Why tf are a lot of people saying that steam sales suck??

[Bizarre Lad]

Like are we on the same platform or what? Some people say that epic games is better cause of the free daily games and that steam needs a "gamepass". Steam sales are good as hell! Is it cause of the currency stuff and regional pricing? Cause in Latvia the sales are good ngl (metro saga bundle for 9,99 euros, witcher 3 complete edition 12,49 euros)

[Seretti]

It's tradition by now. Every year we have a very tiny group crying how the sale is the worst ever.

[Crazy Tiger]

Often enough it's related to the games they want to get not getting the discounts they like to see.

[wesnef]

Because they wanted a better sale?

[Yzal]

People with 5000+ games that cannot find anything new that interest them OR the things they want aren't on sale.

[IronKoalas]

People will always complain no matter what the sale is. It also depends on what games they wanted and how much they are willing to spend.

[The nameless Gamer]

Because they've already bought most games they already want and whatever's fresh from the oven can't be 50% off.

[Tito Shivan]

Seretti の投稿を引用：

It's tradition by now.

Pretty much it is. I've been hearing it ever since what people now consider 'the golden days' of Steam.

People already complained those sales sucked... And now they're regarded as the second best thing since sliced bread.

Gamers and unmet expectations. Like peas in a pod.

[Chika Ogiue]

FoundCrab (I'm Ryan Gosling) の投稿を引用：

Why tf are a lot of people saying that steam sales suck??

Because for many people they do. Some reasons:
- The general percentage off is lower now than it was several years ago.
- They already own most of the games that still get decent deep discounts.
- Regional pricing has pushed up the base prices, meaning with the new trend of lower discounts the overall savings have vanished.
- Better deals are obtained outside of the Steam ecosystem*.

And so on.

* Such as competitor stores offering discount coupons or codes that further discount sale prices -- a game sold at 50% off on Steam could be obtained for 66.5% off from one specific PC competitor. Or, if you game on consoles, certain titles are already cheaper year round on those systems. And being physical releases, can often drop to 70 to 80% cheaper than the Steam price within weeks of release, and that's brand new copies, not second hand.

The simple fact is the golden age of Steam sales with their deep discounts and flash sales is long gone.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

games should be free once they hit 10 years old... no sale...

consumers are not getting the benefits of digital getting longer shelf life...
its just lazy devs and publishers cashing in...

there are some good sales out there... but the consumer is losing in the digital world..

[Mountain Months]

some of us are old enough to remember when steam sales were actually good and had fun interesting events and there were even flash sales that were amazing deals. now it seems valve has chosen the road of stingy soulless corporatism. gabe needs another yacht to add to his fleet I guess.

[Vaemer-Riit]

Meh, sure the old sales had the advantage of a higher range of discounts (up to 90+% in some cases) but the flash sales sucked.

You would have to check into the store every 2 hours and if a game you bought on sale went on flash sale you were ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as there was no way you were getting a support ticket through and your refund processed in time to purchase the game at the flash sale price.

So everyone waited until the last day when the flash sales stopped and then all tried to buy their games at the last second causing store errors and people to miss out on the sale entirely as they were unable to checkout.

As for the events and mini games, everyone seemed to hate it when valve ran them.

[Shadow]

For years i have not buy anything really straight from steam because many times other site same games can get cheaper and same with discount % is many time so small that even then other sites sales still cheaper

Same was now on XMAS i did not buy anything from steam when game was here 100€ and other store it was 30€ after discount there so no need to be rocket scientist to know where to buy it

[xHans]

It's a capitalist fad like black friday. How many games of the 20 that you buy do you actually play in a year? 2?

[Paratech2008]

If DLC pinball games count, I've played 7 or 8 games so far.

Which was in less than 1 month.

[Chika Ogiue]

Vaemer-Riit の投稿を引用：

You would have to check into the store every 2 hours

By the time Valve stopped doing them, this wasn't the case. Yes, the featured ones on the front page changed every few hours, but the flash sale actually lasted 24 hours. They also repeated the most popular flash sales at the end of the sale. Maybe impatient people got burned, sure, but you can't cure impatience. Which is why, even today, you should only ever buy a game (sale or not) when you're HAPPY with the current price.

xHans の投稿を引用：

It's a capitalist fad like black friday. How many games of the 20 that you buy do you actually play in a year? 2?

Only for those who are buying for the sake of buying. If you're buying for the sake of playing, you play almost all of them.

I bought 50 odd games last year, and played all of them.

This year, I've picked up three already. I've played one of them for several hours, launched the second to set options and ensures it runs, and am currently downloading the third. By the end of today, I will have played those last two for a couple of hours each, then determined the order in which I want to focus on them.

That's the beauty of buying smart, and playing smarter.