What's the difference between buying on this sale or tomorrow's sale?

[its_rich1]

A lot of games have their sale clock end time for the winter sale. What's up with that? Titles that are practically always on sale have it too but I assume they will be on sale again tomorrow. I highly doubt they would miss out on winter sale. EA games for example

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

A given publisher deciding to give a rebate on their game(s) is not a "sale". They might try to make you believe that because marketing is a thing but the only actual sales on Steam, by definition, come from Steam events.

1. It's a literal sale "Electronic Arts Early Holiday Sale"
2. It's 92% off for BF2042, that is a literal sale.

Are you under the impression Steam makes sale prices for the Summer & Winter Sales? Those are Developer/Publisher chosen, they're just given dates in advance for what major sales/themed sales are when and for how long.

Are you under the impression that developers/publishers would care about all gathering together in the same place and time if there wasn't a pre-established event?

That's what marketing is all about. Not the truth but planned made up events to entice people into buying more stuff and making more money.

[Dan5000]

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Keep in mind, didn't the sale rules change a while back? Could have sworn developers couldn't put a game on sale until 4 weeks have passed. So if it's on sale now, it wouldn't be discounted in next sale.

That rule only exists for individual sales, but they can still participate in the big steam sales regardless of when their last sale was.