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I'm not sure the economics of the gaming industry work the way most of us would intuitively expect. Gabe Newell has published some fascinating information about how Steam evolved to its current model and the effects of their short-term, massive-cut sales. Spoiler: They can be very profitable, because you increase your number of sales by a much higher multiplier than you reduced the price.



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