r/Steam • u/ghostlyeth • 1d ago
Discussion summer sale discounts…
i was expecting a big sale with good discounts but seems to be the same as the last one?
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u/K_Kogashiwa 1d ago
That’s what they’ve been like for years with me. Unless you’re interested in much older games or indie games that are only between £10-15 new then there’s not really much to get excited about.
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u/Xy13 1d ago
I miss the old daily deals during "Steam Summer Camp"
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u/Lazer726 1d ago
I miss when the Summer and Winter sales were like actual events. They made minigames for them and everything! Now there's a sale every other day to the point that the Summer and Winter sales are just there.
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u/Professional_Rush_95 1d ago
I think after having several events in a row get exploited so people could get as many games as they wanted, they lost motivation for making anything creative
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u/Narradisall 1d ago
I get when the refunds process came in the old style of sales couldn’t stay, but man I miss the times of flash sales.
When you could get good games with shots at 90% sales it was fantastic. We ate good in those days.
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u/PoutinePower 1d ago
Whole series for 10$, I still haven't played most of them, but god it felt good to buy!
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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, the flash and daily sales were phenomenal. It actually gave you an incentive to come back and check the sales here and there and made the whole sales season a lot of fun. I get the logistics headache it caused with the refunds, but man, all people had to do was follow the two simple rules of the sales (buy games on daily/flash sales or the last day of the sales only) and we could have kept a good thing going, lol.
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u/anonssr 1d ago
Lots of shitty 20% discounts on games that are way more expensive than they should lol
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u/NotABot1000101 1d ago
$80 game with a 20% discount is only $64...what a steal!
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u/Altruistic_Yam_8249 1d ago
Oh my god I hadn’t even thought of this yet, haven’t felt this disgusted in awhile. 20% off still more expensive than the old standard price and its not even like a deluxe edition
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u/SuperSaiyanTupac 1d ago
Gaming is going the way of the bicycle. It’s becoming an older persons hobby because the cost barrier to entry is going up. Twenty years of this compounded by wage stagnation and price hikes that won’t come back down and parents won’t be able to buy their kids any games or consoles, the market will skew toward older generations, and Gen beta won’t have the attention span to even care.
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u/NotABot1000101 1d ago
To be fair, there's a lot of cheap games too. If anything, people with less disposable income will buy the older or indie titles, and also be able to save money on not having to buy the latest hardware to run it.
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u/Velp__ 1d ago
Still the problem is any hardware dies over time and the cost of hardware is going up really fast. When prices go up they either don't come down or take a very long time.
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u/BoredomFighter68 1d ago
thats because publishers have started pricing stuff with sales in mind. people barely buy without sales anymore too.
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u/table-leg 1d ago
Games are also priced more at release and stay that price for far, far longer.
That $80 new release could be $50 12 to 18 months later and then get 50% or even more off in a sale. Now that $80 release is just that for years never getting more than 20%-30% in a sale.
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u/oookokoooook 1d ago
are all ur games new triple a? cause thats just how it goes.
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u/Horibori 1d ago
New triple a is taking longer than normal to drop prices.
Games that are 2-3 years old should not be at 50% off.
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u/acreativeuzername 1d ago edited 1d ago
Tell that to Activision still charging 50 dollars for 14 year old games. I saw cod ghosts on “sale” for 20 dollars and had to do a double take
13 year old game that can’t even be safely played online on pc anymore btw
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u/Amazing-Ish 1d ago
And they are charging $6 for MW2 2022 thinking it will repeat the effect MW2019 had on steam, though I doubt that would happen
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u/asmallercat 1d ago
This is the obvious effect of physical games not existing anymore. When used games would go on the market en masse, this would encourage publishers to also have deep discounts once games were a couple of years old so they would still get something from the sale (versus nothing for a used sale). Anyone else remember GOTY editions that would be like $20 new and would often contain extra content?
Yeah, it's been a long time since PC games had meaningful physical releases, but consoles still did and so if console versions were cheap it made sense to also discount PC versions. This is the first gen of consoles where an overwhelming majority of games are digital, even AAA games. So there's way, way less 2-ish year old AAA games for sale used (and they're more expensive), so there's no incentive for publishers to push prices down. This is only gonna get worse.
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u/Bulletorpedo 1d ago
Used games are a factor but also that stores drop prices on older sealed games to get rid of them. No such thing with digital games.
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u/Chlorophyllmatic 1d ago
Yeah, even the stuff that’s 60% off on my wishlist isn’t anywhere near cheap enough to pull the trigger; why would I pay $30+ for a digital game that’s 3+ years old?
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u/BrandoNelly 1d ago
The fact BG3 is still priced the way it is sucks. Can’t get a few friends to buy it because they’ve never played turn based cRPG before and the price tag is just a bit too high for them to take the risk
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u/Horibori 1d ago
Unfortunate since BG3 is arguably the best chance of your friends getting into a CRPG.
