Worst Last Day Of Winter Sale.

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MoozerTheBlob-TTV 2 janv. 2014 à 10h34

This last day of sales is clearly the worst. AAA titles are short, basic, linear and boring yet every single game listed today is just that. Here's a solid idea, LIST INDIE GAMES THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT TO BUY. DUUURrrrrrr. There were several indie games that were up for community vote that I would have loved to see win (ex. Teleglitch or House of Dead Ninjas) but sadly did not due to our creepy JRPG obsessed steam community. Games with metacritic scores of over 80 (which is a solid score in my opinion). I was hoping that If I waited they would eventually pop up on the flash sale or daily deal, WRONG. Only the AAA games that I see for sale every other day throughout the entire year, including the sale weeks, are up there. Also, why the hell did the voting end so early? That could have gone on for at least 2 more votes. Furthermore, why were the flash sales not used on the last day? You may as well of ended the sale today at 12pm CST. Weak Steam, very weak.

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UNREALSTEVE 1 janv. 2014 à 7h49

It wasn't that bad!

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♥♥♥ 1 janv. 2014 à 7h54

yea

#32

Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel 1 janv. 2014 à 8h06

2000 games on sale and people still whine and moan about it, talk about entitled.

Dernière modification de Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel; 1 janv. 2014 à 8h07

#33

Bisde 1 janv. 2014 à 8h54

sales are terrible

#34

Golden Grandpah 1 janv. 2014 à 8h55

Most of us are buying games when they go on flash sale. We dont care about the other 2000 games because we all hope they will be in the flash sale if we like them. Why bother buying a game for $30 today when it might be $10 in a flash sale tomorrow?

I see what th op is trying to say. I totally agree with him. The flash sales and community choice sales straight out blow the big one this time around. Way too many indie or early release games...

We want real, big name, titles to buy for the flash sale, not these cheap, pixelated games or games that never get finished because we bought it in an early release.....

ᵀʰᵉ ᴿᵒᶫᶫᶦᶰᵍ Frozen Cheese a écrit :
2000 games on sale and people still whine and moan about it, talk about entitled.

Dernière modification de Golden Grandpah; 1 janv. 2014 à 8h57

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Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel 1 janv. 2014 à 9h07

Sawkilla a écrit :
Most of us are buying games when they go on flash sale. We dont care about the other 2000 games because we all hope they will be in the flash sale if we like them. Why bother buying a game for $30 today when it might be $10 in a flash sale tomorrow?

I see what th op is trying to say. I totally agree with him. The flash sales and community choice sales straight out blow the big one this time around. Way too many indie or early release games...

We want real, big name, titles to buy for the flash sale, not these cheap, pixelated games or games that never get finished because we bought it in an early release.....

ᵀʰᵉ ᴿᵒᶫᶫᶦᶰᵍ Frozen Cheese a écrit :
2000 games on sale and people still whine and moan about it, talk about entitled.

So the consumers believe they are entitled for deeper discounts? I see.

Dernière modification de Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel; 1 janv. 2014 à 9h07

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Golden Grandpah 1 janv. 2014 à 9h08

You took the words right out of my mouth wobbler:) yes is is a great idea in theory. But it seems like most games that have an earlt release sale are just Never, ever, finished cause the devs got our money and they think they dont need to work on the game anymore. They get lazy when their pockets are full and ours are empty......

w0bbl3r a écrit :
Jeff Kaos a écrit :
I'm really concerned about all the early access games in the sale. It seems like there's a serious glut of "War Z/Day Z" clones. Does the game playing public really need 20 zombie survivlal games where other players are the real danger? As soon as I see "early acess" in the description I pass it up.

I am starting to get that way myself.
I picked up dead linger, since I have been following that since it first came around, about a year or more ago, and it does look promising.
But I used to be all over games that were early access. I had great experiences with kerbal space program, take on mars and don't starve.
But now, it seems all you can see on the store is early access. And developers are using it as a lazy way to make money, and do no real work on their game afterwards.
Undead labs ripped everyone off (but most people don't see it) with state of decay. It came from xbox live arcade or something, and they said they could afford to release a crappy port onto the PC, or they could go early access to help fund the game so it could be an awesome PC release. They sold it for £15, promising that the price was a discount and it would be more expensive after release. They promised a real PC game. They lied about everything.
They even openly admitted to using the money made from early access to fund the development of the Xbox and PC DLC, long before they PC version was finished.
With around 5 tiny updates they put the game up as "finished", and then said "it's not really finished, we are still working on it", because it still had no rebindable keys, no proper mouse support, no proper monitor resolution support, and horrible graphics and physics, with zombies still glitching through walls and floors.
And within a couple weeks of this "finished" state, they had DLC for sale.
And I have seen other devs do similar things to this.
Early access is a great idea in theory. In practice, it is easily abused by scammers, liars and criminals, and steam/valve have made it open to this abuse, without a thought for their customers

#37

Bob'sYourUncle 1 janv. 2014 à 9h11

I think we have just gotten so use to ridiculous discounts that we scoff at anything that isn't 75% off. I remember during one of the first Christmas sales a few years ago jumping at the chance to get Arkham Asylum for $24. Now I don't click buy for anything over $10. So yeah, I do kind of agree with Frozen Cheese. We are acting a little entitled.

