Kinds of steam sales?

[Dana]

Hi there. Still kinda new in here. Just wondering what are the diff types of steam sales? I only knew summer and winter/christmas sale. Are there more?

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  Originally posted by Dana:

  Hi there. Still kinda new in here. Just wondering what are the diff types of steam sales? I only knew summer and winter/christmas sale. Are there more?
  
  *If this type of thread had been asked or made, feel free to close this. Thanks.*

[StickyPawz]

Don't forget about "Daily Sales", "Mid-week Sales", and "Weekend Sales"!

[Kargor]

Also, I don't think Steam had Easter and Spring sales.

They can also have things like publisher sales, or sales for a certain game franchise, or whatever. Free Weekends are also sales. And they have their "week long sales", although I'm not entirely sure what this about -- I don't think I ever actually got something there.

Other shops might have other sales. Greenmangaming, apparently, is currently running a sale for 50 games spread over several days.

And bundles can be considered sales as well, although again, that's not happening on the Steam store.

[Dana]

Does summer and winter sales holds the great discounts? I know that daily, mid-week and weekend/week long sales don't have big discounts.

[Billy]

Will we ever be safe from GabeN and his army of sales?

[_50k]

Hello

[HLCinSC]

Here's the lowdown on sales: They do not publish sale dates ahead of time as it would hurt business. Last year there was a Summer Sale (most titles) in June, Halloween sale (horror titles), Autumn sale (general) around Thanksgiving, and the Winter sale (general) around Christmas.

Lastly, you have the constant sales as well. The daily title sale (posted at 1 p.m. est lasting 48 hours), Mid-week madness sales (I think tue-thr @1 p.m.)), Weekend sales (thurs-monday @ 1 p.m.), Week long sales (Monday 1 p.m.-next monday @1 p.m.). Also publishers are free to make sales at any point they wish ( I believe the minnimum length is 48 hours though it could be 24).

There can also be limited time trials of part/full games (free weekends) and very rarely a game may be given away for a short period of time to keep forever if you start downloading it within that time window.

Just add stuff to your wishlist and you will be notified when they go on sale. You can also import it into IsThereAnyDeal.com . I cannot recommend that site enough It scours legit sites for the cheapest Steam keys (and others if you choose so) on the web from legit retailers

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Dana:

Hi there. Still kinda new in here. Just wondering what are the diff types of steam sales? I only knew summer and winter/christmas sale. Are there more?

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Basically, there are two major sales events every year. One sometime in the middle of the year, and the other around Christmas and New Year's Day. The exact dates are never certain but they're always going to happen, basically. Lately, every one of these major sales events has some sort of event activity, from which you can get event trading cards if you participate and are a high enough user level. These trading cards usually expire at the end of the sales event.

And then throughout the year there are a scattered number of smaller sales events. We just had one for the Lunar New Year. Halloween usually gets one, as does (US) Thanksgiving.

Then every week there are Midweek Madness sales and Weekend Deals. These are just a small selection of games on sale.

Sales events other than the major semi-annual sales events don't have trading cards. But the discounts are usually similarly good.

Also, sales events tend to start and end at 10 AM Pacific U.S. Time (which is Valve's time zone).

Games can pretty much go on sale anytime, so the best way to take advantage of the sales is to (1) put the games you want on your wishlist, which causes Steam to e-mail you if they go on sale, and (2) if you're really penny-pinching, check a site that tracks the price history of games, and (3) again, if you're really penny-pinching, don't forget bundle sites, that generally give you Steam keys, though mainly for indie games (bigger-name games are more occasional, but do sometimes show up).

Note that buying bundles doesn't use Steam Wallet money, so if you're only using Steam Wallet Cards or something then you might not be able to buy those.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by CharlestONE:

Just add stuff to your wishlist and you will be notified when they go on sale. You can also import it into IsThereAnyDeal.com . I cannot recommend that site enough It scours legit sites for the cheapest Steam keys (and others if you choose so) on the web from legit retailers

Have they added Playism-Games.com yet? Playism is a publisher but they also operate a web store where they sell their own games and a selection of various other indie games; the deals on their own games are generally quite good when they get going (and are DRM-free + Steam key), but their sales events are a bit more irregular. I think they like doing one during Advent.

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[HLCinSC]

Originally posted by Quint el Pizote Estacionamiento:

Originally posted by CharlestONE:

Just add stuff to your wishlist and you will be notified when they go on sale. You can also import it into IsThereAnyDeal.com . I cannot recommend that site enough It scours legit sites for the cheapest Steam keys (and others if you choose so) on the web from legit retailers

Have they added Playism-Games.com yet? Playism is a publisher but they also operate a web store where they sell their own games and a selection of various other indie games; the deals on their own games are generally quite good when they get going (and are DRM-free + Steam key), but their sales events are a bit more irregular. I think they like doing one during Advent.

Not that I have seen. I have actually never heard of Playism but will check them out

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by CharlestONE:

Originally posted by Quint el Pizote Estacionamiento:

Have they added Playism-Games.com yet? Playism is a publisher but they also operate a web store where they sell their own games and a selection of various other indie games; the deals on their own games are generally quite good when they get going (and are DRM-free + Steam key), but their sales events are a bit more irregular. I think they like doing one during Advent.

Not that I have seen. I have actually never heard of Playism but will check them out

The thing I know them best for, in terms of game pricing specifically, is the fact that they always sell One Way Heroics cheaper on their site than on Steam.