Purchase 10 games = get a -10% coupon

[Pierce Dalton]

Title is pretty much self explanatory.

To prevent abuse Valve can choose a price limit for this, for example only games above $10 would count. (Thanks CAMINO)

OR

Change it to spend $100, get 10% discount. This makes the coupon totally "abuse proof". (Thanks Fox)

[Pierce Dalton]

Nguyên văn bởi brian9824:

The bigger question is why? Steam already does sales. during which coupons don't work and games are far more then 10% off..... Absolutely no reason for them to do so, and just the latest in people asking for free stuff. I mean might as well just ask Steam to lower game prices by 10%.

Any argument you can make for a coupon can be made for that, and its just as unlikely to be done.

Why? Because it benefits the consumer.

You think it's unlikely to happen? So do I =D

[Zero, Dark Knight]

Buy 10 games, get 10% of your combined purchase in Steam Wallet ?: good idea overall, a continued cycle of purchasing and rewarding purchasing.

[Pierce Dalton]

Nguyên văn bởi Zero, Dark Knight:

Buy 10 games, get 10% of your combined purchase in Steam Wallet ?: good idea overall, a continued cycle of purchasing and rewarding purchasing.

Yep, that's the idea, retribution.

[Start_Running]

Nguyên văn bởi EL CAMINO:

Nguyên văn bởi Pierce Dalton:

Yeah, that crossed my mind, of course. Still, I believe most people wouldn't want to keep buying trash just to get discounts. You would end up with a stinky library lol.

i would and i can delete that games or hide them :/

You would be surprisied... which would hjave the knock on effect of encouraging the developers of those trash games.

Nguyên văn bởi Zero, Dark Knight:

Buy 10 games, get 10% of your combined purchase in Steam Wallet ?: good idea overall, a continued cycle of purchasing and rewarding purchasing.

Except it's motivating a rather costly purchase behaviour since the revenue Valve gets from what is purchases. Is gonna be greater than what's being paid out.

buy 10 $1 games . Calve gets a whopping $3. Use that 10% but the lates AAA $80 ultra edition. That 10% winds up as $8, so valve basically lost $5. If fact if that coupon is used for any game above $30 is going to be a loss for Valve.

Then remember that games can sell for as low as 50.

[Brian9824]

Nguyên văn bởi EL CAMINO:

Nguyên văn bởi EL CAMINO:

its useful on bad economy countrys + valve wont lower down prices on not their games like ea , ubisoft and etc so whats the point of not wanting coupon

Epic doing it sometimes steam can do it too

Epic has to bribe customers into using their store, and its resulted in them losing over a billion dollars and being unable to ever generate a profit....

You don't copy a loss leader....

Nguyên văn bởi EL CAMINO:

Nguyên văn bởi brian9824:

The bigger question is why? Steam already does sales. Absolutely no reason for them to do so, and just the latest in people asking for free stuff. I mean might as well just ask Steam to lower game prices by 10%.

Any argument you can make for a coupon can be made for that, and its just as unlikely to be done.

its useful on bad economy countrys + valve wont lower down prices on not their games like ea , ubisoft and etc so whats the point of not wanting coupon

Valve games go on sale all the time, if a game isn't participating in sales thats the DEVELOPER who sets the price, and they are able to exclude their games from sales and coupon's if they wish.

Companies aren't in the practice of giving away money for no reason.

[Start_Running]

Nguyên văn bởi EL CAMINO:

Nguyên văn bởi EL CAMINO:

its useful on bad economy countrys + valve wont lower down prices on not their games like ea , ubisoft and etc so whats the point of not wanting coupon

Epic doing it sometimes steam can do it too

Epic's store is literally not making money. It's a money sink. Valve is a store that is making money. WHy would you you want to copy the store that is losing money?

Keep in mind if yopu want a 10% coupon. You could just craft a badge for the game you want the coupon for. The cardsets can usually be gotyten for at most $1 which would be cheaper than buying 10 games and you'd have your coupon .

[Brian9824]

Nguyên văn bởi Start_Running:

Nguyên văn bởi EL CAMINO:

Epic doing it sometimes steam can do it too

Epic's store is literally not making money. It's a money sink. Valve is a store that is making money. WHy would you you want to copy the store that is losing money?

Keep in mind if yopu want a 10% coupon. You could just craft a badge for the game you want the coupon for. The cardsets can usually be gotyten for at most $1 which would be cheaper than buying 10 games and you'd have your coupon .

