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Steam Summer Sales 2014 |OT3| Sale over, new thread tonight/tomorrow
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7 years? HOLY SHIT. I thought i had it bad when i had to wait 3 months in the fast track (Thanks blackace).
OJdaKiller
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I had been waiting for Transistor to go on sale..and is does..But 25%..wtf is that?
Before it was 10 or 15 percent anyways...
And they recycled Payday 2 as a sale game...
Pretty disappointed today.
Before it was 10 or 15 percent anyways...
And they recycled Payday 2 as a sale game...
Pretty disappointed today.
I think it just got more and more sociopaths due to repeated sales, running around killing each other and the few people that actually care about the game-part.
The game is like a month old. 25% is kind of a lot all things considered.
derExperte
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I get the complaints about the sale in general but come on, T was release a few weeks ago and didn't have a launch discount. Surprised they discounted it at all.
grats,dat luck
Mr. Poolman
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Oh wow, grats!
Congrats! Those are two great games to get.
Wow. Congrats. Damn lucky!
FiveElementNinja
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So jealous. Congrats!
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OJdaKiller
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I know it's not old, but it's only 20 bucks at full price..And it's the Steam Summer sale..25% off feels like a flash sale price, not a front page sale price.
breadtruck
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Ahh, team blue in last. Good job boys, lets stick with what we do best.
tylerf
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Email yourself a 6 dollar gift card and then redeem it.
DaBargainHunta
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Adventures of Shuggy (was free from the dev briefly, but 49 cents is still a good deal). I posted about both deals in the thread, but I guess they got lost in the shuffle.
Pickles Spill
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Once you get the master card, use it as a payment option for buying an Amazon gift card for $6, which you can email to yourself to redeem.
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Congratulations my blue buddy!
BinaryPork2737
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Congrats!
Delt31
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is Left for dead the same way - can't play the zombies?
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Deleted member 57681
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Everybody get on this. It's delicious.
Congrats! That are already two Gaffers. That ain't a bad rate at al.
L4D versus has a team of humans vs a team of special infected.
cicero
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It is a direct quote from a panel discussion with Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, who specifically stated that with a huge price reduction of 75% off, their gross revenue didn't stay the same, it "increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40." He then goes on through the potential reasons for that, ending with "Twenty-five percent, 50 percent and 75 percent very reliably generate different increases in gross revenue."
This negates the entire premise of your supposition, "it's definitely a possibility that Valve is currently trying to fix the ecosystem they partially damaged with the sales we all know there's a problem with people never even considering games until they're on sale." and of course this, "maybe they're experimenting with ways to dampen the problem by making sales somewhat less 'dramatic', and maybe to make it more of an event focused on the metagame rather than the discount themselves." and this, "I think that's definitely the kind of thing we might see in the future, things less focused on 'lower prices' but still incentivising sales, to both keep the cash flowing and try to counter the phenomenon where Steam users get 'trained' to wait for sales before buying anything."
The cash is already flowing. From his comments there and in other interviews/comments, it is flowing more than it does when the games are not on sale. In the example he gave he stated that gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. It isn't time-shifting the revenue, and the increased sales continue AFTER the sale ends. I myself am quite willing to wait a game down years until it reaches a price that I find worthwhile. Your stated dislike of people demanding larger sales isn't the norm, it isn't hurting Valve or the industry at large, and it apparently is viewed as a positive thing by Valve because of the huge rise in revenue. The gaming audience is more effective than traditional promotional tools and drives sales when the games are drastically reduced.
No, you can play as special infected. That's all I ever play, versus mode.
Rising_Hei
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I wish i had that luck, damn! grats
That's a really great game! I especially like extreme mode.
If you haven't noticed, flash sale price and daily deal prices are usually the same.
is that the control room for some sort of death ray?
http://a.pomf.se/hdwtbb.webm
http://a.pomf.se/chkjco.webm
Just got the game and the controller, awesome fun, even though Star Citizen is pretty limited still.
Both names began with "K", right? Hmm...
Hello, my name is now Kbrute. The K is silent.
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Deleted member 57681
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I just thought about Freespace.
How cool would Freespace 2 90% off be?
How cool would Freespace 2 90% off be?
Blak_Status
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Awesome! Added that to my wishlist like 5 min ago.
Kaisersalsek
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jeeez, just tried the first FEAR - feel like i'm having a mental breakdown
yeah... it'll do that...
Another giveaway! I'm using the weekly rule to help those who never win stuff , for you are my people. You're free to enter for any/all but you can only win one.
Once Binary Domain is claimed, I'll PM the winner a code for the Dan Marshall pack DLC.
Once Binary Domain is claimed, I'll PM the winner a code for the Dan Marshall pack DLC.
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"I tried to forget. I tried so hard to forget..."
And now I wanna replay it again.
cicero
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Oh man, I didn't even know there was an extreme mode. I finished it in February and hadn't kept up with updates. I'm going to have to give that a try!
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