Steam - Developers now able to self discount their games

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It has came to light that developers can now enable sales for their games on the Steam platform without consulting Valve itself as was required in the past.

According to a developer on the steam subreddit via Valve's private Steamworks community page, it appears developers are now to perform sales anytime. In the past developers have been required to coordinate with Valve in order to set up weekly promotions for their products. Currently all developers need to do is configure their Steamworks page for the title in question to enable discounts for possible customers. Though it was added for developers today it appears that the system is not 100% working as some devs have spoken out publicly that they themselves have experienced error with the feature set.


How do you feel about developers being able to perform sales on the fly?

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MultitaskPosted:

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Yop Prepare yourself Steam users for many discounted games in the future.


I'm not sure that many developers will use this feature.


I am debating on whether to get steam or not. It seems good when i read about it but then i ask different people and they tell me it's not really worth it.


Steam is really good and fun there is so much fun games that you can play.

SIKSPosted:

I'm so happy they're doing this, they will certainly be seeing a lot of sales from me in the future.

-DynamicPosted:

Int
Yop Prepare yourself Steam users for many discounted games in the future.


I'm not sure that many developers will use this feature.


I am debating on whether to get steam or not. It seems good when i read about it but then i ask different people and they tell me it's not really worth it.

-DynamicPosted:

This seems like a good thing, I can't believe the developers had to ask permission for something though if they are the ones making the game ...

SzaPosted:

I guess this is a good thing if GTA will go down then that would be awesome

YuiPosted:

Yop Prepare yourself Steam users for many discounted games in the future.


Yes, I love discounts :I

IntPosted:

Yop Prepare yourself Steam users for many discounted games in the future.


I'm not sure that many developers will use this feature.

YopPosted:

Prepare yourself Steam users for many discounted games in the future.

TelePosted:

This will be good, although hopefully there are some good games getting discounts.

DV8Posted:

Aftercast Sort of unfair honestly, lol. But I suppose it would help.


You should be happy, now GTA 4 will go down and other popular old and new games.


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