Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun

tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?”

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  • GCanuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Battletech rocks tho

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Last winter sale was pretty good. I got the entire Borderlands collection, dlc included, for $36.

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  • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Part of the sale issue for me, is that I sometimes already own these deep discount games. It makes it feel like there are less good deals.

    Also some new games have what I consider to be really high base prices, so a 60% discount is still not near the impulse buy range.

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    • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like, I’m sure Spider-Man is good but it’s still $60 and ‘only’ on a 50% sale? You can get it for $15 at GameStop.

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  • llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. I’ve missed out on Yakuza 0 for 5€, now it’s always 12€. I mean it’s probably worth it, but not when I already own a ton of games that I still want to play.

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    • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yakuza 0 is with it but then you have to play Yakuza 1-6 and then you put the games down and get gifted Yakuza 7 so now you have to beat 4 through 6 and they just announced Kiwami 3 so you’ll probably want to compare that to 3 remastered and next thing you know you’ve bought Yakuza Dead Souls and you’re questioning your life.

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• Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have no data on this, but it doesn’t feel like the discounts are all that deep anymore

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