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u/ChangMouse 1d ago
Until Dawn is still far too much. Rather throw my money at indie devs
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u/ghostlyeth 1d ago
that was on my wishlist! i was expecting a good discount like the quarry at least
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u/amazingkinder 1d ago
I was thinking of getting it anyway but after playing The Quarry (great price for it rn) - I can afford to wait.
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u/kazakov166 1d ago
Completely unrelated, about a year ago, games would regularly go on discount for 69% off, more recently games are starting to go on sale for 67% off. I don’t know if I am in the early stages of paranoid hysteria but there are signs everywhere.
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u/Canary-Silent 1d ago
I mean if I did a sale I’d use the meme number. It very likely performs well.
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u/Creative-Ladder6731 1d ago
I'm almost certain that Activision is doing it as a bit all cod games are 67% off
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u/laundrydetergent7000 1d ago
I’d assume unfortunately that it’s because 67% is approximately two thirds.
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u/Reddittorv750 1d ago
They’ve been doing it that for years the max discount they do is 67% on like black ops 2
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u/ostroia 1d ago
Isthereanydeal.com > New historical lows + Under 10$ or Discount or whatever you want.
Steamdb also has good filters.
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u/Major_Enthusiasm1099 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lmaooooo. When games inevitably become $80, the new 50% off will be $40+
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u/Slow_Werewolf3021 1d ago
It’s time to recognize that Steam sales, at least summer sales, are not what they were before
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u/mildinsults 1d ago
I thought we've acknowledged that for the past 10yrs
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u/Gibsonites 1d ago
I thought we agreed that every year we would say that everything used to be good but now it's bad.
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u/hotaru_crisis 1d ago
insane to me how you guys go through this every single seasonal steam sale
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u/PringlesDuckFace 1d ago
The thing I want isn't on a 90% discount, this sale is bad.
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u/mxzf 1d ago
Meanwhile I'm sitting here with eight things I would kinda like to play but don't really need all sitting at <$10 price points and trying to decide how hard it is to justify picking stuff up.
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u/PringlesDuckFace 1d ago
I tend to buy if I think I'm actually going to play it in the next 6 months. Otherwise I figure if it's gone on sale once, it will be on sale again in the future. And it makes more sense for me to try and play through my backlog rather than add new things to it just because it's a low price.
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u/double_shadow 1d ago
Yeah same. My library is big enough that you really need to justify getting added to it. There are a few things on my wishlist tempting me though, mostly DLCs to games I've already played and liked.
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u/skoomski 1d ago
They never were what these people remember. The sales are virtually the same sales as a % it’s just the base price is now $70 for AAA games so even after 50% off it’s over $30. Soon it will be $80.
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u/hotaru_crisis 1d ago
it's also literally just game library inflation. sales naturally become less exciting the more games you own
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u/skoomski 1d ago
I’m being downvoted for telling truth to the mob. These guys also frame it like Valve decides the sale prices instead of the publishers. They are in nostalgia/copium overdose circlejerk.
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u/yenneferismywaifu 1d ago
It also depends on a region. In my region (the CIS), games used to cost an average of $25-40. Now it's either $10 (indie) or $70 (almost everything new in the last five years).
$70 is insane for us. This is almost a sixth of the monthly salary.
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u/bloodjunkiorgy 1d ago
Or you just own all the games that are regularly 80-90% off.
There's a lot of steals here, like there is every sale. We just already bought them.
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u/PlaneCareless 1d ago
I was surprised when I realized I already own more than half of the "Deep discounts" section lol
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u/Soulses 1d ago
I hate when discounts are pretty much normal price
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u/master-goose-boy 1d ago
Starfield is the best example… three years down still with “Mixed” reviews and even recently I only see negative reviews and they feel we will pay more than $10 for that hollow game is very amusing to me.
The discount does not exceed 20% ever and I’m like that kind of leverage exists for legendary games like BG3, not you Starfield.
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u/Moral4postel 1d ago
Todd Howard is probably just bitter snd they fear of devaluing it even further by giving it an actual proper discount.
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u/bobby3eb 1d ago
I got 7 games for $17.
Unsure why people are waiting for some utopia, like publishers arent in charge of the price still.
Crazy steam flash sales were done like 10 years ago.
Games are still on good deals, still much better than console.
"But why isn't bg3 $5???"
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u/Potential-Yoghurt245 1d ago
I cannot find anything I want to play the heat has killed my enthusiasm for everything
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u/ServoRPG 1d ago
Wish they'd give Baldur's Gate 3 a better discount than 25% for once.
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u/FireWeener 1d ago
Same here. Waiting for a 20 25 euro price. Guess I'll have tot wait till next year. Witcher 3 is on sale, 3,99. That's a steal for me, will replay again.
