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greenmedic88 on 28 September 2008
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BenKenobi88 said:

I'm sure they will someday...I mean...they already have the "Valve Complete Pack" which is every Valve game ever made so far, and that's $99...a savings of $90.

That's Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Deathmatch Classic, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Ricochet, Half-Life, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, and Peggle Extreme for $99...imagine a 50% deal there! $50 for ALL those games? It's absurd but Valve does give crazy deals sometimes.

True, the complete pack is already an excellent deal, but $100 is still quite a bit for anyone who isn't already a fan of most of Valve's different IPs. Particularly if you already bought Orange Box.

$50 for all that would be insane. Insane for anyone to pass up if they had even a passing interest in just the Half Life franchise even.

The weekend sales are kind of an interesting offering for DD services. Clearly it doesn't hurt the service provider in terms of lost revenue on overstocked inventory, since there isn't any. Presumably most people taking advantage of these deals are users like myself who end up buying games they normally wouldn't have because the deals are simply too generous to pass up.

Plus I'm sure they generate a lot of extra traffic, which can only lead to an expansion of the service, which is all right by me.

Having your game collection tied to user name rather than hardware alone makes Steam a big winner in DD services, not to mention all the other merits.