Questions about buying games.

[Soldado21]

Are games cheaper during summer or winter promotions or during a random mid-week promotion?
And if, for example, a game is on sale but the price remains high, will there be a day when the price will drop even if it has already left Early Access a long time ago?
And lastly if I have a discount coupon for a particular game that is already on sale, if I use that coupon in this game will the final promotion be higher and the price lower?

[Crazy Tiger]

- Differs per game. some have the best discount in the slaes events, others outside of them. There isn't a standard, as publishers decide that. You can use https://steamdb.info/ to see the price history and make your guess per game;
- Games tend to get bigger discounts when they get older. Some, however, do not. Again, consult the site I linked to make an educated guess per game;
- Most coupons cannot be used together with a discount. The coupons make that clear by mentioning whether they stack or not.

[Wolf Knight]

the game developers control the prices. sometimes games are cheaper during the sales events, sometimes the games are cheaper during the random mid-week promotions. its all up the game developers

games do not normally drop in price anymore. since they are digitally stored, they take up no space. game stores would drop prices on the boxed games because they needed to clear out space for newer games.

you cannot use a discount coupon if the game is on sale.

[crunchyfrog]

Across the board, it varies. There's nothing like a hard and fast metric here.

Genrally speaking what makes the summer and winter sales special are two things - the amount of games on offer at one time, and that they're available for a good period of time.

But you can find deeper discounts as the games get older, obviously. So it really depends.

For example, if you choose game that is under a year old, you might have already seen it feature in some sale for say about 15% off. If it pops up in the summer sale, you might see it go for more of a discount. And at some point in the future it will be discounted again and it will likely go even deeper - that's obvious.

The best tack is simply this, as it's something I've employed for decades of buying (well, at least 35 years) - when you review a game, think about how much YOU like what it offers. Try to give it a rough value of what YOU think it's worth YOU paying.

I'm a real cheapskate (mostly due to being on benefits most of my life), and I NEVER buy games anywhere near release. So I am patient and always wait and my "value" is always going to be low. There's no absolutel right or wrong answer here. It's what YOU deem the value for YOU.

So if you are like me and even have lists of games you want, you might note this value at any time on the list. When it reaches that amount, consider buying ti then and not before.

That's about the easiest and best approach I've found, and it's worked perfectly for me, as I said, for decades.

[Soldado21]

Thanks for all your support, guys. I am in this problem that makes me indecisive, so I ventured to ask and ended up getting good advice. thanks again!

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by soldado21:

Thanks for all your support, guys. I am in this problem that makes me indecisive, so I ventured to ask and ended up getting good advice. thanks again!

I guessed about your indecisiveness. We all get it to some degree, which is why I went into a long response.

I hope you find it helpful in future.

[Kargor]

There is no law that discounts have to adhere to.

In *my* experience, short sales on less visible stores have a better ***chance*** of getting great discounts than huge Steam sales running for 2 weeks. However, even that is not a necessity.