Yes, a lot. The value goes down to under a dollar.
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It is true. On the same note, so do regular sales of games in general though. Take Killing Floor as an example - its trade value is still about $5. Once a game goes on sale, it never retains its former higher perceived value. Bundles aren't bad - people just don't understand the market and then cry when their $0.50 game isn't valued at the store price of $10 and can't even be traded for a copy of fortix. If McDonalds big macs were raised to $20, no one would buy them. However, if the big macs were lowered to $1, everyone would buy them. Read this to get a better understanding of why this is. :)
If you value a game at $20...you don't go and sell it for $1. If you're not getting any sales though, then you can sell it outside the bundle for just a LITTLE more when it ends ($1 bundle? $3 retail > win) and your sales will be fine. However, some indie groups don't do that and then complain about people picking on them for 'overvaluing' what was previously priced higher. It's simply the logical consequence of the sequence of events that preceded the situation. There's a big difference between a small promotional sale (e.g. 15% off Mass Ebola 3) and a $0.01 humble bundle. If developers don't want the value of their games to go down, they need to be smarter about how they market them. Simple stuff. :)
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Of course, no one is going to buy the games at full price when they can get it for a cent.
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I think Steam sales lower the games' values from their listed base price. Whether it causes games to be valued at less than what they ought to be worth, I actually can't say, because I haven't come up with a good, fair way to price a game without looking at its purchase/sale/base/list price.
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I would have to say so, in our benefit though. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to snag Hard Reset at $5 as part of a bundle instead of the steam price of $20 for just that one game.
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Looking at many bundles coming out there, and some of them are being given away here, I started to think indie bundles has lowering games value that comes with the bundle. I've seen many cool games being part in the bundle, but after bundle expires people won't trade or re-think again to buy those games. When someone want to trade one of games that was being part in a bundle: "Nah, it was on $1 before." "It was on Indie bundle. Your offer does not worth ." even they are a nice $10 game.
I know bundles are good incentives for gamers, developers and charity, but looking at the fact after it was being in a bundle people might think those games are not worth buy anymore. Because you can wait for other bundle that would come with it so you can buy it at ultra cheap price.
What do you think? Sorry for my horrible English, I hope you guys get the point.
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