Sort by discount rate?

[kyza]

Come on, why isn't there sort by discount rate? Isn't it first thing come to mind during summer season?

[Supafly]

Not really. Depends on the overall price. Stuff discounted by 50% could be cheaper than something discounted by 75% or more. In that case sorting by discount amount could mean more expensive items are shown first.

Does depend on the person and games. Really wouldn't use that for the reason I mentioned. Plus my wishlist isn't huge so it's usually easy to skim and figure out what to buy

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Not really. Depends on the overall price. Stuff discounted by 50% could be cheaper than something discounted by 75% or more. In that case sorting by discount amount could mean more expensive items are shown first.

Does depend on the person and games. Really wouldn't use that for the reason I mentioned. Plus my wishlist isn't huge so it's usually easy to skim and figure out what to buy

Agreed. Better to go by the dollar amount then the percent off.

Originally posted by kyza:

Come on, why isn't there sort by discount rate? Isn't it first thing come to mind during summer season?

If Valve does add such an option, is is unknowing if an when.

For now, you can use https://steamdb.info/sales/ to sort the sales by the percentage, but I highly suggest following the above advice as it is a far more accurate showing of a good sale and/or price.

[Brian9824]

Also wishlist items do let you sort by discount rate. So if you want to see which of your wishlisted items have the biggest discount you can.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by kyza:

Come on, why isn't there sort by discount rate? Isn't it first thing come to mind during summer season?

No. I check absolute price and not discount %.

Publishers have done things before like lowering the base price with a "worse" % discount during sales, thusly resulting in an actual lower sales price. Yet people moaned that the discount wasn't good.
Also keep in mind that a 60 bucks game with a 75% has the same sales price as a 30 bucks game with a 50% discount.

[BrownBetty Games]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Also keep in mind that a 60 bucks game with a 75% has the same sales price as a 30 bucks game with a 50% discount.

I don't see the problem here. If you don't want the $60 game despite it being $15, then just buy the 50% discounted $30 game. Price being equal, other factors are going to be the deciding factor in what you purchase.

I personally don't shop by discount rate when I shop by sale price, but by what game I want to play. Your mileage may vary.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by BrownBetty N00bby:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Also keep in mind that a 60 bucks game with a 75% has the same sales price as a 30 bucks game with a 50% discount.

I don't see the problem here. If you don't want the $60 game despite it being $15, then just buy the 50% discounted $30 game. Price being equal, other factors are going to be the deciding factor in what you purchase.

I personally don't shop by discount rate when I shop by sale price, but by what game I want to play. Your mileage may vary.

It's just an example that % of discount doesn't say much and that looking at actual sales price shows that.

With Doom it actually happened that the publisher did that move (lowered base price from 60 to 30 and discount from 75% to 50%) and people complained that it was a worse deal. It wasn't, the sales price was the same.

[BrownBetty Games]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

With Doom it actually happened that the publisher did that move (lowered base price from 60 to 30 and discount from 75% to 50%) and people complained that it was a worse deal. It wasn't, the sales price was the same.

Perhaps you should be asking Valve/Steam to hold a class in economics instead of asking them to include sorting by discount rate. I think both are equally possible and probable.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by BrownBetty N00bby:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

With Doom it actually happened that the publisher did that move (lowered base price from 60 to 30 and discount from 75% to 50%) and people complained that it was a worse deal. It wasn't, the sales price was the same.

Perhaps you should be asking Valve/Steam to hold a class in economics instead of asking them to include sorting by discount rate. I think both are equally possible and probable.

Where have I asked for sorting by Discount?

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by BrownBetty N00bby:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

With Doom it actually happened that the publisher did that move (lowered base price from 60 to 30 and discount from 75% to 50%) and people complained that it was a worse deal. It wasn't, the sales price was the same.

Perhaps you should be asking Valve/Steam to hold a class in economics instead of asking them to include sorting by discount rate. I think both are equally possible and probable.

Think your confused over who is asking for that......

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I know various people have responded with "deeper discount rate doesn't mean lower price", which can be good advice, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a feature to sort by discount rate.

Both price point and discount level are actually useful pieces of information to understand the pricing strategy that a game dev/pub is using.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

I know various people have responded with "deeper discount rate doesn't mean lower price", which can be good advice, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a feature to sort by discount rate.

Both price point and discount level are actually useful pieces of information to understand the pricing strategy that a game dev/pub is using.

Provided games are on a users wishlist they can actually already sort by discount anyway

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

I know various people have responded with "deeper discount rate doesn't mean lower price", which can be good advice, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a feature to sort by discount rate.

Both price point and discount level are actually useful pieces of information to understand the pricing strategy that a game dev/pub is using.

Provided games are on a users wishlist they can actually already sort by discount anyway

Speaking of wishlist, why does it still do lazy-loading rather than pagination? Makes it impossible to comprehensively Ctrl+F for anything. I used to use Ctrl+F to find particular discount levels.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Originally posted by Supafly:

Provided games are on a users wishlist they can actually already sort by discount anyway

Speaking of wishlist, why does it still do lazy-loading rather than pagination? Makes it impossible to comprehensively Ctrl+F for anything. I used to use Ctrl+F to find particular discount levels.

I know, constant load **** is annoying. Everywhere doing it and I'm sick of loading/seeing the same 9860457968543790-6453709683457 images over and over when I could have just jumped pages in the usual way.

Modern for SMART and swipe that is really damn slow, jerky and wastes processing power along with a users time.........I end up giving up if I can't view a page

[kyza]

Did I asked to replace sort by price with sort by discount rate? LMAO.
I am simply asking to add one more filter which is like 1 line of code...

[feytharn]

I tend to agree with the OP. While I don't see me using that option (much), I see why it could be useful and I really see not downside of it being available.