Valve Software, responsible for the Half-Life series, the revival of Team Fortress, Portal, and Left 4 Dead, undertook an experiment recently to test how price affected the sales of their popular survival-horror FPS, Left 4 Dead. They reduced the price by 50% on Steam, which "resulted in a 3000% increase in sales of the game, posting overall sales that beat the title's original launch performance. They also tested various other price drops over the holidays, seeing spikes in sales that corresponded well to the size of the discount.

With the current economic situation, do you think the price of video games is too high?