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[Jawmuncher]

It sounds like we're going to be waiting longer for prices to get where we want now.
Look at all those daily prices from Summer. Watch a majority of those not be the sale price this upcoming sale. But rather the price tier above it. I might be extremely skeptical at this point, but I just don't see really good deals coming out of this. Outside indie titles that were never going to be featured.

 

[Flandy]

dailies were a mistake

 

[Dsyndrome]

You think it's Valve doing this or publishers pushing back on everyone waiting for the next sale?

Edit: So I only care about the first day of the sale? What's the point after that?

 

[Jawmuncher]

You think it's Valve doing this or publishers pushing back on everyone waiting for the next sale?

I'm hoping it's just a case for the one sale. Since the Thanksgiving and Winter sales are so close. Might as well treat it like a halloween sale or such.
Since if winter is handled the same way, that kinda defeats the purpose of having that sale for such a long time. Since who cares what's going to be featured? Not like it'll go down in price.

 

[Ozium]

every steam sale sucks though so why would this change anything?

next thing you know they are gonna get rid of holiday crafting and badges

edit: this is totes garbage because they had a smart thing going from a business standpoint earlier in that they had it set up so that people would check the store at least every day if not twice a day, many people only steam during sales and the dailies and voting brought exposure and excited the community.

valve is fucking done as a company after this, mark my words

 

[spindoctor]

Unique and fun holiday challenges that grant you achievements ;-;

Must have taken months of work to set up that promotion with all their partners. Don't think anyone at Valve wants to do that again. The ship has sailed

 

[Jawmuncher]

Still seems really off to me. The biggest advantage I see here is for the publishers. Since the masses won't know that the system has changed. Thus they'll just see titles on the front page and buy, thinking they're at more of a discount since they're there.

 

[texhnolyze]

So, should someone make a thread about it on gaming?
It sounds like a big news.

 

[corrosivefrost]

I'm hoping it's just a case for the one sale. Since the Thanksgiving and Winter sales are so close. Might as well treat it like a halloween sale or such.
Since if winter is handled the same way, that kinda defeats the purpose of having that sale for such a long time. Since who cares what's going to be featured? Not like it'll go down in price.

Depends -- they may still do some sort of meta.

If they worked with publishers, they might come up with something that worked like the sales of old -- people seem to think that SAM killed the achievement sales, but what you got for getting the achievements was never really anything super valuable. My sales purchases dropped a lot over the years because of this going away. I used to just see what the daily challenges were and then if a game was cheap enough and looked fun, I'd buy it to go get those sale specific achievements.

Perhaps they could work this so that the featured games are the games you can do whatever for the meta with. Even if it's play <x> hours or something. Who knows.

At the worst, it's good for my wallet, at best, maybe a few games on my wishlist hit prices I'm interested in buying them for. Sure, the "look forward to tomorrow's dailies" will be gone, but so will the "sale isn't enough, i already own it, or not interested" disappointment on a daily basis.

every steam sale sucks though so why would this change anything?

next thing you know they are gonna get rid of holiday crafting and badges

edit: this is totes garbage because they had a smart thing going from a business standpoint earlier in that they had it set up so that people would check the store at least every day if not twice a day, many people only steam during sales and the dailies and voting brought exposure and excited the community.

valve is fucking done as a company after this, mark my words

Marked.

 

[Ozium]

So, should someone make a thread about it on gaming?
It sounds like a big news.

i vote for salsa

 

[Jawmuncher]

So, should someone make a thread about it on gaming?
It sounds like a big news.

Someone should, not me though.

Depends -- they may still do some sort of meta.

If they worked with publishers, they might come up with something that worked like the sales of old -- people seem to think that SAM killed the achievement sales, but what you got for getting the achievements was never really anything super valuable. My sales purchases dropped a lot over the years because of this going away. I used to just see what the daily challenges were and then if a game was cheap enough and looked fun, I'd buy it to go get those sale specific achievements.

Perhaps they could work this so that the featured games are the games you can do whatever for the meta with. Even if it's play <x> hours or something. Who knows.

At the worst, it's good for my wallet, at best, maybe a few games on my wishlist hit prices I'm interested in buying them for. Sure, the "look forward to tomorrow's dailies" will be gone, but so will the "sale isn't enough, i already own it, or not interested" disappointment on a daily basis.
Marked.

