People are Stupid AKA What's on top of Steam Bestseller list? (Discussion and sort of PSA)

As others have said, not everyone knows about bundle sites or checks them.

What's to discuss? People are stupid, that's a known fact.

sorry,for me-humble bundle shows prices in €(for now). Long time ago it was in $,i think they change currency when they open Humble Store

People are people so why should it be you and I should get along so awfully?

following that line of thinking, people are stupid because they buy games from steam, since most games end up on bundles like that :P

To be honest, I never even thought to look. Until I found this site, I didn't know much about bundle sites, or other sources for steam games. I would typically buy games new, and didn't get too many because of it.

God forbid people dont spend 2hrs researching every possible thing before making a purchase to save a few quid. Even if they did, and came across that bundle, what about those who only have steam wallet from selling cards or something? I dont think its fair to label people stupid just because they dont know everything you know, or do everything you do. Its really not that hard of a concept to understand that the internet is a fuck huge place and that not everyone is going to know about every god damn site/deal/meme/w.e.

I think this is common for something that is bundled to also have a spike in sales elsewhere. I think it's easy to forget that such an involved community such as forum goers on SteamGifts constitutes only a small portion of the entire Steam community. I never really see bundles advertise, yet they always have a fair amount of sales, and I am lead to believe this is because it travels by word of mouth, and although many active community members here may have tons of Steam friends, I would not doubt for a second if I was told the average Steam user only has a handful (or less) of Steam friends. So it doesn't surprise me at all that people buy it [from the Steam store] when it's on sale in a bundle, many people may just see their friends hopping into the game, not knowing their friend bought it from a bundle and not from the Steam store and then decide to get it themselves from the Steam store since they see it's on sale.

also I don't think it's particularly fair to call them "stupid," again our community isn't telling of the entire steam community, I think somewhat obviously, people who are regulars at a site for winning free games are probably more conscious of trying to find the best deal than people with a steady full time job, what may be big savings to us may be chump change to others.

edit: and are you telling me that you have not once bought a game on Steam without checking to see if it's in a bundle somewhere? :P

I don't know about stupid. Unaware yes, but different folk have different priorities.

Before I discovered Steamgifts, bundles etc. I didn't buy that many games. When I did I'd look at the price and decide if I wanted pay that amount for that game. If it represented value for money to me then I'd buy it.

Now what I see as value for money these days has changed because of bundles, I've become a cheap bastard. The thought process is exactly the same though, I'm just better informed about cheap games. It probably means I'm less informed about other things I used to care more about as after all there's only so much time in a day. What is stupid is me now owning more games than I'll ever play in my lifetime.