Honestly? The Steam Sales Summer dnt like it

Well, there are few days, some dailys might not be allowed for some reason/bug to appear as flash sales, maybe?

I'm just in it for the free munnie. Made $2.32 so far by selling cards I got from voting :P

Also, those are all console games, as well.. It just depends on whether the devs/publishers want to see their lovingly crafted hard work sell for ridiculous pennies or not :> As a dev I'd personally flip the flyin' bird to the whole summer sale thing, or I'd do maybe 25% off.. I get it, that if Payday 1 didn't go on sale for a measly 1.25 that it would have sold very few copies and that on sale it sold 1000+% more than it would have normally, thus making a profit.. But, end of the day, all those people who bought it now digitally own it, and will never need to replace their copy.. Nice for a quick money grab concerning a game the dev/publisher may consider "dead", but overall I see it hurting sales in the long run..

Dunno. I hate math :)

Hahaha, quick money! :D I've made around five bucks or so on this sale, and the worst part is that BEFORE the sale I bought up a full set of summer cards (at 20-27 cents each), and crafted a badge on day 1.. Granted, I did NOT think to go check and see that the 10 cards I had right then were worth OVER FIVE DOLLARS. :| Never would have crafted that hideous badge if I'd noticed that :>

Still, through daily votes (and through ((early on)) selling a single summer card for enough money to purchase cheap cards to complete other badges thus EARNING me summer cards which I sold to complete other badges thus EARNING me summer cards to complete other badges which..) :D

Tell me about it. -___-

CSGO is a mere 50% off despite being 75% many times in the past. Borderlands 2 GOTY was 75% off but Borderlands 1 wasn't. They're really holding back the prices this time.

Yea.... my friends and myself have noticed that. One of the biggest things that left me just kinda staring at the screen in disbelief was when the Lego Movie video game was on a daily sale and then was part of one of the voting sale options for the same amount. It didn't win, but the fact they would even put it in the voting sale while it was on daily sale is terrible..... more like inexcusable.

Oh look it's this thread again. Same complaints after/during every sale.

Resident Evil 5 has been heavily discounted in the past several times. Why you didn't buy it at those times?

Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition was on sell in a flash and when it was on sell it also put Injustice Among Us on sell

Dishonored had a daily sale, a flash sale, and a community sale so far if I remember correctly...

Honestly, I'm (personal opinion, please continue reading) loving this sale. Got everything I wanted: Fallout 3 GOTY, FO NV all DLC, Skyrim Legendary, Borderlands 2 UVH2, and instead of 30€ base game I got The Secret World Massive Edition for 15€. Things I'd like to see: Morrowind/Oblivion 75%ish sale (Morrowind GOTY still 20€ base price meanwhile base Skyrim 15€!), and maybe a 1-2€-ish Super Meat Boy.
In winter sale I couldn't buy like anything, I didn't had money on my card (sad story) - but let's imagive I bought all of these games back then. They I would buy Bioshock triple pack, maybe GTA (last was GTA 2-3 I played more), Dragon Age Origins... but after that, I don't know. I'm not really intrested in the latest games - I like platformers, adventure games, exploration games, and FPS games with a tweak (Borderlands: absurd humour, Fallout3-NV: RPG, quests - but I don't really like pure FPS-es like COD series or recent Wolfenstein, nor horror games too much (Outlast was a great deal on sale, but no-oh.). It seems in the following 1-2 sales I'll clean up the older games that fit my taste, and after it I'll just wait for deals so good they beit me into horror too, or something like that.
TLDR: I'm really happy for the games I bought on sale, but If I already had them, I'd be more troubled about "is there anything good for me?"

On the one hand, I like the sale because I can earn Steam Wallet by selling those Summer Cards. On the other hand, some sale prices are pretty shitty (they've had lower ones before, like CS:GO). The event itself is pretty rigged and honestly I'd rather they didn't do it the way they did it...

Whata about Paranautical Activity? It will be on sale?

"The sales not bad, you just own everything you want right now."

You're not going to be seeing amazing deals on new games you're dying to play. You're going to see deals on the games you already own because you have 500 of them(me). I personally am enjoying this sale, even though I haven't gotten many "must buys" this time around. I'm also on a strict budget this time, unlike fall sale last year where I blew $250.

I think it's pretty good, actually.

I agree, this sale has had a ton more repeats than previous ones and it's not even the fact that I own a lot of games, it's the fact that very little of the stuff that has come out in the meantime is getting sales and it's the same stuff over and over again and in some cases, even the exact same discounts as the last time. There's not even a lot of stuff I actually own in there, it's more like it's a lot of stuff that is in all the genres I dislike playing.

I'm probably going to go crazy on the last day buying up everything I wanted that didn't make it to a flash sale, daily deal or win in community choice because the vast majority of games I want aren't showing up at all. Only one game I was interested in lost a community choice vote.

I think previous sales had a much nicer mix of genres featured. This one seems to be a lot of the same types of games.

I could of swore I'd seen some of these on sale already.

Yeah for me hasn't been that impresive. Last year almost every day has something that interested me. This year I have only gotten a couple of gamesI really wanted. Got others I bought to try them and so far were a good choice.

I agree that it has had many repeats... But for me personally this is also the sale where I've gotten the most games (and most of them were from my wishlist). I got Skyrim legendary, FF VII and VIII on nice discounts ( actually VIII is on 66% right now for another day or so, I just randomly saw it by browsing my wishlist again) , I got tropicos, Saints Row IV and some small indie games too... It has been a good sale for me.

well... i grab battleblock theater + Casttle crashers for $2.5.... that is a massive win in my book.

I agree these sales were good for indie games : battleblock, papers please.
Personnaly still hope for civilization V because still remain some sales days.

So wait, what do the summer sales themselves not like? Your title is incredibly misleading.

the 2011 summer sale was awesome

Heresy!

I really don't see it...people saying there aren't enough different kinds of games going on sale...just looking by community choice titles, games on sale and whatnot there's tons of different kinds of games - it seems it's just not in the taste of whoever said it, like every year. And repeats? I've been watching every single deal and honestly there haven't been many repeats, seemingly less than previously. I actually want more repeats, since I missed The Witcher.

Well I can say that I do remember last years sale being much more impacted by greater sales than these ones!