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72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
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What business would want to sell a product at the same low price all the time. They want to sell it at the highest price possible, but will have sales to also reach more price sensitive consumers over time as those willing to pay more decreases. But, not keep it permanently low to sell games to consumers who would pay more between sales.
Anyways when it comes to this comment I had responded to.
Point of my comment to them in providing data of ARC Raiders being cheaper outside of Steam is that in actual real world cases Steam copies have and are being sold cheaper than on Steam. And its not the exception as data from isthereanydeals shows.
Steam does require price parity, and the fact that Arc Raiders were cheaper at some point doesn't prove otherwise. Promotions and discounts are acceptable; the goal is for the price to be consistent.
So people being able to buy steam keys cheaper than from Steam doesn't prove that games can be bought cheaper than on Steam? What?
And even Valve says
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
Comparable not same. Which provides a lot of flexibility on discounts outside the steam store. And isthereanydeals data that tracks all the prices over the years showing that your claims don't match the reality of steam keys not going on sale cheaper than on Steam sales.
But, you seem to live in your own reality so we are just arguing in circles. You ignoring real sales prices and just fixating on some imaginary price outcomes where Steam key sales prices aren't cheaper than Steam sales.
Jesus Christ. You are ignoring the actual meaning of price parity and focusing on the meaning of the phrase "Basically don’t sell steam copies anywhere cheaper than on steam." which is correct for a basic summary of the policy.
No you dumb fuck, I never say on this stupid thread that the sales price aren't cheaper, what you see to not understand is that SALES price is not what the Steam policy care, I said in my first response, they can change the price IF they give a discount.