Obligatory "Steam Summer Sale sucks" thread

The only thing that sucks about this sale is the amount of money I've spent already >_< lol

Can't say too much about sales because steamed servers:

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FUCK SAKE! Where is my battlegrounds SALE!

WTF is this 45% discount ??!! http://store.steampowered.com/app/346470/Tennis_Elbow_2013/

No in fact i laughed so much. XD
But why 45 and not 50 ?

+1

It sucks because new steam gift policy sucks. So i can`t giveaway games and much less GA on steamgifts from other members)
Im just crafting and selling cards till last day of sale and will get something from my wishlist)

I miss some steep discounts, flash sales, and community picks. This whole flat discount throughout with around 50% for most games that receive a discount is kinda meh.

Only bought 1 game, and can't really see me buying anything else this sale. Maybe one or two more, but I doubt it. I bought 17 games during the recent GOG sale, which had some great games I wanted with reasonable discounts.

The sale could as well already finish for me - I've seen all the deals and have no intention of buying anything so earning and selling cards (let alone collecting useless stickers :D) for going through exploration queue is rather pointless anyway :P

Everything I really wanted has a discount of no more than 20%, even the game with huge amounts of DLC that I wanted is only giving 50% on the DLC instead of the 75% I was hoping for, the sticker album is dumb and the card drops are broken. I guess I will stick to the 50 cent games, it is actually kind of surprising how many of them I don't already have.

I actually have plenty of 80 and 90% discounts on my wishlist (very few brand new games there). But after hitting 1k games in library, 800 of which are in backlog I don't really feel urge to buy anything. There isn't one title that I want the most and I can't afford everything that's heavily discounted, so not knowing what to pick increases confusion.
But one thing really sucks. Paradox cheated price tags on their games to appear they're discounted more than they really are.

I checked out a list of games and they're all more expensive (and only a few have the same price, but NONE is cheaper) as the last sale. Do you feel ok about this? Do you keep believing that the new steam gifting rule was something positive and made the devs to lower their prices? Did steam at least try to fix their servers or fix the bugs during the sale? :)

Okay, I'll bite.

TotalBiscuit (who I respect more than anyone, probably) said that the flash sales were a bad thing.
The reason being that everything had a smaller discount and then for 12-24 hours went into the normal discount that we see today. He's wrong on that. Games were usually -75% and some newer ones were -50% or -66%. Then, when flash sales hit, those games went one or two tiers higher.
So, in the end, it wasn't a bad discount becoming normal but instead a normal discount becoming really good.

Yeah, sales have been objectively worse and more lackluster as time has gone on. It's not really an argument for most Steam users. It sucks, but I'll live with it. I'm tired of protesting every time a sale starts.

2013 steam summmer sale? bring it back!

Spent money on games even though I still have literally hundreds of games I need to play:
Check!

Oh, and:
50%?
Screw this sh!t.
All praise the Humble Bundle!

I gotta say, that I think the biggest problem with the sale in terms of AAA games is that the big publishers just aren't dropping the base price that much. So even though the game is 50% off, the original price is still the same as launch day, so it's still more than I wanted to spend. Especially with ubisoft. I was hoping to get AC Syndicate, Far cry 4 / primal, and maybe watch dogs 2, but the prices are still not so great, even though they are all 50% off. Guess they are taking a page from activision.
For other publishers / indie games it was still a good sale, just the days of AAA games from 12 months ago going for a quarter of the original price seems to be over.

Yup, this sale sucks. I officially give up, trying to find something that's worth buying. After I couldn't even access the Steam Store last night, I've now spent hours and yet I found nothing. I only looked because I got this €5 Paypal voucher, but I think it's better to let it expire (if it hasn't already). Unless someone here wants to recommend something around €20 to me (I'll gladly provide a list of tags/genres I don't like)?

Also, why can't I just strictly exclude certain tags, when exploring or browsing games? Seriously, I'm so sick, being recommended anime, pixel junk or multiplayer titles over and over again.

I won't even start going into details, that this sticker event is so very beyond boring.

I bought GOTY sadow of mordor for 80% less. FUCK YOU! `:O H8 insert here

there are no more short (3h) offers - in german called Blitzangebote.
for me there were he best offers and it was fun to find new offers.

Now all offers are set at once - thats boring.

Wallpaper Engine isn't on sale, STEAM SUCKS

So I somehow managed to get 10$ worth of RPG maker stuff but honestly, that was everything worth buying in my case.
With selling cards, I might even end up positive with this sale.

I can't open the trading forums for some reason. I want to exchange the cards :<

No flash sales due to refunds from what I understand.

Without flash sales and good incentives to check in (like legit scavenger hunts)--this shit is weak.

this sale suck because Night in the Woods is not on sale :((((((

ofc i've already bought something and i'm going to buy even more but ssshh