No 5 dollars off or anything like that when you spend X amount this year?

[ximslammin]

Or am I missing something?

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Цитата допису Herr Pietrus:

Why? The answer is Epic. Now Gaben was convinced that there would be no more coupons on Epic because of the last sale there... and guess what...

Makes sense, already bought some games there, lol.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

1) I think Steam will have had an exceptionally good year this year. Indeed, some medical supply companies apart, Valve may top the table of "Greatest percentage increase in turnover by a company whose global sales exceed $10 million". Currently I think Valve FAR exceeded its annual profit from last year before this sale even started. For them the Christmas sale was sprinkles.
2) The big sales are often not the best place to buy games. Just going into this sale Frontier were selling a premium version of Jurassic World Evolution for £4.00. I was like - "Blink". The last time I'd seen it on sale it was roughly £20.
3) Epic's threat to Valve is not in what they sell but what they give away. There's purchases I probably would have made on Valve that I didn't because ...
4) That said a lot of this is the patience game. Tabletop Simulator £7.49 in the sale - again. One day it will drop, one day it will drop. I literally refused an offer of the game free because I'm determined to out wait the publishers.
5) The solution is simple - if the game you want isn't at the right price for you don't buy it. If enough of the community take the same view the sellers will have to rethink.

There's an awful lot of VG games free on Steam.

S.x.

[kycaver]

I guess that the "Point Shop" has replaced the $5 coupon as our reward for buying things. I'm also disappointed that there is no way to quickly increase your Steam level during the sales the way you could a couple of years ago during sales. I just picked up Anno 1800 Complete version on Epic. 50% off, plus I used the $10 off coupon & Epic doesn't charge tax on their sales. $39.99 Total, and I immediately got another $10 off coupon. I have my eye on the Empires of the Underground game. $10 when using a coupon on the Epic store, $21.20 on Steam. I would prefer it on Steam, and would pick it up here with a $5 coupon, but I can't even get that.

[Rat]

Always shop around my man.

[Warspite]

Цитата допису biohazard:

I'm 8 years on Steam and never did I get any good coupon and on the other hand I've been on Epic games store for only a year now and I got so many cuopons that are worth more than anything I got from Steam in all these 8 years combined....

During the recent big sales over the last few years if you spent over £30 or your currency equivalent in one transaction you received a £5 off voucher,

[Adam Jensen 007]

It is a bit unfortunate especially for some COVID-19 has hit them very hard
I am no fan of Epic Games. However, having them around with GOG will create competition force Valve to offer better discounts

[Xaelath]

Цитата допису Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder:

1) I think Steam will have had an exceptionally good year this year. Indeed, some medical supply companies apart, Valve may top the table of "Greatest percentage increase in turnover by a company whose global sales exceed $10 million". Currently I think Valve FAR exceeded its annual profit from last year before this sale even started. For them the Christmas sale was sprinkles.
2) The big sales are often not the best place to buy games. Just going into this sale Frontier were selling a premium version of Jurassic World Evolution for £4.00. I was like - "Blink". The last time I'd seen it on sale it was roughly £20.
3) Epic's threat to Valve is not in what they sell but what they give away. There's purchases I probably would have made on Valve that I didn't because ...
4) That said a lot of this is the patience game. Tabletop Simulator £7.49 in the sale - again. One day it will drop, one day it will drop. I literally refused an offer of the game free because I'm determined to out wait the publishers.
5) The solution is simple - if the game you want isn't at the right price for you don't buy it. If enough of the community take the same view the sellers will have to rethink.

There's an awful lot of VG games free on Steam.

S.x.

and I already confused between what to buy and to play.
There's way too much games for me to handle.
It's always been like this on every sale and I only plan to spend like what? 30 bucks? But it already net me like 2-10 games that could give me roughly 100-400 hours of playtime.
Let's admit, as a working people you do only have like 3-6 hours at max/day to play a game.

It's like chewing more than you can eat.
Well I will keep buying regardless.

[awesomehaxx]

Цитата допису cinedine:

Цитата допису Adrián:

Go to Epic then, jesus christ, remember this is a store, you're getting discounts and you want free money?
Epic is buying you like the product you are, go to Epic Games, product.

Yeah, remember this is a store.
And if another store has a better offer you go buy there.

[Vargas78]

What a shame.

[Zoltrixer]

Indeed, there's almost nothing that I'd want to buy this time and not even a $5 coupon to increase my willingness a little. I'm usually quite satisfied with Steam sales but definitely not feeling so this time around.

[Jubejubes]

From what i've noticed, developes are being stingy. Not only are there no longer any coupons during these sales, but you got developers switching their games from being in a "complete your collection" bundle to "package bundle" or outright package. They don't want you saving that extra money by buying the individual items on sale to lower the bundle price than buying the bundle outright. Games that used to be "complete your collection" are now "packages", like Age of Wonders Planet Fall for instance. Got the main game in the humble bundle, bought the deluxe upgrade kit and was just going to buy the dlc piece by piece until there was just one left so I could get the bundle exclusive items..

DENIED



The "complete your own collection" bundle was changed into a package.
It's a bid deal when the bundle price is 30% off or more ON TOP OF THE SALE PRICE. Now if you want to buy the thing you have to pay for all the items and are being ripped off as they don't even give you an extra copy as a gift to give to a friend or trade up. Ridiculous, why agree to give the game away on the humble store just to play these games with your customers.

I really doubt the legalities of this. There are multiple bundles on steam that the full bundle is like $400+ CAD ON SALE! If the devs have the abiliity to change this into a package without any notice to the customer who has spent months buying pieces of the bundle to lower the price to lets say $100 sale price than plans to buy the whole thing..

well to be quite honest that's quite scary, especially if there's one item in said bundle that is exclusive to the bundle, in other words, you cannot buy it outside the bundle..


So ya, they are being quite stingy lately. Cant' say I blame them though since all this seems to have started over the last 9 months.

[Jubejubes]

read steamworks doc if you did not understand any of what I just said. but in a nutshell there are 4 different typse of bundles. 1 of them is good for the customer, the other 3 are nothing but a nuisance.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Game devs/pubs can change their store bundles/packages to what they want, at any time they want.

Nothing illegal about.

[ReBoot]

Customers can always vote with their wallets. I know I will.

[Flori the Fox]

Guys, what the heck is wrong. So much anger over no coupon this year while Epic is desperately throwing around with money? Please realize that over the past few years we had Steam Sales almost all around the year. At least it felt like that. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... The last sale was just about one month ago. Being a PC gamer it seems has never been that cheap before. How often does it happen that you actually pay the full price for a game on Steam? I think we are so much better off than the console players when it's about game prices.

So when does the games industry throw around with coupons and high vouchers and super low prices? I'd say either when they are in urgent need to build up a foundation of more or less loyal customers, like Epic as they don't have anything left if the Fortnite hype ends. Or when sales are generally bad and the market needs some fuel to get into gear again. 2020 however wasn't such a year. Thanks to Covid19, sales have been quite good for the publishers this year, also for Valve.
If I were a poor student or something and those 5€ coupons really meant the world to me, heck, yeah I'd go to Epic and happily swallow their baits. If I wanted as much as ever possible for free, Epic is the right adress for that this year. They do it because they are desperate. Ubi, EA, Microsoft, GoG don't do it because they are not as long as they have customers that are actually willing to pay for what they want.