Black Friday Sale versus End of Year Sale.

[mythril_bladed_k]

Well, I am going to be getting a $250 Steam gift card soon and I was wondering if it would be better to spend it during the Black Friday event or wait until the end of the year event. I want the biggest bang for my buck. I am looking for probably some FPS, maybe Battlefield or COD. (My love for FPS rekindled when I played DOOM).

Any suggestions would be very appreciated!

[Start_Running]

Цитата допису Lostedge:

The 75% and 80% discounts were for old steam. The new steam is about 33% and 66% discounts after they got their monopoly and user base.

Again, the old pattern followed the current trend. The only difference is that in the old days people had more unpurchased non-current games. These weren't new releases, these were just old games that people became newly aware of. Perception is a tricky thing.

[wuddih]

Цитата допису Lostedge:

The 75% and 80% discounts were for old steam. The new steam is about 33% and 66% discounts after they got their monopoly and user base.

COD games really seldom go for a sale, unless you call 10% discount a one. Battlefield games are not even Steam ....

for your selected subjective opinion.

if you run an average discount over the whole catalogue on a sale, discounts are generally higher because even new games tend to have earlier discounts after release.

<grandpa mode>
back in the old days we had to wait over a year for a game to even get on sale and now you youngsters sometimes get discounts 2 weeks after release.

[Officer Kevlar]

Цитата допису Lostedge:

The 75% and 80% discounts were for old steam. The new steam is about 33% and 66% discounts after they got their monopoly and user base.

COD games really seldom go for a sale, unless you call 10% discount a one. Battlefield games are not even Steam ....

The COD MW games usually get a 50% discount in the sale, however they are overpriced to start with imho considering how old they are.

[Start_Running]

Цитата допису Officer Kevlar:

Цитата допису Lostedge:

The 75% and 80% discounts were for old steam. The new steam is about 33% and 66% discounts after they got their monopoly and user base.

COD games really seldom go for a sale, unless you call 10% discount a one. Battlefield games are not even Steam ....

The COD MW games usually get a 50% discount in the sale, however they are overpriced to start with imho considering how old they are.

Age has never had anything to do with the pricing of entertainment products. Only the perceived value.

[TheDoctor]

Цитата допису Start_Running:

Цитата допису Officer Kevlar:

The COD MW games usually get a 50% discount in the sale, however they are overpriced to start with imho considering how old they are.

Age has never had anything to do with the pricing of entertainment products. Only the perceived value.

nah fam it's activision greed as always.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

You can get about 50% off on older COD games during sales. I think that generally pices are higher and non sale prices on games are not declining as steeply or as rapidly as they used to do. Discvounts may be similar or even higher than they used to be during sales but the first two facts keep the prices up. Still in the Steam sales you can find a lot of best selling (from a few years back) AAA titles at $10 - $15 US or even less - and honestly those are good deals.

S.x.

[cinedine]

Цитата допису TheDoctor:

nah fam it's activision greed as always.

Bobby Kotick said about the price raise to EUR 60 pretty much literally "So what? People still buy it like crazy." He has yet to be proven wrong. Even on Infinite Warfare.
Sorry, but it's not greed if people throw their money at you. It's just business savvy to embrace it.

Anyway, the new CoD Titles tend to go on sale pretty reasonable. A few weeks ago i could get the PS3 version for BO3 for EUR 20. And only 2 weeks ago it was EUR 30 on Steam. Which for a one-year-old game is pretty damn reasonable.
They just don't tend to get crazy cheap like EUR 5 that fast, if ever.

Цитата допису Start_Running:

The article lies

Even popular, best-selling, and newly released titles can see huge discounts, on the order of 75% to 90% off in some cases.

This. Never. Happens.

Only if you a talking about (popular, best-selling, and newly released) titles instead of
- popular titles
- best-selling titles,
- or newly released titles.


Because god knows some small publishers just like it to throw in a 90% off deal mere days after release.

[Red Shift]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/388210/

8 months old, cost me 77p in the day of the devs bundle.

[Aahzmandias]

Цитата допису mythril_bladed_k:

Well, I am going to be getting a $250 Steam gift card soon and I was wondering if it would be better to spend it during the Black Friday event or wait until the end of the year event. I want the biggest bang for my buck. I am looking for probably some FPS, maybe Battlefield or COD. (My love for FPS rekindled when I played DOOM).

Any suggestions would be very appreciated!

Last year they had the same prices, because Valve asked the publishers for both prices in only one list.

The sales were bad, though. Only normal reduction of the prices, you can get all over the whole year.

There aren't any sales anl longer for years now. No need to bother at all. Buy your games elsewhere.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Цитата допису mkess:

Цитата допису mythril_bladed_k:

Well, I am going to be getting a $250 Steam gift card soon and I was wondering if it would be better to spend it during the Black Friday event or wait until the end of the year event. I want the biggest bang for my buck. I am looking for probably some FPS, maybe Battlefield or COD. (My love for FPS rekindled when I played DOOM).

