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Article #720278Re: This Steam sale is...
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 20:15
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 20:15
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On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 22:13:43 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:53:56 +0400, Andrew Rybenkov <aryb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is Valve loose grip or interest for selling games or altogether? It's really not up to Valve what goes on sale, it's up to the publishers what they want to advertise and where. It's possible that a lot of the marketing folks at these publishers are spending their advertising dollars on gaining audience for newer consoles (larger audience and higher cost per game) than preparing sales for older PC titles on Steam. Besides, there wasn't a great deal of great new titles that emerged last year to really discount, so they may be figuring why go to a lot of effort to put the same games they've been selling for the last 2 years up again. Sadly, intro of new consoles is usually not a great thing for PC gamers. It's not even good for the purchasers of the new consoles, because most of the titles they will see for the first year or so are really stuff that was originally targeting the 360 or PS3, and has just been tweaked slightly to run at a better resolution. I think it might take a couple of years for PC gaming to start to benefit from next gen consoles at all.
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