Steam is not the king of sales anymore

[Jhemp12]

Don't get me wrong, Steam is superior to Unreal Engine guys "don't know if i'm allowed to say their name on here" in every way except for one. The sales. The Unreal Engine guys have the same sale prices as Steam and they give you a 25% discount coupon with infinite uses on top of it. Wheres your discount coupons Steam?!

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Jhemp12 の投稿を引用：

Don't get me wrong, Steam is superior to Unreal Engine guys "don't know if i'm allowed to say their name on here" in every way except for one. The sales. The Unreal Engine guys have the same sale prices as Steam and they give you a 25% discount coupon with infinite uses on top of it. Wheres your discount coupons Steam?!

Valve doesn't need to gain customers with incentives. Valve already has them.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

How is this new? They are promoting their own games on their own platforms while keeping price of the same game on Steam high.

That's not a Steam problem.

[Tito Shivan]

Buy wherever it suits your wallet.

[Jhemp12]

Eagle_of_Fire の投稿を引用：

How is this new? They are promoting their own games on their own platforms while keeping price of the same game on Steam high.

That's not a Steam problem.

Don't know what you're talking about. the Epic store "am I allowed to say this on steam forums?" gives you a 25% discount coupon on all games on top of their sale prices, not just the ones they made.

[wilhood1966]

To be fair, this is one of the worst sales I've seen in years, a lot of other stores are cheaper than steam this year, I've just saved around $13 buying 2 of the games I wanted from another store.

[Brian9824]

Jhemp12 の投稿を引用：

Don't get me wrong, Steam is superior to Unreal Engine guys "don't know if i'm allowed to say their name on here" in every way except for one. The sales. The Unreal Engine guys have the same sale prices as Steam and they give you a 25% discount coupon with infinite uses on top of it. Wheres your discount coupons Steam?!

It's easy to be the king of sales when you are willing to lose money to do so. No reason for Steam to compete with a store that is incapable of ever generating a profit under its current model.

Not much of a bragging point to say you lose more then every other gaming store combined though....

[1200V2]

If the price is not right, don't buy it.
If a sale is not a sale but an event, you don't have to buy anything.
If what is being sold not what you want you can always tell the market, no and do something different.

Steam has a big captured audience and that wil lead to maximizing the sale price. The feedback between the worth and the price of a game is getting to a situation of the emperors new clothes.
We are being told they are fantastic but invisible if you want to see them.

[Crazy Tiger]

As said, Valve doesn't need to do a coupoin to gain market share. Epic does, hence why they do this. You should buy where you want to, so nothing wrong with purchasing your games on Epic.

Jhemp12 の投稿を引用：

Eagle_of_Fire の投稿を引用：

How is this new? They are promoting their own games on their own platforms while keeping price of the same game on Steam high.

That's not a Steam problem.

Don't know what you're talking about. the Epic store "am I allowed to say this on steam forums?" gives you a 25% discount coupon on all games on top of their sale prices, not just the ones they made.

A coupon that eligible when purchasing something worth € 14,99 or higher (either a single title or a cart). I've put 11 games in my cart on Steam (not going to purchase them all, mind, I'm going to curate it to see what I really want) and only 1 game is on the Epic store. And it's € 9,99, so the coupon is useless to me.

But as said, just purchase the games where you want them. Stores are allowed to work in different ways, which is perfectly fine. That's why we have the option to use more than one. It's perfectly fine to use Steam and Epic next to each other.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Developers set the discounts yet everyone blames Steam
I guess with this logic Blizzard is responsible for Epic's backlash over their Unreal games.

[Brian9824]

Empty Head - No Thoughts の投稿を引用：

Developers set the discounts yet everyone blames Steam
I guess with this logic Blizzard is responsible for Epic's backlash over their Unreal games.

In this case EPIC is offering additional discounts at a loss because otherwise no one would use them. They pay the developer the difference of the coupon and eat the losses out of pocket. It's why they have never generated a profit, and why they have no current model to EVER be profitable while continuing actions like these.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Empty Head - No Thoughts の投稿を引用：

Developers set the discounts yet everyone blames Steam
I guess with this logic Blizzard is responsible for Epic's backlash over their Unreal games.

In this case EPIC is offering additional discounts at a loss because otherwise no one would use them. They pay the developer the difference of the coupon and eat the losses out of pocket. It's why they have never generated a profit, and why they have no current model to EVER be profitable while continuing actions like these.

I see, fair enough in that case.

Still rather amusing to see all the kids that are mad at Steam for actions they didnt even have a part in, not their fault if devs dont want to discount games.

[Brian9824]

Ice Mountain の投稿を引用：

So what you are saying is customers are benefiting with better prices due to competition.

In a short sighted fashion sure, although customers benefit far more from a site that actually is stable and self sustaining. Businesses that can't generate a profit are never sustainable in the long term. So without being able to generate a profit the EPIC store will eventually disappear when they cut their losses.

They won't absorb billions of dollars in losses indefinitely.

[Qbert ⭐]

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Ice Mountain の投稿を引用：

So what you are saying is customers are benefiting with better prices due to competition.

In a short sighted fashion sure, although customers benefit far more from a site that actually is stable and self sustaining. Businesses that can't generate a profit are never sustainable in the long term. So without being able to generate a profit the EPIC store will eventually disappear when they cut their losses.

They won't absorb billions of dollars in losses indefinitely.

As long fortnite and unreal keep feeding them money, they will keep burning it

[FMP]

Tito Shivan の投稿を引用：

Buy wherever it suits your wallet.

Truth.

[Crazy Tiger]

Ice Mountain の投稿を引用：

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

In a short sighted fashion sure, although customers benefit far more from a site that actually is stable and self sustaining. Businesses that can't generate a profit are never sustainable in the long term. So without being able to generate a profit the EPIC store will eventually disappear when they cut their losses.

They won't absorb billions of dollars in losses indefinitely.

The losses are planned losses meant to be temporary losses through 2024. Epic store won't disappear.

So again, customers are massively beneffiting with better prices due to competition.

If the games are in the Epic store catalog, sure. But that still is the main issue with the EGS for me, its limited catalog still makes it irrelevant.