Why call it a SPRING sale, when the sales are same as before?

[Kenlek]

Earlier years some of your season sales has had some very good offers. But this time EVERY game on my wishlist has been at same sale before! And I am talking more than a month ago. Usualy games go down in price with time, so this makes no sense. You even have games that are not on sale at all on this list. It is like you are not really trying, and what was an exciting "thing" is just an "illusion" at this point.

[wesnef]

Why call it a SPRING sale,

Because it's in the Spring?

when the sales are same as before?

What does that have to do with the name of the sale?


(also, when there are sales every month or two, there's not going to be as much change between them as when there were two major sales 6 months apart in Summer/Winter)

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Wait til the OP notices Valve moved the Autumn sale to the end/start of Sept/Oct this year.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/497187349280587904

[mudplayerx]

I'm not pretending to know how any of these sales work. I just know that they have all sucked for about three years and are basically not even worth looking at.

[NICE TRY SCAMMER]

Gentlemen! GENTLEMEN! We are forgetting the most important issue with the steam sale:
Where is the Delivery Girl?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Oprindeligt skrevet af NICE TRY SCAMMER:

Gentlemen! GENTLEMEN! We are forgetting the most important issue with the steam sale:
Where is the Delivery Girl?

We are not. The artist posted a sweet goodbye when their commision was over...

https://x.com/nemupanart/status/1874955037182697744

https://x.com/nemupanart/status/1874955040944984451

New artist...

https://x.com/Steam/status/1900245375690457523

https://timpeacock.com/

[Princess Luna]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Bllasae:

Spring refers to the season, not the newness of the sale(s).

This

[Princess Luna]

Oprindeligt skrevet af NICE TRY SCAMMER:

Gentlemen! GENTLEMEN! We are forgetting the most important issue with the steam sale:
Where is the Delivery Girl?

Got married?

[ペンギン]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Kenlek:

Earlier years some of your season sales has had some very good offers. But this time EVERY game on my wishlist has been at same sale before! And I am talking more than a month ago. Usualy games go down in price with time, so this makes no sense. You even have games that are not on sale at all on this list. It is like you are not really trying, and what was an exciting "thing" is just an "illusion" at this point.

Yes, it's an illusion, but they have to give the now thousands of “sales” a year some kind of name.

The other illusion that comes along is that of supposed discounts. Due to the massive price increases in recent years for the same old content, games are still just as expensive with a discount as they were before.

Instead, we are treated to the same old titles in almost every sale, like "Captain Tsubasa" and other "gems" that are offered like unwanted leftovers. It really makes you wonder why many of these products aren’t just permanently "discounted" in the first place.

Last but not least so-called "90%" or whatever discount promotions, where either no product with the advertised discount can be found, or they are hidden behind geo-blocks, or they are heavily outdated. Of course, if, you can then find only one product in this category.

Seen this way, it’s year-round entertainment for consumers with lots of flashy bling-bling and relentless advertising.

[UwU Clare]

Oprindeligt skrevet af NICE TRY SCAMMER:

Gentlemen! GENTLEMEN! We are forgetting the most important issue with the steam sale:
Where is the Delivery Girl?

I miss the Steam Delivery Girl...

[Kenlek]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dodece:

Actually once you adjust for inflation the prices are actually going down. While the prices have remained the same your income has likely increased. Now with that being said the prices aren't going down, because the demand has remained strong. Meaning sellers have no incentive at all to further lower prices. That will come only after sales dwindle down to a trickle.

A situation which will be increasingly less likely moving forward, because computer gaming is on the rise often at the expense of consoles, and due to tariffs console gaming will only become far less attractive. The more people that come on board the longer it will take to get to that trickle. In fact there is a fairly good chance that sales prices will start to rebound upward.

"your income has likely increased"

Wrong. When you have inflation, like we have in our country. The salary does not increase as much as prices and all get less to spend.

[Kenlek]

Oprindeligt skrevet af wesnef:

Why call it a SPRING sale,

Because it's in the Spring?

when the sales are same as before?

What does that have to do with the name of the sale?


(also, when there are sales every month or two, there's not going to be as much change between them as when there were two major sales 6 months apart in Summer/Winter)

You should look up what the word sale means. A sale is not the new regular price with the same discount that has been last months/years. In my country to present something like that as a sale is actually illegal. Like some tried to increase prices just before black friday sales to then pretend that they had a big % sale. But price manipulation like this is dishonest (in general), and illegal in my country. If they called it Spring list or something it would be more appropriate for what it actually is, with a few exceptions on some very old games.

If only they had put up 5-10% less than earlier sales I would not complain.

[Kenlek]

Oprindeligt skrevet af PurpleCreativeValiant:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Kenlek:

the sales are same as before

Nope https://imgur.com/4lIYf5G

Dude.. your list proved nothing. They had same sales prior to this for all the 20+ that are on my wishlist. That they after that sale increased it again and then put at same price again with this spring sale is what you show in that pic, which was my main point!

[Yzal]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Kenlek:

You should look up what the word sale means.

Maybe you should do that, cause the meaning is:
"a period during which a shop or dealer sells goods at reduced prices."

[Paulie]

as I gather this entire thread is "I'm mad because the games are less than their full price"

[Ben Lubar]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Paulie:

as I gather this entire thread is "I'm mad because the games are less than their full price"

"Why is it that video games don't decrease in price every sale by a fixed amount until the developers are paying me to play their game?"