Upcoming Sale info?

[Jack Schitt]

Is there somewhere that displays when the next Steam Sale is going to be and what products are going to be on sale? I would really like to know in advance what's going on sale so I can plan and try to save up for the stuff I'd like to have or get during the next sale.

I found a few but the dates they list upcoming sales might happen are not confirmed so they're just guessing which isn't a reliable source of info the same as we can't trust news media.

Is there somewhere that posts upcoming sale details?

[Mad Scientist]

Your question in DuckDuckGo:

https://steamdb.info/sales/history/

[Jack Schitt]

Thanks for replying. Yeah I saw that one. It's one of the ones I found when I tried to search. Seems they're just guessing, or do they have some kind of inside info?
An educated guess of course, according to when previous sales have happened. Anyone can do that without looking it up. haha

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Thanks for replying. Yeah I saw that one. It's one of the ones I found when I tried to search. Seems they're just guessing, or do they have some kind of inside info?
An educated guess of course, according to when previous sales have happened. Anyone can do that without looking it up. haha

Sales are almost always the same general week vs day time (3rd week of a month etc), and usually all sales are so identical that it's easy to tell when they are. So far the Winter Sale is estimated at Dec 23rd for the start date, there's also estimates for the 22nd.

[Spawn of Totoro]

There are no official statements on when sales start or finish. Valve has never made such announcements and isn't likely to in the future.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

There are no official statements on when sales start or finish. Valve has never made such announcements and isn't likely to in the future.

Thanks!
Bummer. Wish they did so we can plan.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

There are no official statements on when sales start or finish. Valve has never made such announcements and isn't likely to in the future.

Thanks!
Bummer. Wish they did so we can plan.

Hence estimates.
They (Steam) never tell you, but the pattern is identical.
The only way to plan is to load up the Steam-wallet before most of the primarily-accurate sites say their estimate of the event is.

[Magma Dragoon]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

There are no official statements on when sales start or finish. Valve has never made such announcements and isn't likely to in the future.

Thanks!
Bummer. Wish they did so we can plan.

You can plan, there are sales that happen at the same time every year.
Chinese New Year
Memorial Day (is spring cleaning a sale?)
Independence Day
Halloween
Thanksgiving
Christmas

[Jack Schitt]

Yeah that's what I've decided to do is just wait since there isn't any detailed info on what exactly will be on sale. I know the sales always happen at the same time(s), mostly American holidays which I don't think is fair to everyone by the way. IMO it would be great to see them contribute (and take advantage of sales, marketing strategies) celebrating at least some holidays for every culture, religion, and country not just American celebrations. They should recognize everyone since everyone from every aspect is here, supports them, and participates.

I was baptized Lutheran. I'm not religious but I would surely appreciate sales for Hanukkah. It would cause me to purchase things and support them more often. I'm not saying 'do sales all year round' but more would show appreciation and bring in more revenue to Valve. I think some people may feel ignored or not as appreciated since they mostly only do American stuff.

On the same note about personally planning and budgeting though I don't want to tie funds up putting some in my Steam Wallet for it to sit there if there isn't anything included in the sales I'm interested in. To my knowledge Wallet funds are difficult to get back in to where they came from so we can use it for other things we may need like food and rent payments and those kinds of more important things than games.

[Crazy Tiger]

Steamdb bases it on leaks from developers. I found them to be never wrong i this.

Best thing to do is put money on the side, wait for the first day of the sale, then load your cart with what you want. That gives you the amount so you know how much you need to out in the wallet.

[8ullfrog]

I wish they did pre-announce sales and giveaways, like the old Newspaper ad books. That would make things easier to me.

As-is, I'm subscribed to a couple game deal threads on reddit and just hope I don't miss out on a deal I'd like.

[ReBoot]

The upcoming sales EVENT (as opposed to sales which are on right now) will be around the same time as it was all those last years. Pro tip: the past indeed does contain lessons about the future. See when the X-mas event was in 2019. See when it was in 2018, 2017 and so on. The X-mas event 2020 will be around the same time.

Originally posted by 8ullfrog:

As-is, I'm subscribed to a couple game deal threads on reddit and just hope I don't miss out on a deal I'd like.

You can have it way simpler: add the games you're interested in to your wishlist and you'll get an email when there's a sale on one of those. You can also follow the Steam newsfeed to get notifications when events start.

[8ullfrog]

That's how I know when the sales start, I get "26 titles from your wishlist are on sale!" and I think "oh, the steam sale is now"

[Jack Schitt]

As I said I'm fully aware of WHEN sales are, I posted this to see if there was a way to find out WHAT was going to be on sale for Christmas and how much of a discount they might be planning for them. When has always been the same, what and discount amounts are at least slightly different.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Yeah that's what I've decided to do is just wait since there isn't any detailed info on what exactly will be on sale. I know the sales always happen at the same time(s), mostly American holidays which I don't think is fair to everyone by the way. IMO it would be great to see them contribute (and take advantage of sales, marketing strategies) celebrating at least some holidays for every culture, religion, and country not just American celebrations. They should recognize everyone since everyone from every aspect is here, supports them, and participates.

Most of the sales aren't American specific. Or billions of people otherwise observe them. In the cases where a holiday might be categorized as American specific, well Valve is an American company. GOG is owned by CD Projekt, and they're based in Poland. Maybe if you're worried about Steam being to "American" centric you can use them as a barometer.

Or maybe you should just shop more at non-U.S. based companies, that's an option.

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

I was baptized Lutheran. I'm not religious but I would surely appreciate sales for Hanukkah. It would cause me to purchase things and support them more often. I'm not saying 'do sales all year round' but more would show appreciation and bring in more revenue to Valve. I think some people may feel ignored or not as appreciated since they mostly only do American stuff.

Well the biggest problem with the "holiday season" is there's too many holidays to have branded sales for every one. And it's the Winter sale anyway, people call it a Christmas sale, but it's general holiday themed and it encompasses New Years too.

And there's fine lines to walk when it comes to commercializing other religion's sacred holidays. Just because we've done it to Christmas doesn't make it appropriate for every other holiday. So I get why this sounds good, but maybe Valve knows better than to invite that backlash for trying to cash in on Hanukkah or Ramadan. It's all a matter of perspective.

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

On the same note about personally planning and budgeting though I don't want to tie funds up putting some in my Steam Wallet for it to sit there if there isn't anything included in the sales I'm interested in. To my knowledge Wallet funds are difficult to get back in to where they came from so we can use it for other things we may need like food and rent payments and those kinds of more important things than games.

I mean I understand what you're saying. But methinks if your budget is that tight, you might not be the target demographic Steam is going to revolve around.

And I just don't get that if you have the ability to save money for a sale, why don't you just have money saved in general that you can use if there's something you want on sale? If you find the Steam wallet inconvenient, don't use it. None of these are problems Steam needs to solve from my perspective.

[8ullfrog]

And no retailer wants to be locked down to a religion.

That's why you get a holiday sale instead of... you know.

The Holiday sales tend to be the one time of year I can actually afford games, not that I expect Activision to oblige me.

I don't even want the new games, I'd expect the games I wish to buy would be considered fossils.