How many of you buy keys from legit 3rd party sites?

[Noname]

I am wondering are steam sales declining every year because of high prices and need to buy them from other legit sites where depending of game it can be from 40%-90% cheaper and how many of you had done same thing?

[Ogami]

From the 1900+ games on my account i bought about 90% outside of the Steam Store.
The discounts during Steam sales are really not that great anymore. Most of the time you can get the game for the same or cheaper the whole year if you look around.
With sites like https://isthereanydeal.com/ that lists all authorized reseller sales at the moment and a bunch of bundles sites, its very rare indeed for me to buy anything on Steam directly and for full price.

[76561198001062896]

And each year people cry about how sales suck and how previous year we had better sales (nvm that even then they cried about it)

[Noname]

Zetikla eredeti hozzászólása:

And each year people cry about how sales suck and how previous year we had better sales (nvm that even then they cried about it)

So how many games you bough from other sources?

[Spawn of Totoro]

The majority of mine were purchased from Steam, usualy during a sale.

Maybe about 10% are from Humble Bundle, Amazon or Green Man Gaming. Humble Bundle being the one I get the most from (bundles) and GMG being the least.

[Chashmodai]

Very seldom, but it has happened.

[Satoru]

I do it all the time. From legitimate sources such as GMG/IndieGala/Humble etc

RapiStSKiLLeR2K eredeti hozzászólása:

I am wondering are steam sales declining every year because of high prices and need to buy them from other legit sites where depending of game it can be from 40%-90% cheaper and how many of you had done same thing?

https://medium.com/steam-spy/about-steam-winter-sale-76a75abe152a#.e6r6hj8ik

https://medium.com/steam-spy/steam-summer-sale-2016-12b5f3cac990#.675xqk2z8

# of units moved has improved between 2 summer sales

Note that the 'coupon clippers' of Steam are by and large the minority of users. When looking at sales as a whole, Steam obviously doesn't see too much of a problem with the way sales are going.

[SPG]

Most of my games are purchased elsewhere these days. I go where I can get the best prices. Sometimes that's Steam, but often it's not. However, I always use legit sites.

[Seretti]

I often buy from Humble or Bundlestars, but I buy from Steam as well because of their refund policy. I'm not always sure if a game will run well or not, so having that safety net is nice. It's not like I have money to waste...

[76561198001062896]

RapiStSKiLLeR2K eredeti hozzászólása:

Zetikla eredeti hozzászólása:

And each year people cry about how sales suck and how previous year we had better sales (nvm that even then they cried about it)

So how many games you bough from other sources?

Recently i think around 12-16?(Bundlestars, GMG,Humble Monthly+ Atari Vault from you-know-which site

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Big publishers are cutting their " on sale" discount percentage every year. Assassins creed 1, 2, 3 was $5 once. But now they are $10. Same applys to Skyrim or other big games. Making me angry and I hate it. I will never buy those games at higher price.

There is a site- "www.steamdb.info" .....here you can see the lowest recorded price for any games on steam. Just enter the name of the game in the search field.

[SPG]

Touch me and you're Gonna die eredeti hozzászólása:

Big publishers are cutting their " on sale" discount percentage every year. Assassins creed 1, 2, 3 was $5 once. But now they are $10. Same applys to Skyrim or other big games.

Yeh, it's starting to get very noticeable on other sites as well. I've cut way back on the number of games I buy in a year, but fortunately I have enough backlog for a couple of years.

With the popularity of digital games, the industry has woken up to the fact that they can remarket their old catalogues and price them according to current trends.

[wuddih]

http://i.imgur.com/1x6iiSK.png
repeat that a hundred times.

[Bigshrimp]

A lot of mine are from bundles, etc...

[Gus the Crocodile]

The games I most reliably buy elsewhere are the expensive ones from big publishers that I want to play close to release: Elder Scrolls, Deus Ex etc. I can almost always get these cheaper elsewhere, so I do.

I tend to avoid bundles other than Humble because I feel like they're a bit of a trap for developers. Generally I'd rather buy their works individually for a fair price.

[Mal]

I usually buy other people games during sale or one of the legit indie games sites