Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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 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
This is the deepest discount I’ve ever seen on Rimworld. Still not at the right price point for me but it’s darn close.
You might want to put your wishlist in isthereanydeal.com - rimworld’s not at its lowest currently isthereanydeal.com/game/rimworld/info/
Isthereanydeal.com is such a good resource for knowing if a deal is actually a rare opportunity or it’s a game that comes up for deep sale constantly.
Rimworld almost never goes below $26 in sales if I recall. And it pisses me off too because it's an 8 year old game, but the devs remain so stingy on giving a good deal. It's like they act like they've made their own sacred Super Mario Bros game that can never have a good sale, like Nintendo practices.
It just replaces prices actually dropping.
Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
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.