Eh, the meta stuff is fun and all but I much prefer actual discounts to any of that. Like the gem auction was nice, but I still would have preferred to just see that game at a heavy discount over that.
As of right now all I see this doing is letting everyone bitch about the sale the very first day. Hell this will kill the Holiday Sale thread, since it's all the same price from Day 1. So no one will even really talk past that first day.

 

[rainking187]

I wonder if they'll even bother with any sort of game this year. If you can get everything you want at its lowest price on the first day there isn't really any point in checking the sale again after that.

 

[Ozium]

Someone should, not me though.


Eh, the meta stuff is fun and all but I much prefer actual discounts to any of that.
As of right now all I see this doing is letting everyone bitch about the sale the very first day. Hell this will kill the Holiday Sale thread, since it's all the same price from Day 1. So no one will even really talk past that first day.

people will still want to know if a game is worth it tho

 

[LurkerPrime]

Now it's GOG's turn to have awesome sales.

Also,

 

[Coreda]

Way to kill the hype, Valve.

RIP 90s sparkly dailies GIFs and thread frivolity.

Now it's GOG's turn to have awesome sales.

For games no one wants amirite

Spoiler

I actually have a longer wishlist there than Steam

 

[texhnolyze]

i vote for salsa

Whoops, too late.

I hope the title is not misleading though. I'm not really confidence in comprehension.

 

[Atraveller]

What's this new sale system?

 

[Jazz573]

Now it's GOG's turn to have awesome sales.

Also,

Except when it comes to bullying KT into bringing Atelier games to Steam.

 

[Ozium]

What's this new sale system?

imagine the weekly deals with slightly better games and 2 extra days

 

[jediyoshi]

Come with me, friends. We must make refuge.

 

[Dsyndrome]

Now it's GOG's turn to have awesome sales.

Also,

I was just going to say, GOG Holiday sales > Steam sales this year. I'd jump all over that shit if all the achievements on Steam games were on GOG, but alas.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Come with me, friends. We must make refuge.

The last safe haven.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Come with me, friends. We must make refuge.

uPlay is an unrecognizable wasteland nowadays.

 

[Atraveller]

imagine the weekly deals with slightly better games and 2 extra days

Huh, I could just check my wishlist and be done with the sale in 3 mins, thanks for saving my time for me Valve I guess.

 

[corrosivefrost]

Someone should, not me though.


Eh, the meta stuff is fun and all but I much prefer actual discounts to any of that. Like the gem auction was nice, but I still would have preferred to just see that game at a heavy discount over that.
As of right now all I see this doing is letting everyone bitch about the sale the very first day. Hell this will kill the Holiday Sale thread, since it's all the same price from Day 1. So no one will even really talk past that first day.

Some of the auctions with the gems allowed for getting games at pretty steep discounts.
But just because there's achievements for the game or some other type of meta doesn't mean you'd get a better discount if there wasn't.

But yeah, better discounts are always preferred.

people will still want to know if a game is worth it tho

Exactly.
People who can tolerate that type of stupidity will still have the whole duration of the sale where people ask "is featured game of the day worth it?"

Now it's GOG's turn to have awesome sales.

Also,

GOG? Gross.

What's this new sale system?

It's spelled out pretty clearly in posts above.

imagine the weekly deals with slightly better games and 2 extra days

Nicely put. :lol

 

[Jawmuncher]

Huh, I could just check my wishlist and be done with the sale in 3 mins, thanks for saving my time for me Valve I guess.

About the only benefit. Doubt most titles will be at a low price though. I just don't see many publishers going with their Daily/Flash price the entire duration.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Huh, I could just check my wishlist and be done with the sale in 3 mins, thanks for saving my time for me Valve I guess.

Future Atraveller: -50% off, again. Great.

 

[Atraveller]

GOG? Gross.

It's spelled out pretty clearly in posts above.

Don't bully.

 

[texhnolyze]

I don't really mind if it's only for this autumn sale.
Just please don't, for the love of human race, put it on winter sale too, or even worse, it becomes the norm for every sales from now on.

 

[uncredited male]

I wonder if the "one sale" thing is due to refunds. There's a not-insignificant amount of people that buy things the moment they go on sale, rather than when they're dailies. This change will prevent such things from happening.

I would say it is the primary reason behind the change.

