Steam Bundles Will Decrease Based on Your Steam Library

<p>At the time of writing this&comma; Steam says I have 557 games&period; Steam sales and daily deals&comma; along with Humble Bundles and the various other bundle websites out there&comma; have created a massive collection of games I will probably never get around to playing&period; But sometimes I want a nice meaty bundle on Steam that contains a couple games I already own&period; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;pcgamesn&period;com&sol;steam-dynamic-bundles">According to PCGamesN<&sol;a>&comma; Steam bundles will be affected in price based on how many games from the bundle you already own&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is huge news&comma; and something that will most likely help publishers sell games in a publisher bundle or if fans are trying to own the entire series after getting a couple titles already&period; You can see how the discount works already if you check the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;bundle&sol;225">Headup Games Complete bundle<&sol;a>&period; For me&comma; it retails at &dollar;67&period;22 CDN&comma; but that price drops when I take a look at it with my Steam account logged in&period; I own one of the games already &lpar;Bridge Constructor&rpar;&comma; which means the total price drops to &dollar;65&period;36 CDN&period; This isn&&num;8217&semi;t in effect for every bundle yet&comma; but I noticed the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;bundle&sol;232&sol;">Valve Complete Pack<&sol;a> also took into account my library&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Past Complete Packs were sometimes a bad deal for customers that already &lbrack;owned&rsqb; one or more of the products in the pack&period; Either it made bad economic sense for those customers to purchase the pack&comma; or they just felt bad about doing so since it &lbrack;looked&rsqb; like they were paying for products they already &lbrack;had&rsqb;&period; The new Steam Bundles system addresses this&period; &&num;8211&semi; Valve<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Valve hasn&&num;8217&semi;t even officially announced the new pricing structure&comma; but it seems like a great idea for both the consumer and Valve&period; The quote above is from official documentation that developers received and made its way into PCGamesN&&num;8217&semi;s hands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As PCGamesN suggests&comma; this seems like something that might roll out completely in a future sale&comma; though they state a summer sale for when it will be introduced&period; I have a feeling since it&&num;8217&semi;s already in place for some bundles&comma; it will get its own unique sale week or weekend to push the new offer&period; This will also help Steam sales add a little bit of variety to them since the common complaint is the same games are always on sale&period; At least now bundles will become a more viable purchase for those who have lots already&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;pcgamesn&period;com&sol;steam-dynamic-bundles">PCGamesN<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;