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It actually is still 19.99 on Epic, Epic just does coupons they pay for themselves. Ubisoft still gets 19.99 for R6 Siege.
Valve cannot really force publishers to set prices, neither can Epic.
Valve does do coupons as well though, just in their summer / winter sales, and we've got about a month left before the Steam Summer Sale hits, whereas Epic did theirs a few days ago.
That site never was and will never be legit. They very recently admitted to have stolen keys sold through their website. Some developpers even said in the past that they would prefer to have players pirate their games instead of buying them on this website.
This website is not legit and all the keys you buy on it can be revoked at any time.
I always shop were its cheaper these days, I even subscribe to xbox games pass and EA access to play my games because in the long run, im saving money. Money better spend on my house (old person way of thinking).
The fact that any savvy gamer can go and find a game somewhere else like Fanatical or any other legitimate key retailer for a fraction of the price - even more so in a bundle - than it is on here is just an aside.
Even when there is a 75% 'sale'.
Ocassionally they do a very good deal that even I get, but that is maybe once every year or two.
People who buy on Steam do so out of loyalty even if they can buy a key for a 10th of the price somewhere else legitimately.
They call it loyalty, I would call it something else.
Loyalty is a strong bond not easy broken. Anyway what would you call it m8 ?
I have a story that happen only a few weeks ago on the GTA 5 forums.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/4111168970111060262/?ctp=4
This user bought GTA 5 on steam for full price despite epic giving GTA 5 away for free. Just because he doesn't like epic. Now this is the kind of customer any business wants to hold on too.
And even if some people may be loyal to Steam, Steam is loyal to noone. I'm here since 2007, and had experience of that. You can say it by me using less than 1 year old account - with over 1k games. Steam took my prevous account (Steam itself, it wasnt stolen or something) and i rebuild library + purchace new games
You sound like a lawyer in court lol. I been on steam since 2003, was loyal at one time to steam but over the years I started to realise that steam wasn't loyal to me. Then my mindset changed and realised I must look out for number one, me. If I can buy something cheaper at another shop I will do.
This way of think, I must of saved tens of thousands of UK pounds over the years buying items, products, games, clothes, even cars from different places instead of my favourite shop due to stupid loyalty.
I bought Half Life in 2003, so have twice the Steam 'experience' than you do.
And yet I can go to any other retail site most days and find more innovation and interest than I do in multiple years here.
The last most notable thing I can think of that happened on Steam was L4D2 for for free Christmas 2013.
7 years ago is the last noteworthy thing - other than dud event participation - that I associate with this platform.
And as for blind tribal loyalty - a terrible blight on Mankind that cause so much death and misery across the world throughout history.
All you have to do is look at most regions of the world to see what it did in the past and still does today in places like the Middle East.
I hate the EGS so much I paid ten times the price of Far Cry 4 on Steam to give one to Epic Games.
That really tawt em!
LOL, that'll shown em. Ubisoft is laughing all the way to the bank.
Btw, reminds me of people who purchace iphones to break those because doesnt like USA :)
a) I did what I said
b) I have better things to spend money on, have no loyalty to corporate institutions and pocketed the £45 difference
I like to let people choose their own reality, so either is good for me.
Actually, the Steam store gets pretty good deals as well, sometimes. Not likely to happen on the huge summer/Christmas sales; outside of titles that probably can't or don't want to afford it, discounts tend to be worse on these (in my experience, anyway).
I've also had cases where a discount improved on other stores, and then Steam got the same one slightly *later*. And, of course, there are games that aren't sold through other shops at all.
When I got my "first" (real) game on Steam, which actually was a DVD with a Steam key from Amazon, I was kind of "angry" with myself, thinking I could have gotten the game even cheaper on Steam directly (because no DVD, no packaging, no storage place, no shipping). Turns out, the game was priced at SRP in the Steam store; I quickly learned that online stores always have SRP prices unless they put games on a sale, whereas cheap DVD games are basically always on sale.
With that in mind, I don't even look at game prices outside of sales. I'm not interested in pre-ordering or getting bugged+incomplete games at launch day anyway; I've always gotten games rather late in their lifetime.
Which is perfectly fine. If a lot of people buy it outside of sales at $60, then it's the best move the publisher could have made. If people only buy it on sales, then it's something the publisher just accepts. If people don't buy it at all because they think even the sales price is too high, the publisher is just stupid. If the game doesn't even go on sales, maybe the guy responsible for it left and nobody took over :-)
It's on them, though. They should know the basics of how pricing affects sales numbers, and part of their job should be to find the sweet spot that maximizes the revenue. Which is also a moving target, as people that are willing to spend more will also pay less, so you have to start high and find the appropriate times to go lower.
'Sales' are something akin to broadcast television - only a small out of touch minority actually wait to use either and haven't for 5+ years.
Once there was one key retailer and you had to wait for a scheduled event to get games at a discount.
Yes the events were massive and I used to look up the leaked dates of when they started, again 5+ years ago now.
Now and for quite a while, there are so many quality online game retailers that most games are 'on sale' on rotation.
You don't look at them when Steam tells you to now, you simply look at the sites regularly - I look around once a week - because they change so quickly.
Which is where my analogy about broadcast television comes in - you can stick to whatever your local terrestrial/satellite broadcaster wants you to watch when they want you to watch or you could subscribe to a reasonably priced streaming service and watch what you want when you want.
Even if you choose not to subscribe you could have had a PVR for over 20 years to record your own library to watch when you want and not when they choose to broadcast it.
Christmas used to be a time for blockbuster film premieres, for quite a while it is now just broadcasting what everyone has already seen on streaming.
If you choose to live in a dictatorial monopoly old world - fine by me, personally I like the new consumer choice one that I live in.