No, this is pro-consumer. Showing the original price and the “X% off!” sign is price anchoring designed to make you think you’re getting a great deal and to make you feel urgency to buy it now. It’s why we all have such giant collections of unplayed games.
I really dislike the way they hide the original prices on Steam now and you have to open the store pages to find the original price.
I think it even goes against some consumer rules here in Europe.
(I think they even didn’t have the original price visible for a while)
No, this is pro-consumer. Showing the original price and the “X% off!” sign is price anchoring designed to make you think you’re getting a great deal and to make you feel urgency to buy it now. It’s why we all have such giant collections of unplayed games.
Huh? What do you mean? For me it looks like this (am in the EU tho):
Here’s a better view: https://imgur.com/a/ndBfWLy
Seems to be a non-EU problem then I guess.
I’m from the EU.
I think it’s something to do with it being or not being the largest discount in the last X days (maybe 90 days? I’m not sure)