Community Choice is a gimmick

Yeah, that's kind of obvious. It's nice to get the sale a bit early, but these 'do me a favor and vote for x!' threads are getting annoying.

Oh really? good job for you. here is a sticker

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I LIKE VOTING.

And ? I've you don't have any clue, just stop using Steam, damn, complaining.

I hope you're right, cause I want to grab Magicka for 2,50€ :)

Why are you surprised ?

Personally, I'm expecting every flash sale and community choice option to also appear as a daily sale.

So what?

It's called marketing. People see the sales they want and either 1. They purchase it when the game wins. or 2. Get annoyed it didn't win, see it on the flash sale, and purchase it. Regardless of which, Steam sells the game and makes money.

Darn you Gabe, DARN YOU TO HECK

I don't see what's the problem. Any sale means savings...

and more money means more to me than less money

Yeah that is kind of the point. The discounts are already determined. The Community Choice allows the player base to highlight/promote a sale sooner. Most games will probably land in each promo category before the end of the sales. Hell some may cycle through twice since Valve likes to do "encore" sales for people that may have missed the original sales.

The CC is mostly to entice players to check back with Steam periodically to vote and check out current selections. Every visit is a potential chance for Valve to sell something. It is not the big conspiracy people try to make it out to be. Remember there are three different categories each cycling through titles: Daily Deals, Flash Sales, and the player driven Community Choice. These are independent and on a different cycle. Just because a game was a Daily does not mean it cannot show up as a Flash Sale later.

I'm sure some would appreciate the second chance to nab a good deal on a title they previously missed.

So wait why is it a gimmick?

More chances to save, oh yeah I guess thats pretty bad.

It's a gimmick because it mostly doesn't matter how you vote or what wins, almost everything will get a turn being on sale anyway. The point of the gimmick is to keep more attention from people on Steam more often and more of the time. Since there are no freebies or achievements to keep our attention, this is what they did instead of easy to track daily sales that we could walk away from for 23 hours a day.
I read that Valve had hired some kind of marketing psychologist or some shit, and I guess this is the scheme they came up with.

The worst and weirdest thing about all this to me, are games like Alan Wake and HL2 coming up for vote today, when they already had a 75% off sale yesterday. They need to quit dicking around and make sure every franchise gets at least one good sale.

TW2 lost the community vote, but became flash sale now. I am personally very pleased with it (that means i am already downloading it xD)

Gaben confirmed to be illegitimate child of David Xanatos.

I don't have any problems with that, It's a nice gimmick cause it gives you more chances to get the games for a low price.

I still want Qube for a low price though:/

yeah,the witcher 2 at 60%, and was a CC... it just make Steam more awesome

As a storefront, Steam/Valve want to have as many page-views as possible to entice you to buy things. One way of doing this is to give people an incentive to check back every so often. This is why the flash sales and CC exist. To drive people back to the sale page more than once a day.

I'm amazed that there's no link to the Nicolas Cage "YOU DON'T SAY?" meme in this thread.

random vote from me as long it is DRM free :P