Valve Fights Fake Deals: End 1% Discounts

Steam, which is the favorite platform of all PC players, has recently been used by gamers due to the abuse of discount policies by game companies. is subject to complaints. Game companies are discounting their games in absurd amounts.

They discount absurd amounts, but how and what does it do? game companies, Applying discounts such as 1%, 2% and 3% they put their games on the discount page. In this scenario, which we can call a kind of ‘coyote’, both they don’t really discount their games as well as they’re putting their games on the homepage. Valve announced that it has taken new measures against these fake discounts on Steam.

New rules set against fake discounts on Steam

As of March 28, Steam’s new rules against fake discounts are as follows:

• Discount will be applied at the exit of the game, but no new discounts can be made for 28 days from the end of the exit day,
• After the price increase in any currency, the game will not be discounted for 28 days,
• Discounts cannot be made within 28 days of the previous sale, except for seasonal events across Steam.
• Discounts for seasonal sale events cannot be made within 28 days of game release, 28 days after your exit discount ends, or 28 days after a price increase in any currency,
• The price cannot be changed while there is a discount in the game or it is planned to be made on a future date,
• A game cannot be discounted more than 90% or less than 10%,
• Special offers cannot last longer than two weeks or less than 1 day.

As noted above, these rules will not apply during the four major sale seasons that take place each year: Chinese New Year Sale, Summer Sale, Autumn Sale, and Winter Sale. new rules, a raising the price of a game before the discount occurs and then during the event reduce to original amount It will end any issues with Steam activities, including

Another important change is in the products. No more than 90% or less than 10% discount will be given to be; only games according to previous rules It was also forbidden to be 100% discounted. Thanks to these rules, game companies play a game. Will not be able to discount the ridiculously low 1% or 2% and so they won’t be able to stand out by saying ‘Look, we’re making a discount’.