Why this game is never on a sale?

[Ścierwojad]

wtf is wrong with this, literally every game goes on sale every 2 weeks expect this one lmao

[Meidi]

Dark Souls games haven't had sales since that RCE exploit surfaced (and ER's release), so I just assumed devs didn't want to put them out because of missing online functionality. But it's been fixed already and there were no Dark Souls games on Autumn Sale either...
Gotta cross your fingers for Winter Sale, I guess.

[Call Sign: Raven]

I got 5K hours out of the game so far, worth it at full price.

[urabe mikoto]

This game is too good for a discount

[JellyPuff]

In addition to Meidi's comment:

While that issue had been fixed, Steam sales are usually planned many months in advance, with VALVe handing out notices to publishers long before any sale actually starts, so perhaps, the developers weren't 100% sure, they can get the games fixed this "soon". Hopefully, they were confident enough to get it done by the end of the year and applied for Winter Sale in time, which will start almost exactly in a week from now on.

Guess, the same is true for 3rd-party sellers, who get keys supplied by publishers, since the game had been not on sale there either. Or those sites got told from the publisher, to not put it on sale until further notice.

You can check the game's sale history on this site (it was on sale for ~7 bucks frequently, before the RCE vulnerability got discovered):
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/darksoulsiischolaroffirstsin/info/#/

[nomorevideos]

Originally posted by JellyPuff:

In addition to Meidi's comment:

While that issue had been fixed, Steam sales are usually planned many months in advance, with VALVe handing out notices to publishers long before any sale actually starts, so perhaps, the developers weren't 100% sure, they can get the games fixed this "soon". Hopefully, they were confident enough to get it done by the end of the year and applied for Winter Sale in time, which will start almost exactly in a week from now on.

Sales can be very short-term too, see the infamous 41% discount that the Heartbeat devs applied to their game. You don't need to plan a sale several months ahead, but even if that was the case, why hasn't DS3 had a sale yet? DS3 is literally $85 if you want the full game, which is an insane price for a 6+ year old game.
Also, you're assuming the major sales. Yes, Valve will notify publishers when the major sales start, since sales, from what I remember, have cooldowns/time limits. Your game cannot be on sale more than X times in Y days or be on sale for longer than X per month/year. Something like that. DS3 has been fixed forever now, yet has received not a single sale. Bamco, to my understanding, could've put the game on sale the moment the servers were fixed. But that didn't happen. Neither did it get any other sales since then. To me, how it looks like, this is just corporate greed.
Keys from third party sites, not HB/GMG, are also skyrocketing ever since the sales stopped. If you wanna play DS3 and the other games after being a first time customer with ER, you're forced to reach deep into those pockets to pay for all of these games. $85 for DS3, $40 for DS2 (either version), $40 for DS:R. That's a whopping $165 for games that are anywhere from 6 to 10 years old.

[Mytrnz]

Inflation

[WickedRequiem]

Pretty sure sales is coming up in a week with the winter sales.

[Gokup23]

hope so , fingers crossed

[TheFnafManiac]

all these replies are dumb. The real reason is simple: ER dropped, and many new people who had never played soulsborne games before played ER and will play the other games, so they have no reason to drop the prices now that they can make a boatload of money.

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by TheFnafManiac:

all these replies are dumb. The real reason is simple: ER dropped, and many new people who had never played soulsborne games before played ER and will play the other games, so they have no reason to drop the prices now that they can make a boatload of money.

Then why only NOT discount them on PC? Soulbornes were still on sale for consoles all the time since ER came out. In fact, SotFS is on sale on the PSN Store right now. At least here in europe.[store.playstation.com]

[WickedRequiem]

...winter sales, tomorrow.

[alienstookmybeer]

I knew these @ssclowns would disappoint again

[CL420TP]

bandai is a bunch of clowns