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There have been a bunch of releases from the last 6-7 months that I held off on waiting for this sale. Hopefully it isn't just the boring "Tomb Raider Franchise 50% off" and the like.
 
Every time there's a Steam sale lately, I find myself reminiscing back to a time when they were actually great sales. I remember getting older games cheaper years ago than they go on sale for now. Games that would before be on sale 75% off by now are only 40-50%. I used to pick up year-old AAA games for $4.99, but that never seems to happen anymore. All I'm hoping for with this sale are some reasonable deals on a lot of the games from last year and this year I've been holding off on.
 
Decepticon said:
Every time there's a Steam sale lately, I find myself reminiscing back to a time when they were actually great sales. I remember getting older games cheaper years ago than they go on sale for now. Games that would before be on sale 75% off by now are only 40-50%. I used to pick up year-old AAA games for $4.99, but that never seems to happen anymore. All I'm hoping for with this sale are some reasonable deals on a lot of the games from last year and this year I've been holding off on.
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State of the industry. Before big Steam sales, a game would be $50-60, then drop to $20. Sometimes it would go to $30-40, but typically right down to $20. It would sit on shelves for a while, and then slowly disappear. I remember calling around at Gamestops and whatnot to find games I wanted that were older/cheaper. Then Steam came out with dirt cheap games. It was an opportunity to sell games that people would otherwise never buy. Developers made sales they would never have done with the old model. Or games that sold poorly would suddenly make a bunch of very low profit sales, which is better than disappearing from sale forever as it used to be. But then it caught up to them. People would wait a year and get a game for $5 - 7.50. I remember ME2, and excellent game, well received with the sales to prove it, was down to $5 within a year (although the DLC was and still is obscenely priced). Not sustainable for the industry. Everyone has those old games now. There is no reason to cut prices so low anymore.

Maybe in another 5-7 years we'll get close to the situation we had in 2008 and earlier. So maybe we'll see a return to those massive sales once there is a sufficient library / years worth of titles that have not sold much but will be bought for dirt cheap. But I don't think it will ever be that good again.
 
Flogger23m said:
State of the industry. Before big Steam sales, a game would be $50-60, then drop to $20. Sometimes it would go to $30-40, but typically right down to $20. It would sit on shelves for a while, and then slowly disappear. I remember calling around at Gamestops and whatnot to find games I wanted that were older/cheaper. Then Steam came out with dirt cheap games. It was an opportunity to sell games that people would otherwise never buy. Developers made sales they would never have done with the old model. Or games that sold poorly would suddenly make a bunch of very low profit sales, which is better than disappearing from sale forever as it used to be. But then it caught up to them. People would wait a year and get a game for $5 - 7.50. I remember ME2, and excellent game, well received with the sales to prove it, was down to $5 within a year (although the DLC was and still is obscenely priced). Not sustainable for the industry. Everyone has those old games now. There is no reason to cut prices so low anymore.

Maybe in another 5-7 years we'll get close to the situation we had in 2008 and earlier. So maybe we'll see a return to those massive sales once there is a sufficient library / years worth of titles that have not sold much but will be bought for dirt cheap. But I don't think it will ever be that good again.
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All those sales went away when Steam started their return policy, I don't think it was the industry. I think it was because Valve/Steam was worried people would buy the game at full price, or during the sale for $15, then if they dropped the price to $5, they'd be returning their $15 copy and buying the $5 version.

If everyone already has those games, that's MORE reason for them to drop the price to $5. That's the only way you continue to sell those older games.
 
Bandalo said:
All those sales went away when Steam started their return policy, I don't think it was the industry. I think it was because Valve/Steam was worried people would buy the game at full price, or during the sale for $15, then if they dropped the price to $5, they'd be returning their $15 copy and buying the $5 version.

If everyone already has those games, that's MORE reason for them to drop the price to $5. That's the only way you continue to sell those older games.
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It started before the refunds. It just got even more underwhelming when they added the refund feature. 2010-2013 was the best period, it has been downhill since then.
 