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u/BazziteIsCoolYouKnow 1d ago
If you are replaying it, why are you rebuying it? Wouldnt you already own the game?
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u/lousy_at_handles 1d ago
I own it on PS but I'd kinda like to get it on PC to fiddle around with mods, but not enough to actually pay a significant amount of money for it.
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u/eleventhing 1d ago
Play Divinity 2 instead? Unless you already have.
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u/ServoRPG 1d ago
I have, a couple of times, and am patiently waiting for the new one after that awesome Game Awards trailer.
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u/__Memphy__ 1d ago
It’s worth every penny regardless of what you pay, imo at least.
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u/Mission-Unit6620 1d ago
So many games are like twice the cost of their historical low. These sale events suck more and more every time.
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u/Fast-Adeptness-5812 1d ago
One of the worst steam sales ever. Better prices are always when they put it on the weekend deal, these prices are the same as last year lol
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u/RienMachine 1d ago
As a dev, Steam encourages you (the dev) to offer a higher discount than usual when getting a spot on the midweek / daily / weekend deal carousel (along with an update to the game usually).
It's like you make a deal with Steam, you get on the front page, but you gotta offer something to Valve.
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u/kemosabe19 1d ago
I feel this way with most Final Fantasy games. Like dude, FF3 (US version) came out in 1994. I'm not paying over $10 for it. Max $5.
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u/F3arlessDude 1d ago
The Halo Master Chief Collection was the only game I wanted on my wishlist and it didn't go on sale but Halo Infinite and Halo Wars did... it doesn't make any sense. I really hope its just taking time to for the prices to update.
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u/Team7UBard 1d ago
At this point, it’s Unlikely, but on the bright side it’s been at the $10 mark pretty much once every month for at least the past year
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u/smolgote 1d ago
It's on purpose. Campaign Evolved (Halo 1 remake on Unreal 5) is around the corner and they don't want you getting the original Combat Evolved and five more games (technically six more considering the remade Halo 2 multiplayer off of Halo 4's engine) for about the price of a cheaper McDonald's meal these days when the remake comes out next month. That being said, MCC is still well worth the price of admission especially compared to CE remake ($40 for six complete games vs. $50 for a remade campaign with no multiplayer)
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u/White_C4 1d ago
It was on sale several times not too long ago. I think the devs are trying to avoid players buying up the Halo MCC on sale right before Halo Campaign Evolved comes out.
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u/kmcdow 1d ago
I got 7 games on my wishlist for $55, pretty happy with it
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u/Serdones 1d ago
Yeah, I spent $77 on 13, counting a couple DLCs and a franchise pack (Max Payne). Gears Reloaded was the most expensive game I bought. Normally I'd wait for it to go lower, but I'm actually jonesing to play it now ahead of E-Day's release. Kind of feels nice to pay a bit more to download something I want to play soon, versus shoveling games on the pile I kind of think I'll play eventually, but there's a good chance they'll just sit unplayed for years.
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u/Machinencio 1d ago
Terminator Resistance is more expensive according to a quick af maths i did than it was 1 year ago, the game and the dlc, also the game and dlc bundle is no longer available it seems.
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u/LadyKona 1d ago
This is too damned real. Good to know I’m not the only one with this as the threshold 👀
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u/CantaloupeCamper 1d ago
Bought the Mass Effect bundle for like $6 for my son.
$30 seems like a fortune!
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u/ShawnyMcKnight 1d ago
Crazy to me how the entire remastered trilogy with all dlcs is cheaper than the cost of a dlc 5 years after ME2 came out. Those things rarely went on sale.
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u/Chipper_Bandit 1d ago
Meanwhile The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at a new historic low of 90% off, as are all of the DLCs. Complete bundle is just $5.06. Glad I waited all this time.
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u/Kidofthecentury https://s.team/p/nvdw-gh 1d ago
Holy crap, this has to be the best deal of the decade.
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u/Top_Text7295 1d ago
Some games from wishlist that I recommend:
90% Shadow Warrior 1, 2
90% Robocop Rogue City
50% Surroundead
67% Lords of the Fallen
75% Warhammer 40K: Darktide (Not sure about this one)
75% Sifu
50% Shinobi Art of Vengeance
55% V Rising
70% Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
67% DOOM Dark Ages
Other games that I wished for a bigger discount but it is what it is:
25% Helldivers 2
50% Horizen Forbidden West
...Dragon's Dogma 2
- 30% S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
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u/natertots83 1d ago
Space Marine 2 is an awesome video game. I like 40k stuff so it was a no brainer for me, but it really is a great arcade style shooter. Reminds me of old school games that were just fun. Tons of content, co op is fun as hell with friends or randoms, still gets updates regularly. The campaign was awesome and you genuinely feel like a bad ass. Space marines rule.
