Steam Christmas Sale 2012

Think your starting to see certain publishers oppose the 75% discount as most think it devalues games overall which is probably partially correct anyway. I think on this xmas sale its unlikely you will see many from 2012 released @ 75% discount more like 50-66% for most games.

When Valve first started running this a few years ago the publishers did not care & were sceptical now they can see it makes a lot of money from almost dead existing titles (and grow the franchise fanbase for free !!)they are opposing the minimum discounts IMO ;)

What's better 50,000 @ 75% off on an older title which will never sell more than a handful of copies a week or 20,000 @ 66% :rolleyes: we all know 75% is better but these publishers are run by accountants/business execs with little to no games experience on PC :(
 
I wonder why steam aren't doing any special things like Coal any more? :(

Also had a thought about Steam, they must make some extra money selling off data for consumer habits surely?
 
50% off the CoD games?!?, thats the best they can do???

No way am I handing over £20 for Blops or MW3.

Should have been 75% at least! Bad form Valve, bad form.
 
I think Steam reached saturation point. Most of people already have everything in 4-10 year old catalogue and the 0-4 year old stuff just isn't discounted enough by the publishers. Add very scarce new releases in general and (in my case) almost no modern engine titles ported to Mac over the last two years and it created the impression the whole steam sale every 3 months is a bit of a joke.

In fact, for those very, very few new users, there is plenty of good deals. Just nothing for majority of oldies.
 
neoglow said:
50% off the CoD games?!?, thats the best they can do???

No way am I handing over £20 for Blops or MW3.

Should have been 75% at least! Bad form Valve, bad form.
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Publishers have the final say on maximum % off, not Valve.

So if you want to lay blame then aim it towards Activision. ;)
 
v0n said:
I think Steam reached saturation point. Most of people already have everything in 4-10 year old catalogue and the 0-4 year old stuff just isn't discounted enough by the publishers. Add very scarce new releases in general and (in my case) almost no modern engine titles ported to Mac over the last two years and it created the impression the whole steam sale every 3 months is a bit of a joke.

In fact, for those very, very few new users, there is plenty of good deals. Just nothing for majority of oldies.
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This, I've got over 250 games on steam, mostly from packs and sales at 75 - 90 per cent off. The only games I'd want this year is stuff from the last few months as everything else has already been discounted in various sales.
 
i have a question about anno 2070

i already have the base game (retail) if i buy the dlc and expansion on steam is there anyway i can use that with my retail version

from what i understand the steam version still uses uplay so im hoping when i buy the dlc and expansion on steam i will get cd-keys that i register on uplay?

:confused:
 
Sem said:
i have a question about anno 2070

i already have the base game (retail) if i buy the dlc and expansion on steam is there anyway i can use that with my retail version

from what i understand the steam version still uses uplay so im hoping when i buy the dlc and expansion on steam i will get cd-keys that i register on uplay?

:confused:
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So if I can get Anno for £8 direct uplay I might as well over steams £12?
 
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