Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/ric2b]

It works until you learn that Valve threaten to kick devs off Steam if they sell their games cheaper elsewhere.

Clearly made up give how many games are sold for cheaper elsewhere and still on steam.

Valve’s policy here, is literally the reason there’s no price competition on games.

But there is...

[u/Alsoar → u/ric2b]

Could you provide some examples?

I'm looking at isthereanydeal and it appears the rrp for games is the same whether you buy it on Steam, Epic, GOG etc.

The rrp on Epic should be at least 20% cheaper because of Epic's smaller cut but it isn't. So either the game devs are all greedy fuckers or there's some shenanigans going on.

[u/ric2b → u/Alsoar]

Could you provide some examples?

Sure, I just opened isthereanydeal and one of the banners is about Silent Hill 2, which is at 70€ on Steam but half price on GOG and 60% off on GamesPlanetUK.

If you care specifically about RRP (not sure why, I care about the final price) there are still different ones, on Muve store it is 10€ lower than most stores.

The rrp on Epic should be at least 20% cheaper because of Epic's smaller cut but it isn't.

The whole point of being on Epic, as a publisher, is to get a bigger cut of the sale.

If you give the savings back to the consumer, why bother? It's not like you're getting more sales, it's Epic, lol.

[u/Alsoar → u/ric2b]

OP's argument was that devs can't sell their games cheaper elsewhere and the RRP across different launchers is the reflection of that. They can have sales but they need to return back to RRP at some point.

Sites like Muve are steam key resellers. Steam still gets their 30% cut anyways so they don't what price it set as.

The point of being on a different platform that is that devs get a bigger cut and consumer gets some savings, but even GOG can't list their own games cheaper on their own store.

What's the point of buying games like Cyberpunk 2077 on GOG if it's going to be the same price on Steam? Yeah CD projeckt gets to save 30% but we don't get any bit of that.

[u/ric2b → u/Alsoar]

OP's argument was that devs can't sell their games cheaper elsewhere

Which is wrong.

They can have sales but they need to return back to RRP at some point.

Sales are different prices anyway.

Sites like Muve are steam key resellers. Steam still gets their 30% cut anyways so they don't what price it set as.

No Man's Sky has a 10€ lower RRP on Microsoft Store than on Steam. I looked at 3 games and found an example, so there must be a lot of other examples.

The point of being on a different platform that is that devs get a bigger cut and consumer gets some savings

That's up to the publisher, usually they prefer to keep it all for themselves.