Which bundle to get?

[Kurai Shidosha]

Title.

[HK714]

Everything.

[AyMazingATS]

My two cents: West Coast Bundle.

[Shogal]

I bought "American Truck Simulator Enchanted Bundle" - because it's on reasonable discounts at this moment.

"American Truck Simulator West Coast Bundle" has two products without discounts at this sale (and one with -30%), so it's no significant difference if you buy it now or after Summer Sale ends (providing you already have base game bought with the first bundle), so it's not time to hurry up and to buy it in current Summer Sale, if you have a limited budget.

Also, price of "American Truck Simulator Enchanted Bundle" on this sale is almost the same as base game, just dollar or few more (depending on your regional price), bundle +30% discount bonus almost negates the costs of extra DLCs on it.

[AyMazingATS]

West Coast Bundle is just over the cost of the base game when not one sale at $21.24.

You also miss the two newest map expansions - - Oregon and Washington on the Enchanted Bundle.

Take the $8.28 for Enchanted an add in Oregon/Washington. Brings you to $28.66.

Now take the West Coast Bundle and add in New Mexico, Wheel Tuning, Steering Creations, and Heavy Cargo...which equals $28.10. Quite a bit cheaper.

Plus in the West Coast Bundle you get an additional DLC...Forest Machinery. You can add an additional $4.99 onto the Enchanted bundle for this.

[Shogal]

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

West Coast Bundle is just over the cost of the base game when not one sale at $21.24.

You also miss the two newest map expansions...Oregon and Washington.

Take the $8.28 for Enchanted an add in Oregon/Washington. Brings you to $28.66.

Now take the West Coast Bundle and add in Wheel Tuning, Steering Creations, and Heavy Cargo...which equals $24.51.

West Coat bundle is the better deal.

But you can buy both bundles, and you won't pay twice for base game (because bundle price automatically recalculates when you have some products from it already in your steam library).

And it's more feasible than to buy one bundle and to add missing components to it out-of-bundle.

[AyMazingATS]

To come to my figures...which you apparently did not see corrections because of edits....I took each bundle an added the appropriate item costs from the DLC pages. I did not include any additional bundle discounts.

It is still cheaper to start out with the West Coast Bundle as it includes an additional DLC that costs $4.99 which is not on sale.

[Shogal]

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

As I said in my edits that you apparently haven't seen...it is still cheaper to go with the West Coast Bundle first...especially if you are buying all the content.

Okay, let's calculate.
American Truck Simulator Enchanted Bundle costs $8.28 itself, and it costs $4.79 if you already own base game.
American Truck Simulator West Coast Bundle costs $21.24 itself, and it costs $17.75 if you already own base game.

So, if you buy the first bundle, then the second one, it will cost $8.28 + $17.75 = $26.03
If you buy the second bundle, then the first one, it will cost $21.24 + $4.79 = $26.03

Which is the same.

[AyMazingATS]

I was trying to do this without having to create another account to view a shopping cart as you can't add bundles of games you already own.

I stand corrected.

[Shogal]

Now let's calculate advanced scenario, when one bundle is bought on summer sale, and the other is bought after summer sale.

For simplicity, let's call base game B, first bundle B1, second bundle B2, and B1\B means bundle 1 providing the base game is already in steam library. Sale prices marked with '.

Summer Sale prices:
B' = 4.99
B1' = 8.28
B2' = 21.24
B1'\B = 4.79
B2'\B = 17.75
As we calculated previously,
B1' + B2'\B = 8.28 + 17.75 = 26.03
B2' + B1'\B = 21.24 + 4.79 = 26.03
This means you can't cheat Gabe by manipulating bundle purchase orders.

Now let's look out-of-sale prices:
B = 19.99
B1 = 30.05
B2 = 34.26
B1\B = 16.06
B2\B = 20.27
So, if we buy B1' and B2\B, we get: 8.28 + 20.27 = 28.55
If we buy B2' and B1\B, we get: 21.24 + 16.06 = 37.3

So, buying West Coast Bundle on sale and Enchanted Bundle out of sale is $10 more expensive than vice versa.

[Kurai Shidosha]

Alright I bought the Enchanted bundle. Thanks Shogal.

[Shogal]

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

I was trying to do this without having to create another account to view a shopping cart

It's not necessary, you can just figure out how final bundle price is calculated (for partial purchased bundles) and do some math.
For each game in bundle, just subtract 30% of price and round it down, then sum them all (skip games that are already in library). It's how bundle prices work on Steam.
You can test this formula with any bundles where you have some products purchased, but instead of -30% the discount may vary.