Tomb Raider

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I see your logic here, but I still have an issue. My bundled price for Shadow of the Tomb Raider definitive edition (have base game) price for the bundle was roughly the advertized price for the complete bundle. Even if the base game was discounted by 90%, my deal for the dlc alone should cost less than the full bundle.

Same with the full Collection bundle, I calculated out the remaining items and it was still within cents of the complete bundle price.

This would be easier to figure out and explain if I also took a screenshot of the bundle pice details for my account. But, since we don't have that, I don't think we can resolve the discrepancy to an answer that would satisfy my skepticism about the pricing. If there was a reasonable discount vs the full bundle, I'd understand, but to have the pricing almost identical seems shady. adam1224's comment above verifies the pricing was not any different on the main page even for a non logged in user.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the help in figuring this out.

Edit:. I posted another screenshot of the current pricing. Shady = "your price", bundle sale, no "your price".

$22.00 for the bundle of remaining DLCs, still 56% - legit.

Tells me that the sale discounted games individually, expected, and only put on the 56% bundle discount on top, while advertising the 87% discount, shady.

It shouldn't matter what I own in the bundle or the individual item discounts, the storefront should honor the higher bundle discount, especially if it is advertising that to a user who already owns the games. That's damn deceptive, even if they mention the actual discount in the fine print.

Hey I wanted to let you know I was able to look at a similar sale via Ubisoft's South Park bundle, and I am able to figure out and understand the pricing better here. Having just two items (one of which I own) to use for the bundle calculations made things a lot easier to understand.

So, in the end, it all looks (mostly) legitimate.

I also wanted to mention that discrepancy where I came up with within $0.20 or so vs the actual bundle price on my calculations turned out to be Steam's total bundle discount is an approximation. For example, in the South Park bundle, the advertised discount is 78% for the game(s) in the bundle, but the actual discount is roughly (just under) 22.5%.

That's where everything really threw me off in the end - why prices didn't match up and why it all seemed like it was more of a shady deal than it really was. But, I'm still standing by the fact that the advertised discount number is still not the actual applied discount, which, yea, is shady. I'm pretty sure most regulations would require that companies don't round up a displayed discount value to make it look better than it is (78%), but rather have the actual discount (77.5%) value or round down (77%). But then again, I didn't look for any regulations, don't care that much at this point, because who's going to listen to me or change things anyway. Companies do whatever they please anymore.