Is it?
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Yas, just saw it. But still... I remember the good old charcoal sale xD And I want it back :(
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you have refunds to thank for sales getting worse..
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Nope, we have millions of people buying expensive games to thank for publishers seeing it doesn't matter if game is cheap or expensive, millions with buy them anyway.
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you're on the PC, I almost never pay full price even for brand new games.. Can get most new games from GMG for 45 - 50 dollars.. Which is normally the first price they are 3 or 4 months later on steam.. If you're paying full price for games as a PC gamer you're doing it incorrectly..
As for expensive games.. that depends on what you consider expensive.. do I consider 45 - 50 expensive for a brand new AAA game .... not at all..
The flash and daily deals ended once refunds were introduced, bottom line remains that now that steam offers refunds they have no real reason to dip lower than the lowest price to entice buyers.. Especially when those special prices would prompt thousands of people to request a refund to buy the game at the newer lower price..
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I'd like to remind you, after they introduced refunds, there was full Summer Sale with full flash and daily deals. And only next one got unflashed.
They probably saw people do not use refunds to rebuy their games, so they came to natural conclusion: people are happy to pay more. And flash deals were gone for next sale and, surprise, surprise, Valve earned much more money.
Because 1m people buying game for $10/-50% is better than 1.5m buying game for $5/-75%.
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It's the same thing as the sale we had a month ago. If you didn't expect this then it's your fault
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I need to make a copy paste quote for this every sale...
Its not worthless, you already own most the games from previous sales on good prices. A lot of good games are still being sold at high discount, you already own them though.
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It depends. Many games that I bought during previous winter sales were 75% to 80% off whereas this year even games like Final Doom (bought at 75%) are only at 50%.
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Those games still exist, not every sale or every price is the same.
It's got to the point where its "cool" to complain now, we're getting complaints after 5 minutes of the sale starting....that's not enough time to even check your wishlist(as it won't load properly) nevermind the entire sale. Its complaining for the sake of it, its got real old now.
Yes flash and dailies made it slightly better for select games, but its still pretty damn good.
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Not really. Even older games are not being discounted as they once were. I remember a lot of 75% - 90% deals, but now most of them are never below 70%.
I get your point and I agree that people complaint too much, but the sales are definitely not as good as they once were. :P
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But their base price has come down so 70% now IS what 90% was. I dunno, I just find it funny because people now look back at previous sales that they said were "bad" at the time and give them as examples of "good" sales now. It feels like its just cool to complain.
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but I don't want to pay what I could paid the last sale. I waited at that time, as I hoped that when the base prize falls and the sale gives me 90% I have to pay less then the last time
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Then eventually everything ends up being free. Theres plenty of good deals, there still is, just you already own the ones you want or have unrealistic price expectancy of the games you want eg. 80-90% on GTAV
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Maybe I have unrealistic prize expectancy, but if so you should blame Steam sales and other key sellers for having so cheap prices. Because of these I didn't buy games anymore if they are not really cheap. Before I got to know steam I even bought games in actual stores (like these where you have to go out of your room shudder) and paid the full prize. Then I learned that if you can wait a bit, you will get games for extremely low prizes. But apparently this isn't true anymore.
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Thats true of any product. For example, a car depreciates in value the second it leaves the showroom. Bundles, key resellers and sales have given more choice is all. Before when steam was the only show in town a bundle game for £3 was seen as a steal, now its seen as a poor deal because it was once free.
If you are ok waiting for a future better deal thats no different than waiting for todays iPhone to be cheaper in 3/4 years than it is in todays sale. The expectancy comes when a currently well selling product continues to be sold at even 50% off and is seen as a bad deal. If a new anything came out and 4 years later no new model came out but was on a 50% discount, it wouldn't be seen as a bad deal, it'd be a standard deal.
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I never bought a phone for the full prize and always waited for them to drop the prize.
It's probably good for my wallet if I don't buy games just because they are cheap and never play them, but some games I really would like to play are just to expansive at the moment, even for -50%.
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Just your opinion mate, I'd suggest, like the phone, you wait until its at a price point you like. For me a triple A game thats still great fun and recently been updated like GTAV is a great deal at half price.
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Yeah I do, but sadly it seems this point will probably never come.
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Actually I tend to look at prices for games I already own.
It is getting worse.
I bought the Age of Empires Legacy Bundle last year for $8 IIRC. Now its on sale for $22.
