{"id":379541,"date":"2026-10-01T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=379541"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:21:08","slug":"valve-will-change-how-steam-discounts-work-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/valve-will-change-how-steam-discounts-work-by-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve will change how Steam discounts work by 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valve has been changing many aspects of <a href=\"https:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a> in recent years and it seems that the next big change is going to be how they present their deals. In particular, the daily deals, the recommended ones, and the personalized ones. <strong>According to the company, by early 2027, they plan to completely change how they handle these aspects of the store<\/strong>. The goal is to give it a \u201cmore dynamic and personalized for each customer\u201d look.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A change in the presentation of deals<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As they&#8217;ve explained in the blog post, their goals are \u201cto show the right games to the right users. <strong>That&#8217;s why, over the last few months, we&#8217;ve been testing ways to replace some of the curated slots with dynamic and personalized recommendations<\/strong>. By featuring games in a more personalized way in the \u2018Discounts and Events\u2019 section, we managed to show customers in that section 10 times as many games over the course of a day\u201d. That means more sales.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Steam\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/3047d89c-96d0-11e6-8546-00163ed833e7\/4018433091\/steam-Download-Steam.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Steam<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although they say that \u201cin the coming weeks, we&#8217;ll have a clearer idea of the release date for these changes\u201d and that, by extension, st<strong>ill don&#8217;t know for certain when these changes will happen, they&#8217;ve already stated that it&#8217;ll be during 2027. Specifically, in the first half of next year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insisting that all this won&#8217;t affect all the marketing plans already planned, it seems Valve wants to push an algorithm-based approach similar to that of other similar stores and services. <strong>This has raised concerns in some quarters, because some fear it could be an excuse to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/steam-players-demand-fairer-prices-and-criticize-its-regional-pricing-policy\" rel=\"noopener\">dynamic pricing<\/a>, something Sony is also considering for the PlayStation Store, although Valve hasn&#8217;t confirmed anything about that<\/strong>. So we&#8217;ll have to wait to learn more about the exact implications of these discount changes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has been changing many aspects of Steam in recent years and it seems that the next big change is going to be how they present their deals. In particular, the daily deals, the recommended ones, and the personalized ones. According to the company, by early 2027, they plan to completely change how they handle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/valve-will-change-how-steam-discounts-work-by-2027\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Valve will change how Steam discounts work by 2027&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":379540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-379541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379553,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379541\/revisions\/379553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379541"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=379541"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=379541"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=379541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}