Steam - Bundles Receive Dynamic Pricing

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Steam has finally caught up to GoG and Humble Bundle by dynamically pricing bundles. Techraptor has the details on whats changed. (The changes are still ongoing.)

Steam is the largest online digital gaming platform in the world, and some of that is due to the amount of sales we see from Steam Bundles. Tons of games at a discount is hard to pass up, and for years this has worked in Steam's favor. Now, however, Valve has announced a change is coming to Steam Bundles, one that will finally include dynamic pricing.

Dynamic Pricing is simple, Steam Bundles will automatically reduce their pricing based on games you may already own. So if a bundle contains a few games you have already bought, the bundle will effectively reduce in price to reflect your previous purchases.

"Past Complete Packs were sometimes a bad deal for customers that already [owned] one or more of the products in the pack," according to a Valve representative in documents acquired PCgamesN. "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."
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Hah! Would have been a brilliant idea… 10 years ago !

Wonder if this will eventually apply to GotY editions when you already own the base game.
 
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Not seeing it in any of bundles I own a majority in. Tested Paradox bundles, Star wars bundle, jedi knight bundle, xcom bundle.

Anyone got a bundle that has a discount?

nm: I guess it is coming "soon".
 
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I think game publishers also needs to get on board with this... Anyway this works on Valve's bundles.
 
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So, there's no suggestion of evil dynamic pricing, where they adjust the price based on what they think you want, and whether you're a big spender?
 
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now...take this concept to google play music, please. it stinks paying full price for albums when you own a couple of singles already.
 
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