Do you think sales declined this time? I've barely seen anybody talk about it

Do you think sales declined this time? I've barely seen anybody talk about it

>I've barely seen anybody talk about it
In real life? Because we got multiple threads about it every day of the sale.

elaborate, there have been threads for it 24/7 like always

I mean outside of here. Even the response on games enthusiast sites seems very muted. It's got less attention than the average gog sale

There isn't as much to discuss anymore, since what you see on the first day for sale, is what you get. No more flash sales to keep things interesting.

Also, Valve are fucking cunts, and I personally think it's good they're getting less attention. Have to get sent to fucking court before they implement basic customer rights, and they still half-ass it.

>what you see on the first day for sale, is what you get. No more flash sales to keep things interesting

Some of us have lives and its unfair to come home after work and finding out that 75% discount on a game you wanted is now 50%

There is nothing worth buying.

NORMIES REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

all sales are here from day 1, so after day 1 there's not much to discuss. It's that simple. Plus there are not many interesting games that reached discount they were not at already

Just buy it on your smartphone during your lunch break. Adapt nigger.

You dont even need to be at lunch. If you have everything set up you can buy games really fast over the phone

Everyone already owns everything.

bullshit. some of us have 400 games on our wishlist

I understand why they dropped flash sales since there'd be so many people refunding shir constantly, but they seriously need to bring back daily specials during sales. As it stands, most people just buy what they want day 1, maybe a few gifts on Christmas, and then nothing else for the rest of the sale.

theres soo many games though so it takes a while to find anything you actually want. or that actually works. steam should make it so any game thats there must work on modern hardware.

Its so boring now I barely notice it.

I didn't buy anything yet but mostly because I don't see anything I think i'd like.
Mostly play a lot of skyrim and warframe.
Recommend me a game?

people are realising video games are a waste of time

they're buying bicycles, quadcopters, generally being more active and outdoors

Right. Now it's just at 50% through the whole sale.

For me is just this, the first 10 years steam was expanding putting great prices so everybody was stocking up games, now everyone have more or less what they want and it's just the new releases that maintain the system

I have 11.80 left in my wallet, can I grab anything good?

Its alright, but the games I want to get don't have a good enough sale.

wait and get disgaea 2

I buy a lot of games and never play them. Most of the games I want aren't at low enough prices for me to buy. I'd rather just emulate PS2 games.

I'm with you, I do understand them dropping flash sales, but why not just make those non refundable? Or put special refund policies on those specifically?

So now everything stays at 50% because you think it was unfair that those of us who checked daily had it too good.

how, i wishlist just about anything remotely interesting to me and i only have 142

No more events with rewards (Valve blamed Russian hackers for this. Never bothered refining it. Screw doing something nice for the customers)
No more flash or daily deals (Valve blamed refund abuse for this. Never bothered refining it. Screw doing something nice for the customers)

Honestly, I've just lost all faith in that fat fuck, and it started by throwing out coal. That's when I finally realized what moneygrubbing, soulless bastards he and the rest of Valve are. And don't get me started on paid mods.

Flash Sales were shit
Most people just waited until the last day of sales anyways just to make sure something they wanted wasn't on a flash sale.

you only had to check three times daily, once when you get up, once on lunch, and once before you go to sleep. how inconvenient

Eh, I got everything I wanted out of it

I spend around 50 bucks and got 9 games out of it. Can't complain.

>saving money was shit

>have to wait until the very last day of the sale just to make sure you aren't getting fucked out of a better deal
Why even have the other days of the sale?

The last day is the encore

The point is your just waiting for games you want to show up on the flash sale, and if they're not on the flash sale, you won't buy them until the last day of the sale anyway.
What is the point?

Only thing I've done all sale was buy then refund Banished.

What is the point in trying to get the best deal? Hmm, I don't know.

I only bought one thing this sale and that was DD: Dark Arisen. I played the original DD on PS3 but never played the Bitterblack Isle stuff.

I can't think of anything I really want since that's on sale. There's releases coming out in the next three months I'm excited for though.

