Valve Could Add a 30-Day Price History to Steam Games
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Up to two years of price history here:
https://steamdb.info/
https://isthereanydeal.com/ has 3 years of price history and tracks valid 3rd party stores too (not greymarket sites like G2A).
Price histories for games on both ITAD and gg.deals seem to go back to 2014.
I forgot that since I usually just check 6 months/1y/3y but they do huh. Even better!
It's also worth checking out their Augmented Steam extension to get a lot of that directly on Steam Store pages.
They also have a browser extension to put some additional info right on the steam store pages.
Not the entire price history, but it will show the lowest ever price, and the last time it happened. Even if Valve puts a 30-day history on the page, this would still be useful to know if a game ever gets discounts deeper than whatever it had most recently.
*while not signed in. Once you do, you'll get access to the full historical data
Is it only two years? I feel like I've seen more. I always consult it before buying any game. Feeds my sales addiction.
Already mentioned but I'll second https://isthereanydeal.com/ as existing.
That said, Valve has a fairly generous refund policy and the real kicker would be if Valve would automatically give you the better deal if the price drops within the refund window, backed up by such a feature. I heard them doing that before but it was only special cases, iirc, and the period is only 14 days but still.
At the cart window before paying, there can be a notice if the game is available for cheaper price in a bundle in example. There were a few such cases in the past, which saved me a few Euros. I don't know if any of the other store fronts on PC does that, let alone on console.
They should do a limited trial. Maybe just start with factorio?
I understood that reference
What am i missing here?
Factorio does not have sales. Its price never changes
Close.
The Factorio price can/may increase but they do not believe in sales for reasons that you can look up on your own .
"This 'chart' is just a flat line"
Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steam-database/
Shows information directly on every page for game. I customized the settings and for me the most relevant information displayed are the lowest recorded price and how many players the game has.
Link to the same extension for anyone running a Chromium-based browser: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/steamdb/kdbmhfkmnlmbkgbabkdealhhbfhlmmon
It's a really good extension, but I'm also not going to complain if Valve wants to implement that sort of information directly either. More easily-accessible data to aid an informed purchase is never a bad thing.
the 30 day thing is an eu regulation. they arent doing this from their heart.
... obviously. They run the platform. They could do lots of things.
Valve could let you download anything in their store for free! They're not going to, but they could!
Like, cool, but isthereanydeal exists.
Great for games that are permanently "on sale".
If it's always on sale then that is the price.
feel like valve is retaliating against the gaming industry for its bad behavior recently