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There will be no daily & flash deals in the upcoming Steam Autumn sale (25/11)
- Thread starter texhnolyze
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GillianSeed79
Member
Lack of dailies will mean less purchases for me for sure. It's not so much the deals not being as good, it's because there will be no incentive for me to check the storefront everyday thus less impulse buys. Come to think of it, the main store front is pretty terrible now. Might check out GoG more this year and maybe even Origin or Amazon.
pantsattack
Member
I figured they would always have changing discounts. I check steam half a dozen or more times a day during sales. Set prices for the whole thing aren't as enticing or exciting.
Plus it provided chat banter as the day went on.
Plus it provided chat banter as the day went on.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Discovery is also going to be damaged. Mid-tier games that would show up as flash/community/daily deals aren't going to be seen by as many people even if they do get featured, since there isn't a reason to check back regularly anymore.
Jawmuncher
Member
Yeah no reason to be as competitive if no one is being featured on the front page with special discounts.
dinosaur_hunter2
Member
I don't know what to make of this news yet, but I'll wait until I see the actual discounts before saying "Steam sales had a good run.".
On one hand this sucks. Since I'm one of those people that likes to open steam everyday at 1PM/1300 local just to see what's on sale that day. I loved checking in during steam sales and seeing what was up during the current flash/daily/community choice(you rubes picked that?) sales things.
On the other hand, I like that it's going to be more simple. It was getting a little much, innit?
On the other hand, I like that it's going to be more simple. It was getting a little much, innit?
matrix-cat
Member
So everything just goes on sale for its best price at once and stays that way until the end of the sale? I suppose I'll live, as long as the discounts are as good as they've always been, but that seems like it'll get a whole lot fewer eyeballs on the Steam store during the sale.
charlequin
Banned
Hm... on one hand, checking the steam store every day to see what the dailies would be was a bit of a hassle... on the other hand, with only one option, developers are likely to play it more close to the chest and offer shallower discounts.
I think we lose.
Good point. If I don't have a reason to check daily, I'm not going to care who gets featured.
I think we lose.
Good point. If I don't have a reason to check daily, I'm not going to care who gets featured.
opticalmace
Member
Hm... on one hand, checking the steam store every day to see what the dailies would be was a bit of a hassle... on the other hand, with only one option, developers are likely to play it more close to the chest and offer shallower discounts.
I think we lose.
Indeed... the deals, they are a changin'.
Femmeworth
Banned
It was good while it lasted.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
If only Amazon could still do competent deals.
I miss those days. I got some absolutely crazy deals when they were going with that.
Soon we won't be able to use sales as a tickbox in platform wars anymore! The horror!
Also, GreenManGaming is selling grey market keys and Nuuvem blocked VPNs (as far as I know).
Our PC heroes are dead.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
It was a lottery for them anyways.
The brainy guys at Valve can probably think of a better system for the visibility issue.
texhnolyze
Banned
As far as I'm aware, yes it's not.. yet?
A sale running through 22nd to 4th with the same deals throughout would be pretty lame.
The impulse buys would be at a minimum ever.
charlequin
Banned
They've spent the last year or so actively destroying discoverability on their storefront, so I'm not so sure about that.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Hey more money in my wallet thanks Valve.
TheVoidDragon
Member
This is something they seemed to somewhat do during the last sale. It might not have been intentional (although i don't see how it couldn't have been), but there were some games that were put as daily deals that didn't actually go down in price any more.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I only noticed that with Valve games IIRC, were there others too?
Quadraphonic
Member
Rockstar. But they are assfuckers when it comes to deals.
They took the regular GTA5 off of the store, and only had a 'bundle' with a Shark Card (IAP cash) that was DISCOUNTED to the regular $60 price.
And because DLC was bundled, you ALSO couldn't get a refund.
TheVoidDragon
Member
ARK: Survival evolved was one that i remember being put as a daily deal despite it not getting an extra discount. I think the devs said it wasn't them who decided to do that, although that doesn't seem to fit in with what's this is saying about Valve usually asking what devs want the daily discount to be.
Possumowner
Member
That's it my PC is going in the bin,I mean its useless now,only turns on with a proper sale.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
That's fucking crazy. I can't believe they're taking away peoples reason to check the store every day. Seems like it'll kill impulse buying. I know it will for me.
OverdriveOtaku
Member
I remember when that deal went live. At first, all of the thumbnails for the game listed it at 25% off, then everyone's dreams shattered when the percentage just meant you would get in-game currency with your $60 purchase. Biggest troll-move during a Steam Sale I ever personally witnessed, everyone on my friends list was pissed.
LurkerPrime
Member
Their solutions always boil down to "let the community handle it."
Get ready to vote on sale severity. May the best percentage win.
I used to work at a developer and managed the Valve/Steam relationship. I can confirm that you would submit your prices and they would apply to BOTH the autumn and holiday sale. If they are only taking one price for autumn I can say with almost 100% certainty that the Winter sale will be the same.
EatinOlives
Member
I've always thought that having a Halloween Sale, an Autumn Sale AND a Winter/Xmas sale to be too much in too small a time frame.
I honestly always forget there's an Autumn sale and go "huh...so there's a sale..." when it comes up, then end up not buying anything.
I honestly always forget there's an Autumn sale and go "huh...so there's a sale..." when it comes up, then end up not buying anything.
Quadraphonic
Member
Yeah, ultimately this is just a non-special sale.
But this would be a good time to get all of your Steam accounts ready (Wife's? Work?) so you can get as much voting in and cards as possible. Since they take about 30 days sometimes to be allowed to trade.
Spend the $5 to buy your main account a gift. Activate them and get them legal for trading...
But this would be a good time to get all of your Steam accounts ready (Wife's? Work?) so you can get as much voting in and cards as possible. Since they take about 30 days sometimes to be allowed to trade.
Spend the $5 to buy your main account a gift. Activate them and get them legal for trading...
I mean regarding midtier/indie getting visibility
(or discoverability)
Ooh good point
kitschykitty
Member
Maybe they don't want to deal with returns on games that get further discounted in the dailies.
Well, I get that, but that doesn't mean there can't be a middle ground. During the summer sale, all flash sales lasted a full 24 hours.
Makes you wonder about featuring though, the path you took with CSD and featured high % sales would no longer exist under the version described in the OP.
The world of small indie games on PC can be terrifying.
On one hand, this.
On the other, will you be happy with sales comparable to being in a Weeklong? Because that's what the sale looks like now - slightly more promoted Weeklong.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
No kidding. Glad to know that the days of constantly checking Steam to see if we hit the jackpot are at an end.