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[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 105 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)

https://isthereanydeal.com/ has 3 years of price history and tracks valid 3rd party stores too (not greymarket sites like G2A).

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Price histories for games on both ITAD and gg.deals seem to go back to 2014.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 3 days ago

I forgot that since I usually just check 6 months/1y/3y but they do huh. Even better!

[–] ericwdhs@discuss.online 9 points 3 days ago

It's also worth checking out their Augmented Steam extension to get a lot of that directly on Steam Store pages.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

They also have a browser extension to put some additional info right on the steam store pages.

Not the entire price history, but it will show the lowest ever price, and the last time it happened. Even if Valve puts a 30-day history on the page, this would still be useful to know if a game ever gets discounts deeper than whatever it had most recently.

[–] Einhornyordle@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

*while not signed in. Once you do, you'll get access to the full historical data

[–] new_world_odor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Is it only two years? I feel like I've seen more. I always consult it before buying any game. Feeds my sales addiction.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They should do a limited trial. Maybe just start with factorio?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I understood that reference

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Jacob_Mandarin@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Factorio does not have sales. Its price never changes

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago

Close.

The Factorio price can/may increase but they do not believe in sales for reasons that you can look up on your own .

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

"This 'chart' is just a flat line"

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Already mentioned but I'll second https://isthereanydeal.com/ as existing.

That said, Valve has a fairly generous refund policy and the real kicker would be if Valve would automatically give you the better deal if the price drops within the refund window, backed up by such a feature. I heard them doing that before but it was only special cases, iirc, and the period is only 14 days but still.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

At the cart window before paying, there can be a notice if the game is available for cheaper price in a bundle in example. There were a few such cases in the past, which saved me a few Euros. I don't know if any of the other store fronts on PC does that, let alone on console.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

the 30 day thing is an eu regulation. they arent doing this from their heart.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steam-database/

Shows information directly on every page for game. I customized the settings and for me the most relevant information displayed are the lowest recorded price and how many players the game has.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Link to the same extension for anyone running a Chromium-based browser: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/steamdb/kdbmhfkmnlmbkgbabkdealhhbfhlmmon

It's a really good extension, but I'm also not going to complain if Valve wants to implement that sort of information directly either. More easily-accessible data to aid an informed purchase is never a bad thing.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Great for games that are permanently "on sale".

If it's always on sale then that is the price.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

... obviously. They run the platform. They could do lots of things.

Valve could let you download anything in their store for free! They're not going to, but they could!

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Like, cool, but isthereanydeal exists.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

feel like valve is retaliating against the gaming industry for its bad behavior recently