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Steam bundles to cost less if you own included games

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Steams bundles are great value. It’s wonderful to find a bundle of games that you may be interested in, squeezed together in to one digital box and offered for a massive discount – but it stings a little, taking away from the sense that you’ve gotten a great bargain, when you already own one or more of the games in said bundle.

Valve is addressing this. Though it’s not made anything public, PCGamesN says its received official documentation from Valve o developers stating the change – as an option for developers and publishers if they wish to use it.

“With Steam Bundles, if a customer already [owns] some items in the Bundle, they will pay for and receive only the items not already in their account,” the documentation reads. “This allows the best fans of your series or franchise to ‘complete the set’ and get a deal on the remaining items in the Bundle.”

Valve says that bundles and packs area “a bad deal” for those who already own games included in said bundles.

“Either it made bad economic sense for those customers to purchase the pack, or they just felt bad about doing so since it [looked] like they were paying for products they already [had]. The new Steam Bundles system addresses this,” Valve says.

This will only apply to bundles purchased through Steam and not those included in things like the Humble Bundle. There will still be bundles – labelled “Must Purchase Together” bundles – that need to bought as a single thing – but should, in future, include cool things like soundtracks and artwork

Last Updated: March 2, 2016

23 Comments

  1. Captain JJ the "saviour"

    March 3, 2016 at 07:09

    This is awesome news.
    We’ve been needing this for a while

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    • Commander Admiral Chief

      March 3, 2016 at 07:28

      Agreed

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    • Hammersteyn

      March 3, 2016 at 07:39

      Yeah, screw those money sucking companies trying to make a living. Cheaper games for all!

      Reply

      • Captain JJ the "saviour"

        March 3, 2016 at 07:50

        Haha.
        Problem is sometimes there are really nice bundles and then you have one of the games in the bundle, then you don’t buy it. So it’s actually helping them get more sales 😀

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          March 3, 2016 at 07:58

          And they didn’t let you gift keys for games you already owned if you did buy a bundle, like you can with Humble.

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          • Pariah

            March 3, 2016 at 08:19

            Yeah that is my main issue – I don’t care if I own a game already, but at least let me gift the damn thing.

            These days though, I shop at Humble.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            March 3, 2016 at 08:25

            Never understood that – I’ve literally paid for another key, I know I can’t activate two copies on my account, so why can’t I give it to someone else?

        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          March 3, 2016 at 07:58

          And they didn’t let you gift keys for games you already owned if you did buy a bundle, like you can with Humble.

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        March 3, 2016 at 08:00

        … he said while buying a game second hand.

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        March 3, 2016 at 08:00

        … he said while buying a game second hand.

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  2. Commander Admiral Chief

    March 3, 2016 at 07:29

    • Hammersteyn

      March 3, 2016 at 07:38

      OLD…. sorry, foul mood today

      Reply

      • Commander Admiral Chief

        March 3, 2016 at 07:40

        Did Rince call you?

        Reply

      • miaau

        March 3, 2016 at 08:14

        who is old? And why did you eat so much chicken?

        Reply

  3. Commander Admiral Chief

    March 3, 2016 at 07:30

    • Hammersteyn

      March 3, 2016 at 07:38

      Not fat enough

      Reply

  4. Commander Admiral Chief

    March 3, 2016 at 07:31

    • Hammersteyn

      March 3, 2016 at 07:37

      HL3?

      Reply

      • Kromas untamed

        March 3, 2016 at 07:57

        Actually. New HL3 files discovered in the VR testing tools.

        Possible VR HL3 … confirmed!

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  5. Alien Emperor Trevor

    March 3, 2016 at 07:35

    Finally. GOG’s been doing that forever.

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  6. Hargrim

    March 3, 2016 at 08:13

    Great, I just bought all the Civ V DLC 2 weeks ago in one of these bundles

    It was still cheaper than buying it solo, but that message that tells you you will not be getting some of the stuff you are paying for because you already won it, yea that hurts

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  7. D4RKL1NG

    March 3, 2016 at 08:31

    Why’s the header image a faggot?

    Reply

  8. Lardus-For the Chimichangas!

    March 3, 2016 at 10:34

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