Being disappointed by Steam's sales is as silly as being disappointed in your poop's size. Who cares, it's still poop.
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You and the guy who seconded you are either new to the internet or new to forums if THAT is the stupidest post you've read.
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But your poop's size is directly correlated to weight loss. Haven't you heard of the new "increase your poop size, to lose weight".
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What you do with your blacklist is none of my concern. With that said, I don't see the necessity of sharing your actions with me. Was that an attempt at getting me angry or something? :P
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If I didn't already have you whitelisted I'd whitelist you again jbondguy lol
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people will be more disappointed when they realize how many games have been bundled on this sale xD
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I don't really get this argument. What does it matter if something was bundled in the past? Sure, if I was there at the time, I would've gotten it cheaper (although probably not, since on Steam I get to use PHP instead of USD), but so what? If I was a Dutchman in 1626 I could've bought Manhattan, but since I wasn't, I didn't.
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hey i saw that gift a few times, this gift it's real or a fake????
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I think what she may have meant was, some people will be disappointed because they have games that they bought at a high(er) price and planned to trade/give away, and now those would have a reduced value because of the sale. :)
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True, but unlike that situation history often repeats itself when it comes to bundled games, so if you simply have patience and wait the opportunity will likely come again
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because the trading market price for those games is usually way lower than the sale price. instead of buying in the store, you could just buy on steamtrades for a fraction of what you normally pay.
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I've read this and your other comments here and like your way of thinking. Right now there is a bundle with many games I've had bought much more expensive this year, so your comment helps a bit :)
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Don't know what were you expecting, Halloween Sale is always a small one. Winter Sale is probable from around Christmas to early January.
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I've heard there's going to be an autumn sale, don't know when it is though. I just hope you don't get your hopes very high for a sale, since I keep seeing a lot of people being disappointed by pretty good sales IMO.
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Black Friday, usually. The day after Thanksgiving in the U.S.A.
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If this one was disappointing for you then the next one will be, too.
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There's usually a black Friday sale at the end of November too. That will probably include all the big publishers. I notice a lot of the bigger publishers don't have any discounts on games from the last year, so it might be they are hanging on until then.
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It's been a good 4-5 years since the steam sales have been really amazing. Maybe I'm looking at it with rose tinted shades, but there used to be some really amazing deals during the sales, especially some of the flash sales (and pricing errors!). Steam used to be more of a niche, but now it's more mainstream (everyone has a steam account now) and they can make some mediocre deals and still make a boatload of money.
Now the real deals are with the new underdogs, GMG has had some great deals, Nuuvem (until everyone jumped on that bandwagon and they started doing the paypal region locks), etc. I really hope a new distribution system comes along to give them some competition, us gamers could really use it. GOG is nice but it's not quite there yet, Origin and Uplay, no thanks...itch.io could be better if they had more choices and better deals. Rip Desura.
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I think we are all looking at it through rose-colored glasses to some degree because we have become irrevocably affected by the proliferation of bundles and their comparatively low pricing, and no store can compete with that. Perhaps it is more that we ourselves have changed and not so much the store sales. That and I also think that you, me, and everyone else on here is in a niche of their own, and we often like to fool ourselves into thinking that we somehow represent the majority but we don't.
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Sigh.. from the top 50 games on my wishlist. The only 2 that have a decent discount is GTAV and God eater 2. but 40% and 50% is really not that great discount either.
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I guess.. but even reviewing games I already own and trying to decide a good gift.. I really cannot find any good ones.
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This.
The games I wanted aren't on sale.
And I hate how people say: "Well, it's the Halloween sale, only scary games are on sale"... sure. 90% (or even more) of the games on sale aren't in the scary / horror category at all.
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Buying GTA V for -40% is more than worth it. Consider getting it, you won't be disappointed.
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I know it's a good game and I will get it eventually myself. But 40% is not a good discount for me to buy a few copy and do gibs for it.
Since I already have enough games to play from my own account.
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Yeah I'll only get it myself with a bigger discount, can't afford that at that price.
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I didnt find anything that I wanted to buy. But then again. I guess most of the "good" deals that are out there now is for games I already own.
