What are you buying?
Groceries, maybe I can swing something during the winter sale.
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I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.
Edit - okay, found some good stuff. A lot of the tables for Pinball FX were on deep sales, and with the Legacy packs I got them even cheaper (some I owned for PFX3 already, and some I bought legacy for both).
New Heretic+Hexen remaster
Some DLC for Across the Obelisk as my wife and I play that one together.
Still an underwhelming sale, but at least not a total bust.
They've been pretty underwhelming for a while now.
You used to get crazy deals on games only a few months old. Now it's just the same 50% off a five year old game before being ramped back up to full price between sales.
There's a few bargains of stuff you may have missed, but likely they've been an Epic freebie, or on PSPlus or in a Humble Bundle by now.
Its a mix of things.
- Part of it is that studios tend to price their games closer to what they are "worth". So you have far fewer "This is a 20 dollar game we are gonna try to sell for 50". They just put it at 20 to begin with (or get there pretty quick after launch). Which means that the same "get this for 10 bucks" is now 50% off instead of 80% off and so forth
- Part of it is that game dev has gotten more expensive at all scales and all selling Big Rigs 1 for 5 dollars will do is prevent people from buying Big Rigs 6 for 30
- Part of it is that... as you get older you are more likely to buy the games you want when they are "good enough" rather than waiting until EVERYTHING is at a max discount so you can spread the money you got from the banana stand over the summer as far as possible.
- Which ALSO means that you have a huge backlog and it is a lot easier to say "Do I really need this?"
I saw a game DLC I play that is ancient in game terms (Battletech) and they still want $15 per DLC.
That’s barely a sale imo.
Battletech rocks tho
I think it's more discounted on GOG
At one point I picked up six copies of Fallout: New Vegas at like three or four USD each. I kept the extras in my Steam inventory to trade or gift later. I traded some for TF2 items and gifted two or three to friends when Christmas hit.
Now no more 90% off of good games (okay rarely) and absolutely no keeping games in your inventory. It’s so different now.
Last winter sale was pretty good. I got the entire Borderlands collection, dlc included, for $36.
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Basically me on the last few of these sales. Such a backlog I can no longer justify even the deep discounts.
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The thing about sales, are that if they happen every month is no longer a big event.
I feel like an old man yelling at a cloud here, but it really seems like everything is on sale all the time, but the sales aren't actually sales they're just the price a thing should be
I think sales have lost their luster when they're almost the same prices we've seen all year around. The golden age of sales was from 2010 - 2018 I would say and it was THE time to wheel and deal on getting games you sought for the most for crazy prices.
Nowadays, things remain stagnant. You'll find games released 5 years ago get an eh -15% off. You'll find games even 10 years ago get an eh -30% off. Most of the games you see go 65 - 90% off are either games you already had gotten long ago with better prices or games you couldn't give a shit about.
I understand that it'd be dumb to expect one or even two year games to be more than -50% at least. But the older the game gets, come on, you can do better.
I remember in the past these event sales being much, much better. I remember the discounts being higher, at least 50%. And 90% and 80% were a lot more common.
I think that’s the actual crux of the matter. These weekly sales throughout the year always existed, it’s the events that don’t feature as big discounts as they used to
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Did the customary scroll through my 50-game wishlist for irresistible 80-90% discounts and basically came up empty. Most of the deep sales are games that will surely be on another deep sale before I finish my upcoming few planned games to play, nevermind my whole backlog. Normally I end up adding something to the pile out of the old "well this is too good to pass up" but for once my wallet might be safe.
Maybe I give in to temptation and pickup one of Virgo Versus The Zodiac(-70%), The Banner Saga(-80%) or Salt and Sanctuary(-75%).
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Picked up Doom Eternal for like $4, which is not bad at all. Believe can get $4 of gameplay out of it even if its not as good as predecessor.
I don’t feel like it’s fair to compare the newer DOOM games to one another. They’re more like different games than sequels.
DOOM 2016 is an excellent reboot, fairly grounded.
DOOM Eternal is a movement shooter / platformer with a ton of verticality in the areas.
I haven’t played it yet, but I get the impression Dark Ages is even more grounded and geared towards wide open arenas. Almost gives me Serious Sam vibes.
I’ve had a ton of fun with Eternal and I’m sure you’ll get more than your $4 worth!
I really want to finish DOOM Eternal but it's exhausting game to play just one level. Plus what Bethesda did to Mick Gordon is just plain dirty and left a bad taste in my mouth.
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As someone still halfway through SilkSong, I am immune
I'm barely into act 2, and then Supergiant had the Gall to drop Hades 2 on me as well.
I've been playing a few rounds of H2 when I rage quit Silksong because of platforming shenanigans / Hard ass boss fights / getting bodied by nobodies while trying to reclaim my cocoon.
Gonna be a bit before I'm buying new games.
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This is my first time actually looking at the new Steam store UI and I have to say that I don't like it. They seem determined to fit less and less information on the screen and make it harder to find content. I didn't like their previous UI revamp either for the same reason, but this one is worse. That's fine Valve, my backlog is eternal, I won't buy more games if you make it hard.
