Did the grinch steal x-mas?

[𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄]

Remember when Steam used to be cool fun? Sweet digital prices, fun engaging sales events. Free cards for browsing discovery queues instead of stickers etc etc..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZfQhdP-DQ&t=512s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDuw4Yb-CgU&t=1390s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAUKPdTuno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-UVGQ_Pjg
(Steam Summer Sale IS BROKEN Steam Sale Is A Perfectly Balanced Game)

Not just spiff there - but is it stuff like this, why, we don't have fun events anymore?

One thing that does p*ss me off, is folk that exploited the levelling system and get better card drop rates, thus, making legitiaite Steam levels get less card drop chance.

Do you remember? back in the day..

[matt]

Steam no longer has to bribe people to join their website and buy games here. I don't miss it. I mostly ignored that stuff, anyway. In fact, I make a decent amount of pocket change selling my trading cards now, which is arguably better than getting a few free cards.

[𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄]

Yeah nah 'twas awesome! - I mean, free trading cards to browse a discovery queue..

[Diminutive]

Your first steam sales are always the best, they go downhil from there due to things you want you already bought.

[datCookie]

Steam is still pretty cool to me! I don't blame them for the prices of some games, because they don't set the prices, the devs do!

And sales are as good as they've always been. If games you want are on sale and you can finally guy them, yay for you! If you can't, then oh well, better luck next time!

People get pretty darn entitled.

[ReBoot]

Sales events were ruined by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lied about said event to dump on it. Yeah, whatever, some people need to spread negativity to feel better about their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lives but the moment we've reached lying, it's nothing but toxic. So yeah, as (almost) always in life, thank the toxic pricks for not haivng nice things.

Apart from that, those "sweeet digital prices" are still there. I gut a bunch of stuff off my wishlist (and a few games game that weren't on my wishlist but had some really sweet discounts) during the autumn sale.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Did you remember when Valve gave away the entire Steam catalog to a user?

[𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄]

Yeah, don't lie eh, that's the absolute worst thing you can do.. in general.

Prices have steadily rose over time, in general.

That's inflation etc - it's like a balloon, when something bad happens..

[Nightm4re]

i also remember when people didnt create useless threads for attention, remember those days? but here we are

[Piston Smashed™]

We've not even had Halloween yet and we're already moaning about not getting free cards at Christmas....

[𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄]

Originally posted by Nightm4re:

i also remember when people didnt create useless threads for attention, remember those days? but here we are

Wow! it's all suddenly so clear to me.. Good thing I've got you there, with your advanced level of awareness.. Just awesome, bro.

Originally posted by Piston Smashed™:

We've not even had Halloween yet and we're already moaning about not getting free cards at Christmas....

Wonder why that is though?

[Piston Smashed™]

Originally posted by 𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄:

Originally posted by Nightm4re:

i also remember when people didnt create useless threads for attention, remember those days? but here we are

Wow! it's all suddenly so clear to me.. Good thing I've got you there, with your advanced level of awareness.. Just awesome, bro.

Originally posted by Piston Smashed™:

We've not even had Halloween yet and we're already moaning about not getting free cards at Christmas....

Wonder why that is though?

Because it's not time for Easter eggs?

[Start_Running]

The digital prices are still sweet. You were never going to get a 90% discount on the latest new hotness. As for the events. Blame the people who kept complaining.

[𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄]

Originally posted by Piston Smashed™:

Originally posted by 𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄:

Wow! it's all suddenly so clear to me.. Good thing I've got you there, with your advanced level of awareness.. Just awesome, bro.

Wonder why that is though?

Because it's not time for Easter eggs?

I knew you'd carry on off-topic..

[𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

The digital prices are still sweet. You were never going to get a 90% discount on the latest new hotness. As for the events. Blame the people who kept complaining.

What were they complaining about?

Digital prices are not so sweet anymore. Some of them are gouged to buggery.. And are only a fair price at 25% + off..

Probably some are marketed to over-charge day-one buyers and the fair price only starts later with sale discounts, IMO.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by 𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄:

Originally posted by Start_Running:

The digital prices are still sweet. You were never going to get a 90% discount on the latest new hotness. As for the events. Blame the people who kept complaining.

What were they complaining about?

Not winning any prizes. That's basically what it boiled down to.

Originally posted by 𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄:

Digital prices are not so sweet anymore. Some of them are gouged to buggery.. And are only a fair price at 25% + off..

Haven't changed from where I am.. And they generally will get 25% discounts.. eventually though some games won't ever be discounted.

That's up to the dev/pubs Not Valve/Steam.

Originally posted by 𝓁 λ 𝓂 𝒷 𝒹 𝒶🎄:

Probably some are marketed to over-charge day-one buyers and the fair price only starts later with sale discounts, IMO.

That's some impressive mental gymnastics and you've kinda answered why dev/pubshave become more hesitant about discounts and deep discounts. It cultivates a very problematic mindset.