Any suggestions would be very appreciated!

Last year they had the same prices, because Valve asked the publishers for both prices in only one list.

The sales were bad, though. Only normal reduction of the prices, you can get all over the whole year.

There aren't any sales anl longer for years now. No need to bother at all. Buy your games elsewhere.

But not Origin whose 8% discount on the new South Park game "The Fractured But Whole" still makes it about 30% more expensive than on Steam.

My personal bet is that there will be some great offers between now and 2017 - but that everone with 200+ games already won't appreciate that.

S.x.

[BN BN]

Цитата допису gallifrey:

My personal bet is that there will be some great offers between now and 2017 - but that everone with 200+ games already won't appreciate that.

S.x.

^^^^ This makes the most sense to me. I'm new, so I missed this golden age of steam everyone's reminiscing about, but when I played before, and we mostly bought physical copies, the only discounts you were getting in the first year were for sports games that have to be updated (minimally) each year. AAA's could come down like 20% in a sale, otherwise you were basically waiting for their replacement to lower their price.

Looking over all of this it seems that steam actually have sales all the live long day in the crazy 75-90% range for older/smaller titles. I can see how you'd buy the ones from that category you actually want pretty fast, and end up with sales not seeming so good because now the games left in the steam library that you actually want are like 30-50% discounted.

Just from an outsider's perspective though, hoping for more than 50% discount on a AAA title release in the last couple of months doesn't sound reasonable to me. Someone said 33% - that's a lot of discount for a brand new game!

I wouldn't blame Activision though - well not for that explicitly - people seem to love Rockstar, but GTA V is 3 years old, has surely saturated the market at 70 million copies sold across platforms and still *only* gets around a 33% discount by the look.

That said, you might see a change this year that EA have spammed the market of AAA FPS with three of them in less than a month of each other - TF2 is already 50% off and CODIW player numbers are really bad

[Kozlík]

:)

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Цитата допису BN BN:

Цитата допису gallifrey:

My personal bet is that there will be some great offers between now and 2017 - but that everone with 200+ games already won't appreciate that.

S.x.

^^^^ This makes the most sense to me. I'm new, so I missed this golden age of steam everyone's reminiscing about, but when I played before, and we mostly bought physical copies, the only discounts you were getting in the first year were for sports games that have to be updated (minimally) each year. AAA's could come down like 20% in a sale, otherwise you were basically waiting for their replacement to lower their price.

Looking over all of this it seems that steam actually have sales all the live long day in the crazy 75-90% range for older/smaller titles. I can see how you'd buy the ones from that category you actually want pretty fast, and end up with sales not seeming so good because now the games left in the steam library that you actually want are like 30-50% discounted.

Just from an outsider's perspective though, hoping for more than 50% discount on a AAA title release in the last couple of months doesn't sound reasonable to me. Someone said 33% - that's a lot of discount for a brand new game!

I wouldn't blame Activision though - well not for that explicitly - people seem to love Rockstar, but GTA V is 3 years old, has surely saturated the market at 70 million copies sold across platforms and still *only* gets around a 33% discount by the look.

That said, you might see a change this year that EA have spammed the market of AAA FPS with three of them in less than a month of each other - TF2 is already 50% off and CODIW player numbers are really bad

And you are in luck my friend because there are some GREAT games on Steam on sale ATM: -

1) Tropico 3 at £0.79 . Personally I slightly prefer Tropico 4 but Tropico is arguably THE best city builder game on Steam. Great soundtrack and enough options to play how you want. And at that price they are almost giving it away.
2) Rome Total War at £1.24. The first of the "new" style Total Wars. More than a decade old but still a great game.
3) Terraria at £5.24. A more equivocal recommendation. Firstly I think it has been marginally less expensive in the past. Secondly its side scrolling, mining, resource gathering, monster fighting 2D Minrecraft schtick doesn't appeal to everyone. But you DO get a lot of game for your money.

Team Fortress 2 is FREE BN BN so 50% off or price doubling doesn't really affect it. Recent player numbers went over 70,000 during Halloween which was more than I had ever seen in game so it's a long way from dead.

I think GTA V will come down further eventually - but you're right, not while it's lodged firmly in the Top 10 best sellers.

Still, stick with me kid, I'll spot the best bargains on site for ya. You should have been here last week when GOG had a BIG sale on. There were some good deals there too.

S.x.

[RogueSeraph257]

I've gotten into the habit of waiting a year before buying "that new game" and then getting all or most dlc and the game at huge discount during the big sales.

[SpookySkeldor]

I would recommend looking into alternative places to buy games for dirt cheap. I have over 53 games and probably spent around 60-80 dollars on all of them.