95% discounts?

[Nico]

The Steam docs say the maximum possible discount is 90%
yet I've bought alien isolation for 95% off before, and currently xcom 2 is 94% off.

So who is wrong here? or devs need special approval or something to go above 90%?


(100% discounts do not count, steam tags that as free games and disables card drops for them)

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

The rules are changing March 28 as noted in the notice at the top of the page, you were probably looking at the updated rules, on the current rules that isn't listed.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/discounts

[Nico]

right I read the updated rules in the news saying "Steam will now have more discounts"
That means they're restricting them to 90% now? makes no sense to make them more restrictive

[JPMcMillen]

Originally posted by Nico:

right I read the updated rules in the news saying "Steam will now have more discounts"
That means they're restricting them to 90% now? makes no sense to make them more restrictive

By more discounts they mean that games can go on sale more frequently. The current cooldown between sales is 6 weeks. With the change it will only be 4 weeks.

[Nico]

yes the new article details the new frequency the most,
I'm curious about the sale %, only the updated article mentions to be limited to 90, yet as of now before the update, sales above 90% have been VERY rare, there's only these 2 given examples, i would say there has not been much more of them.
One would assume that the update only changes the sale frequency, and that the 90% limit is only documented now, but has always been there.
It could be as easy as entering a developer account and check how discounts are scheduled.

[Lithurge]

Originally posted by Nico:

yes the new article details the new frequency the most,
I'm curious about the sale %, only the updated article mentions to be limited to 90, yet as of now before the update, sales above 90% have been VERY rare, there's only these 2 given examples, i would say there has not been much more of them.
One would assume that the update only changes the sale frequency, and that the 90% limit is only documented now, but has always been there.
It could be as easy as entering a developer account and check how discounts are scheduled.

Lack of evidence doesn't prove anything. Given the only evidence we have does show that games can have a deeper than 90% discount currently and the new rules explicitly restrict the discount to 90%, with the old stating it is not possible to discount 100%, then the most likely conclusion to draw is that currently devs can discount up to and including 99%.

The most likely explanation as to why there aren't many discounted that far is because the returns aren't worth it, i.e. the extra amount you'll sell at 95% will generate less profit than selling less at 80%.

You are correct that the only way to definitively prove this is true is for a dev to confirm what options they can set currently.

[Faskduh]

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

The rules are changing March 28 as noted in the notice at the top of the page, you were probably looking at the updated rules, on the current rules that isn't listed.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/discounts

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[Faskduh]

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