If the game participates in it. AFAIK not all of them do it and again it won't work during the sale when games are pretty much always cheaper anyways

[Start_Running]

Nguyên văn bởi brian9824:

Nguyên văn bởi Start_Running:

Epic's store is literally not making money. It's a money sink. Valve is a store that is making money. WHy would you you want to copy the store that is losing money?

Keep in mind if yopu want a 10% coupon. You could just craft a badge for the game you want the coupon for. The cardsets can usually be gotyten for at most $1 which would be cheaper than buying 10 games and you'd have your coupon .

If the game participates in it. AFAIK not all of them do it and again it won't work during the sale when games are pretty much always cheaper anyways

In which case the coupon is less likely to be a thing,. Valve tried the coupon thing during their sales and they haven't really repeated it again.

[Pierce Dalton]

Nguyên văn bởi Start_Running:

Nguyên văn bởi EL CAMINO:

i would and i can delete that games or hide them :/

You would be surprisied... which would hjave the knock on effect of encouraging the developers of those trash games.

Nguyên văn bởi Zero, Dark Knight:

Buy 10 games, get 10% of your combined purchase in Steam Wallet ?: good idea overall, a continued cycle of purchasing and rewarding purchasing.

Except it's motivating a rather costly purchase behaviour since the revenue Valve gets from what is purchases. Is gonna be greater than what's being paid out.

buy 10 $1 games . Calve gets a whopping $3. Use that 10% but the lates AAA $80 ultra edition. That 10% winds up as $8, so valve basically lost $5. If fact if that coupon is used for any game above $30 is going to be a loss for Valve.

Then remember that games can sell for as low as 50.

Developers of these so called "trash games" have enough encouragement already, since Steam has no quality control at all, and tons of people buy them just for cards, achievements and stuff like that.

The 1 dollar games issue has been addressed already.

[Gwarsbane]

Or better idea, wait till a sale comes for the game you want and get it for much cheaper. There are 2 big sales a year, 2 REALLY big sales a year and a bunch of other sales. There is always something on sale on Steam.

And no Valve doesn't need to do this for their customers, they already have far better sales than epic and Valve doesn't have to bribe game makers to sell on their store.

[[?]legit]

Nguyên văn bởi Start_Running:

Nguyên văn bởi Pierce Dalton:

Title is pretty much self explanatory.

Or you could just craft a badge and get the same. Reason it likely won't be done is There are many games you can buy for a dollar or less. When you give ourt a $10% for those and they apply it to a $60 game... welll....

Crafting badges will almost always give you coupons for trash games :(

[Start_Running]

Nguyên văn bởi legit:

Nguyên văn bởi Start_Running:

Or you could just craft a badge and get the same. Reason it likely won't be done is There are many games you can buy for a dollar or less. When you give ourt a $10% for those and they apply it to a $60 game... welll....

Crafting badges will almost always give you coupons for trash games :(

And what does that tell you about how devs feel about this. I mean seriously. What's the actual point of such a coupon. Coupons don't stack with discounts and last I checked the lowest dscount you can have is 10%. So ione could get the same benefit from just waiting for sale.

[Pierce Dalton]

Nguyên văn bởi Gwarsbane:

Or better idea, wait till a sale comes for the game you want and get it for much cheaper. There are 2 big sales a year, 2 REALLY big sales a year and a bunch of other sales. There is always something on sale on Steam.

And no Valve doesn't need to do this for their customers, they already have far better sales than epic and Valve doesn't have to bribe game makers to sell on their store.

Thanks for the suggestion, I already do that.

[Pierce Dalton]

Nguyên văn bởi Start_Running:

Nguyên văn bởi legit:

Crafting badges will almost always give you coupons for trash games :(

And what does that tell you about how devs feel about this. I mean seriously. What's the actual point of such a coupon. Coupons don't stack with discounts and last I checked the lowest dscount you can have is 10%. So ione could get the same benefit from just waiting for sale.

Do all games go on sale? ;)

[Start_Running]

Nguyên văn bởi Pierce Dalton:

Nguyên văn bởi Start_Running:

And what does that tell you about how devs feel about this. I mean seriously. What's the actual point of such a coupon. Coupons don't stack with discounts and last I checked the lowest dscount you can have is 10%. So ione could get the same benefit from just waiting for sale.

Do all games go on sale? ;)

At somepoint ...Not a matter of iff but when.
The only exception would be games whoose base price is already at the minimum price threshiold, and of course free games.