Valve is implementing some changes in the Steam sales. The company will subtract the price of the game in a collection if you already have it in the library.



Steam sales are already attractive, but it turns out that they can be even more interesting. Valve is now making some refinements to the way bundles are sold. It might not seem like a big deal, but the truth is that it’s a really important step for the digital distribution platform.
Many of the Steam users have quite a few games in their libraries, which they have collected over time. When sales season reaches the distribution platform, publishers usually promote collections or bundles, but this is a problem for gamers who already own many of the titles in that collection.
How does it work? Let’s say that you only want a game or two from a big bundle, but you already own eight of those titles. Even if you buy the entire bundle, you’re not going to get extra keys. According to a report on pcgamesn.com, some big changes are coming.
“Past Complete Packs were sometimes a bad deal for customers that already [owned] one or more of the products in the pack. Either it made bad economic sense for those customers to purchase the pack, or they just felt bad about doing so since it [looked] like they were paying for products they already [had]. The new Steam Bundles system addresses this,” reads a leaked memo from Valve.
This means that the price of the bundle will be adjusted based on the games you already own. So, if you only need two games from a bundle of ten, you will only pay those two. It’s not clear when is this going to be enforced system-wide, but most likely it will be ready until the next sale season.