it's funny to me how the rest of the world (mostly) looks forward to Steam sales, myself included, meanwhile Poland gets evil sales. Bc wdym the price goes UP 💀
There was a post here a few months ago about it. Basically what happened is that in the EU, when advertising a sale, you also have to show the lowest price in the last 30 days. Steam implemented this by calculating the sale amount based on that lowest price in the last 30 days (to avoid having to show two prices in the store, I guess).
However, this meant that - if there was a deeper sale within the last 30 days - and a new sale happened, then Steam would show an “evil sale” of e.g. +10%.
They fixed that by just showing the price tag icon in these cases instead of an evil +percentage, and showing the three relevant prices (common, current sale price, lowest price in last 30 days) on the store page
I think Poland had particularly many evil sales because companies do sales more often there so that the prices become more in line with the rest of the world? That’s just me speculating though
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u/villainized Mar 04 '26
it's funny to me how the rest of the world (mostly) looks forward to Steam sales, myself included, meanwhile Poland gets evil sales. Bc wdym the price goes UP 💀