Steam games with launch discounts can’t have another sale for 30 days

Digital distribution has made games much easier to access than ever before. Steam plays host to darn near every title on PC, including thousands (and thousands) of indie titles that may never have existed before. Regular Steam sales have made those games cheaper, too, and indie devs have had to pay close attention to rules both hard and soft to stand a chance of sticking out from the crowd.

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New Steam releases automatically have the opportunity to run a launch week discount, and as we’ve seen many developers take advantage of that. But there’s still a catch, because you have to wait 30 days after the end of the discount before you can have another.

That means developers have to be doubly aware of when they’re launching in relation to the big annual sales. If you launch within a week plus 30 days of a sale, your game will have to remain full-price while cheaper competitors are enjoying the sale frenzy.

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https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/steam-launch-discount-sales