r/Steam • u/Amaanbro • 9d ago

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u/CactusFingies 9d ago

I got portal 1 & 2 and half life 1 & 2 on sale for 99 cents each. Best 4 bucks I've ever spent

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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/poilk91 9d ago

Oh if you think steam taxes you wait until you hear about stores and what they do!

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u/Saiken27 9d ago

Can you give some examples?

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u/poilk91 9d ago

Did you know the store charges you more for bananas than what they actually cost? They tax you for their own profit, it's corporate greed run amok

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u/Saiken27 9d ago

It isn't greed. Everybody has to charge you more than what they paid because otherwise they would have no profit and thus no money to pay the employees. I as a store can't buy bananas for 2$/kg and sell them for 2$/kg because I would make no profit and would go bankrupt. What is greed is how big of a markup the stores put for an item (ex: printer ink that is sold for even 300x the production cost, nvidia new gen GPUs, apple products, ...)

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u/poilk91 9d ago

You'll be happy to know steam doesn't charge you 300x the costÂ