Thoughts about percentage of true price

tungpham

So https://gg.deals/game/monster-energy-supercross-the-official-videogame-3/ is currently having historical low deal, which is 3.79 USD and 92% sale off tag.
So I checked the full Steam price of it and it is 29.99 USD, which means that game actually just only has ₈₇.4% sale off.
We all want to buy games as cheapest as we can, and Steam store price is logically what we use to compare. Why does gg.deals not showing us true percentage, instead of nonsense 92% compare to fake full price that Keyshops trying to show?
Just some easy math, I think this should be fix. Not only this game, I mean all of them.

remike

To calculate the discount percentage we take into consideration the RRP price of the 3rd party store.

Comparing against Steam is problematic for numerous reasons:

If we did it your way, we would have a different discount percentage on GG.deals than the one users see after they click on the offer. That would cause lots of confusion for many.
Not all games are on Steam, so your method is not very universal. Also, some preorders don't have the Steam price until the release day but are available on sale in 3rd party stores.
We support 20 regions. In some of them, the Steam prices are adjusted to the local economic situation. So you might get a situation where the game is on sale, say, at GMG, but the Steam RRP is lower than the discounted price on GMG. So what discount percentage do we show then?

_nul

remike As you mentioned comparing to Steam price is problematic, but you can compare to DRM platform price, no?

The platform and price of a key are fixed, so there's no need to worry about regions or having to compare 1 key to prices of 2 platforms. You know the platform you need to check as each key is for specific platform and your filters can already pick up which platform a key is for.

I don't know about region, so here's a question: When I look at any game and see steam price listed, which region price am I seeing? Can you use the same price (or the same region you use to get that price) to get an accurate price?
If the answer is "yes" that accounts for region.

I don't get where the confusion comes from. They see the key price and that won't change.
Is confusion regarding discount percentages an issue?

The price on official platform is listed nearby (Official sellers section)
Show the prices you are calculating with: Like 3.79$ ~~25.99$~~(-85%).
Finally, you can show "Est: -85% based on RRP 25.99$" to avoid all confusion.

Example (USD GOG and Steam prices are differen, but G4A sells GOG and Steam key for same price):

[G4A] <Game> (Steam) 3.79$ ~~29.99$~~(-87%) -8% with code G4ALWAYS
[G4A] <Game> (GOG) 3.79$ ~~25.99$~~(-85%) -8% with code G4ALWAYS
[Gamivo] <Game> (steam) 5.01$ ~~29.99$~~(-83%)
...
[G4A] <Game> Epic Turbo Max Edition (Steam) 15$ ~~59.99$~~(-75%) -8% with code G4ALWAYS

If GOG has a sale and the key is cheaper than on key shops, you show nothing or the calculated percentage like +50% on the key seller offer. Example (percentage can be colored to reflect overprice):

[G4A] <Game> epic turbo edition (Steam) 3.79$ 1$(+379%) -8% with code G4ALWAYS

I as far as data goes I only see 2 potential problems:

Can you actually retrieve/store all those prices (I assume official platform prices are not retrieved in real time)?
Can you avoid getting lost in different editions? Like can you differentiate a key being for "game ultimate edition" not being for "game digital deluxe"?