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maybe i'm just easy to please / have shit taste in games, but i just went through every page of the sales and found these - of at least some interest:
apologies for this
$0.59 - Toadled
$1.19 - Anomalies
(the renegades of orion DLC)
(the secret world DLC)
$1.01 - A.I.M. Racing
$2.49 - Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure - Chapter 1
$3.74 - Battle Fantasia -Revised Edition-
$3.74 - I Am Alive
$4.99 - Zombi
$4.54 - Pathologic Classic HD
$2.99 - Enemy Front
$0.99 - EM: Shader Attack Indiegala bundle
$3.99 - Croixleur Σ
$0.98 - Brighter Day
$5.99 - Goliath
$4.70 - Goat Simulator: GOATY
Includes 3 items: Goat Simulator: Original Soundtrack, Goat Simulator: PAYDAY, Goat Simulator: Waste of Space
$0.89 - GiAnt don't get it even for that price, it's shit
$1.99 - Flockers same price on Indiegala store but with that scratch-off card promo, is still a better deal
$1.19 - Hard West: Scars of Freedom DLC
$3.74 - Grim Dawn - Crucible Mode DLC
$4.99 - Krater - Collector's Edition
$1.49 - KEL Reaper of Entropy
$0.99 - Into Blue Valley
$2.49 - Inside Me
$0.99 - Madballs in... Babo:Invasion
$5.99 - Lords of the Fallen Game of the Year Edition
$2.49 - Leviathan: Warships
$4.99 - Kyn Deluxe Edition
$0.99 - Projector Face
$0.99 - No More Room in Hell - Original Soundtrack Volume 1
$1.49 - Mythos the Beginning
$0.59 - Rolling Shapes
$0.49 - Reveal the Deep
$0.49 - Razenroth
$1.24 - Quadrant
$0.74 - Puzzle Dimension
$1.74 - Scary Girl
$5.99 - Sanctum 2 Complete Pack
$4.99 - Ryse: Son of Rome
$0.99 - Rusty Lake Hotel
$0.59 - Royal Bounty HD
$1.99 - Silver Bullet: Prometheus
$0.99 - Sig.Null Indiegala bundle
$0.99 - Shutshimi Steam Store and Retail
$0.49 - Shift
$5.09 - Frozenbyte Collection 2016
Includes 1 items: Shadwen
$4.94 - Squareface
$0.69 - Space Radiance
$3.49 - So Long Earth
$2.49 - Skyshine's Bedlam Deluxe
$7.49 - Submerged + Soundtrack
$7.46 - The Caiysware Collection
Includes 3 items: Echo of the Wilds, Straima, Straimium Immortaly
$0.79 - The Great Escape
$2.99 - The Grave Digger
$14.99 - The Evil Within Bundle better price on Humble (with that subscription)
$0.49 - The Dweller
$3.99 - The Blackwell Bundle
$1.69 - The Room
$2.04 - The Lords of the Earth Flame
$0.89 - The Tambourine Bundle
Includes 1 items: The Legions of Rome
$1.49 - The Last Dogma - Soundtrack (FLAC & MP3)
$3.24 - Tom vs. The Armies of Hell
$2.24 - The Shape Of Heart
$0.49 - Unhack:Destruction
$6.99 - Tyto Ecology with Himalayas
$7.49 - Toy Odyssey
$2.24 - Zombie Grinder
$0.98 - Xenocide
$7.99 - MilitAnt
$7.19 - Invisible, Inc. + Contingency Plan Bundle
$7.19 - The Polynomial 1&2
Includes 1 items: Polynomial 2
$6.99 - Perpetuum - Superior Edition
$6.79 - Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 - 4 Pack
$3.24 - Stairs
$4.49 - Sproggiwood Enlightened Edition
$4.64 - Sword of the Stars: The Pit Bundle
Includes 6 items: Sword of the Stars: The Pit - Gold Edition, Sword of the Stars: The Pit Soundtrack, The Pilgrim DLC, Sword of the Stars: The Pit - Juggernaut, Sword of the Stars: The Pit - Necromancer, Sword of the Stars: The Pit - Healer
$6.24 - Sword of the Stars Collection
$2.99 - Super Chain Crusher Horizon
$2.99 - The Guest
$2.49 - The Ritual on Weylyn Island
$1.79 - The Madness of Little Emma
$2.99 - The Witch's Yarn
$2.49 - The Westport Independent
$9.99 - The Talos Principle
$0.99 - Void & Meddler - Episode 1
$5.99 - UTOPIA 9 - A Volatile Vacation
$1.99 - UnSummoning: the Spectral Horde
$0.59 - BARRIER X
$16.99 - Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition
$1.49 - Bloodbath
$6.74 - D.G.U. + Season Pass
$3.74 - Deathspank
$6.59 - FEIST + Soundtrack
$3.39 - Immortal Defense
$8.74 - Hounds: The Last Hope
$2.99 - Grass Max
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heh.. ya are too easy to please.. but there are a few good ones in there.
