Deadlight was a 50% Off Community Choice option, but The Walking Dead won instead. But that's why I say it'll be 50% Off eventually, since the CCs always become daily deals and/or flash sales.

And hi there :D

Gamersgate had the pricing error, not Steam. And the store responsible can certainly lose money through a pricing error. Even though there are no physical products involved, the stores aren't getting games for free. 75% and 90% Steam deals don't happen just because Steam decides to sell a product for that price. Steam works out those deals with the publishers.

In this particularly case, Gamersgate promised some unknown amount of money to Bethesda for game keys, and then accidentally sold those keys at a price that had to be much lower than what they agreed to give Bethesda. Someone is eating that difference, whether it is Bethesda writing it off or Gamersgate paying Bethesda, or a combination of both.

Well really, if "whiny" isn't the appropriate word for them, would you care to suggest a word that is? Surely if the game's cheaper on Amazon/GMG/Gamersgate etc. you simply buy it on Amazon/GMG/Gamersgate?

The games have been on sale before? Well no shit, the catalogue's the same as before.

Seems like the people complaining wouldn't be happy unless they were having free games thrown at them. Then they'd probably complain that the free games weren't the free games they wanted. And on and on it goes, an endless cycle of complaining.

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Lulz he so mad

The only complaint I have about the sales is they have been on past sales with the same deals and I can understand why people will be annoyed with that.
They are most likely saving some of the more in demand games for last (and yes they should know what is in demand by having access to everyone's wishlist), which is most likely a calculated move to get people to pay for more then they actually want to spend, since if they bought the one thing they want they might be more disciplined in their spending.
Also the time limit is another marketing ploy that is used to put some urgency in the deals (See shop at home networks).
And I think a lot of users on some level are aware of this manipulation and I can understand why they are angry, honestly I wish they dump the rolling sales, hell if they gave the larger discount for stacking on day 1 I would have purchased from steam and not amazon.

Most of the people complaining are young and are most likely unable to fully asses the situation or look ahead which is important for planning, so to everyone else rest assured odds are the game you want will hit that larger mark off before this is up.

People are complaining about the lack of events as well.

And, to be fair, events would make up for the arguably weaker sales(*). Even if the deals were no better than you could find elsewhere, people would be more willing to hang around and buy games through Steam if they were getting some form of reward, or chance of a reward, from buying or playing those titles.

(*) Steam has set itself up as the big deals store, and Christmas as its biggest sale. But this Christmas sale so far doesn't seem any bigger than the sale that Steam ran just last month. The Thanksgiving sale was a weird idea, anyway. Two major sales about six months apart is one thing, but two major sales one month apart?

Steam dug their hole. They conditioned their audience to expect 75% off, and deals larger than anyone else. They conditioned their audience to expect (exploitable) events at major sales. Now publishers have bought into the idea that "massive discounts == massive profits", the other stores have countered Steam with similar pricing, bundles are nearly giving away games, and Steam has decided to not throw away money on an event that would be heavily exploited by their "loyal and loving" customers. Now those "loyal and loving" customers feel betrayed because Steam isn't the de facto best store and isn't breaking the whole market and itself to give them the best deals and free games.

But you do feel entitled to come into a thread and dish out personal attacks to people. Seriously dude, get off your high horse. You seem like a miserable person.