#38

Golden Grandpah 1 janv. 2014 à 9h11

Exactly bro! Thats what a sale is, isnt it? To get discounts.

Too many times on a steam sale, I bought a game on sale and and the next day it goes on a flash sale for half the price or less of what I paid for it the day before...

So now I wait patiently for the titles I want to be on a flash sale. 9 times out of 10 this works for me... If they never go on flash sale, owell, no bigggie, Ill just wait another 6 months when the price drops. Im 40 years old and I am now what you would refer to as a bargain game shopper.

I used to just toss my money away at any game that looks good. Now I do massive background searches on user reviews as well as the devs and how qualified they are to bring a good game or an over commercialized piece of garbage.

Thats all im trying to say. Please dont be sarcastic about it:) Happy New Years:)

ᵀʰᵉ ᴿᵒᶫᶫᶦᶰᵍ Frozen Cheese a écrit :
Sawkilla a écrit :
Most of us are buying games when they go on flash sale. We dont care about the other 2000 games because we all hope they will be in the flash sale if we like them. Why bother buying a game for $30 today when it might be $10 in a flash sale tomorrow?

I see what th op is trying to say. I totally agree with him. The flash sales and community choice sales straight out blow the big one this time around. Way too many indie or early release games...

We want real, big name, titles to buy for the flash sale, not these cheap, pixelated games or games that never get finished because we bought it in an early release.....

So the consumers believe they are entitled for deeper discounts? I see.

Dernière modification de Golden Grandpah; 1 janv. 2014 à 9h15

#39

Taliesin 1 janv. 2014 à 9h15

It's not so much the sales I mind, it's the trading card rewards. I spend a lot of time collecting the cards to a tf2 item (I started collecting rather late), instead I get some item for a ww2 airplane combat game that I have never played, nor do I ever want to play it. And me, getting this melting snowflake as I just woke up, sees that it says "unpack item", so I think "oh, so I guess I just unpack it and then I get the item for one of the two games from this reward list I play." because I had just woken up, I didn't notice it was an item for one of the other games (I wasn't even looking at the items you could get for the other games, because I assumed you would get items for the games in your library, so I didn't bother looking at anything else). So now I have an item in a game I will never play, not to mention my computer wouldn't even run it. Wonderful. Thanks Valve. If it had been set up so you would only get items for games you had in your library it would have made so much more sense. Whatever. I've only played TF2 longer than some people who've had accounts for years longer than I have. But no, I get nothing because Valve did not tired idiot proof the system.
This has been an early morning angry rant, I'm done now.

at least I got this thing.

#40

Wasted Potential 1 janv. 2014 à 11h15

I agree with the OP wholeheartedly.

I think the first part of the problem is AGE. We are old enough to remember when a game like Tank Busters would come out at the local PC games store... 2 years later, Tank Busters 2 would be out and six months later, you could find Tank Busters in the bargain bin for $2. The game prices would go down until they basically gave it away because it took up important shop space. With Steam.. that doesn't apply. Expect old games to remain at a fixed low price forever... some even comically priced ($15 for a 5 year old game? lol) So that is why you'll see the same games for the same sale prices year after year, decade after decade... probably until long after we are all dead. Why? Because they can.

As for early access... shhhh.. it's all a scam. Don't complain.. make a game. First we got stupid people to pre-order, based on nothing but pictures and hype, games that ended up being a joke when released (joke is on you, haha!).. now we got them getting Early Access to something we tell you the game will be.. but right now is just one room with no game mechanics. It's easy to do..and that is why everyone is doing it. Hurry up and get your money before Steam figures it out and puts a large brown poo symbol on all the Early Access Games icons to let people know what they are really buying.

#41

Squirrel 1 janv. 2014 à 11h18

I agree.

#42

Just So Guy 1 janv. 2014 à 11h19

Very well said. Also that "early access" crap shows people's stupidity have no limits really.

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Vcm D. Baws 1 janv. 2014 à 11h25

HellM3at a écrit :
Everything about this Winter sale sucked. Sick of Valve pushing unfinished Indie and Early Access games like a Crack Dealer on a playground. Oh look, I'm going to save 80% on a $4 game!

Valve, you lost the spirit of what make you great. Guess you got to the point where it stopped being about gamers since you guys started getting the $$. Typical sell outs.