CHRISTMAS SALE?? :: Help and Tips

cSg|mc-Hotsauce Dec 9, 2018 @ 6:34pm

Winter sale is Dec 20 @09:55AM Pacific Time until Jan 3 @10:05AM Pacific Time.

https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-sale-winter-autumn-2018-dates/

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Gapaw Dec 9, 2018 @ 7:34pm

I remember the days when Steam sales were actually exciting..Now they just plain suxs...

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Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Dec 9, 2018 @ 7:37pm

Originally posted by Gapaw:
I remember the days when Steam sales were actually exciting..Now they just plain suxs...

Because there nothing you wanted on sale? Or did you wanted flash sales that cause you to make an impulse purchase, which either way now these days they just mark it down low as the flash sale would've and it be at the price for the full two weeks, instead of only lasting 8hrs.

Last edited by Dr.Shadowds 🐉; Dec 9, 2018 @ 7:37pm

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Amsterdam Breakfast Dec 9, 2018 @ 9:20pm

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:
Originally posted by Gapaw:
I remember the days when Steam sales were actually exciting..Now they just plain suxs...
Because there nothing you wanted on sale? Or did you wanted flash sales that cause you to make an impulse purchase, which either way now these days they just mark it down low as the flash sale would've and it be at the price for the full two weeks, instead of only lasting 8hrs.

For me the whole fun of the Winter sale was the Daily Deals and Flash Sales. Made me want to check out steam all the time so see if the game I wanted was on the deal and if I should get it now or wait. If I missed the sale and the price went back up that was my loss. I really enjoyed it. Now all I do is login on the first hour buy the crap I want and never look at the sales again. For me this is boring. Also the last couple years it wasnt really the winter sale it was the stupid awards theme. This year atleast they are going back to the Winter theme and I hear they will have Flash sales and Daily Deals.

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EJ0706 Dec 10, 2018 @ 4:04am

thats all we really wanted a good winter deals. besides its one of the best season that we do have money to spend .

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Tomasz79 Dec 10, 2018 @ 4:06am

So this is wrong?
(December 27th start):

https://www.whenisthenextsteamsale.com/

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Poyzo Dec 10, 2018 @ 4:24am

Originally posted by Tomasz79:
So this is wrong?
(December 27th start):

https://www.whenisthenextsteamsale.com/

Why would it start after Christmas? I think cSg is correct and it will start on Dec. 20th.

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SpunkyJones Dec 10, 2018 @ 4:24am

Originally posted by Amsterdam Breakfast:
Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:
Because there nothing you wanted on sale? Or did you wanted flash sales that cause you to make an impulse purchase, which either way now these days they just mark it down low as the flash sale would've and it be at the price for the full two weeks, instead of only lasting 8hrs.
For me the whole fun of the Winter sale was the Daily Deals and Flash Sales. Made me want to check out steam all the time so see if the game I wanted was on the deal and if I should get it now or wait. If I missed the sale and the price went back up that was my loss. I really enjoyed it. Now all I do is login on the first hour buy the crap I want and never look at the sales again. For me this is boring. Also the last couple years it wasnt really the winter sale it was the stupid awards theme. This year atleast they are going back to the Winter theme and I hear they will have Flash sales and Daily Deals.

Flash sales sucked and were anti consumer. Having to check every 8 hours? No thanks.

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Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Dec 10, 2018 @ 4:41am

Originally posted by Amsterdam Breakfast:
Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:
Because there nothing you wanted on sale? Or did you wanted flash sales that cause you to make an impulse purchase, which either way now these days they just mark it down low as the flash sale would've and it be at the price for the full two weeks, instead of only lasting 8hrs.
For me the whole fun of the Winter sale was the Daily Deals and Flash Sales. Made me want to check out steam all the time so see if the game I wanted was on the deal and if I should get it now or wait. If I missed the sale and the price went back up that was my loss. I really enjoyed it. Now all I do is login on the first hour buy the crap I want and never look at the sales again. For me this is boring. Also the last couple years it wasnt really the winter sale it was the stupid awards theme. This year atleast they are going back to the Winter theme and I hear they will have Flash sales and Daily Deals.

I like having to check the store for deals, as well taking part in the community voting when they used it that last for 12 hours, also there the staff pick as well.

The problem behind this is that people complain about not being able to catch the sale in time because of * work / whatever *, or keeping up to date when it happens then blame Steam for starting too early on them either they missed what they wanted at a lower price point, or was basically end of the sale, then you got people that get upset for making impulse purchase, playing the games they bought, and wanting their refunds but they over shot their agreements of the 2hrs gameplay mark, then we got the people who think they're being cheated because of flash sales, community vote sales, or the 24hr sales, because either they didn't get in on it, or because they bought a game to soon, and want a refund to get X amount back, or because there was a better game they wanted that got a bigger discount that went 20% to 50%, worse part of that every old Steam sale support had to fast is waves of refunds of impulse purchases because of the flash sales.

So the solution was a one fix price sale for the whole two weeks, not only this might have reduse the spam of refunds, but also reduse people complaining about the sales feeling cheated, even thought they don't realize that the Devs/Pubs wanted to put these sales up in the 1st place to get people to buy more, but they blame Steam for it instead anyways.

Right now I can see this being a problem for Flash sale they have to bump that 4/5 game count to at least 10 - 20 because of the amount of games we have on here now which is 5x/6x the amount than before, or they have to cherry pick which games are allow to take part in the flash sale. Now if this flash sale does come back, it would be nice to always check the store every 8 hours, but at the same time going be a cluster **** loading the page because everyone going to be doing the same thing which is overloading the server making it take longer to check what new. I don't believe these old sales are coming back ever again, but who knows maybe Steam will bring it back one day.

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Cathulhu Dec 10, 2018 @ 4:43am

Agreed. Not to mention the endless whining and complaining when people either missed a flash sale or bought the game in the sale before it was a flash deal.

The community vote, that i wish would return. Having a 12hour or 24hour runtime should be fine. But the 8 hour deals were a pain in the rear.

Last edited by Cathulhu; Dec 10, 2018 @ 4:44am

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Mihai_89 Dec 10, 2018 @ 7:18am

Uhm, i don't want to sound stupid, but when will the winter sale actually start ?

On the 20th or 27th ?

Just want to know because i was planing to get a few games so i want to save up money as much as i can.

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Dec 10, 2018 @ 7:20am

20th

Leaked months ago. And the event will ALWAYS encompass Christmas day.

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Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Dec 10, 2018 @ 7:31am

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
20th

Leaked months ago. And the event will ALWAYS encompass Christmas day.

:qr:

^This. Winter sale never started after Christmas day, it's always before Christmas day.

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Dec 10, 2018 @ 10:49am

Originally posted by Amsterdam Breakfast:
"I've just been informed that @steam_games Flash Sales are returning, with a twist. Devs can chose for the sales to last 6, 8, 10 or 12 hours, shaking up sales almost every hour, and making sales feel more like an event again."
They are returning:smilecyto:

Source?

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; Dec 10, 2018 @ 10:49am

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Amsterdam Breakfast Dec 10, 2018 @ 10:52am

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Originally posted by Amsterdam Breakfast:
"I've just been informed that @steam_games Flash Sales are returning, with a twist. Devs can chose for the sales to last 6, 8, 10 or 12 hours, shaking up sales almost every hour, and making sales feel more like an event again."
They are returning

Source?

:qr:

https://www.vg247.com/2018/08/03/steam-sales-flash-deals-coming-back-report/

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