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Zeyo 24 Jul, 2014 @ 9:31pm
Game Pricing?
This isn't neccissarilly a suggestion directed to the staff, but rather a question to anyone in the community or staff who can answer. How do you find out the pricing of a game on Outpost? Is there something similar to backpack.tf that I can go to for game currency to game conversion, or do I have to do a ton of annoying mathmatical equations to figure it out? For example, I want to know how much Skyrim and Payday 2 are in keys right now, but the most useful thing I found is some kind of potentially outdated post that said Skyrim was 1.15 buds. Seeing as I've seen Mortal Kombat priced at a mere 2 keys, I honestly am unsure about the pricing on that site, and I'd like to see if there were some way to verify the price.
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Blue Screen of Death 24 Jul, 2014 @ 9:40pm 
Game sellers usually buy games in cheap geographic regions or when they are on sale on Steam. Their price should never be below the one listed on Steam - if it is too cheap odds are it came from a chargeback scammer (DayZ, Rust, CS:GO, Wolfenstein, Watch Dogs, Arma III and a few others are common targets).

A good resource is http://www.steamgamesales.com/

Take the cheapest price the game was ever listed for, convert to your local currency and compare it to the key (seller) prices in the SCM (keys are worth more there than on "black" market). This should give you the lowest average the game should be found for.
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Zeyo 24 Jul, 2014 @ 10:04pm 
Originally posted by Blue Screen of Dea†h:
Game sellers usually buy games in cheap geographic regions or when they are on sale on Steam. Their price should never be below the one listed on Steam - if it is too cheap odds are it came from a chargeback scammer (DayZ, Rust, CS:GO, Wolfenstein, Watch Dogs, Arma III and a few others are common targets).

A good resource is http://www.steamgamesales.com/

Take the cheapest price the game was ever listed for, convert to your local currency and compare it to the key (seller) prices in the SCM (keys are worth more there than on "black" market). This should give you the lowest average the game should be found for.
Thanks, although for some reason the site doesn't list all of the games. For some reason, I couldn't find Payday 2 OR Skyrim on there. For some reason, it doesn't want to detect the name of the game, but rather prefixes in the name. For example, in Payday 2, it just gave me a list of games with the number 2 in the title, none of which were Payday. I tried searching Skyrim too, but got nothing. So what I did was I copy/pasted the title from the game's Steam page, and rather than "the elder scrolls whatever", it gave me games with the word "the" in the title, once again not containing the game I was searching for. Is there something else I can try?
Last edited by Zeyo; 24 Jul, 2014 @ 10:04pm
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kléni 25 Jul, 2014 @ 2:06am 
No, you always need to search for the game. There're usually 1-4 pages of sellers, so you can find the cheapest fast.
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norby89 25 Jul, 2014 @ 4:12am 
Originally posted by kléni:
No, you always need to search for the game. There're usually 1-4 pages of sellers, so you can find the cheapest fast.
Yes but cheapest doesn't always mean it's legit, like BSoD said. That's why it's a good idea to know exactly how much a game has gone on sale for. Also worth noting that some games are region locked and just because they're very cheap in Russia it doesn't mean you will be able to activate or play it as well.

http://steamprices.com - price history
http://steamdb.info - for information about apps
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kléni 25 Jul, 2014 @ 4:38am 
Cleapest =/= under the real price. I bought a payday2 sniper pack last week for about 7 ref. Many people were selling them for 1 to 2 keys. After 2 pages, I knew, it's price is 1 key, although the Steam price is 5 EUR now.
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norby89 25 Jul, 2014 @ 5:18am 
He was asking how can he find the real price, using TF2Outpost search alone won't give you an answer to that.
Last edited by norby89; 25 Jul, 2014 @ 5:37am
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