The regulations now brought in don’t allow for discounts of less than 10% (or more than 90%, for that matter), and make it so that if the price of a game is raised, no further discount can be applied for 28 days thereafter.
In some cases, the real discount applied might be very slender (or maybe even non-existent – the product is simply returned to the price it should be, and was, in the first place).Īs Windows Central (opens in new tab), which spotted Valve’s new rules (opens in new tab), points out, there’s also a dodgy practice involving tiny discounts (like 1% off) to try to game Steam’s algorithm and get a chance of being featured during sales events. What we’re mainly talking about here is a company hiking up the price of a certain game (or indeed multiple games) as a sale event approaches, to allow for the price to be slashed with what looks like a huge discount (but in reality is only so sizeable because the price was artificially jacked up beforehand). Steam’s new rules on discountsĪs we mentioned at the outset, Valve is tightening up the rules for game publishers applying discounts to their products on Steam to clamp down on some of the misleading practices in this area. That said, the Bethesda launcher wasn’t all that widely used, and many folks just got the firm’s games on Steam anyway, which is all doubtless part of the reasoning behind this move. This move will be a relief to some, of course – there are multiple game launchers around these days from publishers, on top of stores like Steam, Epic and others, meaning some gamers definitely get frustrated about the number of different apps they can conceivably end up having to install.
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Note that anyone with a Bethesda account will still have it, and be able to sign into it on the website (or with games that need it) it’s just the launcher software which is being ditched. You’ll be able to use the Bethesda launcher until May 2021, but the company advises that as soon as the Steam migration process is made available, you should go through it.
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