Steam 2016 summer sale is here! runs from June 23rd to July 4th!

I know it was recently on sale, but still, if you have not played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, $24.99 is such a freaking steal. Also, 3DMark is $4.99
 
Cypher- said:
There will never be daily deals again. It would be asinine since they introduced refunds and made it acceptable to refund and re-buy at a lower price.
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So they can forget me as a customer. I haven't purchased anything in the last holiday sale, and probably won't buy anything now. I used to drop hundreds around each big sale, it's a loose loose situation. It's not rocket science, they could implement measures that if you refund a game, then you're not able to buy the same game for 30 days.
No, it's easier to say "It's in your best interest" Fuck off. Nothing a retailer does is in the customer's interest unless they stand to gain from it even more. And by offfering less titles for less discount they think they'll gain more, well not from me that's for sure Since in my country steam is ridicilously overpriced. So offering 20% off from titles only means they match prices of cdkeys or greenmangaming.

Also I liked daily deals because with the rotation of deals you could discover games that you didn't even know existed. Unlike their crap queue, that keeps showing games I loath, or ones already in my library.
 
mls1995 said:
As someone who has done a refund, the trade off is worth it. Nothing worse than buying a game and realizing 10 minutes after you download and install that it's a turd
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Basically you're saying fuck all, I want to keep making mistakes even if it means everyone else looses out on good deals.
I feel no sympathy for you. Do your research.
 
He's right - daily deals was a better way to discover games you didn't know existed and the steep sale made you feel inclined to give it a shot when you normally wouldn't have.
 
M76 said:
Basically you're saying fuck all, I want to keep making mistakes even if it means everyone else looses out on good deals.
I feel no sympathy for you. Do your research.
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Look friend, I don't know what's wrong in your life that you feel like you need to be this rude. Don't take your problems out on other people. All I was saying was that refunds were nice. I wasn't the one who took daily deals away.
 
Hmm, I wish Steam still had a way of showing me games that I didn't know existed, that were relevant to my interests. They could make it available all the time and even call it something like "Discovery Queue".
 
M76 said:
It's not rocket science, they could implement measures that if you refund a game, then you're not able to buy the same game for 30 days.
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That is completely anti-consumer. Why the hell would that ever be a good idea? Refunds were a great step for Steam and I am surprised that someone could be so against them.


I wont argue the fact that Steam sales don't always have the best prices. Whenever I am looking for a game I will check isthereanydeal and see what the lowest prices are. I feel like 99% of the time it wont be Steam. Whoever is legit and has it cheapest gets my money.

Fuck using grey market sites like G2A. I am glad they are getting so much negative press lately and I hope they die off.
 
M76 said:
Basically you're saying fuck all, I want to keep making mistakes even if it means everyone else looses out on good deals.
I feel no sympathy for you. Do your research.
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So much anger over video games. The face-palm is strong with this one.
 
Brodaddy said:
He's right - daily deals was a better way to discover games you didn't know existed and the steep sale made you feel inclined to give it a shot when you normally wouldn't have.
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Sure, until you miss a deal and are waiting until the final day and hope they put it back on sale at the daily/flash price. The fun factor of checking every day/few hours got old for me after a couple of steam sales. There are still games that get highlighted every day now that I missed in my original run through the sale or my wishlist.

So I understand the appeal of the old system and yeah it seems like the deals are not as good but I'll take the trade off with returns. Going through my steam records, the last 6 months I've bought most of my games through non steam store sources anyway.
 
personally IMO they should instigate price matching..

of course if I buy a game and 2 days later it goes on sale for cheaper I'm going to want a refund to rebuy it cheaper..


I am with the consensus though - the Flash Sales/Daily Deals made the sale exciting. . Right now the only similar is to Explore your Queue and hope you find a new gem..


now I go and look in threads like this to see what games people are liking that might be on sale similar to what RPS has done: Buy These Games: Our Picks From The Steam Sale
 
H-street said:
personally IMO they should instigate price matching..

of course if I buy a game and 2 days later it goes on sale for cheaper I'm going to want a refund to rebuy it cheaper..


I am with the consensus though - the Flash Sales/Daily Deals made the sale exciting. . Right now the only similar is to Explore your Queue and hope you find a new gem..


now I go and look in threads like this to see what games people are liking that might be on sale similar to what RPS has done: Buy These Games: Our Picks From The Steam Sale
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That RPS article was a good one. They talked me into Invisible, Inc.
 
