Bring Flash Sales Back -_-

[Label07]

Steam Summer Stale 2022.

This used to be an event I looked forward to years ago. Now, each year it's the same static discount for two weeks. Typically, not at much, if any more of a discount than we have ALREADY witnessed on a game up to this point.

Please bring back "Flash Sales"!

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Ragnarök eredeti hozzászólása:

Lol @ people whining about the unfairness of missing Flash sales.

Life isn't fair. I've missed 99.9999% of sales that have ever happened, at any store, for any product. Why on earth would I spite the people who were diligent enough to be around for them? Why on earth would I not want the potential for better prices? Ridiculous. Steam sales have been boring since 2014.

Bring back Flash, Dailies and Community choice sales.

You're kidding yourself if you think those flash sales were actually lower than anywhere else.

Hell, there's legitimate sites selling keys for cheaper prices right now than the current Steam Summer sale.

....and we still have dailies.

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C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

You're kidding yourself if you think those flash sales were actually lower than anywhere else.

Hell, there's legitimate sites selling keys for cheaper prices than the current Steam Summer sale.

Not interested in random key sellers of dubious repute, certainly not back then, but saying you can find better prices elsewhere than the current summer sale isn't saying much.

C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

...and we still have dailies.

Really, where? These? https://i.ibb.co/TK5gGtQ/Untitled.jpg
Even if I scroll down I see nothing that says Daily Deals.

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Ragnarök eredeti hozzászólása:

C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

You're kidding yourself if you think those flash sales were actually lower than anywhere else.

Hell, there's legitimate sites selling keys for cheaper prices than the current Steam Summer sale.

Not interested in random key sellers of dubious repute, certainly not back then, but saying you can find better prices elsewhere than the current summer sale isn't saying much.

Dubious?

You've used Steam for 16 years and not realized that there's at least half a dozen sites that are authorized to sell Steam keys?

It doesn't say much? It says everything. You guys are whining about flash sales, when these sites are selling the games CHEAPER than those flash sales.

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C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

You've used Steam for 16 years and not realized that there's at least half a dozen sites that are authorized to sell Steam keys?

It doesn't say much? It says everything. You guys are whining about flash sales, when these sites are selling the games CHEAPER than those flash sales.

I've used Steam for 16 years and fully realise that there are third party sites that sell foreign keys to western markets, yes. I strongly doubt these are "authorized" by Steam to undercut their own profits.

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Ragnarök eredeti hozzászólása:

C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

You've used Steam for 16 years and not realized that there's at least half a dozen sites that are authorized to sell Steam keys?

It doesn't say much? It says everything. You guys are whining about flash sales, when these sites are selling the games CHEAPER than those flash sales.

I've used Steam for 16 years and fully realise that there are third party sites that sell foreign keys to western markets, yes. I strongly doubt these are "authorized" by Steam to undercut their own profits.

Most of my games were bought on legitimate sites The rest on Steam. You know how many were removed because of fraud?

One....because the devs revoked ALL of the keys.

Guess what? A week later, everyone that got keys from this particular site, was issued new keys because the devs determined that the keys they revoked, were legitimate.

The site?

Fanatical.

The game?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/326410/Windward/


One game out of over 4,000? Pretty good odds if you ask me. I also have more than that, Steam just doesn't display them all.

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Ragnarök eredeti hozzászólása:

I strongly doubt these are "authorized" by Steam to undercut their own profits.

lol....Valve doesn't make any money off key sales. The devs get the keys from Valve and then those keys go to these sites.

You know why devs do this....? Because of Valve's 30% cut.

[Haruspex]

Lots of people like to complain that they perceive the Steam sales as somehow less than they used to be, but I don't think they are. It's just that some of us already own most of the games we want, so it doesn't matter what the sale is anymore.

Like, just glancing at a few of the games on sale, you've got Halo MCC at $16, Titanfall 2 at $4.79, Fallout 4 $8, Jedi Fallen Order $10, Witcher 3 $8, and so on. These are all great deals, but I already own them, so it doesn't matter to me anymore.

If I look at my wishlist, there are some deep discounts, but not on anything I'm over-excited for. Most of what I really want hasn't even been released yet, or has been released too recently to be discounted too deeply.

So really, it's not that the sales have gotten worse. It's just that some of us aren't new to Steam anymore, with wide eyes and the feeling of endless potential. Honestly, I probably shouldn't even shop for new games. I should "shop" my own library, because there's plenty there I've never even played.

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Label07 eredeti hozzászólása:

I don't see why people would NOT want flash sales. As it stands right now...

Some people are not awake every possible hour of the day to watch for the 8 hours that a sale is on

FOMO is not something I especially care about for a sale

Digital scarcity is not a thing and as such why create it

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Also, as 8bit pointed out...ALOT of these prices are repeats. Titanfall 2 was $4.79 on Steam on May 13th 2022. I know, because I bought it then.

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C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

Ragnarök eredeti hozzászólása:

I strongly doubt these are "authorized" by Steam to undercut their own profits.

lol....Valve doesn't make any money off key sales. The devs get the keys from Valve and then those keys go to these sites.

You know why devs do this....? Because of Valve's 30% cut.

So which is it? You're going to have to pick one. Either Valve makes same amount of money from selling on or off-site or they don't.

Or do you mean to say I shouldn't care about supporting the platform I'm using? All of this is irrelevant. "Just go offsite bro" is not an argument to keep the sales lacklustre.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Ragnarök eredeti hozzászólása:

C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

lol....Valve doesn't make any money off key sales. The devs get the keys from Valve and then those keys go to these sites.

You know why devs do this....? Because of Valve's 30% cut.

So which is it? You're going to have to pick one. Either Valve makes same amount of money from selling on or off-site or they don't.

Or do you mean to say I shouldn't care about supporting the platform I'm using? All of this is irrelevant. "Just go offsite bro" is not an argument to keep the sales lacklustre.

They do not.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/1480982971165723588/#c1480982338963311516

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C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

They do not.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/1480982971165723588/#c1480982338963311516

I know they do not get a cut when buying from 3rd party sites.

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Ragnarök eredeti hozzászólása:

C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

They do not.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/1480982971165723588/#c1480982338963311516

I know they do not get a cut when buying from 3rd party sites.

So, what's your argument? Don't you realize that those flash sales were only repeats of previous prices? The developers set the prices for their games...not Valve. So, Valve is not going to do a flash sale for $1 or even $2 for a $60-$70 game.

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C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

So, what's your argument? Don't you realize that those flash sales were only repeats of previous prices? The developers set the prices for their games...not Valve. So, Valve is not going to do a flash sale for $1 or even $2 for a $60-$70 game.

What's yours? The Flash sales were not repeats of previous prices, that's why people waited for them. Where did I claim Valve set the prices, indeed where did I claim that I expect new releases to be on sale for two dollars?

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Ragnarök eredeti hozzászólása:

C²C^Guyver |NZB| eredeti hozzászólása:

So, what's your argument? Don't you realize that those flash sales were only repeats of previous prices? The developers set the prices for their games...not Valve. So, Valve is not going to do a flash sale for $1 or even $2 for a $60-$70 game.

What's yours? The Flash sales were not repeats of previous prices, that's why people waited for them. Where did I claim Valve set the prices, indeed where did I claim that I expect new releases to be on sale for two dollars?

Yes they were. See the problem here with you and the OP is you think flash sale and you think it's something unique and special it's not. It's designed to make you think that it is, but it isn't. It's no different than the Titanfall 2 example that I gave earlier. These prices repeat, whether you choose to believe it or not.