Who enjoy steam sales ? every time same games go on sale CS:go,skyrim torchlight 2,etc nothing new
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Yeah kids these days can't tell the difference between a good sale and a bad one because they spent their parents money
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i guess you just dont know wtf you even QQ bout. Just some QQ cause looks cool to QQ in internet when all the kewl kids do it, ey?
tell me whats the difference bout good and a bad SALE and what this has to do with parents money?
you just make up things bout dont know wtf you talk bout
i dont need parents to pay for my games - i have a job and payed for all my games - and i bought alot this sale too and will buy more - cause i can
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without Mother Russia i did,t bought anything yet :( just downloded metal gear via iptorrent -_-
good job volvo
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So since you can't buy the game for pennies you just steal it instead. Then you blame Valve because they don't want people to hurt businesses by buying hundreds of copies of games at like 98% off than what they should be. Then those people sell them to others at way higher prices than it cost them to make a prophet. The only ones who get hurt are the devs which could lead to shutdowns and job losses.
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Well i agree with you, but valve knows that higher prices = more piracy, so... looks like valve doesn't care about piracy.
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If people bought 100's of copies of all games for pennies and then resale for higher Valve and the game makers aren't really making any money. So then you get higher prices because they are trying to make some of the money back from development costs or the dev just shuts down cause they can't afford to pay their employees or bills to stay open.
I was always a console game and when I hear people complain about prices for games on PC I laugh because I have never had so many opportunities to buy games so cheap. You'd be lucky to find a console game at 50% off right a short time after it came out. Hell all the bundles that come out with tons of games for dirt cheap is something you'd never see on console. I have 2700+ games on my PC, yes I have spent a lot, but if I wanted that much on console I most likely would have spent 10X the amount I have.
Piracy is one reason prices get driven up. Majority of Steam gamers don't even play most of the games they own. Maybe we should stop buying everything because it's so cheap and start saving that money for a game you really want.
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Steam has always had the ability to put restrictions on their games, but was always decision developer. For example: Ubisoft, all games have regional restriction. But now that puts the restriction to all games is Steam, regardless of the opinion of the developers. Developers know this sub-world trading, they concienten that people, because they pay money for games, that money goes to developers, pages like G2A sold keys at low prices, that keys are given by the same developers.
On consoles there is a really black market, is the market for resale and rental market, in these markets the developer does not receive a penny, the recipient are store like Gamestop, people do this because the price of video games are very expensive, costing $ 60 the day of departure in your country, but in my country cost 90 dollars departure day, so the blame for creating these markets is of the same developers putting these prices. If you put a 40 dollar games departure day, would have many more sales because people would have to pass not expect him time to buy. After a while, put between 10 and 15 dollars, with this would kill the market for resale and rental of video games.
Steam is a digital market sale of video games is ridiculous that cost the same a key to a physical disk, which has costs of production, distribution and others. For this reason games should cost less, between 30 and 40 dollars full price, but what is the difference of the digital market with the physical, in the digital market can not sell aggregates games to your library. To be honest I do not care about the Russian traders, since I desire that this competitive price in my Steam stoe.
The reason that many people have alot of games is not Steam, is the Humble Bundle, Steam is only the client that you use to play these games. Right now Steam is being greedy, because the decision they made, not by developers, is that the people of USA started to buy into this market, at pages like G2A and Nuuvem, resellers Russia and Brazil, this only Steam to lose money because the developer was still getting her money.
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Sorry but some of your writing was a little hard to understand but I assume English isn't your first language so not your fault for me not understanding it all.
I have a lot of games because I have bought a shit load through Steam not through bundles. I have gotten a lot that way but not everyone buys bundles. I've spent well over $8k on the Steam store in the last 5 years and most of that was during the big sales. Many people buy 100's of games during each sale which leads to very large backlogs and unplayed games. Steam having huge sales is really the reason many have large collections of games.
Also I have never paid the same price for a game on Steam as I have console. The day the game comes out someone has it for sale 10%+ cheaper and sometimes even have other coupons to add to that discount. PC gaming is no where as expensive as console gaming. PC gaming is way cheaper than console gaming and we do get big breaks on things being digital. Just look at the sales. You don't get these kind of sales on consoles.
Steam region locked everything because of the major decline of the ruble. If they didn't every game company and Steam would have a chance of losing lots of money. You can say they wouldn't but it's true. Devs probably didn't have a problem with trading to much before cause the ruble was worth more. Now though it's bottom dollar and not worth much so I'm pretty sure majority of them don't have much of an issue with the region lock. They may even be happy with it.
