"This Winter Sale sucks!" Megathread

[DiceDsx]

Post here your grievances about the Winter Sale.

[Tiberius]

Maybe the gaming industry is on decline, but this year is the first time i see so many developers give a huge discount (50%ish) on their newly released game (less than a year old game)

[Darknuke]

Steam sales haven't been good for a long, long time

[Marius]

I am missing something? I see people talking about winter badge, but I can't find anything. I remember past events you had to do things or so. Maybe Imma blind.

Anyway, sales are not that great for a couple of years. Before refunds were a thing you had flashsales and other awesome stuff, like 90% discounts for AAA games. Etc. These sales nowadays are not really sales. They are the normal prices for products that should be priced that way. Lets say Far Cry 5 is 50 euro all year round, during a sale it's 50% off. So 25 euro is the normal price that it should be all year round. Since everything is digital nowadays price of older game do not drop regulary, like that did in physicial shops. You often would find games becoming cheaper by the months, and then after a year or two there were priced like 10 or 20 euro.

[Crazy Tiger]

Publicado originalmente por Marius:

I am missing something? I see people talking about winter badge, but I can't find anything. I remember past events you had to do things or so. Maybe Imma blind.

There are 2 badges. One in the points shop and one you craft from the trading cards.

[taki]

Publicado originalmente por Marius:

I am missing something? I see people talking about winter badge, but I can't find anything. I remember past events you had to do things or so. Maybe Imma blind.
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1st - steam points: https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/c/steambadge

2nd - cards:

normal: https://steamcommunity.com/my/gamecards/1797760/
foil: https://steamcommunity.com/my/gamecards/1797760/?border=1

[Marius]

Thanks guys! Guess the badges are not worth it, lol. Back in days you had to do some things, like reviewing a game, etc. Better bulk up my points to extend my profile, or so. Thanks!

[Bee🐝]

Publicado originalmente por Marius:

Thanks guys! Guess the badges are not worth it, lol. Back in days you had to do some things, like reviewing a game, etc. Better bulk up my points to extend my profile, or so. Thanks!

In the ol’ days you crafted badges using cards. Rarely did the holiday badges involve anything else.

This is pretty much how it’s always work, just now you have the point shop as well.

[taki]

Publicado originalmente por Marius:

Thanks guys! Guess the badges are not worth it, lol. Back in days you had to do some things, like reviewing a game, etc. Better bulk up my points to extend my profile, or so. Thanks!

I think they are really awful!

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[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por Angelus BR:

GOG is literally doing flash sales and they have a 30 days refund policy. Steam has no excuse here.

Disappearance of flash sales want really caused by refunds.
Flash sales has already lost their 'flashiness' many sales before they were removed.
Flash/daily deals were around the levels of discount you get in the actual sales. And people forget they were a source of troubles. Some even with imprest on revenue.

Refunds made it 'oficial' but the horse was already dead by then.

[cinedine]

Publicado originalmente por Bee:

In the ol’ days you crafted badges using cards. Rarely did the holiday badges involve anything else.

This is pretty much how it’s always work, just now you have the point shop as well.

"The good ol' days" didn't know badges. The first sale with cards was 2014. Before cards you had a bunch of tasks lke joining a group, writing a review, or get a seasonal game achievements. Depending on what was available within Steam back then. Badges also only existed since Summer Sale 2013.

And even dismissing these days, you got badges for participating in events like the Summer Adventure, the Grand Prix, Saliens, Monster Clicker, the sticker album ... or the forgettably bad ARG that granted yo uthe Red Herring badge.
Since Summer Sale last year the event character is completely gone and badges are granted for craftin through cards or redeeming points. If you want you can also count the Lunar Sale 2020 as the turning point were you got a badge for redeeming the tokens that preceeded the point system.

[Fiona the Gamer]

I will take back what I have posted, earlier the " what are you talking about ". It's a great sale for me, but it's a nightmare to clear over 100 backlogs. At least I have played all of my games, except 4 witch are new.

[Callahan420]

Worst sale in recent years. No 90% off games in my wish list. They really need to bring back flash sales and ignore the snowflakes that miss out and whine about it.

[Zero]

Publicado originalmente por Ghalen:

There were better discounts at the Autumn / Black Friday sale a month ago, than with this so called "biggest sale of the year".

This is my complaint.

[Mercuri]

Publicado originalmente por DiceDsx:

Post here your grievances about the Winter Sale.

Is it really a sale in which you get to take advantage of rare discounts??? It's I've seen these same sales all year, at least on my wish list.

ON THE CONTRARY, IVE SPENT AT LEAST $50 ON EGS, THERE ARE DISCOUNTS, AND A -10 PERCENT OFF EVERYTHING

[HALO_run]

Publicado originalmente por IamTheKaren:

Publicado originalmente por HALO_run:

you shouldn't have made this post ya cheap bugger, but you did and wasted time,

really just get a job

How about yes, I have a job, a life and life was good and merry until you have to pay more, start budgeting because you still need to put some in saving for retirement or emergency. More than a year ago, this wasn’t a problem. Granted, most argue that sale is not “bad”, because they don’t pay bills and understand that it is not all about the cost of games in life.

never said it was the best but discounts are discounts besides that, last sale was better,

it's a good idea to wait for a game when it's on the discount you'd like