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Speak for yourself, I got 4 games for 17 dollars, I'm really happy about getting Mount and Blade for 7 dollars. Especially when you compare to anything on the

Speak for yourself, I got 4 games for 17 dollars, I'm really happy about getting Mount and Blade for 7 dollars. Especially when you compare to anything on the consoles. I think the developers have gotten smarter and wont give 1 year old games 66% off on top of their already lower price. EDIT: Also, prime day has always sucked. Not really comparable.

Jach 8y ago
I think I had to wait 2 years instead of my expected 1 year for some games I wanted to play to come out with all their DLC at a good discounted price. Some games also never go below a certain amount no matter how old they are. The demand for refunds killed the classic Steam sale. They're still good (I got a few games too in the recent one) but feel mediocre to what used to be; they can't do anything fun like they once did like community-voted flash sales where something will be super-duper discounted for an hour while for the rest of the two weeks it'll only be merely super discounted. This last summer sale was a nice improvement though since they added the game giveaways (though I don't know anyone who won one, there weren't that many available). Agree about Prime Day, it was never good. Usually don't buy anything...
- detaro 8y ago
  > The demand for refunds killed the classic Steam sale. how?
  - Jach 8y ago
    >> they can't do anything fun like they once did like community-voted flash sales where something will be super-duper discounted for an hour while for the rest of the two weeks it'll only be merely super discounted. Flash sales were an important part of the classic deep-discount Steam sale, but it's easy to upset people with them. Put another way, you buy at 60% off, then tomorrow it's 80% off. What do you do? What can you do in some circumstances (e.g. you already started playing for a few hours)? I guess I should clarify that this wasn't the only factor (the increase in alternate distribution and visibility channels is another) but it contributed. A side effect is that because of there being little you could do, wiser gamers would wait until the last day to make sure none of the games they wanted ended up on one of the flash sales, then buy things. Valve makes a lot more money if people are buying throughout the sale -- and they've since added a lot of search, filtering, and discoverability to the platform that flash sales once had a role in that encourage those impulse buys.
    - detaro 8y ago
      Ah, now I get what you mean. The refund case seems solveable: at least once you've downloaded the game to your PC they don't auto-refund, so they could just hold refund requests during the sale, or explicitly block people from rebuying cheaper. But I see how the waiting pattern would be bad for them.

Jach 8y ago

I think I had to wait 2 years instead of my expected 1 year for some games I wanted to play to come out with all their DLC at a good discounted price. Some games also never go below a certain amount no matter how old they are. The demand for refunds killed the classic Steam sale. They're still good (I got a few games too in the recent one) but feel mediocre to what used to be; they can't do anything fun like they once did like community-voted flash sales where something will be super-duper discounted for an hour while for the rest of the two weeks it'll only be merely super discounted. This last summer sale was a nice improvement though since they added the game giveaways (though I don't know anyone who won one, there weren't that many available). Agree about Prime Day, it was never good. Usually don't buy anything...

detaro 8y ago
> The demand for refunds killed the classic Steam sale. how?
- Jach 8y ago
  >> they can't do anything fun like they once did like community-voted flash sales where something will be super-duper discounted for an hour while for the rest of the two weeks it'll only be merely super discounted. Flash sales were an important part of the classic deep-discount Steam sale, but it's easy to upset people with them. Put another way, you buy at 60% off, then tomorrow it's 80% off. What do you do? What can you do in some circumstances (e.g. you already started playing for a few hours)? I guess I should clarify that this wasn't the only factor (the increase in alternate distribution and visibility channels is another) but it contributed. A side effect is that because of there being little you could do, wiser gamers would wait until the last day to make sure none of the games they wanted ended up on one of the flash sales, then buy things. Valve makes a lot more money if people are buying throughout the sale -- and they've since added a lot of search, filtering, and discoverability to the platform that flash sales once had a role in that encourage those impulse buys.
  - detaro 8y ago
    Ah, now I get what you mean. The refund case seems solveable: at least once you've downloaded the game to your PC they don't auto-refund, so they could just hold refund requests during the sale, or explicitly block people from rebuying cheaper. But I see how the waiting pattern would be bad for them.