Steam May Add 30-Day Price History to Improve Discount Transparency
Valve appears to be continuing its efforts to improve Steam client, which serves both as a video game store and as the launcher for purchased titles.
The company is now planning to add new features designed to improve the shopping experience. One of the newly discovered features is a price history tool that will show at least the last 30 days of pricing data.
Steam May Soon Show 30-Day Price History on Game Pages
With this new feature, users will be able to check the game’s current price as well as the prices it had during the previous month. This will make it easier to see whether a game has recently been on sale, if the current discount is actually a good one, or if the price was lower just a few days earlier.
Once this feature is added, players may no longer need to rely on third-party tools such as SteamDB, which many users currently use to track price changes. Instead, all of this information could be available directly inside the Steam client.
This will allow players to compare the current offer with previous prices and decide whether it is a good time to buy before the price goes back up.
The new tool is also part of Valve’s wider plans to provide more useful information on game store pages. Another feature reportedly in development is an estimated FPS display, which would show how well a game is expected to run on a user’s own PC. This feature may use collected user data to provide those estimates.
In other news, Steam recently broke its record for concurrent players once again just a couple of weeks ago, showing that the platform continues to grow.
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