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Originally Posted by Penforhire
It helps that Valve, the company behind Steaam, has a very positive track record with us gamers. I agree with all those positives you listed but they ALSO have sale prices that are impossible to resist, where console games never get that cheap.
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Very true. Valve has the unfair advantage that they are well liked and respected by PC gamers, so whenever they add more DRM (like Steam Guard), we grumble a little bit, but since the client and games still work just the way they did before, we quickly forgive them and go back to checking the store for the next sale.
Another unfair advantage that Valve has over eBooks vendors is that they can drop the price of a game with 80% for a 24-hour period, just because they want to. And according to Valve, they make more money off of games when they do that, than when they sell them at full price. Particularly legacy titles.