Valve announces a change to Steam that will save you some money on games and help developers – PC

Steam allows developers to customize the length of game discounts at launch, which will now range from 7-14 days

Have you ever bought quit the game on Steam? If you look closely, there are games that appear on Steam, and as soon as they hit the market, they already have small discount on the Valve platform, whether with 10-15%. After all, these are a few euros that we save, and in this way the developers stimulate even greater sales of the newly released game. The latest measure they have taken is aimed in this direction.

As you can read on the Steam website, Valve is now allowing developers configure the duration of discounts for launching the game. Now you can set the time of your choice 7-14 days, previously it was only one week, so companies were given more freedom. “You can now specify how long you want the launch discount for your game to last (from 7 to 14 days),” they note.

To a greater or lesser extent, this also affects players’ pockets, because now they will be able to buy launch games at a small discount. These types of promotions are optional, and “there are developers who choose to offer these discounts and others who don’t,” but at least it’s another option for save some money. One of the most memorable was Palworld, the Steam database shows that it was worth getting out 26.09 euros

compared to the current 28.99.

New Steam record in history

It’s only been a few hours since Steam broke a new all-time record for the number of concurrent users, as it has now increased its maximum to over 34 million players simultaneously. At the beginning of the year, it managed to surpass itself with 33.6 million, but the fact that Valve is achieving these achievements only means that the store is experiencing the best moment in its history and that The PC market is growing very fast.

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