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Rezzus Aug 18, 2023 @ 5:17am
Change on game price?
What do you think about this new update on game minimum price and transactions?

I honestly think it's horrible...

It destroyed completely the prices of other transactions and trades, p.e., the steam trading card bots rates increased a lot...
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Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:
Originally posted by Rezzus:
It destroyed completely the prices of other transactions and trades, p.e., the steam trading card bots rates increased a lot...

It has nothing to do with do with Steam Market (because it uses Steam Wallet). It only effects the store. It's entirely reasonable change as there is a cost associated with each transaction that Steam has to pay. Generally the cost is around 20-40 cents per transaction plus 0.5-5 % of entire transaction amount. Basically Steam barely breaks even at 0.49$ and Steam previously made a loss in any transaction bellow 0.49$. It's not different from Humble setting the minimum price for pay what you want bundles to 1$ as all those 0.01$ purchases made loss for them.
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Kargor Aug 18, 2023 @ 5:22am 
Trading card bots have absolutely nothing to do with Steam prices on low-effort games.

Just to put things into perspective: from what I read, the minimum price for a game is now $0.99 (and for sales it's $0.49?). Yes, there's the occasional DLC that cannot be purchased anymore --- although, right now, I'm not sure whether Steam actually makes this a min price on the items themselves, or as a min amount for a transaction (in which case you could still get cheaper stuff, as long as there's enough other stuff in your purchase to kick you over the limit).

How many games cost less than $0.99 without being F2P? And, how many of those do you ACTUALLY want to play?


Card bots swap cards; there's no money involved at all.
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Crazy Tiger Aug 18, 2023 @ 5:29am 
I don't really see an issue with it, no.
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eram Aug 18, 2023 @ 5:31am 
still an issue but now it costs more
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2204850/Spooky_Men/
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Anonymous Helper Aug 18, 2023 @ 5:31am 
Originally posted by Rezzus:
It destroyed completely the prices of other transactions and trades, p.e., the steam trading card bots rates increased a lot...

It has nothing to do with do with Steam Market (because it uses Steam Wallet). It only effects the store. It's entirely reasonable change as there is a cost associated with each transaction that Steam has to pay. Generally the cost is around 20-40 cents per transaction plus 0.5-5 % of entire transaction amount. Basically Steam barely breaks even at 0.49$ and Steam previously made a loss in any transaction bellow 0.49$. It's not different from Humble setting the minimum price for pay what you want bundles to 1$ as all those 0.01$ purchases made loss for them.
Last edited by Anonymous Helper; Aug 18, 2023 @ 5:36am
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Rezzus Aug 18, 2023 @ 5:37am 
Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:
Originally posted by Rezzus:
It destroyed completely the prices of other transactions and trades, p.e., the steam trading card bots rates increased a lot...

It has nothing to do with do with Steam Market (because it uses Steam Wallet). It only effects the store. It's entirely reasonable change as there is a cost associated with each transaction that Steam has to pay. Generally the cost is around 20-40 cents per transaction plus 0.5-5 % of entire transaction amount. Basically Steam barely breaks even at 0.49$ and Steam previously made a loss in any transaction bellow 0.49$.
Ah ok, then i understood it wrong. Thanks for the clear answer :steamhappy:
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