Steam Is Scrapping 95% Off Sales and Discounts With New Initiative
An upcoming Steam update, whichwill change several game discount rules, will remove sales lower than 10% and higher than 90%. The highly-successful digital distribution platform, created by video game developer and publisher Valve, maintains a library of thousands of games that continues to grow daily. Changes to sale and discount rules on Steam were announced on February 6, though few details were provided at the time.
Steam has become a premier distribution platform for PC games, with the service currently hosting thousands of AAA and indie titles for users to browse through. Valve offers frequent updates to the platform's user interface, ensuring a modern experience with quality-of-life improvements such as the recently-added ability to see how much space a game will take up on a PC. Another major draw for Steam is its frequent sales, which allow patient gamers to purchase new titles at a bargain. Sales are held seasonally, meaning gamers can confidently wait to buy games until the next big sale. The Steam 2021 Winter Sale discounted thousands of games, with half-off deals for popular titles like Horizon Zero Dawn and Deathloop.
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A newly-released Steamworks document outlines the adjustments coming to Steam's discount system. These changes, which will take effect on March 28, will add a mandatory 28-day period between separate discount promotions. Custom discounts also cannot last for more than two weeks or for less than a single day. However, perhaps the most dramatic change is that Steam discounts must now be greater than 10% and less than 90%. This removes the platform's exciting 95%-off sales, likely to the disappointment of many users.
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