Where is steam halloween sale?

[Höllenfeuer]

it should have been already here...

[[HISP] Reknar]

Dan님이 먼저 게시:

It's a bit late to be having a Halloween sale right before the 31st... Should have been a week long at least. People have literally 2 days to play some spooky games before Halloween is over. The whole point of Halloween is to play spooky games in the run up to Halloween not after it.

Hahaha, is steam bro, you're welcome.
Steam has been comfortable for many years in that its community is too fanboy and never complains.
I even had the luck that the Epic Store is rubbish and cannot rival it, but hopefully that project would have gone well for steam to move its ass.

[GuRu Asaki]

hope world crisis made devs more eager for good discounts.


Last I checked, it only made Devs attack their Community, it didn't produce
anything good through the Pandemic...

The Sales that went on? Were on broken Games, & even then, the Sales weren't great at all...

You could keep funding Game Devs if you want... I quit Funding in January already, a
while ago... I just talk on the Forums now, which isn't very much, because I don't have
very many ways to visit the Forums now...

Ya, i'm not trying to sturr people away from buying content, i'm just sharring my experience,
& am telling the Community, that i've had enough... You can have all the content, it's all yours,
go have at it... I'm walking the other way...

PS: It also got many Users Banned from STEAM...

Though, I dunno if very many people are still being Banned anymore, i've been
away for a while, so I don't even know the current state STEAM is in right now...

[zaphodikus]

Looking forward to it also

[Tito Shivan]

Citizen Cook님이 먼저 게시:

I miss the flash ssles.
I also miss the 75% discounts.

Flash sales were already lame before they were removed (flash discounts being just a tiny bit more than the regular sale price)
75% discounts are still there, some in disguise. However a big chunk of the deep end discounts we used to have on big sales transmuted into $1 bundle games in bundle sites.

Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder님이 먼저 게시:

Can I just ask - are Valve staff just randomly logging onto the discussions page to ask "When's the sale ?" as a promotion tool ?

Only to log in again during the sale to complain how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the sale is

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Tito Shivan님이 먼저 게시:

Citizen Cook님이 먼저 게시:

I miss the flash ssles.
I also miss the 75% discounts.

Flash sales were already lame before they were removed (flash discounts being just a tiny bit more than the regular sale price)
75% discounts are still there, some in disguise. However a big chunk of the deep end discounts we used to have on big sales transmuted into $1 bundle games in bundle sites.

Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder님이 먼저 게시:

Can I just ask - are Valve staff just randomly logging onto the discussions page to ask "When's the sale ?" as a promotion tool ?

Only to log in again during the sale to complain how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the sale is

I know there are Valve staff who are very high profile on the forums - but they are not the ones opening the discussions.

I was amused because the query over why the Sega 60 sale hadn't been given greater prominence meant it got a lot of forum publicity before the weekend it headlined.

S.x.

[Falsus Te Deum]

Oh, all these bad sales every week. At the moment there is 20 games for 75-80% off in the 10 first pages of weekly sales, not counting dlc's .
Oh, how bad sales are on Steam

[Citizen Cook]

Callahan420님이 먼저 게시:

Fkash sales were the best and lasted 4 hours IIRC. 24 hours would not be a flash sale.

Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder님이 먼저 게시:

Discounts go as high as 90%.

What do you prefer - being able to shop at any time or having to monitor the sales every eight hours on the off chance that your chosen game will be 10% more cheaper ?

Plus some of the deals in publishers' and daily deals are better than the main sales.

S.x.

I would rather have the deeper discounts we had back then. Now it is set it and forget it. Lucky to see an 80% discount these days and with the flash sales you had a chance a getting a great deal on most games.

I remember people fuming when they missed some of the flash deals it was hilarious.

Back in the day I used to get the games I wanted really cheap. These days i'm lucky if the games I want go as low as 40%.

[Tito Shivan]

nobody님이 먼저 게시:

Having flash sales keeps people in the buying mindset throughout the entire sale. Odds are they made more money with those then without.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-09-having-no-daily-flash-deals-made-steam-summer-sale-2016-more-money-than-ever
Apparently it was the other way around:

Having no daily or flash sales but continual discounts instead meant prices didn't drop as low as in previous years. The average discount in the Steam Summer Sale 2016 was 50 per cent, apparently, whereas in 2015 it was 66.67 per cent. But that didn't stop people spending. This year the Steam Summer Sale made 40 per cent more money ($223.2m) than last year ($160m)! A huge bump.

nobody님이 먼저 게시:

They probably got rid of them because no one wanted to stay in the office (or log in at home) over Christmas.