I fucking pity you guys during sales then, I have like 10 things on my wishlist that I haven't bothered to remove and I get almost daily email and phone alerts about stuff on my wishlist being up for sale.

What's the point of having other deals going on at all if you're only going to look at a few of them that rotate every few hours one day until the last day of the sale? Why even have the other deals at all?

Now you only have to check once on the first day of the sale.

The only thing I really wanted was Total War: Warhammer and it only got a 25% off sale. It is a newish game but in the past you could at least hope for a flash 50% off sale for a couple hours and buy it on your phone. I might still get it later but the sales in general this year are just bland.

>daily deals last 48h
>several flash sales a day
>valve would do daily events and games for even higher discounts or cards
>special holiday achievements in games
>companies updating their game with special summer/winter holiday themes
>cry baby shitters and refunds ruined the entire fucking thing

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Limited time + huge discount = impulse buying == HUGE FUCKING SALES.

People would buy tens and tens of games and never play them because they were so cheap. I have hundreds of games in my steam library that I've never touched because I got them at a ludicrous discount in previous sales.

AAA games are barely 25% off. Indie games are either not discounted or barely discounted enough its not worth picking up.

80% of steams library was added in the last 3 years and it's almost always garbage shovelware that's too expensive.

ehh, it's not so bad

>People would buy tens and tens of games and never play them because they were so cheap.
Why is this a good thing again?

Because there was no guarantee that the game would be cheaper (or again) at the last day. Knowing that game deals changed each day, as well as every 8 hours, would have consumers constantly checking the store and might lead to more sales. "I was looking for X to be in the flash sale but Y is 85% off? I've got to grab that!" was likely the mentality they wanted and it seemed to do the trick.

> might lead to more sales.
But Valve has said that having constant sales has made them more money, and we've seen they haven't changed back to the old model after years of this going on just proves this system is better for them.

Steam pulled the flash sales and sales went up.

But I think that was a short-term thing, as attention will dwindle and the lack of curation hurts the site, discouraging picking up random shit

>Do you think sales declined this time?
Yes, but revenue jumped up 40 % in summer, because of reduced discounts.
Video game facebook addicts are simply paying more for their shovelware now.
They are not playing games, they are just buying shit.

I switched back to physical games and stopped upgrading my PC. I'm done with this shit.

>after years of this going on just proves this system is better for them
It's been 1 year

I could have sworn it was going on for 2 at least. Maybe my memory is just shit.

Pretty sure it started last winter sale.

Those of us who weren't spergs and only bought games we wanted could get them all super cheap, while valve still makes a fortune off of people with no self-control. It's a win-win-win.

Yeah, you're right. I just remembered that the refund system was introduced recently and that's basically what kicked it off.
The years are starting to blend together for me

Maybe Steam fags actually played games instead of buying them?

HA HA HA who am I kidding. Keep padding your backlog.

ok will do

>2001 "games"
You lost control over your life.

The discounts aren't good anymore.

I remember that they would take a few really good games and mark them way down, and that's what would be hot that day. Like 2 quality games each 75% and one 85%.
Now for a game to get marked down past 50% it has to be a failure in the first place.

what do you use? fucking origin? GoG?

let's be real here son.

I can stop any time I want

Just look at the top sellers. Still the same old shit that sells well during the rest of the year. Never used to be the case.

You can never ever play 2000 "games", even if you become an immortal being.
It already takes a whole lifetime to get through 200 games.
So what is the fucking point beside wasting money?

Not him, but you got me thinking. I'm gonna make a list of how many games I've actually played through and beaten. I'm only 23 but I expect the number to be around 75~100.

Why not pirate lol and save 100% more money

>It already takes a whole lifetime to get through 200 games.
wew lad I beat close to 50 games in 2016 alone

Few good discounts but generally the trend seems to be that the actual discounts are getting worse. Games that I would have bought at 5 or 10 tend to be about twice of that.

I don't feel as motivated to finish a game if I don't pay for it. It's why I've barely finished any games I've emulated.

What are some city-builders where I have to do things like ensure I produce enough food to feed my people that aren't Banished/Dawn of Discovery/Dwarf Fortress?

