Steam Winter Sale 2015

weyland yutani · 3 Jan 2016 at 21:53

Whatever happened to anticipating what bargains come up in daily deals or flash sales? Prices are static now even if games are "featured" on the front page and the discounts are no where near as good as they used to be. It's been this way for a while now though I suppose

LoadsaMoney · 3 Jan 2016 at 22:04

Only bought Resi 4 HD Edition, and just pre-purchased Resi Zero HD REMASTER.

xaldub · 3 Jan 2016 at 22:12

weyland yutani said:
Whatever happened to anticipating what bargains come up in daily deals or flash sales? Prices are static now even if games are "featured" on the front page and the discounts are no where near as good as they used to be. It's been this way for a while now though I suppose

It's a by-product of Steam's new refund policy. If they persisted with flash sales etc people would simply refund a game just to get the cheaper version.

Mark A · 3 Jan 2016 at 22:24

They could introduce a block on buying the same game you have had refunded for 1 month or something to stop people doing that.

Sales weren't amazing this year, but I bought Witcher 3 and The Evil within. Last year i think I ended up with like 8 or so games.

jimhaumman · 3 Jan 2016 at 22:31

Prices on steam sale are ridiculous.
Haven't bought anything past last year.

robin66 · 3 Jan 2016 at 23:12

The discounts are good.

But are they jacking most of the retail prices up during the sales?

mark43 · 4 Jan 2016 at 00:06

Mark A said:
They could introduce a block on buying the same game you have had refunded for 1 month or something to stop people doing that.

But I don't think it's something they want to stop. People felt ripped off when they purchased a game only to find it reduced further the next day, yes most of us knew to wait for a daily/flash, but it ****** a lot of people off, so quite rightly they have done away with that.

Yeah its a shame as it added more excitement, but it doesn't really make much difference.

mark43 · 4 Jan 2016 at 00:08

jimhaumman said:
Prices on steam sale are ridiculous.
Haven't bought anything past last year.

There are decent deals, but most of us already own a lot of them. Plus however good the sale is its never gonna compete with all the grey key sellers and their bargains.

Boycey0211 · 4 Jan 2016 at 00:59

mark43 said:
There are decent deals, but most of us already own a lot of them. Plus however good the sale is its never gonna compete with all the grey key sellers and their bargains.

I just didn't think there was anything I really wanted this year. I picked up the long dark as I was bored, but other than that the market is just over saturated with either early access, platformers or weird japanese anime games I will never play.

Just found it too difficult to find anything I wanted so stopped looking after a couple of days.

Raumarik · 4 Jan 2016 at 11:17

dlknight said:
Brilliant game there are some good play-throughs on youtube by the super mac brothers.

I paid £14 for it and think it was worth every penny, something slightly different just watch out for those wolves!

Glad you like it, bought it but haven't managed to play it yet!

Flubble · 4 Jan 2016 at 11:18

robin66 said:
But are they jacking most of the retail prices up during the sales?

i don't think so, their prices have always been high

CHokKA · 4 Jan 2016 at 11:49

So my total now is:

Ryse: Son of Rome
Lords of the Fallen
The Long Dark
Sunless Sea
Age of Empires II HD

I'm very happy with my purchases. Ryse, although a bit samey in the combat, it an enjoyable game. Lords of the Fallen is pretty tough so it'll be rewarding to play through. I tried The Long Dark for about half an hour last night. I was dead within minutes the first time, and the second I wasn't doing too badly. It's a very nice looking game. The graphics are interesting and the game is very atmospheric. It'll be nice to get stuck into it properly.

I've yet to try Sunless Sea, and AoE is, well, AoE. I can't wait to play that again! Thanks Steam!

And to all those saying they've hiked the prices, we've already discussed and disproved this earlier in the thread. If you want to check the prices yourself, you can do this at www.steamprices.com. That'll list the cheapest discount price and the regular list price.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 4 Jan 2016 at 12:00

CHokKA said:
So my total now is:

Ryse: Son of Rome
Lords of the Fallen
The Long Dark
Sunless Sea
Age of Empires II HD

I'm very happy with my purchases. Ryse, although a bit samey in the combat, it an enjoyable game. Lords of the Fallen is pretty tough so it'll be rewarding to play through. I tried The Long Dark for about half an hour last night. I was dead within minutes the first time, and the second I wasn't doing too badly. It's a very nice looking game. The graphics are interesting and the game is very atmospheric. It'll be nice to get stuck into it properly.

I've yet to try Sunless Sea, and AoE is, well, AoE. I can't wait to play that again! Thanks Steam!

And to all those saying they've hiked the prices, we've already discussed and disproved this earlier in the thread. If you want to check the prices yourself, you can do this at www.steamprices.com. That'll list the cheapest discount price and the regular list price.

Ryse is a poor game mate tbh, didn't you read the reviews on that before buying it? I bought that on release a while back. 61/100 on steam but I don't understand how it even scored that.

silversurfer · 4 Jan 2016 at 12:34

robin66 said:
The discounts are good.

But are they jacking most of the retail prices up during the sales?

In the EU that is illegal so no, steam just has high prices a lot of the time

CHokKA · 4 Jan 2016 at 12:38

5960xNvidiaGamer said:
Ryse is a poor game mate tbh, didn't you read the reviews on that before buying it? I bought that on release a while back. 61/100 on steam but I don't understand how it even scored that.

It's not too bad. It's a good looking game and even though it's the same combat over and over, I'm having fun chaining combos together and then finishing. It's just a mindless arcadey type game and I fancied a bit of a sword and shield bash, which is why I picked that and Lords of the Fallen up.

slake7 · 4 Jan 2016 at 12:46

Still waiting for DiRT Rally to drop lower then -15%... but every sale it never seems to do so :/

almostgfx · 4 Jan 2016 at 13:21

slake7 said:
Still waiting for DiRT Rally to drop lower then -15%... but every sale it never seems to do so :/

same here its about £21 on cd keys

Josh · 4 Jan 2016 at 13:24

Bought the telltale Walking Dead, I enjoy the GoT one and my kids love the Minecraft one, just need to find some time to play it.

Nothing else interested me.

Omaeka · 4 Jan 2016 at 13:58

silversurfer said:
In the EU that is illegal so no, steam just has high prices a lot of the time

No, they genuinely take say, a £19.99 game and jack the price to say, £34.99 then throw a -75% off tag on it and it ends up at like a little cheaper than -50% discount on the original price. Valve are horrendous for it, they've been doing it since I can remember.

No1newts · 4 Jan 2016 at 14:28

It is illegal, so if you can prove that Valve would get hammered.