Steam Calculator Inaccurate

[henpenben]

Steam Calculator is inaccurate. For example, it lists Half-Life 2: Lost Coast as $39.99 when it really has no price, and it lists Company of Heroes 2 (the open beta) as $59.99.

[Marlamin]

That's because HL2: Lost Coast is only available in a package, and CoH2 open beta redirects to the actual CoH2 app.

Thanks for reporting this, hopefully @xPaw knows a way to catch these special cases.

[xPaw]

Unfortunately there is no reliable way to detect these cases.

[henpenben]

You could have a report system for people to report games with inaccurate prices; say I report HL2: Lost Coast and then someone looks at it, decides it shouldn't be priced and manually removes it from the database. Probably a better way to do this; just my thoughts on it.

[xPaw]

That's an option, indeed. However, SteamDB is mainly a database, and not a calculator, and we don't want to spent time moderating stuff, it should be automated.

Unfortunately, there's no reliable way to detect these cases at the moment; even Steam store has problems like that:

[davispuh]

proper way would be report this to Valve that they're giving incorrect data and wrongly showing it even on store.

[xPaw]

I did talk to Valve about it, it's just the way it works (it gets first package where that game is sold, and reports that). Store page properly displays that, but search/bigpicture is unaware of that.

[xPaw]

I deployed a fix for this, should be more accurate now!