RIP Steam Summer Sale

[Gorsey]

Its been a pretty good Summer sale this year, but have your thoughts been on the whole thing?

[Gorsey]

pmonkey420 eredeti hozzászólása:

It really feels like it didn't last as long...

I agree with that. It went in a flash.

[Ergo Me Smart]

In the end, it was a pretty decent sale. Bought some games I wanted cheaply, and games I already own and like were bought by people I know cheaply, sometimes cheaper than what I got them for.

[Glass Double]

I thought it was pretty decent, actually. Maybe not as great as last year, but I still got my hands on some nice new toys. Borderlands 2, Sleeping Dogs, The Walking Dead, Cave Story+, System Shock 2, Portal 2, RPG Maker VXAce, Alan Wake + American Nightmare, and a buncha gifts for amigos.

[Armaden Restal]

It was a pretty good sale, the problem I've had is that I've bought nearly everything I want already. Couple of older titles I wish I had grabbed, but I can wait until Winter. I think I'm more addicted to owning them than playing anyway.

[sekoj]

Hoose71 eredeti hozzászólása:

I think I'm more addicted to owning them than playing anyway.

I was starting to think that way.. but now I have fully accepted I am addicted to owning

[cHIMichurri]

Got 2 of the 3 games I really wanted at good prices but in terms of the overall sale itself, it seems a lot less amazing than previous sales. A couple years ago it seemed like almost every game on steam was at least 50 percent off on at any given time during the sales and sometimes even higher. Can't blame Valve though, I still love GabeN :)

[30 Year Old Boomer *Sip*]

I only wish they had stopped putting the same games up for flash sale votes over and over.

[Snokar]

I don't even know why I bought some games.

[TalviraFx]

My thoughts?
Shouldn't everyone have L4D2 by now? :P

[Humble V]

Great sale!

[dirrtymartini]

Jouva Moufette eredeti hozzászólása:

Wow, what are you all, 13 or something? Let's go over some things so everybody's on the same page and understands things:

First the timezone/date thing. There are really TWO potential time zones that Valve will be dealing with here. UTC (which is for the most part equivalent to GMT) and US Pacific Time. UTC is a VERY common time zone for International events to coordinate on, since it's... well... universal. Timezones are infact coordinated upon UTC. Pacific Time is what is native to Valve. So that's within their work schedule.

I believe overall, even when it's not a Summer/Winter sale, each "daily" sale really starts at 5PM UTC. So they kept that 24 hour period going. Not sure when they decided upon that, but that's what they did. It's most likely a good time for a large majority of their player base to be awake and see things. It's a 24/7 sale, with votes for every 8 hours, so at SOME point you will be sleeping or working and probably miss a chunk of the sale, but hopefully not all of . But they're going to accomodate to as many people as they can. They can't get 100% of you to see 100% of the flash sales.

As for the quality of the sales, let's think for a moment. First of all, nobody HAS to provide sales. They don't NEED to at all. It's just a way of attracting people that might like it at a lower price and drive more purchases. If you put it at 50% off and get 3 times as many purchases in that time, then it sounds like a win to me! But it's a gamble that they WILL get enough sales to offset the lower price.

And it's not entirely up to Valve. The game makers have to agree. But they all know that the sales will be fairly big. Usually well over 25% off, so if they want to put anything on sale, it will be a big chunk out of their normal income for that game per sale.

Picture yourself as a game maker. And not just one but a TEAM of people splitting profits. Think about the income needed to make it worth having the game out there and giving the team a steady income. Not all games make millions of dollars like you may think. And if they do they GENERALLY have multiple people involved, meaning one person is not a millionaire from that game.

tl;dr: The world isn't in your time zone, people need to earn a living, and this sale is not an obligation.

Well said. Quoted for being spot-on.

[albertTyson]

klaphark eredeti hozzászólása:

Skyrim was still too expensive.

Goodness, people will complain about anything.

[sekoj]

pouch456 eredeti hozzászólása:

klaphark eredeti hozzászólása:

Skyrim was still too expensive.

Goodness, people will complain about anything.

Your name has numbers in it, so unsightly!

[dirrtymartini]

sekoj eredeti hozzászólása:

pouch456 eredeti hozzászólása:

Goodness, people will complain about anything.

Your name has numbers in it, so unsightly!

The green in your avatar offends me!

[Over1imit ❤]

I loved the year with the summer ticket and the coal (technically winter). If it wasn't for the trading cards, I would have been able to resist purchasing something. I didn't spend a whole lot...I even bought software > games because I realized that the games I bought 3 years ago from the cool Steam sale hasn't been played...

And there'll be another sale, so the games will just get cheaper again aha.

Overall dispapointed, a few decent ones but even the trading card thing wasn't as exciting as their previous sales.