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Ignus Pyre 10 月 25 日 上午 12:08
How can Steam justify the current price of old titles? (Using Watchdogs 2 as my example for discussion)
So this popped up on my featured list on Steam today. Watchdogs 2. Released 9 years ago in 2016.

The standard edition of which is currently being sold for £49.99 (Or your regional equivalent if you are not living in the U.K). And I thought to myself "Wait a second, that game came out quite a while ago didn't it? that price seems a little steep to me".

So I did a quick google search to figure out what price the game was originally sold at.
The results of this search?

On its UK release, Watch Dogs 2 cost £39.99 for the standard PC version on Steam, though the price may have varied slightly between retailers. The price was consistent with the industry standard for a new AAA game at the time.
Standard Edition: £39.99 on Steam

How exactly does a 9 year old game *increase* in value. Baring in mind the £49.99 price today is, again, just for the standard edition of the game.

I never had any real interest in purchasing the game but I felt like opening a discussion about this because it does not appear, to me at least, to make any real sense. Just how many other old games on steam are out there being sold for a higher price than their original listing price?

Seems bonkers to me.
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Wolfpig 10 月 25 日 上午 12:11 
steam does not set the prices of games.
If you do not agree with the pricing of certain titles go and complain to the publisher of those.
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datCookie 10 月 25 日 上午 12:13 
Ask the devs why the price is so high. Steam has nothing to do with it
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Dendrobates Tinctorius 10 月 25 日 上午 12:15 
publishers set prices. they justify these prices by the following method:
1. they employ bean counters
2. the bean counters count the beans and calculate how many sales they expect at various prices and sale prices
3. they set the prices to maximize profit
4. sometimes, the bean counters decide they'll make more money by changing the prices
5. they pay the bean counters (a requirement of step 1)

if you don't like the price of a game, wait for a sale. if you still don't like the price of a game, buy something you like the price of. maybe the bean counters will notice, maybe they won't care.
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d3str0y3r 10 月 25 日 上午 12:17 
Publishers/game devs set the prices fro their games not Valve. So you would have to go ask Ubisoft how they justify their pricing.

Also pretty sure Watchdogs 2 was $60 at release and it's now $49.99 so it has gone down in price.

Someone asking why it's still $60 in 2018
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/447040/discussions/0/1741101364289174675/
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Chika Ogiue 10 月 25 日 上午 12:18 
These days all Valve do for third party games is suggest a price point. Publishers are free to ignore it.

Watchdogs 2's UK price was set at £49.99 in September 2017, increased from £44.99.
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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 10 月 25 日 上午 12:20 
Ubisoft wants money.

They already took Epic Games money to give it away for free back in 2020.

https://www.techradar.com/news/watch-dogs-2-and-football-manager-2020-are-free-to-keep-from-the-epic-games-store

:nkCool:
最后由 cSg|mc-Hotsauce 编辑于; 10 月 25 日 上午 12:21
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[☭]-Soviet-Triumph- 10 月 25 日 上午 12:30 
You shouldn't use Ubisoft games as exmaples because it's obvious they are keeping their base prices so high so they can lure people with their high discount sales. The prices of their games are regularly cut down to the bottom. Watch Dogs 2 was discounted to just 5 GBP last Autumn sale a month ago, 90% off. This strat is employed across all of their games, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, everything on their catalogue.
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