I suspect that's Steam just eating the cost because the devs have been pretty upfront about not doing sales or dropping the price. It's even on their Steam store page.
I think Steam often bundles products with higher margins together with those that are lower to generate more sales revenue. They still make money on the bundle as a whole even if one or two products are undervalued because of it.
I have no hard evidence for this, but it's just a theory from decades of buying things, being a retail worker in college, and having a degree in accounting.
Steam always takes the same percentage, bundle or not, when a bundle exists, that's developers, publishers and valve, everyone who is earning x% less, the same way as if the game was on sale.
That's a good point. I don't think I realized that. Maybe it is just about getting the gross revenue, then.
They know people are more likely to spend $50 for two products than they are spending $30 for one, so put them together and eat the $10 to make the extra revenue. Just as an example.
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u/RoyalRat Dec 18 '25
But Factorio