Why does Steam Games go on sale?

[Corona Varus]

In SEA Steam everything is at a low price making them like 1$ than 10$ in other countries and the original price in SEA was 3$.

I get it its economy, demands, taxes and ♥♥♥♥♥ like that but why are games that I don't like are for sale and games I like are not and when I click on the games I like they are on sale and I only have 3$ left in my wallet.


I don't play EA games and watch EA steal my money with more sequence of that game. I play games that are fun. "Not pay to win and copy paste games like RAGE".

[8ullfrog]

okay? I used to really get angry about that, and how windows licenses were cheaper in regions where piracy was high, but eventually I gave up, because I stopped being a teenager.

[Corona Varus]

Publicado originalmente por 8ullfrog:

okay? I used to really get angry about that, and how windows licenses were cheaper in regions where piracy was high, but eventually I gave up, because I stopped being a teenager.

Some people doesn't know how to buy Steam Wallet in my region so they piracy games, I accidentally bought some crack games and refunded them from that shop. Literally I don't know how to buy games in Steam and just ask my friends to gift me some until I realized they can be obtained from 7-11 stores. But their kiosk are always offline and it triggers me same with PHILIPPINE'S TRASH G-CASH made me miss a sale on an Unturned DLC.

[8ullfrog]

Yes, in some regions prices were lowered because of high rates of piracy. This strategy has proved to be a ratfrak.

[Kargor]

Publicado originalmente por Thicc Giovanni:

why are games that I don't like are for sale and games I like are not

For me it's rather simple. Just about 2 days ago, Fanatical had a big-ish IF flash sale -- and I didn't buy a single game from it. Why not? Because all the games I was interested in are already in my library, or the one that's just "too new" so the discount isn't all that amazing.

This is just a common occurrence: the more games I buy, the less interesting a sale will be, and what would have been amazing sale a year ago gets labelled as "boring" today.

Things would be very different if stores and publishers would get their act together, and just put stuff on sale that I want :-)

[Zukabazuka]

Having a sale depends on how the company is doing, if its doing great chances are sales will be low and not that great. Because they have little need for a sale. For other companies they might be in trouble or haven't had enough exposure so a sale is good way of getting that. It also depend on how old the game is, 1-5 month after launch? Highly unlikely for majority of the games.

[8ullfrog]

eh, I'd say that would send you off to the edge case galaxy.

For instance, Ubisoft packs SUCK. They want $40.00 when they sell the far cry gold pack. I'm willing to pay $20.00. So I don't buy it. They don't really care, they just want the sales they can get. My opinion is not valuable to their marketing department.

Specifically, I've got 1, and 2 in my steam library. I want 1-4 in uPlay. I'm not willing to spend $40.00, I'm entirely willing to spend $20.00. They are divorced from reality.

But I can not force them to meet me at $20.00. It's not an option they provide.

[Crazy Tiger]

Publicado originalmente por Thicc Giovanni:

why are games that I don't like are for sale and games I like are not

It's called 'tough luck'. ♥♥♥♥ happens.

And perhaps you like newer games, they go on sales less often than older games.

[8ullfrog]

eh, my mom brought home a giant case of CD's, the only one worth a damn was NIN year zero, and the copy was scratched to death.

As I pulled each disc and threw in in the garbage, I considered it a huge waste. But odds were the same it would have been filled with discs I loved, considering what a hot disc Year Zero is.