Sales are automated. There's no one manually changing up the prices.
They went extinct for a multitude of reasons that made them less and less relevant and benefitial. Note flash deal discounts were already diminishing in the last few sales before they dissapeared completely (Note how despite having flash deals the average discount for 2015 sale is only 11% greater than the one sale without flash/daily deals... discounts were already flattening anyway)

[cinedine]

nobody님이 먼저 게시:

Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder님이 먼저 게시:

What do you prefer - being able to shop at any time or having to monitor the sales every eight hours on the off chance that your chosen game will be 10% more cheaper ?

Having flash sales keeps people in the buying mindset throughout the entire sale. Odds are they made more money with those then without. They probably got rid of them because no one wanted to stay in the office (or log in at home) over Christmas.

I just want Doom Eternal to drop to £20 or lower.

Actually no. It prevents people from spending because there is a chance to get the things you want for cheaper. And the longer people hold out, the more they realize they don't really need to buy it. Or they simply miss the flash sale and get disgruntled.

Doom Eternal is a new release. Even with flash sales you'd be hard pressed to find a six months old title going for 66 % off. Especially now when publishers realised they don't need to fire sale their back catalogue.

[Sorceress]

nobody님이 먼저 게시:

cinedine님이 먼저 게시:

Doom Eternal is a new release. Even with flash sales you'd be hard pressed to find a six months old title going for 66 % off. Especially now when publishers realised they don't need to fire sale their back catalogue.

It's already dropped to £25 so its not that big of a stretch. Would have bought it last month had Fanatical offered a Steam key and not a Bethesda Launcher key.

Fanatical and GMG outright admits in their FAQ they are key reseller - they buy keys from devs own sites in bulk and make profit on exchange/other shenningans. Thing is they are selling valid keys so nobody's talking about this.
They also resell Humble Bundle various bundles. Most of their catalogue won't show up before they get featured in HB bundles.

[Tito Shivan]

nobody님이 먼저 게시:

I thought you guys didn't put much faith in Steamspy. That's were they're getting the stats from.

That's as far as one can get in regards sales data as Valve doesn't provide numbers.

But even if the numbers are off it's safe to assume the change didn't go bad on them. And it wasn't a sharp change anyway. People got eased to no flash deal by having flash deals become diminishingly 'flashy' over the last sales that still featured them. So it wasn't a big loss the sale they weren't there.

[cinedine]

nobody님이 먼저 게시:

cinedine님이 먼저 게시:

Doom Eternal is a new release. Even with flash sales you'd be hard pressed to find a six months old title going for 66 % off. Especially now when publishers realised they don't need to fire sale their back catalogue.

It's already dropped to £25 so its not that big of a stretch. Would have bought it last month had Fanatical offered a Steam key and not a Bethesda Launcher key.

Fanatical resells keys. The are selling their inventory and can do so for a loss.
But don't expect something on this happening on Steam anytime soon. Look up "loss leader".

Tito Shivan님이 먼저 게시:

People got eased to no flash deal by having flash deals become diminishingly 'flashy' over the last sales that still featured them. So it wasn't a big loss the sale they weren't there.

To elaborate:

On big sales games had tow discounts - the normal one and the featured one.
A featured discount was applied during
- the 48 hour period of daily deals
- 8 hours of flash sale
- 8 hours of community choice
- 24 hours of last chance day

So on a 10 day sale period the the featured discount was for more than a third of the time.
And people got angry and disappointed if they happen to miss exactly that third and rightfully asked themselves why they should pay more for the game than the studio is willing to take.
Oh and let's not forget people buying the game before the featured discount was ... featured.

[Tito Shivan]

cinedine님이 먼저 게시:

And people got angry and disappointed if they happen to miss exactly that third and rightfully asked themselves why they should pay more for the game than the studio is willing to take.
Oh and let's not forget people buying the game before the featured discount was ... featured.

Add the cherry on top of the absolutely terrible support response times Steam had back then, which you'd be lucky if you had any issue resolved before the sale ended.
Which with the servers melting at the beginning of many deals cycle wasn't a rare occurrence.

People remember the good and are easy to forget the bad and sales during the flash deals times were one hell of a bumpy ride.

The actual sales may be 'lame' but at least they do not require a manual as the former ones used to require.

[Meow]

MemoryMelody님이 먼저 게시:

hope world crisis made devs more eager for good discounts.

bahahaha you're dumb if you think it's coming

[Reanu Keeves]

Sifer2님이 먼저 게시:

Brockenstein님이 먼저 게시:

You mean the one where everyone stays home and buys/plays a lot of video games, so that's probably one market that's not hurting quite so bad?

I mean I think it's just going to be an OK regular sale.

Yeah I noticed if anything the sales, and humble bundles have been a lot worse this year than previous years. Videogame sales must be through the roof.

I was completely dissapointed with the HB sale. Literally not a single thing I would be interested in. My hope and wallet go to Steam now