 

[Dsyndrome]

I don't really mind if it's only for this autumn sale.
Just please don't, for the love of human race, put it on winter sale too, or even worse, it becomes the norm for every sales from now on.

Wasn't Winter Sale equal to or worse than Fall last year?

 

[Ozium]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1142555

there's the link to the thread texhnolyze made dunno why it wasn't linked already

 

[Lomax]

Woah, no dailies is crazy. I predict that only lasts the one sale. Minor change? That pretty much completely alters the entire sale fundamentally. On the plus side, games that never hit their max discount because they never got a daily will hopefully go for a better discount this time. Might make for a great catalog sale winter sale. But no dailies?

On the other hand, if the fall sale is the same, that means the winter sale kinda starts on the 25th... and kinda ends then too.

But I'm sure they'll make up for it with an awesome metagame! Or not.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Wasn't Winter Sale equal to or worse than Fall last year?

IIRC it was the same thing, possibly with a few exceptions. I want to say the sales forms given to devs rolled over between the two (not 100% sure though).

 

[yuraya]

There are just too many games on Steam at this point. Lots of developers want to be on the daily/flash but Valve can only host like 150 or so during the week. The other 6000 games get left out.

They need to think of something new and restructure everything.

 

[Jawmuncher]

I have a feeling this is gonna be the worst sale, but that they'll make it up during the summer when Reddit complains enough to them.

 

[Chance Hale]

Battlefront unpacked in two seconds via origin and Syndicate took about 30 seconds via uplay.

What the fuck steam.

 

[Karak]

Nobody reads the thread...

Gotcha that sort of sucks. Great game.

 

[Deitus]

Well, the nice thing is not having to hope the game I want to get someone goes on sale before Christmas so I can get it for them as a Christmas present.

But I can't see any way this doesn't result worse discounts. I really hope this doesn't become permanent.

 

[Lomax]

They also chopped almost a week off the sale by not starting until the 22nd.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Well, the nice thing is not having to hope the game I want to get someone goes on sale before Christmas so I can get it for them as a Christmas present.

But I can't see any way this doesn't result worse discounts. I really hope this doesn't become permanent.

Yep that's my biggest issue with it.
For example like when we got Korra for 3.75 or whatever it was last sale. We all know how stingy Activision is. They aren't going to price a game like that for an entire sale. Just using that as an example.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

So all the games are gonna be on sale at the same price from day 1 to the end of the sale ?

 

[Stallion Free]

Battlefront unpacked in two seconds via origin and Syndicate took about 30 seconds via uplay.

What the fuck steam.

Wasn't Syndicate cracked before release?

 

[texhnolyze]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1142555

there's the link to the thread texhnolyze made dunno why it wasn't linked already

I missed that, thanks.

Wasn't Winter Sale equal to or worse than Fall last year?

IIRC it was the same thing, possibly with a few exceptions. I want to say the sales forms given to devs rolled over between the two (not 100% sure though).

Yeah, it was pretty similar iirc.
Perhaps it's because both sales are too tightly scheduled.

 

[yuraya]

So all the games are gonna be on sale at the same price from day 1 to the end of the sale ?

Yes. So basically the servers will be very dead once the sale goes live as everyone runs to buy what they want.

So don't even bother logging in on the first day lol.

 

[Chance Hale]

Wasn't Syndicate cracked before release?

It was but I waited for launch to play it.

Does anyone know why steam takes so long in comparison to inferior services?

 

[zkylon]

what's the deal with the steam thing then?

i think one discount for all the sale is a good idea

 

[LurkerPrime]

New Steam sale motto: wait for the bundle

There are just too many games on Steam at this point. Lots of developers want to be on the daily/flash but Valve can only host like 150 or so during the week. The other 6000 games get left out.

They need to think of something new and restructure everything.

At this point I'd rather browse my wishlist than the storefront. It's a mess.

 

[Dsyndrome]

what's the deal with the steam thing then?

i think one discount for all the sale is a good idea

Because it's more than likely going to be the shitty "All Sale" discount, and since it's active the first day, there's no incentive to come back to Steam once their active unless you have some internal struggle as to whether or not to buy.

 

[texhnolyze]

what's the deal with the steam thing then?

i think one discount for all the sale is a good idea

Because it's suspected that there won't be as good as daily/flash kind of deals anymore.
Expect 66% off at most, or 75% off for old games.