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It's so bad, OMG. For +30 games on my wishlist, not a single difference from the Summer sale, and about half of them were already on sale for the same price before the Autumn sale began.
Why even bother with seasonal sales at this point.
I'm feeling like a lot of y'all. My backlog is already immense, and i don't even need DLC for the games I have, which are mostly all huge and never ending anyway. Have we reached peak gaming? Are we now making games faster than anyone can play them?
Playing Hades 2 on desktop, Hollow Knight on deck, and Anno 117 is coming out in a month... Not to mention the five other games I added to my backlog this year and haven't touched yet.
I will be skipping this sale, methinks.
Ugh, I have too much to play in my backlog already. I'll probably pick up one game that I want to play eventually, maybe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.
I've been playing Outer Worlds, though, so I'm saving up for the 2nd one just in case it's good. Given Avowed's release, my hopes aren't high. However, the first game is so intensely 6/10 that if they can just improve a tad bit on the formula, I think I would like it a lot.
Just don't mix up Outer Worlds with Outer Wilds lol.
Or maybe do, since they're both good games.
Maybe none, maybe a couple; lately I have resisted sales since my backlog is so big. That being said, some of the more interesting ones on my wishlist are on sale this time around. I might pick one or two of these:
First person shooters:
- Trepang2 (F.E.A.R. homage) - 60% off, $12
- Prodeus (boomer shooter) - 40% off, $15
- Metal: Hellsinger (boomer shooter) - 75% off, $8
Indie/puzzle/chill:
- The Talos Principle 2 - 70% off, $9
- Everspace 2 - 70% off, $15
- Ultimate Chicken Horse (casual/party couch co-op) - 65% off, $5
- Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition - 90% off, $3
- Untitled Goose Game - 55% off, $9
- It Takes Two - 75% off, $10
- Kaze and the Wild Masks (2D platformer) - 80% off, $3
- The Forgotten City - 75% off, $6
- Dreamscaper (indie roguelike) - 80% off, $5
Also:
- Persona 4 Golden (JRPGs aren't really my thing, but I hear that this is literally one of the best games ever) - 50% off, $10
- God of War - 60% off, $20
- Desperados III (isometric tactics) - 90% off, $4
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2D platformer) - 75% off, $8
- Sifu - 60% off, $16
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Does Factorio ever go on sale? I think I’ve had it wishlisted for over a year now.
Not sure if trolling but no, factorior will never go on sale, and will only ever increase in price.
No, not trolling. I’d never heard that they had a policy against it until I looked it up just now.
Somehow I was under the impression that devs didn’t even get a say as to if or when Steam would put their games on sale. I thought I had heard that as a major gripe of devs who list games on Steam.
Now I’ll have to decide when I feel like it’s worth the remainder of my life and $35.
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Atomic Heart and Cyberpunk 2077 are the only two on my list that are discounted enough.
Maybe, maybe not. I'm not close to running out of unplayed games.
CB 2077 is really good and probably worth it if you enjoy open world games like GTA, skyrim, or RDR.
Atomic Heart I have been having a hard time getting into, for all the commonly cited reasons. The game looks gorgeous and its a fun setting, but you actually spend a lot of time in boring grey hallways fighting the same robots, and the combat just isnt especially great. Performance has been real hit or miss as well (I'm on Linux through proton).
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what are ya buyin??
Fixed that for you
I bought "Cult of the Lamb". It's not a spectacular discount but good enough to go try it out.
We made our entire cult out of cats 😁. If we ever end up with a non-cat, they're first up to be sacrificed lol.
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I have a huge backlog, both in steam and physical, so no, thanks….
I have…
Just Shapes & Beats
Nine Sols
Smushi Come Home
CATO: Buttered Cat
Is This Seat Taken?
GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink
Ballionaire
Pepper Grinder
Like a Dragon: Ishin!
…in my cart, but considering I‘m unlikely to get around to any of them this year, I‘ll let them sit in the cart throughout the sale and see whether I’ll pull the trigger on anything.
Nothing lol, I have bills to pay.
I have room in my budget to buy maybe one game per year, and it's never when a sale is on... *sigh*
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Don't tempt me to spend even more money on games I will forget I bought 😅
Picked up Rogue Trader, Death Road to Canada, and Doom Eternal for $20. Not bad.
Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 400 hours into that one with co-op.
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I will be playing Silksong until the winter sale, but I can recommend this for the sale price that they're asking (0.75€ at the moment).
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Felt a bit too soon, don't it?
Thought this happened around November.
I’m seeing a lot of games with what seems like a much steeper discount than usual. First thing I do when there’s a steam sale is look at my wishlist and sort by discount and there are a lot of games on sale for 90% off, many of which only a couple dollars.
I'm already playing Hades 2 and FF Tactics comes out tomorrow.
So that, I guess, then probably nothing. /shrug.
Steam sales lose their luster when they're so frequent.
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