some way to get combo pack discounts without the wasted payment for games you already have. It's especially annoying when there's a "complete" version of a game, but then they add more DLCs, leaving you the option of either missing out on those DLCs, or buying them separately without the bundle discount, or buying the whole new "complete" version (and hoping it doesn't happen again).