Rumor: No Flash nor Daily Sales during Season Sales 2015

fees like valvE is running out of steam, lately.

Time pressure is a great motivator to buy.

My wallet thanks you, Valve!

I voted "Yes, no need to return after day 1," but in all likelihood there will be some aspect of the Winter Sale that will get us to keep checking in regularly (like the Flash sales used to).

It's the right move on Valve's part. The novelty of "crazy sales" has worn off for most consumers, akin to Black Friday retail sales. Good deals can be found on almost any day of the year with minimal effort.

Especially here on Steam, most folks have a distorted view due to large backlogs accumulated from previous years of sales. So unless it's "OMG AAA 85% OFF A MONTH AFTER RELEASE," the consumer response is lackluster.

As for a customer, it's not bad move - I can buy all I want on day 1. Smaller devs that relied on the increased visibility on daily/flash sale are screwed this time. Ofc there may be some gimmick from Valve to keep clients coming back everyday to the store, but idk if it will have the same effect as flash sale.

That will make the sale a lot less exciting, but at least it's bound to be lighter on my wallet. No crazy impulse buy for games I'll never play just because it's 85% off for a few hours.

Some of the excitement and nostalgia is gone but really this is a pro-consumer move in that everything is clear and available. No more having to wait 2 weeks just to buy a game on flat discount anyways because it didn't go daily. No more trying to explain to your less initiated friends that they really shouldn't have bought that non-daily/flash game on the first day. Besides, that nostalgia and excitement was just a marketing ploy to get you spending more money.

Honestly this means if this is the "worst sale ever omg wft lol" then the "blame" lies with the devs who set the prices. In truth this was always the case but the way the sales were run obfuscated that fact and made it easier to point the finger at Valve.

In the end it's this or refunds so whine responsibly.

Some games will most probably get a price increase just before the sale like XCOM recently...

I'm a bit of disappointed to this thing; daily deals and especially flash deals were nice way to keep customer visiting Steam webpage / browser not once but many times during sale. Also it offered the customer the thrilling experience of never knowing what titles to expect. Also I'm always a bit of pessimist on these things so I think that continous sale wide discount won't be as big as 4-8h price drop. Well it's only a rumour and even if it is true we will still buy more games than we need :D Our wallets are still not safe!

This sounds like a good thing for the consumer. Less of the "fear of missing out" that causes you to buy things that you don't really need, because it's cheap, and there is a time limit that nags you to make a quick decision.

if this is true it might be a good thing for my wallet, i always over spend because of those damn daily flash sales lol.
if all the games are just going to be a set price ill just have to add money to my account once and will just pick through what i want and be done with the sale,were as with the flash sale i would keep adding money so i wouldn't miss out on a good deal not knowing that the next day they would just have something else on sale i wanted even more.i would always start with a $100 budget and end up spending more like $300,
im thinking if steam does away with there flash sales they will be loosing out on a lot of money from people who get hooked on those sale(like me)

Three Discounts for the AAA titles under the sky,
Seven for the Good Indie Titles in their halls of stone,
Nine for those Shitty Greenlights doomed to die,
One for the Lord Gaben on his golden throne
In the Land of Valve where the Salesmaster lie.
One Sale to lure them all, one Sale to find them,
One Sale to bring them all and in poverty bind them
In the Land of Valve where the Salesmaster lie.

If this means less +75% off deals, then this also means they will get less money from me :D

My wallet thanks if that is the case.

Worst idea ever by Steam. I really can't understand the marketing scheme behind this, unless there's something we don't know yet, or this rumour proves to be false.

One set sale price throughout the entire span of the sale means people will look once or twice, buy what they want, and not bother looking again. With daily and flash sales, you get more people looking at your sales page many, many times throughout the course of that sale, making for that many more opportunities for them to decide to spend some money.

You want people window-shopping every few hours for those impulse buys, and time-sensitive sales are a great incentive.

Lame.

as long as the prices get at lest to their previous best discount its allright.

Expect this will hurt traffic figures to the website after the first day. In some ways, it could be good for customers, with the best discounts available for the full duration of the sale (assuming this doesn't mean that companies shy away from offering the large discounts which we have come to expect on flash/daily deals), but it's also a bit of a buzzkill.

Half the excitement of the Steam sale was logging in every day/few hours to snag the best deals :)

Well Steam Sales have been getting worst with each ones for about 2 years.. this marks the end of the Silver Age of Steam for me (Golden Age was RU Pricing available for trades).

There's no way most Publishers will offer those Xtra Discounted offers that we could see on Flash Sales for the whole duration.. Just bad choice from Steam. What will be the point of checking sales after the 1st day .. "make the sale a lot more valuable for customers" .. NOT.

EDIT : I think I figured why they would do that.. They're afraid of the quantity of request for refunds from people who want to rebuy the game cheaper for the Flash Sale price. Still Sucks.

I always liked that winter sale lasted for few days. Now it's gonna be over after day 1 because there won't be anything new for the rest of the sale. That's boring. :(

I wouldn't be surprised if this results in lower sales per capita. No pressure from the flash or even daily sale countdowns means less poor decision making.

Good for consumers. Bad for Valve. Less time pressure, less excitement, less revenue.