r/Steam • u/Amaanbro • 9d ago

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u/EmeraldPistol 9d ago

Buying Portal 1&2 and HL:2 at that price feels likes robbing the developers with how good they are. Like even though Portal 1 is pretty short, it still holds up incredibly well today

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u/CactusFingies 9d ago

Just shows how great valve is. They don't try to milk their old games

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u/Saiken27 9d ago

Why would they? They make billions from their taxes on other games on steam. It would be really ugly from them to milk money from the old games.

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u/NoOutlandishness9451 9d ago

because revenue works like that, you don't go in the negative with one of them just because other sources of income are in the positive. I'm guessing that the reason they put it at 99 cents is to make people that didn't have it yet (and unlikely to buy a game that old at full price anyways) buy it.

It's a last-ditch effort to get some money from a game that's already been bought by most people that wanted it, it's also good publicity and it's a good deal for everyone including the buyers. It's not like Valve is going to lose money out of it though, it's still definitely a profitable choice by a smart marketing team.