Flogger23m said:
It started before the refunds. It just got even more underwhelming when they added the refund feature. 2010-2013 was the best period, it has been downhill since then.
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I seem to remember it dying right before the refunds. I know all the "flash sales" and other stuff went away right before refunds started being offered. That first sale afterwards had no time-dependent items, all the sale prices were set and available on day 1 of the sale. So check day 1, buy what you want, and go. No reason to check back every 3 hours to see if you're missing a "80% off flash sale".
 
the sales follow the same pattern now- 15%, 33%, 50%, 75% based on how recent the game is...like others here I also feel the big Steam sales have lost a lot of their luster in recent years...I still want to pick up a few games this year if the price is right- Far Cry 1 (so I can have a digital copy), SOMA and maybe Outlast 2
 
The last winter sale I picked up Pillars of Eternity DLC well worth it.

stuff I have on my list....

STYX shards of Darkness

Shadow Tactics Shogun

Wolcen

I am Setsuna

Player Unknown Battlegrounds

I seriously don't need anything really intrested to see if Wolcen will be on sale though the others are hit or miss.
I have all that I ever need for my backlog anyway.
 
Honestly, I own 1086 games on Steam. It's hard to get excited for sales when you own most of the big games they'll ever put on sale. Still, I find myself excited for Indie Sales. As I don't like paying more than $10 for games.
 
I have 349 games on steam and during last year I bought maybie 2 games through steam and those were indie titles not available anywhere else. All other games (~20-30) where bought through other retailers because recent (ever since the demise of flash sales really) steam sales were, to say the least, abysmal in terms of price reduction. Nowadays if its available anywhere else other than steam (with exception of origin in EU, their prices and sales in EU blow) then there is 99.99 chance it is cheaper elsewhere (even accounting steam sales). To sum up – not excited about upcoming sale :(
 
A lot of what the kids have acquired over the years has come from Humble Bundles, they get a lot of good stuff together in those once in a while.
 
KickAssCop said:
I have been having steam sales daily since I discovered cd key sites.
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IMO, that's what Steam has to top with these sales. It's not that exciting when they offer 10-20% off of a game that has been priced that way on CDKeys the entire time.
I tend to impulse buy when I see a game released in the last year for 50% off, so that's what I'm looking for.
Mafia 3 and the new Ghost Recon are two games I'd be interested in buying at a deep discount.
 
Domingo said:
IMO, that's what Steam has to top with these sales. It's not that exciting when they offer 10-20% off of a game that has been priced that way on CDKeys the entire time.
I tend to impulse buy when I see a game released in the last year for 50% off, so that's what I'm looking for.
Mafia 3 and the new Ghost Recon are two games I'd be interested in buying at a deep discount.
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Are those legit sales?

If yes, where can I buy them?
 
CD Keys doesn't have every major game they have a good 75% of AAA titles sometimes they sell out.

I stopped stockpiling Steam cards for this reason but if it's a game I can pre-order like 8 months in advance I'll just use Steam.
 
Comixbooks said:
CD Keys doesn't have every major game they have a good 75% of AAA titles sometimes they sell out.

I stopped stockpiling Steam cards for this reason but if it's a game I can pre-order like 8 months in advance I'll just use Steam.
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I see, I will check them out.

I dont really buy much, to be honest, but alternatives are always good.

Thanks.
 
CDKeys doesn't carry everything, but I always glance there first. They do tend to have most of the games I'm interested in with a 10-30% discount.
The keys don't usually appear early (even if it's a pre-sell) but I've never had them not work the day a game unlocks. Typically they start working a day or two in advance.
Apparently they just buy up a ton of keys using undervalued currency and resell them.

I really wish there was something like them for consoles. Sales in their online stores are few and far between and they rarely announce anything either.
 
Remember when Call of Duty games went on summer Steam sale?





Yeah, me neither.
 
Simplyfun said:
Yeah come to think of it I ended buying COD BO3 on scdkey for less than 30 bucks though... game prices seem high these days.
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Yeah I've looked at picking up the COD games (after CoD:MW) a few times but they are still priced like they are a year or two old. I get it for the last couple but damn they still want $20 for Black Ops.


Back on topic, I think the last Steam sale was the first one in years were I didn't buy a single game. I liked the old flash sales a lot better.
 
