Steam Sales are officially dead. (Winter Sale 2015)

So now i don't have to waste 2 weeksa of my life for the chance a flash sale may have a better discount. Yeah, it ius terrible, so much more time to actually play games. If you don't like the discounts given by the developers, not valve, go to another official store.

Well my policy of buying 80%+ games and concider others for how much i want the game is still up so no complains from me

i have to guess that games will go as low as before but for more time, thats the better part of the sale

also we need a good christmas event valve... jeez i was poor when the coal one was up bring it up

that's the way sales will work from now on because of refunds.. With flash and daily deals you'd have hundreds of thousands of refund request anytime a game hit the flash or daily deal.

Thusly steam just did away with those two sales to avoid all the extra refund emails from people with zero impulse control..

BTW buy early in these things as prices do tend to increase as time goes on.. during the last sale for Thanksgiving the last five days of the sale I noticed games I wanted slowly increasing in price..

The introduction of refunds killed flash sales.

A small price to pay too, imo.

still waiting to see the sale

I was personally just waiting for someone else to bring this up since it is all up to coincidence, but it looks pretty solid to me. Largest in my opinion is the level 2 foil badge. https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/3xvwus/steam_winter_sale_2015_lets_find_the_real_deal/

Another year, another downgrade.

I miss earning achievements in games which could be redeemed for game/in-game goodies.

Now the most I look forward to in sales are the free cards that I can sell off on the market.

I want an advice... I'm leveling up here and I have two options:

a) sell all expensive cards from this sale to make some new badges.
b) make badges of these sale cards.

obs.: I REALLY don't care what badge I get, since they all give me the same XP...

Transistor for $4 sounds like a good deal to me.

discounts look decent enough to me. The "fun activity" being clicking through your discovery queue repeatedly is beyond uninspired and lazy though.

Last year, for the first time ever, I Christmas shopped more at the Humble Store than Steam. This year, I will...probably do the same.

B..b..but we have a great new excitement daily: "Northpole Noir".....
At least no more stupid clicker games that fucked up the (poor) servers during sales. But I have to admit no community deal, no flash sales is kind of a let down, the good thing is that it limit the collateral damages these could do to our wallets.
Just a look at my wishlist, most of them have shitty discount so i'm not buying. Buy the games I'm interested in with good enough discount on the first day and that's the end of it.

The discounts are dependent on the actual game companies to agree on, not Steam. Here's how it goes.

Steam: Hey want to discount your game up to 90% off?
Game Company: Our game just came out, don't think we should do a big discount, how about 10% instead?
Steam: OK BUDDY.

I still have 80€ because I dont think that I should buy a game. At the moment I can save it and look what games will be bundled next 14 days - so maybe at the end I will get some stuff from the store...

I'm quite happy with the sales :)

Here whine whine and whine can't all ever be happy, I guest not

i sold tons of cardz and bought gta 5. i m proud.

Yes, it is dissapointing, but it is still hard to complain. Sice most of the games are too cheap, when you consider price/fun ratio... Just don't buy brand new releases if you are really not hyped about the game..

On a sidenote: indiegala has a pretty decent winter sale. For everything you buy, you get a secret xmas-gift game on top.
I just bought Pillars of Eternity for slightly less than the Steam sales price (the diffrence is probably a $/Euro conversion thing, because the
discount -60% is the same in both stores) and got Sniper Elite 3 on top! Now, that's a pretty good deal, I think.
Also ... indiegala allows you to pay with bitcoins ;-)

..and we have the same bitching and moaning, just like

every
goddamn
sales

GoG looks a little better day by day.

Well now that I have two weeks to talk myself out of buying something, I'm $13 in and already probably done. Unless Ubisoft's sorta-daily-deals are good I'll get few gifts for others, too, but likely not anything else for myself. Haven't spent less than $100 on a major sale ever since Holidays 2012. :-P Now I eagerly await each day to.. run autoclicker to farm cards, what joy.

We had this shit during the Summer Sale too. And just like the summer sale, this sale is actually fantastic. There is a huge amount of historic low prices. But who am I to get in the way of idiots blaming Steam for developers setting their own discounts.

I find it strange that games that used to go on -75% in previous sales have only been going to -66%.