I also bought the Darkest Dungeon for $10 a while back. Right now its on sale for $12.49
It has nothing to do with people already owning the games. The sales are objectively getting worse.
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Absolutely, I didn't have the money at the time to grab both the sales you mentioned. I've been waiting through the summer and now Christmas sale for them to hit those prices again and they haven't. Furthermore most of the small indie titles on my wishlist that have hit $1 in the past haven't come close to that again since last year. :\ Guess I'll wait for them to be bundled.
There's a ton of sites and extensions out there that can track price history for any given game, all anyone need do is look at that info to see that the sales are objectively worse.
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Steam sales have been crap for a while now,ever since they got rid of flash deals and community voted deals.
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Yeah, Coal Winter Sale was probably the best one, miss hunting achievements and -75 % on everything.
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That was so much fun. Early steam days with the incentives rocked.
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The steam treasure hunts were the goddamn best
http://steamtreasurehunt.wikia.com/wiki/Steam_Treasure_Hunt_Wiki
I'm a golden potato winner too =D
But really, it was just fun waking up everyday to new stuff to do and try out in various games to go and try to win games drops
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There is one drop each day when you vote for the Steam Awards.
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you get a card for discovery queue and a card for voting
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ok, at least there is cards, you scared me lol
sad we can't sale them on the market if we have no cell phone
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+2 for Discovery Queue... Once steam isn't all lagged ofc.
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People should take a deep breath and stop panicking
a) Prices don't update immediately, it takes time to update all store, especially when it contains over 9000 greenlight scam techdemos and "games" that exists only to give app id to card farmers games and DLCs, wait few hours before trying to buy something
b) Steam servers are already down like every major sale before, wait few hours before trying to buy something.
c) There is no dailies anymore, you don't need to hurry, just, you know, wait few hours before trying to buy something.
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Most of my wishlist has updated already if I view the game's store page... Wishlist is still lagging behind.
The sales aren't as deep as I had hoped, but they are still solid discounts for the most part.
I just wish steam would learn from the past and take more action to prevent their site from dying!
I'd be quite happy if they triggered the sale in phases instead of trying to do it all at once...
I'm not talking flash sales, but if they instead roll out the sale over a few days, every few hours adding another block of games, rather than trying to all at once....
Something like Day 1, 1PM, all 10% discounts are activated. Day 2, 1PM, all 25% activated.... etc.
And if they told people in advance this was it was going to be... Perhaps then the system wouldn't die... (provided all the sales ended at the same time)
It would keep people coming in... and would reduce the chance of mistakes...
And I'm babbling... I apologize. I have a newborn who decided I was not allowed to sleep last night...
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My only issue is that the two things I want (The Unreal Bundle and the Red Faction Bundle) are just still too expensive for me (Plus, I already spent my money on Starship Titanic earlier this year and any remaining cash is for gifts for my family).
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Not bad. If I was actually gaming I might have bought a few. A lot of my wish list is 75% off, such as Life is Strange and Crypt of the Necrodancer, Transistor 80% off. Only problem is they'd just be added to my backlog.
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So many sales but everything is bad mimimimimi....sorry, but i'm happy about every sale, because they have so many cool Sales and my wishlist is longer than my life. xD
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Tbh they are pretty worthless. Most games can be bought on legit keysites cheaper, and indie games tends to end up on bundlesites for next to nothing.
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Yes, they are, but unfortunately so many cocksucker that would collaborate with nazis in the heartbeat if they were told that's the way it is will tell you to "stop whining"
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What did you expect? :D Steam Sales were great when there were barely any discounts on any games every day. But Steam Sales never changed. Only the number for discounts and cheap bundles grows. That's why there is not much to look for.
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you should make a thread telling people what NOT to post on sg, i bet it would be so helpful!
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The new Sabaton album and Total War: Warhammer. That's all I can think of right now. :p
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Ofcourse still got $37,- To spend now what too buy....
Nothing, everything is still too expensive :(
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Once things die down, check https://isthereanydeal.com/ for games that you're really interested in. Might be cheaper somewhere else.
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Also good to mention.
Indiegala, with each purchase you get a free secret key (the scratchy wintersale)
Bundlestar and Greenmangaming you can gett 10% extra discount if you use their special code
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Yeah, same for me. Only thing I hoped for was to pick up Stellaris for a good price. It was actually the lowest I've personally seen it, so can't complain at all.
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I really waited for it but it is a let down. The discounts aren't as good as previous years' and it seems that the sale is getting worse every year... :(
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