Why steam doesn't have any student discounts?

[Jade]

Even our local bubble-tea shop gives us a discount

[Aluvard]

Because they have no method to verify that you're student? Your local shop still demands that you'll show your student card as a proof.

[wesnef]

Why would an international game store have student discounts? The people who have student discounts are 1) shops that are local to colleges, to encourage students to go there, and 2) computer/etc companies, to encourage students to buy their computers/OSes/etc (ie, the campus computer shop, providing discounts to students to get the computers they need; or Apple offering discounts to get students on their platform).

Steam (or Amazon, or Autozone, etc, etc, etc) has no reason to do this.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Why would an international game store have student discounts? The people who have student discounts are 1) shops that are local to colleges, to encourage students to go there, and 2) computer/etc companies, to encourage students to buy their computers/OSes/etc (ie, the campus computer shop, providing discounts to students to get the computers they need; or Apple offering discounts to get students on their platform).

Steam (or Amazon, or Autozone, etc, etc, etc) has no reason to do this.

Pretty much, student discounts are just a marketing gimmick to try to draw in local customers. Steam has no local customers as its an online store.

[Heraclius Caesar]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Why would an international game store have student discounts? The people who have student discounts are 1) shops that are local to colleges, to encourage students to go there, and 2) computer/etc companies, to encourage students to buy their computers/OSes/etc (ie, the campus computer shop, providing discounts to students to get the computers they need; or Apple offering discounts to get students on their platform).

Steam (or Amazon, or Autozone, etc, etc, etc) has no reason to do this.

To be fair, Amazon offers a student discount for Amazon Prime membership

[Kargor]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Pretty much, student discounts are just a marketing gimmick to try to draw in local customers. Steam has no local customers as its an online store.

Not necessarily local. However, Steam has enough market share (and they would have to pay such discounts out of their own pockets) so they don't need such things -- if you're dealing with PC games, you're inevitably going to come across Steam.

[Kiryn]

Originally posted by Heraclius Caesar:

Originally posted by wesnef:

Why would an international game store have student discounts? The people who have student discounts are 1) shops that are local to colleges, to encourage students to go there, and 2) computer/etc companies, to encourage students to buy their computers/OSes/etc (ie, the campus computer shop, providing discounts to students to get the computers they need; or Apple offering discounts to get students on their platform).

Steam (or Amazon, or Autozone, etc, etc, etc) has no reason to do this.

To be fair, Amazon offers a student discount for Amazon Prime membership

Yeah, because getting someone hooked on a Prime membership is guaranteeing more sales / encouraging the student to spend more on Amazon. That's the same kind of thing - giving a discount to get someone tied in to their ecosystem.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Because students should be studying, not trying to get discounts to play games.

You also have to note that a lot of college campuses block Steam downloads as well.

[AlexTheRedScout]

Originally posted by Jade:

Even our local bubble-tea shop gives us a discount

one its not a place that can give out student discounts legally two its online and needs your id and third nobody can truly verify you plus im pretty sure schools don't endorse valve

[Thawsz]

yeah i think it should have it.

[Doctor Zalgo]

They don't think it will bring in more money than it will cost them.

[Chika Ogiue]

Video games are a luxury. If you're a student, focus on studying. Games can wait.

[Sleepy Yoshi]

I'm more interested in a senior discount at this point. XD

[XGamerX3716]

Why would they 1: they can't tell if your a student 2: I think people with abuse it and resell games

[Heraclius Caesar]

Originally posted by Kiryn:

Originally posted by Heraclius Caesar:

To be fair, Amazon offers a student discount for Amazon Prime membership

Yeah, because getting someone hooked on a Prime membership is guaranteeing more sales / encouraging the student to spend more on Amazon. That's the same kind of thing - giving a discount to get someone tied in to their ecosystem.

? Cool

The guy I was responding to said Amazon has no reason to offer a student discount.

I was simply stating that Amazon does offer a student discount. Why they offer the student discount doesn't really matter; the fact is that they do offer one.

Also, and I don't mean to sound like Captain Obvious, but of course they want to get people "hooked" and to get them to spend their money there. It's a business. That's what businesses do. No one ever said they were doing it out of charity & friendship.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Jade:

Even our local bubble-tea shop gives us a discount

You can ask the shop to stock steam gift cards at a discounted price for those with a student discount card.