Had to refund my Dark Souls 1 purchase since it just crashed repeatedly when trying to run it :(
 
Did you try using that fix that everyone uses for the PC version of Dark Souls? I think it's just called DSFix but I don't remember.
 
So I thought the queue card thing was a decent idea...until I realized it was a full queue for ONE card. So you basically have to look through 36 games per day in order to get the full 3 cards. No thanks.
 
Checked the store, and Borderlands: The Presequel and DLC is $21. Still the same price from the fall and winter sales.

I did pick up LA Noire plus DLC and Age of Mythology for $12 total. The games that I really want, Witcher 3 and Expansion pass ($50.24) and Fallout 4 are priced wayyy above my purchase point, especially with the backlog that I'm not playing through.
 
MavericK said:
Did you try using that fix that everyone uses for the PC version of Dark Souls? I think it's just called DSFix but I don't remember.
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yeah, no joy on that. I got 1 step farther into the menu's, but then it crashed anyway.

Just fired up some DS3, killed a few people in duels and then logged out.
 
[L]imey said:
Had to refund my Dark Souls 1 purchase since it just crashed repeatedly when trying to run it :(
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you have to disable the in-Game anti-aliasing, I just started it up again and would constant crash then I remember that in-game anti-aliasing has to be disabled and then it'll work no problem
 
MavericK said:
So I thought the queue card thing was a decent idea...until I realized it was a full queue for ONE card. So you basically have to look through 36 games per day in order to get the full 3 cards. No thanks.
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Yup. It can get a little tedious, but on the other hand, I do run across some pretty cool games every so often. It's not really worth doing just for the money, though. I sold a bunch of cards several months ago and only ended up with like $3.xx in my Steam Wallet.
 
H-street said:
you have to disable the in-Game anti-aliasing, I just started it up again and would constant crash then I remember that in-game anti-aliasing has to be disabled and then it'll work no problem
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The second I clicked on "settings" in the primary game menu, it crashed. No chance to do that at all.

Got my 5 bucks back from steam, so no big deal.
 
Picked up Alien: Isolation, Stardew Valley and Undertale. Not great sales on the latter two but they were already pretty cheap, so...yeah.
 
According to their new sale policy, it's as low as it will give this sale.
 
M76 said:
Basically you're saying fuck all, I want to keep making mistakes even if it means everyone else looses out on good deals.
I feel no sympathy for you. Do your research.
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I kinda agree. I mean, I've made a few bad choices but never at a price point that made me angry. I usually know that I want something if it's $10 or more. $10 or less is usually my experiment purchases.
 
mls1995 said:
Look friend, I don't know what's wrong in your life that you feel like you need to be this rude. Don't take your problems out on other people. All I was saying was that refunds were nice. I wasn't the one who took daily deals away.
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I'm not your friend, guy. I couldn't care less about your hurt feelings. You're the one with the attitude that I'm getting what I want, who cares what others might want? No you were saying that refunds are better than daily deals. Clearly they are a different thing and not a comparable trade-off. It's not consumer friendly even if valve tries to make it look like that.

Bone_Enterprise said:
Jesus M76, go gobble on a dick or something so you can chill the fuck out.
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Oh, did I intrude on your safe-space? How rude of me. I'm not angry, I'm candid. I'll tell you my view even if it hurts your feelings. The fact that one post can make you that angry shows me a lot of internalized anger in you. Are you're scouting the message board to find posts you can get mad about? If you have something to say about the topic say it, this is just meaningless personal anger I shouldn't waste my time on.

Cypher- said:
That is completely anti-consumer. Why the hell would that ever be a good idea? Refunds were a great step for Steam and I am surprised that someone could be so against them.
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Way to twist things out of context. I'm not against refunds. I'm against these piss-warm sales. I was merely throwing out an idea how could daily deals and refunds coexist. It's clearly a valid argument from me, that you completely ignored. Why would it be more anti-consumer, than not having refunds at all? If you buy a game before a sale, it's tough luck, but it was clearly at a price point you were willing to pay for it. It's not like you go back to the supermarket demanding a refund if milk is discounted the day after you bought it.


