• Steam bundle prices will now drop based on how many of the games in them you own
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[QUOTE]There's a big shake-up coming to how Steam's bundle purchases work, giving them dynamic pricing. In official documentation given to developers and received by PCGN, Valve have outlined a redesign of Steam bundles so that they automatically give buyers that already own some of the products within a discount. This scales based on the number of products, and is already available on some bundles in the wild, though remains officially unannounced. This also has the knock-on effect of making sure that bundles are properly discounted when their components are on timed sales. Valve's official explanation to developers goes like this, "With Steam Bundles, if a customer already [owns] some items in the Bundle, they will pay for and receive only the items not already in their account. This allows the best fans of your series or franchise to 'complete the set' and get a deal on the remaining items in the Bundle." The benefits of encouraging more people to buy for those that are selling should be obvious, but it's pretty great for those of us on the customer side too, as Valve continue to explain, "Past Complete Packs were sometimes a bad deal for customers that already [owned] one or more of the products in the pack. Either it made bad economic sense for those customers to purchase the pack, or they just felt bad about doing so since it [looked] like they were paying for products they already [had]. The new Steam Bundles system addresses this." The new system is already in-use for the Headup Games Complete Bundle. We've grabbed some screenshots from three seperate accounts to show the differences. First, here's the bundle for an account that doesn't own any of the games: [IMG]http://cdn.pcgamesn.com/sites/default/files/headup games none.jpg[/IMG] Here it is on my account, where I own just one of the titles, Trapped Dead: Lockdown: [IMG]http://cdn.pcgamesn.com/sites/default/files/headup games me.jpg[/IMG] And here's an account with a bunch of them already purchased: [IMG]http://cdn.pcgamesn.com/sites/default/files/headup games press account.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-dynamic-bundles"]via PCGamesN[/URL]
Pretty sweet.
Finally
Awesome
Long, long overdue.
Excellent, Ill likely be buying more bundles then.
Isn't it optional and if the dev's allow it?
[QUOTE=TheJoker;49859739]Isn't it optional and if the dev's allow it?[/QUOTE] Yes. [editline]3rd March 2016[/editline] Nobody isn't forced to do that. [editline]3rd March 2016[/editline] Also Package and Bundle are different things and almost no one uses the Bundle system.
I don't understand why we're not given the option to either receive the discount or get extra copies for our inventory...
Seems like some classic Valve forward-thinking, like I'd expect them to do back when I idolized them... Good on them.
[QUOTE=The Un-Men;49860099]Seems like some classic Valve forward-thinking, like I'd expect them to do back when I idolized them... Good on them.[/QUOTE] GoG does this
Maybe now I'll finally buy the Skyrim DLC.
damn, this didn't work [IMG]http://a.pomf.cat/wtroti.png[/IMG]
This is nice. Especially for the very large bundles when I own only one or two of the games.
Jesus fuckin' christ, it's about time!! [editline]3rd March 2016[/editline] This should have been a "feature" right from the start, I don't understand why they didn't have it. [editline]3rd March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Cock Boner;49859762]I don't understand why we're not given the option to either receive the discount or get extra copies for our inventory...[/QUOTE] Because the folks at VALVe are retarded. I can't find any other logical explanation... :/
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