Steam mislead about the last day of sale now I missed out!

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ChunkyMonkey Jul 7, 2022 @ 1:36pm

Steam mislead about the last day of sale now I missed out!

So, maybe I am not the only one in this boat. Early this morning when in my time zone it was already 2am I look at steam and see that the Summer Sale is still happening. So, I thought the sale is still happening for the duration of July 7th. I wanted to get the Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. Now, I wake up , check steam, sale gone. Literally snoozed and lost. This is a disaster!

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Spawn of Totoro Jul 7, 2022 @ 1:40pm

Sales have always ended at 10:00 am PST on the final day of the sale. It has been like that since the first Steam sale that I can ever recall. There was even a timer on each game's store page with when the sale will end for that item.

Last edited by Spawn of Totoro; Jul 7, 2022 @ 1:41pm

Wolf Knight Jul 7, 2022 @ 1:41pm

you mislead yourself. the start and end time of the sale was made clear.

in the future, all events start and end at the same time of the day. 10 AM pacific time. figure out what time that is in your time zone and plan accordingly.

Judgmental Amaterasu Jul 7, 2022 @ 1:46pm

Steam didn't mislead anything. The sale was always going to end 10AM PST.

Brian9824 Jul 7, 2022 @ 1:46pm

Just wait for next sale, every single sale always ends at the same time, so no one misled you. You just made faulty assumptions without bothering to clarify.

Snapjak Jul 7, 2022 @ 1:57pm

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Bookmark it.

cinedine Jul 7, 2022 @ 2:09pm

Every. Single. Sale.

IIRC back when there was an encore day (well, or two actually), there was also a countdown on the front page. Maybe it's time to bring it back. IIalsoRC GOG has one for their sales, at least they have for the normal feature ones.

Yasahi Jul 7, 2022 @ 2:16pm

Originally posted by cinedine:
Every. Single. Sale.

IIRC back when there was an encore day (well, or two actually), there was also a countdown on the front page. Maybe it's time to bring it back. IIalsoRC GOG has one for their sales, at least they have for the normal feature ones.

Yeah, it's kinda like a tradition here it seems. It even read in the banner that it would end at 10am PST.

The store pages for individual games had the countdown timers for at least a day. It's really surprising how people still miss all that and end up missing the end of the sale.

Crazy Tiger Jul 7, 2022 @ 2:17pm

You mean you didn't pay attention.
Front store page: https://web.archive.org/web/20220704001640/https://store.steampowered.com/
It lists the start and end date including the time: https://imgur.com/a/lpFnc6f

Adding to that every store page of a game that participated in the Summer sale had a timer going for the last 48 hours.

ChunkyMonkey Jul 7, 2022 @ 2:45pm

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:
Sales have always ended at 10:00 am PST on the final day of the sale. It has been like that since the first Steam sale that I can ever recall. There was even a timer on each game's store page with when the sale will end for that item.

Yea, I know. Its my own fault. I snoozed and lost.

ChunkyMonkey Jul 7, 2022 @ 2:45pm

Originally posted by Big Bridge.mp4:
Steam didn't mislead anything. The sale was always going to end 10AM PST.

I know. I was exaggerating. Its my own mistake.

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ChunkyMonkey Jul 7, 2022 @ 2:46pm

Originally posted by brian9824:
Just wait for next sale, every single sale always ends at the same time, so no one misled you. You just made faulty assumptions without bothering to clarify.

Yea, I will do that. I've been on steam many years and I know sales happen regularly.

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cinedine Jul 7, 2022 @ 2:48pm

Originally posted by Yasahi:
Yeah, it's kinda like a tradition here it seems. It even read in the banner that it would end at 10am PST.

The store pages for individual games had the countdown timers for at least a day. It's really surprising how people still miss all that and end up missing the end of the sale.

Well, I am not usually visit a product page unless I have interest in buying the game.

And the "10 am PST" is a very American culture thing. Pretty much all Europeans live in a single timezone, so defining one for the displayed time is superflous and uncommon at best. The countries that I have expirience with that have multiple timezones usually use the one of the capital as that's where the most of the population lives, anyway.
Considering that most people turn of their brains when they log into the internet for security reasons, you can easily dismiss that random amalgamtion of random symbols.

If you are American, especially US American, though ... well be glad you learned it through something rather unimportant like a video game sale instead of an invitation to a job interview. :D

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↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect Jul 7, 2022 @ 7:16pm

Originally posted by cinedine:
Originally posted by Yasahi:
Yeah, it's kinda like a tradition here it seems. It even read in the banner that it would end at 10am PST.

The store pages for individual games had the countdown timers for at least a day. It's really surprising how people still miss all that and end up missing the end of the sale.

Well, I am not usually visit a product page unless I have interest in buying the game.

And the "10 am PST" is a very American culture thing. Pretty much all Europeans live in a single timezone, so defining one for the displayed time is superflous and uncommon at best. The countries that I have expirience with that have multiple timezones usually use the one of the capital as that's where the most of the population lives, anyway.
Considering that most people turn of their brains when they log into the internet for security reasons, you can easily dismiss that random amalgamtion of random symbols.

If you are American, especially US American, though ... well be glad you learned it through something rather unimportant like a video game sale instead of an invitation to a job interview. :D

Steam is an American company so they will use American time zone which is PST which is the time zone valve is in. It's up to the user to figure out what time that will be in their time zone. Where I live 10AM PST will be 1PM EST.

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