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I'd get "I am alive" if it was $2,5.
I don't have enough dough to buy it for that money and not feel guilty.
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i can dig it, but $3.74 is the lowest price it's ever been at (on the Steam store at least; all-time low (according to ITAD) was $3.69 from Direct2Drive)); could always drop in future but if you did find that extra buck and quarter, could rest assured you wouldn't have lost out on much if indeed it did and i promise there's no attitude in my tone xD
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Yeah, I know there's no attitude.
It's just that I remember trying it a while back and I didn't like it too much. I was willing to basically throw $2.5 away, hoping that I'll like it.
Otherwise, meh :P
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Ok, you don't seem to get it still... games are more expensive now. Steam's gotten the monopoly and now it has spread it's wings. Steam wants a higher cut, so devs won't put their games on high discounts. It's as simple as that.
You'll never get a good sale anymore. You'll get a few good sales, sure, but you won't get another good sale in the near future at least. There's no reason for Steam to stop, since they've monopolized and we, the idiot consumers, let them.
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+1
I'd say this is going for at least two years now.. and I've noticed it yesterday also for resellers, e.g. Gamersgate.
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I don't see why people always feel so disappointed, and I don't think your comment is valid as it seems nothing has changed much. People are disappointed because they feel like games don't get steep sales like they used to, but it's entirely up to each developer.
People also seem to look forward to new games being 75% off, like the latest Assassin's Creed games, but they only go 50% because they're the latest in the series, where as the older installments do indeed get a 75% discount.
Again, it's up to each individual developer to choose the prices, so Steam, whether it's a monopoly or not has no say in it.
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This is silly. It's the Halloween sale. When has this EVER been a major sale there? Every year it's a bunch of horror games, Costume Quest 1 & 2, and whatever else a dev somewhere decided to put in this sale because they figured they'd get squashed if they went for one of the next two big sales. The horror genre is made up of a LOT of crappy jump-scare and regurgitated zombie dreck. So don't expect to see major AAA games at deep discounts.
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Well... I'm talking about the trend that Steam has set now. Do you really not remember the last summer sale?
That is the main sale that Steam has. It's as popular as the winter sale, so taking that into account, the summer sale was as bad if not a bit worse even. That just shows a trend.
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Next sale is typically the Black Friday Sale which is then followed shortly by the Christmas Sale. In my opinion they could skip Black Friday but this is probably some american mentality (on the other hand we have a large hole between Christmas and Summer Sale .....)
As for the disappointment: The Halloween Sale has never been big and mostly concentrated on Horror Games so you should not have awaited much. Additionally if I had to make a guess I think a lot of people have lost their feeling for the value of games. We have been swamped with bundles these past years in a way that people are looking at a 80 % discount and still have the nerve to criticise its price. The sales haven't really changed (region locks and pricing errors aside which are more technical problems). It is the attitude of the people to expect everything getting cheaper and cheaper.
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Blackguards Deluxe Edition Upgrade
Hyperspace Pack
Lords of the Fallen Game of the Year
Blue Estate
I, Zombie
Zombie Driver HD Complete Edition
Costume Quest
Plants vs. Zombies
Zombie Army Trilogy
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Problem with sales are the same every time and I say the same thing every time...
They aren't "getting worse" you just now own more games. That Skyrim you got at 75% was a good deal 3 years ago, 20 sales later you don't notice it, its still a good sale.
Every game you own that you got in a previous "good" sale, on a similar or better offer is still a good deal, just you don't notice them.
The only time the argument had legs was when they got rid of flash/daily sales.
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Daedalic Halloween Bundle, which has Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes, Gomo, Decay the Mare, Anna's Quest and SKYHILL for something like $10.46.
I've already got Harvey's New Eyes and it's set up to remove the price of that game for me. Overall discount for me was 82% off, and there's five games there by a company that's known for putting out good stuff.
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So i was pretty disappointed with this year's Halloween Sale and was just wondering when the next one would be. Probably gonna be the winter sale. Any idea when it begins?
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