Refuse to believe that this is the sale..

I just don't know why do you act like you MUST buy something and it's Valve's fault that you don't get enough discount. Well, there was a massive sale only WEEKS ago, and you're complaining about the discounts. You know, if you don't like it or too expensive for you, don't buy it. There is still loads of good games for cheap / massive discounts (it can be still quite expensive though.) It will be cheaper next year / sale anyways, as games getting older.

Actually on the first flash - there was Injustice gods among us for less than 4 eu. I think they very recently reduced the retail price and this is the fist time i saw the game under 4.99 eu. Just saying that i saw something good, and would have bought it if i didn't have it already.

Edit: Actually it is daily deal and for the next 8 hours is still 3.49 eu.

It's just a decoy sale

Still Waiting for Trackmania discount. Really why, just WHY Trackmania never get any discount on steam.

I don't really care about the vote being 24 hours instead of 8 hours, especially since the vote is just free cards, pretty much every game that shows up on the vote whether picked or not gets put on the same discount at least once during the sale anyway. The card event you refer to was the gem auction.

Oh really, just wait until tomorrow, if we don't have a new set of deals, by then THEN get out the pitchforks. The daily deal None sale is normally 48hours, they just pop a new one up every 24, so I'm expecting that here.

It always was 48 hours for the main deals. And flash deals were the same games again and again.

How dare they give discounts on hundreds of games.

HOW DARE THEY.

The people who complain about it being a shit sale are usually the ones that don't see the good deals for what they are because they already own all the games. Those of us that are excited still have pretty big wishlists and small backlogs.

Edit: Same complaints seem to happen EVERY sale.

Someone wants a copy of the Bob's Burger #1 Comic?

Sales always lasted 2 days with new sales every day, that probably hasn't changed. There are cards, they were released with the first part of the sale event, the auction, which was new. I do agree the community slowdown sucks, but not much we can do about it. the sale is not as bad as you insist though.

Am I the only one that thinks "Am I the only one" is the dumbest start of a question?

Still plenty of good discounts to go around, and when you get down to it that's what a sale is about no ?
Although I think the community choice / flash deals being on longer intervals was a bad idea marketing-wise. No reason to check store so often = less risk of impulse purchase.

If I'm looking at the bonus events the gems auction was a complete dud.

Ok this is actualy the worst sale I've ever seen.

I don't know what the hell people expect from a sale. Free games?

Looks like it was either a mistake or they decided to change it. Main discounts are back to a 24h cycle. Now you can stop crying.

OP is just butthurt because he loaded up on useless junk which he overpaid / overcommitted for and now he's crying like a little disappointed child.

I've bought Border 2 GOTY, so I'm already satisfied with this sale :]

Every year everyone is complaining but if you don't own many games, the sales are pretty good you just need to find the right ones.
Currently I see Castle Crashers and Deus Ex: Directors Cut as pretty nice deals if you don't own either of these.

With every year that passes Steam sales are getting worse. Indeed, if you have few games it will look cool but sales are getting worse with each edition.

I swear the sales get worse over time.

Gonna wait, right now only thing I'm going to buy is Metal Gear, the hack and slash one. And by buy I mean get completely free via Steam Market.

Compare to what these have usually been like, this one is rather disappointing to me too. As there's no special items for crafting holiday badges, they're just not as interesting anymore, which is no doubt why they're about half the value they usually have been. I guess as the devs/publishers had to donate all those games for the auctions (that's what it said they did on the auction page), they're just not as willing to offer the usual discounts during the sale. Looks like the shift is to try to get people to consume items to make gems for "pre-sale" auctions, rather than to provide more items, and many really nice discounts.

Got Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, first time 75% off on steam, great game.