I wont argue the fact that Steam sales don't always have the best prices. Whenever I am looking for a game I will check isthereanydeal and see what the lowest prices are. I feel like 99% of the time it wont be Steam. Whoever is legit and has it cheapest gets my money.
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That's only a thing since there are no daily deals, and flash sales. There were often 75% 80% or even 90% sales on games at times. So I don'T understand how anyone can think that valve did a good thing by allowing refund but at the same time killing off every deal that was worth having. You're not able to ask for a refund if you purchase the games trough others, so this kind of makes steam refunds pointless don't you agree?


Pringle said:
So much anger over video games. The face-palm is strong with this one.
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The fact that one post makes you so uncomfortable that you have to whine about it, tells me a great many things about you. And not nice things. One of which is you can't see the difference between being blunt and being angry. Anger was the feeling you felt when you read the post. I wasn't angry when I was writing it, and I'm not angry now, when I'm addressing your ad-hominem attack. Do you have anything to add to the topic of steam sales or you just like to roam about the forums slagging people off?
 
South Park The Stick of Truth is totally worth $7. The kids absolutely love it.
 
Picked up Skyrim's Hearthfire DLC (was the only one I was missing, so I'm eligible for the free remaster this fall), and Duck Game. Played Duck Game the other night and last night with some friends and holy crap is it fun with friends. Reminds me a lot of the free Super Mario Wars game.
 
M76 said:
Way to twist things out of context. I'm not against refunds. I'm against these piss-warm sales. I was merely throwing out an idea how could daily deals and refunds coexist. It's clearly a valid argument from me, that you completely ignored. Why would it be more anti-consumer, than not having refunds at all? If you buy a game before a sale, it's tough luck, but it was clearly at a price point you were willing to pay for it. It's not like you go back to the supermarket demanding a refund if milk is discounted the day after you bought it.
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I don't know what your issue is. If you look on the site, they still have stuff for 75% off, just like they did a couple of years ago. The difference is that they're no longer offering stuff at a higher price then lowering it a few days or a week later. And if you haven't figured it out, everything that's on sale isn't on the front page....and that's how it's always been.
 
Well, I bought:

Wolfenstein: the new Order
Stellaris
The Stanley Parable

odd combination, I know
 
nilepez said:
I don't know what your issue is. If you look on the site, they still have stuff for 75% off, just like they did a couple of years ago. The difference is that they're no longer offering stuff at a higher price then lowering it a few days or a week later. And if you haven't figured it out, everything that's on sale isn't on the front page....and that's how it's always been.
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My issue is that during flash sales I could pick up actually good games that I wanted often under €5 but certainly under €10. Now any game that I'd actually want still costs €20 or more including the DLCs for Skyrim, a 5 year old game. And this during the "big summer sale" Or another game I often purchased DLCs for always had 75-80% off during sales. Now they never go beyond 50%. So instead of €8 they now never go bellow €15. So I just stopped buying them, as I stopped buying anything on Steam. Because there are no good deals left.

If you think there is no pattern here and the deals aren't much worse than they used to be, then you're looking at it with your eyes closed.

And don't tell me that it's only games I want, everything else is cheap. Because it was the same thing during the last holiday sale. There was not a single good enough offer to make me spend money. When during earlier sales I regularly purchased half a dozen or more games. You know in that consumer hostile time of flash and daily deals. It's not about the % that says how much discount they're offering. It's the fact that €30 for getting both DLCs for a 5 year old games is ridiculous.
 
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M76 said:
My issue is that during flash sales I could pick up actually good games that I wanted often under €5 but certainly under €10. Now any game that I'd actually want still costs €20 or more including the DLCs for Skyrim, a 5 year old game. And this during the "big summer sale" Or another game I often purchased DLCs for always had 75-80% off during sales. Now they never go beyond 50%. So instead of €8 they now never go bellow €15. So I just stopped buying them, as I stopped buying anything on Steam. Because there are no good deals left.
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It's a sign that some game publishers aren't going to be as generous with discounts thanks to rising development and production costs. For older games like Skyrim, Bethesda can keep milking that game plus the DLC for several years. They have no reason to discount more than 50% if the game is still making gobs of money outside of Steam holiday sales.
 
I looked yesterday without buying anything. Here's what I saw ...

Total Annihilation $1.24 - old game
Fallout 4 $30 - but nope not while the DLC is $50 ... maybe at xmas then
Stick it to the Man $7.50 - just kinda curious about this play-once time killer
Rocket League $12 - well I'd rather play Overwatch at this point
Atari Vault $10 - meh
Subnautica $12 - early access but good reviews
 
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