

They also have a browser extension to put some additional info right on the steam store pages.
Not the entire price history, but it will show the lowest ever price, and the last time it happened. Even if Valve puts a 30-day history on the page, this would still be useful to know if a game ever gets discounts deeper than whatever it had most recently.


There was a full news cycle of tech folks talking about how “they are so in demand, they sold out instantly.” Build the hype with free press.
Valve has enough experience with this to know exactly what they were doing.