If I had made a game and it cost me $500k to make and I sale it for $40 but you still feel that is to high so you have a russian friend or trader get you 1 copy which costs you $3 say than where am I making any money? Or say someone buys 100 copies of my game from the Russian market and it only costs them $100 or even $200 where am I making money. It does nothing but hurt me. Specially when you have so many people complain that $40 is still to much for a game and decided to trade a few keys for a Russian copy which again I'm not making money. Next thing you know I'm closing down cause I never recouped any of my costs.
People whine and complain all the time saying they are being ripped off by game companies but then they go and rip off the game company. If you didn't buy the game how are you being ripped off. If you can't afford it don't buy it. Wait till you can or it gets cheaper. People need to start getting their heads out of their asses and start realizing companies need to make money to stay in business. If you want to keep enjoying playing great games then start supporting the people making them and do it legit.
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Discounts aren't good. Always in discount the same games, again and again and again the same games with the same discount. I want to buy Darksouls 2 and Lords of the Fallen, but are too expensive, I'm not going to pay that price for digital games so I'm going to buy Dark souls 2 for Ps3 is 3 dollars more in retail. The worst was Metal Gear Ground Zeros for 13 dollars in Steam but in PS3 10 in retail. That suck. The full prices of Steam games are too overpriced for be digital games, 60 at 40 dollars full price is too much, if Steam want to sell at that price, Steam need to send me the game in a disc. I come to Steam only for the humble bundle, I recently found out about the russian traders and the lower price so i was very excited in buy a lot of games at lower prices but that it's not going to happen, so Gabe steal my Christmas. The companies cries always because the people start pirated but they always do this crap like Nintendo with the nintendo 64 (No disc, no Final Fnatasy VII, no support for developers) Sony with the Playstation 3 (Overpriced and bad ports at first)and Microsoft with GFWL(Pay for play online) and Xbox One(All the DRM stuff). Always the same.
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Thats what i think about Valve in general: Listen carefully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ygdAiDxKfI
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+1
Was really pleased to snag that one too.
Wanky regional pricing with no alternative (ie RUS) has kind of killed the buzz for me though. By this time last year, I'd spent over a hundred bucks. Barely bought anything so far...
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Not at all. Most games I wanted are way more expensive that I thought they would be (was hoping for 66 to 75% off of Escape Goat 2 or other cheap games like that....).
And since we cannot trade for cheap anymore, everything seems really expensive. With my 1080 games, I should just play the ones I bought from the auctions (21) and enjoy them. Hoping for some great bundles next year since it will be way cheaper than Steam....
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"Most games I wanted are way more expensive than I thought they would be"
^ Basically this so far. Singularity is still $23, are you kidding me. It's gone as low as $7 on steam before, you can do better than this. =p
I've replaced my 360 copy of Metal Gear Rising, but nothing else is 'cheap enough' so far. A lot of the stuff I've been pining for IS on some kind of sale, though, which at least means I have a chance that they'll hit their historical lows again - or at least get a wee bit closer than just being 50% off, lol.
Just playing the waiting game for now.
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Normally, sure.
But this is a sale. A Steam sale. Steam's known for their hefty discounts during the summer/holiday sales?
And with my backlog, I can afford to wait until they drop to their "historical low" or thereabouts again?
I wasn't complaining about it, if that's what you thought. :P
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Terrible for me but i wasn´t expecting much discount for the games i want. Regional locking and trading Nerf kinda kills it too. I can still activate games from Nuuvem so i got a couple from there.
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Yep, was gonna trade for some bundles, then remembered the TF2 key cooldown crap. This no trading thing is giving me the heebie jeebies. >.<
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I find it funny when people complain about prices in a sale. You're complaining about getting a discount. You still save money, maybe not as much as previously. At least you're still saving money. People need to stop bitching about the prices they get.
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Not really. The auction was far better. I'm really disliking the fact that it's looking to be the same deal as the summer sale. Same popular games going on sale for the same prices as last time, if not getting less of a discount. What I dislike about that is that a big draw of Steam for smaller devs was supposed to be things like these sales where they give the lesser known games a chance to get some exposure and additional sales. It sucks for the smaller devs and devs of games for less popular genres and it also sucks for the consumers who like those sorts of games and Steam makes it harder to find that stuff. A big part of what was neat about previous sales was the fact that it was also very possible to discover new games as well.
And then to add to it less flash sales and less community choice votes which pretty much clinches the fact that there will be plenty of games not getting any additional sales. The only difference between this and summer is that there will obviously be less repeats, but it will still be very lacking in plenty of genres that people do play and lacking in lesser known gems that could use the exposure.
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I know I am not since I can't trade.
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