I haven't bought anything from a steam sale for a couple years now. I'd be tempted this year by big discounts on GTAV, Siege, and GR:Wildlands though.
 
I sell the Steam trading cards so I basically only buy games on Steam. I haven't spent actual money on a game since Summer Sale 2014. It's worked out well.
 
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Steam sales aren't as big of a deal anymore due to the gaming landscape nowadays- Nvidia/AMD game codes bundled with GPU's which then get resold for cheap, multiple gaming stores such as Uplay, Humble Bundle, Origin etc all with sales year long and even those grey market sites...plus Steam always sticks with their same pattern of -33%, -50%, -75% so it's easy to figure out and get games cheaper elsewhere...even Amazon has games cheaper much sooner...Steam needs to change up their pattern to become more competitive
 
polonyc2 said:
r...Steam needs to change up their pattern to become more competitive
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completely agree...as a matter of fact, a developer/owner of a successful game company mentioned on another site that 'game developers' are getting worried about the viability of steam as a platform to distribute content..basically steam needs to lower their margins so developers can take home more money from their hard work

imagine if all AAA titles had to be bought directly from a developers website..at lower the cost...and they tell steam to go @#$$ themselves...and steam also has to get rid of ALOT of the crap games they sell and clean up the store too
 
Bangorang said:
completely agree...as a matter of fact, a developer/owner of a successful game company mentioned on another site that 'game developers' are getting worried about the viability of steam as a platform to distribute content..basically steam needs to lower their margins so developers can take home more money from their hard work

imagine if all AAA titles had to be bought directly from a developers website..at lower the cost...and they tell steam to go @#$$ themselves...and steam also has to get rid of ALOT of the crap games they sell and clean up the store too
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They absolutely need to clean up the crap they have on there and really limit how long a game can be in Early Access

There will be a good alternative to Steam in the future and it'll probably be too late for them to change their tune
 
Bandalo said:
Their sales have been way less exciting lately. When they implemented their new return policy, all of the "flash sales" and fun stuff like that went away.
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Bandalo said:
All those sales went away when Steam started their return policy, I don't think it was the industry. I think it was because Valve/Steam was worried people would buy the game at full price, or during the sale for $15, then if they dropped the price to $5, they'd be returning their $15 copy and buying the $5 version.

If everyone already has those games, that's MORE reason for them to drop the price to $5. That's the only way you continue to sell those older games.
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I understand why the Summer Sales have gone the way they have, during the last old style sale they had, which was right after the refund system was implemented I was saying that this was going to create a ton of work for Steam since it also included a price matching within 72 hours or some such and I assumed they would change it considerable.

It's sort of a shame, I used to love their Summer/Winter sales, and would also be checking back at least a few times a day, to vote and see what the newest flash sales were. Even when I wasn't looking to buy anything it was just a fun thing to do, and yes I know how sad that sounds but it's true. Even their little events and games they worked into them for awhile were amusing but now it's like "here's everything that's on sale, see you in a couple weeks when you check out our next sale.' :(
 
I hated their sales, esp xmas as I would spend a shit ton of money on games that I would never play.

My steam account is full of hundreds of games that I cant remember buying yet alone playing, if only I could refund now oh boy I would have a great few days with crack and have enough cash left over for my lawyer and bail, oh wait bail is free in scotland :)
 
EVIL-SCOTSMAN said:
I hated their sales, esp xmas as I would spend a shit ton of money on games that I would never play.

My steam account is full of hundreds of games that I cant remember buying yet alone playing, if only I could refund now oh boy I would have a great few days with crack and have enough cash left over for my lawyer and bail, oh wait bail is free in scotland :)
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Well obvious it was a love hate sort of relationship. :LOL:

A lot of us always felt the same, but by the same token it also got me to buy many games I would have never given a shot to that I ended up absolutely loving so it's a double edged sword.
 
My backlog is so retarded and as someone else said, Steam sales ain't what they used to be.

My wallet's keeping its legs shut this round.

I say that, but if I get an email notification that something on my wishlist is 75% off, I'll bite lol
 
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