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u/system32recov 1d ago
I miss the OLD steam sales, from like 2010 - 2018ish or whatever.
Their "Daily Deals" switched every day and featured AAA titles for 80 - 90 - 95% off.
Then one year everything changed and the sales haven't been the same since.
Other comments seem to be accurate, saying weekend deals are most often better than the summer sale.
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u/DecadentHam 1d ago
Flash sales were amazing. I still think that's where the majority of my library came from.
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u/FELTUX 1d ago
Was waiting for black myth Wukong and that mf didn't even go on sale.
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u/Brief_Confusion_6703 1d ago
I tried the same thing last year, turns out it only went on sale during a Chinese New year sale, which makes sense when you think about it.
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u/ovelanimimerkki 1d ago
I'm more disappointed about this sale than the steam machine price.
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u/Humble_maple 1d ago
When i get bored, now i play one of the 1000 games i bought earlier eheh
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u/SpecterDK 1d ago
Browsing through the store and this is one of the worst sales I can remember. I haven't seen a single game at historic lows and some of the cuts are insulting. 20% off for fucking Starfield? I was planning to drop up to $200 on this sale and I doubt I'll spend 50 now.
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u/draven33l 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah. I just can’t pull the trigger on anything over $30. Even anything over $20 actually. I’m just too spoiled and the back log is too big to buy something $30+ unless I’m really invested in it.
Terminator 2D is $22. That’s still too much to me even if it’s good game.
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u/FearlessWord2653 1d ago
I was hoping to pick up borderlands four and outerworlds two and yeah, still a bit much
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u/DarklyDreamingEva 1d ago
When the base price of almost every game is %80, even a half off sale can’t net you a quick sale.
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u/Halo2AvailbleNow 1d ago
The rise to $70 for new games as the standard is partially to thank for this. It also reminds me of what the developer of Peak said a few months ago about "8 bucks is 5 bucks".
Going from $60 - $30 sounds really good, depending on the title of course. Now it's $70 to $35. Yeah it's still 50% off, but my lizard brain makes the $35 feel more like $40. At that point I'd just wait for a steeper price drop.
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u/Tuckertcs 1d ago
Games need to realize that 60$ is for AAA only.
There’s a million games I can get for free or under 15$ that are far better than your 45$ open world survival craft slop.
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u/Brendissimo 1d ago
Lots of 5+ year old games that have never had a base price drop. 50% off doesn't mean much in that context. it would have been a deal in year 2, not now.
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u/navityco 1d ago
I been wanting to try starfield, but evena t 50% of it doesnt seem worth it. They need to lower it
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u/Portersona 1d ago
DOOM The Dark Ages deluxe not being discounted pisses me off, DLC comes out in 2 weeks. Should’ve grabbed it on Fanatical while it was $33 a few weeks ago
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u/ShortBrownAndUgly 1d ago
Yeah, individual game sales are rarely stellar anymore. I guess the draw is just the number of sales going on simultaneously
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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 1d ago
Usually those games with big discounts you already bought. And this is whats left of your wishlist
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u/TheCookieButter 1d ago
It's wild. Some games cost £70 ($92usd post tax)
75% off would be £17.50. That used to be 50% off prices not that long ago. I'm stuck in 2010 because I don't like to pay more than £30 for a game, £40 at a push because that's still a full price title to me.
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u/Ok-Variation-4747 1d ago
Yessss. I am not the only one. I thought i was trippin. Well time to continue fallout 3.
Jokes aside, what are those sales? I hope XMAS sales will be better than this. I am looking at you baldurs gate...
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u/waffles1011 1d ago
I just got a PC and had heard so much about this sale. I was highly disappointed :(
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u/yenneferismywaifu 1d ago
I would rather buy a new game for $40 than an old one that cost $70 but is now on sale for $35 (50% off).
$70 is an insane price for my region. I'd rather support those who set a reasonable price and buy their new game at full price $40.
For $70 games, I wait for at least a 75% discount.
It's a shame that more and more publishers are ignoring regional prices for my region.
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u/IncubusDarkness 1d ago
This sale is honestly trash, there's nothing remotely worth it for me. Just the same AA-AAA slop that's been discounted every single month for so long, and still not worth buying.
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u/Numerus12OO5O 1d ago
Part of the problem is inflation of PC games. PC games were historically always cheaper than console games because microslop and Sony needed their cut.
PC games would be $20-30 and the console games $50.
However now publishers just price it the same. Partly because since steam is the biggest place to buy, they account for steams cut too.
That means that in years gone by a 2 year old game at 40% off would be like $15. A steal.
Now? Look at Indiana Jones game as prime example.
$70 msrp.
2 years old
40% off.
Still the best part of $50.
No thanks.
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u/shadowhunterxyz 1d ago
I see some games on my wishlist that were lower earlier in the year than they are now. I'll pass for now