Do i want dying light "ENHANCED EDITION" or no

You do but you don't want to pay the price they're charging for it

The Anno series? Settlers?

What are some good sales that haven't made it to the front page all sale?

idk like marks & spencer?

This sale was shit. I did not buy a single thing and it was not fun looking to see if there was anything I wanted to buy.

The only game I actually want on my wishlist is the only game that didn't go on sale on my wishlist. Sorry Steam but I'm keeping my $30 this time around.

>wew lad I beat close to 50 games in 2016 alone
Please list them.

i want metro redux right?

No you want normal Metro 2033

>The Anno series?
Includes Anno 1404, also known as Dawn of Discovery.

Couldn't stand playing it because the game wouldn't let me pause and do things, and while time was running, people wouldn't shut the fuck up and let me figure out what I was doing.

>Settlers?
Last three games, respectively, are facebook-game tier garbage, Ubisoft DRM garbage, and possibly something good but has bad problems on modern PCs, has DRM for multiplayer, and costs far too much for a game from 2008. Would never consider buying.

I thought it sucked at first but I ended up finding a lot of nice sales and ended up buying the Eidos Anthology too which has about 36 games.

Why the fuck did they give Anno 1404 a weird fucking name in America?

And Settlers: Rise of an Empire and 10th Anniversary are fine and are available on gog

Besides no more massive events or flash sales. Less good games are coming out, most people already have all the good old ones, a games hype tends to only be around its launch.

All of these are part of it but really I would say the first two points are the big ones. The most talked about thing in sales tends to be good games that are missed but with indie games being able to spread pretty well most people already know all the games they want. And in the past few years there haven't been a ton of good games.

Deluge.

No but seriously I'm an old gamer: finish every game I buy and don't buy a new one until I do. There's no point in hoarding games.

I'm almost certainly an older gamer than you and I think you're a massive fucking faggot

i pirate some shit too, yeah.
but the way you say steam fags makes it sound like there's any real alternative when the competitors are origin and GoG, and then individual publisher based platforms like Ubishit.

i don't buy a game unless i know i'll play it, but that doesn't mean i won't buy x when it's on sale even though i'm playing w, because i can get x for a better price right now and there's no reason to spend more money later.

This, bought nothing from this years Steam sales.

>Settlers: Rise of an Empire
Still has multiplayer DRM, still is overpriced for a game from 2008. It's not even on sale at GOG.

>10th Anniversary
Still overpriced, still not on sale.

Besides, I don't even fucking like GOG after I realized they sold me some group's cracked version of Arcanum except with the reference to that group taken out.

>No but seriously I'm an old gamer: finish every game I buy and don't buy a new one until I do. There's no point in hoarding games.
I started making this a habit when I got back into physical games. I usually go through 2-4 games in parallel, but I don't let them pile up like I did on Steam.

They've been shit for years. You rarely see 75% off or better discounts.

>Besides, I don't even fucking like GOG after I realized they sold me some group's cracked version of Arcanum except with the reference to that group taken out.
Nothing wrong with it. Troika doesn't exist anymore and who is going to remove SafeDisc or whatever from the game's executables?

I have amassed a bunch of shit on steam, and need you guys to tell me which of this stuff is even worth trying out. Is there anything worth trying out here?

But won't you think of the poor pirates that aren't being paid for their hard work?

Yes sales declined, cuz they've sucked the last two years.
No, everyone has talked about it and which 2 dollar "gems" are still hiding.

metal slugs are good

>But won't you think of the poor pirates that aren't being paid for their hard work?
Like you pay some thug after he broke into your property, right?

Does Civ 5 have the expansions? If so that is pretty good

and the sales haven't been as good since flash sales are gone

You faggots just dragged us down to your level, you didn't raise yourself up

The Metal Slugs, Killing Flor, Legend of Grimrock 2, Just Cause 2

Why the fuck would I pay GOG to pirate a game?

I'd rather just pirate the fucking game.

There's very few games I want recently. Most of the games on sale this year I wouldn't even spend time on if I got them for free.