I've been shaking my Magic 8 Ball to answer your question, but all it says is: "Yeah, keep touching me there. I know you want it, too." ... maybe it's broken?
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Blame Disney. Is very rare Lucas Arts games having discounts now because of this
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There are 2 sources of sales on Steam. Valve putting things on sale (Steam is their store), and the publisher putting things on sale. The difference is, presumably, who is getting their profit cut during the sale. I would presume the sales on Star Wars products since the closure of LucasArts have been initiated by Valve.
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No, I haven't. Valve can't force sales on series they don't own. Only the owners can be allowed to decide if they want a sale on a game.
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I'm referring to the bit where you believe the sales are initiated by Valve (also the last line).
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If Valve would initiate discounts on products of other publishers, that would mean the'y have to pay the difference out of their own pocket, which I highly doubt.
Wasn't there a scan during last year's sale, showing a letter/mail that Valve had sent out to all the devs/publishers?
I just don't think Valve would put discounts on games w/o a prior approval of the dev/publisher.
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Yea you are correct, I think I misinterpreted that previously. It was a collaborated effort prior, not Valve's sole choice. The only difference now is it can be at the dev/pubs discretion.
"The new Steamworks tools cover both fixed weeklong promotions, which developers can decide to join and then set a percentage discount, and custom promotions, where the price and duration can be decided up to a two-week maximum. Prior to this change, pricing in Steam sales was worked out in collaboration with Valve."
via http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-02-27-developers-can-now-set-their-own-steam-sales
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Actually that's a good thing. Otherwise cheaters who get banned just buy multiple copies.
I'm generally against deep discounts on multiplayer-only games because of that. Whenever CS:GO gets a very deep discount, I can't get a freakin cheater-free game for the next couple of months.
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I've been waiting a while for this and I distinctly remember it only being 66% off during the winter sale as well >_<
Edit: to the people who are saying that it is worth the price I know it is, but I already own it for playstation 2 so I don't want to rebuy a game unless it is at least 75% off. I also don't have too much money to spend on games atm so it irks me if I try buy anything less than 75% off :P.
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