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autumn is a whole week
winter is 2 weeks
it is fine to use the anchor days, just dont call the whole sale after them.
one is now racist crap and the other is religion crap.
devs can set a discount for either. so ... whatever they set. statisically there was never much difference. the average discounts will get less this year because we greedy ducks already get so many sales.
you are probably better off at this point when devs make their own sale aside from these seasonal sales.
Not really, as there is no black friday sales on Steam. They tend to have a fall sale around thanksgiving though.
But... how can a black friday sale exists if there is no black friday on Steam?
Between the Fall sale and Christmass sale, prices are similar, but Christmass has far more games on sale then the Fall sale.
I have never ever heard that Black Friday has a racial connotation. Never. Though I wouldn't be surprised if some clueless SJWs have a ahrd on for that.
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Anyway, it was leaked some time that there was only one form for the discounts which applies to both, autumn and winter sale.
If you want to get the absolut most out of your money, wait for winter, though, as it will have trading cards you can sell for a few cents.
I looked it up. There were beliefs that Black Friday referred to an alleged day after Thanksgiving in early US history that was the biggest slave trade day of the year, often with discounts on the slaves. Surely it would be wrong to have a commercial sales date based on that namewise.
However it has now been debunked, so nothing to worry about there.
Black Friday originally comes from Philadelphia during the 50s where the police department would call the day that because it had the worst traffic during the entire year due to the launch of the holiday discounts (like, really bad).
Bosses caught on and took the name as well since many workers called in sick during that day to have a 4 day weekend, which put a lot of strain on businesses.
Then in the 80s some businessmen decided to redefine the definition of the day to the day where the sales numbers in the accounting went from red during most of the year (loss) to black (profit).
Sorry for long text, just spontaneously thought it would be fun to share :)
DO NOT FOCUS ON BIG SALES! That's a psychological strategy, you've been conditioned to think "Big sale=big discounts", to shelve money on a big sales, maybe even more money than you maybe would have spent otherwise. Don't be a lab rat, don't buy into the overall hype.
Don't look out for big sales, add the games you want to your wish list and wait til they go on sale. My personal coping strategy is not to strike the first time the game goes on sale. Depending on the game, I either have a set threshold (i.e. 75% off or under 7 bucks) or I follow the game throughout a couple sales. If it goes 20% off, then 40% of then another 40% off and then still 40% off, I know it won't get cheaper and will either get it the next time it's 40% off or ignore it entirely.