If 20% is a sale than I'm out

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StaticWolf Jun 24, 2021 @ 10:20am

lol

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Jun 24, 2021 @ 10:27am

Your issue is with the game devs/pubs that are in charge of their pricing and discounts on Steam.

Not Valve.

nullable Jun 24, 2021 @ 10:36am

A 20% discount is a sale price. Hoping for something more is all well and good. But not everything is going to be on sale for as much as you want or willing to pay. You'll have to buy something else.

Brian9824 Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:01am

Originally posted by BakedRoasty:
I been here for 8 years and back then we used to get 95% sales, I miss the times but yeah, times are changing and soon it'll be 1% off.

Depends on the game, plenty of games have massive sales, newer games have lower discounts. That is nothing new.

Aachen Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:08am

You’re out, now?

76561198407601200 Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:14am

Bye Felicia...

nullable Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:30am

Originally posted by BakedRoasty:
I been here for 8 years and back then we used to get 95% sales, I miss the times but yeah, times are changing and soon it'll be 1% off.

I've been here 17 years and I'll bet you the value of your library the percentage of games that were ever over 90% discounted is a tiny fraction of the whole, whether you go by a per sale or since the beginning of time. And most of the time those games were older titles or otherwise lower value titles.

The problem with remembering 95% discounts and not remembering which games had those discounts can mislead you into thinking any random game could have been discounted that much, even new releases or current AAA games. That's probably an incorrect and unreasonable expectation.

Fact is lots of games were only discounted 50% or less, even eight years ago. Those games/discounts just aren't as memorable and you'd probably wait a couple of more sales for the discounts to get attractive enough, or maybe wait for a flash sale or some such.

And even now four games on my wishlist are discounted at 80% or more. But they're aging titles.

To pull an example out of a hat, Witcher 3 didn't see more than a 50% discount for nearly four years. https://steamdb.info/app/292030/

The problem is people want to pay $4.99 for something that was released last month, and they're dreaming that is going to happen or ever did happen.

Last edited by nullable; Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:30am

Crazy Tiger Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:34am

People also forget that games drop their base price, thusly also resulting in a lower discount %. A game that used to be 60 bucks and got 75% discounts still has the same sales price after it dropped the price to 30 bucks and then got 50% discounts.

FishOilOmega3Enjoyer Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:42am

They didn't even do the road trip special this year

nullable Jun 24, 2021 @ 12:36pm

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:
People also forget that games drop their base price, thusly also resulting in a lower discount %. A game that used to be 60 bucks and got 75% discounts still has the same sales price after it dropped the price to 30 bucks and then got 50% discounts.

Aye, Witcher 3 did drop from $59.99 to $39.99 before it got an 80% discount. Both price points had 50% discounts though too.

StaticWolf Jun 25, 2021 @ 5:48am

So like, where's the sale?

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nullable Jun 25, 2021 @ 5:50am

https://store.steampowered.com/

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BloodShed Jun 25, 2021 @ 5:53am

20% of what?
$1?
$60?

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Spawn of Totoro Jun 25, 2021 @ 6:10am

I have a bunch of 60-85% off in my wish list. Only a few 10-20% and those are either early access or new releases that I am waiting to drop in price.

I see a lot of sales going on. Even 1% off is still a sale. Some may not be seeing a deep discount on the games they want it on, but a sale id going on, regardless.

I've learned to ignore the percent off too and simply look at the dollar amount for the games. Percent off really has little meaning in the end and can be used to trick people into thinking something is a good deal.

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