About those Serious Sam 3 coupons...

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Serious Sam 3 is now a daily deal at 75% off, but the Raptr coupons have been changed so that they don't work with other discounts anymore. Yeah.

Guess they didn't want my money after all.

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Jamesified

Really? Oh thats a bummer.

12 years ago

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TheInsaneDump

Surprised you waited. Wasn't the base discount 50% or something?

12 years ago

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snackbox

66% I think. Yeah I know, couple cents...

But really it never even occurred to me that this could happen. Coupons that have restrictions have them listed, and this one didn't have any initially, aside from the expiry date.

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TheInsaneDump

It's understandable. I would have waited too if I had a coupon.

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Pandameister

I've NEVER seen any business allow two different discounts together. It is implicit that you're not allowed to do that... coupons apply to full-price products.

12 years ago

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Xepos

Everything before the sale on steam was allowed. All those coupons you get from wintersale were stackable!
Just now because people were exploiting with the fourpack Steam has changed it.

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BernardoOne

Winter Sale coupons worked on games that were in sale, so they do normally allow it.

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tritian

never went food shopping, or shopping around the holidays? lol

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snackbox

Well, I wouldn't know about that. I've never even used a coupon, ever.

What I do know is that Valve explicitly states that this is allowed, unless the coupon itself says otherwise.

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RoH

Yes thats true and a real shame.

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InsomniaNY

They were changed well before the Summer Sale started. Did you really think you'd be able to use it during a sale?

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Skycash

they worked at the beginnings of summer sale to be precise for like 2 hours.

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Gainja

That's wrong, they were changed a few hours into the summer sale. Some people managed to get the extra discount (66 % I think it was plus the coupon).

The super greedy people (yes, me too) who were waiting to take full advantage; 75 % + 75 % are now left without it. You snooze you lose, they say :(

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Toff

Not just super greedy people, I was so excited about the sale I forgot I had the coupon, and when I remembered it was already too late. :(

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snackbox

Now that's just not true. Some people used it already for a combined 66% + 75% discount.

And uh yes, of course I thought I could use it during a sale. The Steam KB says that coupons work on already discounted items unless noted otherwise. The coupon had no such restrictions when I first got it.

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iFantz7E

It can use about 2-3 hours after Summer Sale start.
After that it just be N/A

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DrPixel

The publishers have posted on a Steam forums thread about it, saying something about how it was Raptr's fault (lol?) and they didn't mean for the coupons to be applicable with the summer sale discount. Too lazy to post a link but it's on Serious Sam 3's forum section under a thread about the coupons.

Still, stupid buisness practice on their part. You give out a 75% off coupon for your expensive game right before a huge sale on said game starts, and those people who got the coupon expect an even bigger discount with the coupon (as is true anywhere with coupons- grocery stores, Steam store regularly) but do not deliver and instead piss off your customers. I think that results in LESS sales even. It would've been a lot smarter on Devolver Digital's part to just let a lot of people get the game for $2-$3.5 (thus stacking your sales) instead of a few people for $10-$13.

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SlappyBag

Maybe the games overall price will go down to $30 or something before the coupons expire... one can hope.

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SirMcCona

they were changed AFTER the sale started. many got the chance to use the 75% on top of the initial 50%

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JoeHackerman

Yep, like me.

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Patch517

Yeah I actually lost interest in the game now after the shitty way they handled the coupons :s

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Delorian

I missed being able to use it. It was possible for a cool minute when the sale started but they quickly changed the wording on the coupon and I didn't pull the trigger in time. Oh well, not getting it.

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tritian

fucking bullshit... woulda used it if they were going do this shit. jerks!

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Brandongl

so at 66% off, it would've been $3.40
at 75% off, it would've been $2.50

was that 90 cents worth the risk?

12 years ago