The college entrance examination has passed, the middle school entrance examination has also passed, the summer vacation has come, the Steam summer promotion has also come, and the activity time is until 10:00 a.m. on July 7. As a hardcore gamer, understanding the Steam Summer Promotion has almost become a must-do for Xiao Lei every summer.
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Usually, Xiao Lei is angry at G Fat for losing his conscience, put his hand into my pocket, and took out his mobile phone to scan the code to pay. When you first came into contact with the games on the Steam platform, you did not support Alipay scan code payment, and it was particularly troublesome to buy a game, and now V Society and other game developers have seen the consumption power and potential of the Chinese market, and pay more and more attention to Chinese players.
Without further ado, I believe everyone is most concerned about this year's Steam Summer Promotion game lineup, discounts, and whether there are other activities. Don't worry, follow Xiao Lei to see.
The offer is very strong, but please be cautious about chopping your hands
This year's Steam summer promotion, the discount is extremely high, such as the 2019 TGA annual best game "Only Wolf Shadow Death Twice" 50% discount, to the hand price of only 134 yuan; In 2021, Cap Air Power's "Resident Evil 8: Village", the same discount is 50%, to the hand price of 198 yuan; "Battlefield 5" has a three-fold discount, the price is only 68.4 yuan, and the half price of the mixed reputation of "Cyberpunk 2077" is 149 yuan.
The prices of other parts of the game worth buying are as follows:
Rainbow 6: Siege 35.2 yuan
Forza Horizon 4 for $62.04
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt $25.40
"Hades" 48 yuan
Detroit: Becoming a Human is $64
"The Road to Survival 2" 7.4 yuan
Borderlands 3 $49.75
"Mankind Failed" 17.4 yuan
"Little Nightmare 2" 74 yuan
"Four Seas Brothers Final Edition" 55.6 yuan
"Double Point Hospital" 39.5 yuan
"Famine" 6 yuan
I have to say that this year's Steam Summer Promotion game lineup is very large, the discount is getting bigger and bigger every year, there are too many games worth buying this year, but also be careful, there are several games, buy it now feels like a loss. For example, "Red Dead Redemption 2" was once a 20% discount before, but now it is only 50% off, "Dawn Kill", "Control", "Tomb Raider" and other games, Epic has been sent for free, and now it is inevitable that people feel some losses.
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This year's Steam Summer Promotion, the most speechless for players, is undoubtedly Steam's "Find Fun" activity, which is free fun, and the result is an activity to find the game according to clues. The event is cleverly designed, with a total of ten games, each with two to four poems, and we have to look for the game according to the prompts in the poem.
The groove of the event is that the game is too difficult to find, and it is the kind that gives you the name of the game, which is difficult to find (you can't search for the game by searching for the name). Xiao Lei painstakingly found 4 models through the raiders given by netizens, and the fifth model could no longer be found. In the end, Xiao Lei had to follow the tutorial of Tieba and use the browser script to find the remaining 6 games. Scripting schemes can be found in Steam Bar, and it is very simple to use.
Image source: Steam screenshot
The ten games are Guitar Billionaire, Custard Castle Small Claims Court, Perch Don't Hook 2022, Dead Gull Zoo Tycoon, Actually... : Frankenstein Edition" "Should be fine", "Help the King Toilet", "Esme's Dedication", "Professional Poker Amateur Tour", "Endure the Fart Don't Amplify the Challenge", if you have patience, you can classify it according to the type of game, and then slowly find it. The key is to find ten games, and there is no real reward, just badges and experience.
The Steam offer is even greater, but we want to thank Epic?
From the perspective of preferential treatment, Steam Summer Promotion and Winter Promotion are indeed getting more and more conscientious every year, but we should be more grateful not for Steam, but for game platforms such as Epic and Origin. As the world's largest PC game platform, Steam's previous commission fee was 30%, the same as Apple's App Store, which is obviously a bit higher.
In order to ensure that the cost and profit can be returned as soon as possible, the game company must increase the price, but the price is high, and the number of consumers who are willing to buy will inevitably decrease. At the beginning of 2021, the industry survey report released by the Drama Developers Conference (GDC) showed that only 3% of developers were willing to accept Steam's high commission. In April last year, game development company Wolffire Games has been suing Steam in court, publicly opposing Steam's high commission.
More and more game companies are officially announcing the development of their own game platforms, the price of games is lower, and the works of other game companies are also welcome to join, such as Epic, Origin (EA), Ubisoft Connect (Ubisoft) and so on. These platforms not only have relatively low game prices, but also have a lot of activities, such as Epic, which sent games for free every day some time ago, so that Xiao Lei was embarrassed not to buy games on the platform.
Image source: Epic screenshot
In the face of the anger of the game developers, Steam also announced a change to the lottery policy, and outrageously, Steam's thinking is obviously different from the average person. Including Apple, the vast majority of platforms change the rules of the draw, generally the lower the flow, the less the pumping achievements, take WeGame as an example, in order to support domestic games, the flow of less than 10 million yuan does not draw any commission.
Steam is different, the higher the flow, the lower the percentage. From Steam's standpoint, this policy does make sense, because Steam's plan is to retain big customers and keep game companies like Ubisoft and EA from completely disconnecting from Steam. As for those niche game developers with lower revenues, they have no strength to make their own game platforms, and can only rely on Steam to squeeze them, and they are powerless to resist.
It can only be said that this is the difference in the company's business philosophy, Apple's App Store is currently at the monopoly level, Tencent is a brother in the domestic game industry, they are the first to take into account the interests of small developers, so give them more benefits. Steam is more like a complete businessman, only concerned about profits, not about industry development.
Therefore, Xiao Lei will say that Steam Summer is so conscientious, but we have to thank Epic, Origin and other game companies, it is they who give Steam enough pressure, G Fat will continue to increase the intensity of the offer.
As for those of us ordinary people, don't care about the contradiction between game developers and platforms, you can download multiple platforms at the same time, which platform game is cheap, comprehensive experience is good, just buy on which platform. Although the domestic epidemic has also been effectively controlled, there are still repeated epidemics in many places, so it is still a very good choice to stay at home and play games.
In addition, games are undoubtedly a very affordable option compared to other forms of entertainment. Only need a computer, even if the configuration is not very high, the 10th generation i5 + GTX 1060, there are a lot of games to play, even the core graphics card can also play LOL, CF and other Tencent games. Some online game in-app purchases are indeed very money-burning, but there are many free games, and even some games can also manage money, if you have nothing to do at home, you may wish to choose to play games.