Board 8 > so what did you get in the steam sale

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For myself:

Pyre
Night in the Woods
Tooth and Tail
Drawful 2
Hob
Armello
A Hat in Time
For The King
Darkest Dungeon - The Shieldbreaker
Grim Dawn - Crucible Mode
Grim Dawn - Ashes of Malmouth

For others:

Dead Cells
Downwell
One Way Heroics
Environmental Station Alpha

Given to me:

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2
Death Road to Canada
Zombie Party
Caveblazers

I've got some playing to do.

I just now bought Double Dragon Trilogy like 2 minutes ago for like 2 bucks

I bought two games for Tazzy:
Pain Killer and Azure Gunvolt

Harrich got me
River City Underground
Trails in the Sky 1
Beginner's guide

Shine got me PUGB
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I bought The Surge and refunded it after 35 minutes. How did people enjoy that combat system? It felt very clunky and the body part targeting system was annoying to actually get to the part you want to target.
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I convinced charon to buy Undertale but I've yet to convince him to play it. :(

Maybe after our play throughs of Getting Over It/Alan Wake end...
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Cuphead
Pyre
OneShot
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Trails in the Sky the 3rd
Planet Coaster
Getting Over It (Friend gifted to me)
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Strikey Sisters - $0.49
Domino Sky - $0.99
Bot Vice - $0.49
UBERMOSH Vol.5 - $0.49
Jet Gunner - $0.49
Locoland - $0.49
A Trip to Yugoslavia: Director's Cut - $0.54
Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force - $7.49
Ys The Oath in Felghana - $4.49
Hexcells Infinite - $1.49
World's Fastest Pizza - $0.59
Cubixx HD - $1.79
Terrorhedron - $0.49

Many inexpensive games
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To be honest I don't really care about Steam Winter Sale anymore...
And I used to, really. I looked forward to the Winter Sale every year and bought stuff
But the last two years..I didn't care, at all. I only purchased $70 worth of games because I felt bad for not buying anything and decided to go crazy, and it was at the last day of the sale

I assume it's because of -
1.Too much shit games, when I am drowning in games and the games that are actually good doesn't stand out, I lost interest. Also because it makes me feel overwhelmed by the amount of games
2.Flash Sales - now this is a big one
I don't know who in Valve decided to remove them, but I can't believe it turned out to be a smart discussion
The idea of the Flash Sales was brilliant - first, you put a deadline, thus making "on the fence" buyers feel like they must buy the game before the deal runs out of time
Second, you make the deal "special" - if the game was 60% off, now it's 80%
Third, you almost guarantee a purchase - because hey, the game will not get any cheaper in foreseeable future, so if I won't buy it again, and I will buy it in the future, it will probably cost me more - so I will buy it now
And last, you make the Winter Sale actually worth something and makes it different from the rest. Because right now I can't tell the difference between the Winter Sale, Summer Sale, Automn Sell, Spring Sell, Halloween Sale or whatever the hell you call them
The Winter Sell doesn't stand out anymore..
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For myself:
Corpse Party
Strider
Void & Meddler + Season Pass
Night in the Woods
Lara Croft & the Guardian of Light + Raziel & Kain DLC
Disney Infinity Gold 1.0 + 2.0 + 3.0 bundle (for the kids)

Gifts for others:
Sid Meier's Pirates!
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Undertale

Gifts from others:
Cuphead
Haunted Halloween '85
Pinball Arcade Season 5
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Nothing. I used to look forward to these sales but my backlog is just too much. Typically the only games I want are indie games anyway so I just wait for their Humble Bundle inclusion.
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Nanis23 posted...

To be honest I don't really care about Steam Winter Sale anymore...

I miss flash sales too (who doesn't love bigger discounts) but I don't think it's changed what I buy at all.

- then: I decide I want X game -> I check every day for a flash sale -> if not, I buy it on the last day
- now: I decide I want X game -> I buy it

So it's more convenient, but yeah, not as fun.
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Gatarix posted...

then: I decide I want X game -> I check every day for a flash sale -> if not, I buy it on the last day

Oh yeah I forgot to mention this as well
It actally made you check every few hours, and care about it a lot more because you actually want to come back every 8 hours to see what changed
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why would you want to have to check a store every 8 hours
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I think that Valve ended the flash sales due to the implementation of the refund system.
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Sword Coast Legends
Homebrew Vehicle Sandbox
Wendigo (note: this looks like utter shite, but because of the bundle, by taking it I got 30p off Homebrew)
Salt & Sanctuary
Danganronpa 1+2
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
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KCF0107 posted...

I think that Valve ended the flash sales due to the implementation of the refund system.

I doubt it. Flash sales ended before the refund system was put into place. It's more likely that the flash sales were ended because it required too much coordination from Steam and publishers/developers. Steam doesn't like having actual people that work on the store. Presently, developers simply have a field to fill in for what price they want during the upcoming sale. With flash sales, there are multiple fields to consider and Steam has to coordinate. They're not making less money this way, and they don't have to hire humans.
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PumpkinCoach posted...

why would you want to have to check a store every 8 hours

even if I wasn't buying anything, I'd still stop by to vote in the polls and get free cards (and it's a lot easier to vote in a poll than clicking through an entire discovery queue)

other than that, I dunno, I guess I got a kick out of buying things at flash sale and knowing I waited for the BEST deal
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

Flash sales ended before the refund system was put into place

Valve implemented Steam refunds in June of 2015, one week before the last Steam sale with flash/daily sales.
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iiicon posted...

digiiiiiiiii posted...

Flash sales ended before the refund system was put into place

Valve implemented Steam refunds in June of 2015, one week before the last Steam sale with flash/daily sales.

Guess I misremembered, but I do recall reports that the two were not related. There are even reports that flash sales resulted in fewer overall sales for Valve.
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Yeah the sales after the end of dailies/flash sales have been more profitable for everyone involved. I dunno if that accounts for overall Steam growth, but I don't think it matters because we're not going back to the way it was.

I do think refunds played a part in killing the flash sales. I bet processing all those refund requests in that sale was a pain. There's virtually no difference between Valve's front page curation now with daily refreshes compared and asking devs/pubs for an additional sale price if they get picked for a daily, although I bet it's less stressful for devs overall. Don't have to wake up each day and see if you won the lottery.
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iiicon posted...

I bet processing all those refund requests in that sale was a pain

Again, I doubt it ... refund requests barely require human interaction, if at all. Steam is all about limiting human interaction.
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The time that was used to check for flash sales is now instead spent sifting though the millions of titles that are on sale.
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Life is Strange: BtS
Night in the Woods
Stardew Valley

Aw yeah Steam vouchers as Christmas present
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I got RPG Maker MV.
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