Steam prices staying high?

something daft already!! said:
Even cdkeys are not giving great discounts. I wanted to get dying light 2 but its been out 6 months ish now and is still at 55 quid. I'd pay 30 but no more. I guess I'll keep waiting.
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This is why I pre order. I got DL2 for like £26 from CDKeys. Reviewa usually come out before release of game anyway. If you change your mind you just cancel the pre order or worst case sell the key. Simple’s!
 
Steam summer sale begins Thursday too, could possibly be a few bargains in there. I have 1000 plus games on my wish list, I'll no doubt by more than a few to add to the never ending backlog.
 
Don't think I've bought anything in Steam sales for years, seem really naff these days although to be fair I don't bother looking that hard anymore due to that.
In the old days, I'd trawl through finding bargains, keep an eye out for the flash sales and then hoover anything decent on the last day that never made it into a flash sale.

Used to be like £20 or £30 for massive collections of games from big name publishers. Eidos collection, 2k collection, THQ collection etc.
 
RandomNoob said:
I have 1000 plus games on my wish list
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:eek::confused::eek:

I have exactly 10 and most not out yet. Only two out and one available to pre-order.

I doubt I will be buying much. I used to buy a bunch of stuff on flash sales back in the day, but since those have not been around I barely buy anything in these sales as typically CDKeys have it cheaper anyways.
 
Steam have been price gouging for ages. Even the weekend deals aren't really interesting any more. I've had quite a few free games on GOG, Epic or even Amazon that Steam were charging for. CDKeys or GreenMan are what I normally use if I really want something right there and then but I, typically, wait at the moment.


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The ones that do my head in are Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyperpunk. Basically never seem to drop under £15 which is odd considering their age. I get an alert saying "OMG WISHLIST GAME ON SALKE!!!!" and then it will be like reduced from £50 to £25, brilliant.

What's doubly annoying is RDR2 was on gamepass a while back but then got removed before I played it.

I know I should just bite the bullet and stump up the cash as I waste more money than they cost buying "bargain" games to add to my backlog, at least then I'd get to try these AAA games I really want to, but sort of on principle I don't want to be overpaying for them.
 
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HangTime said:
The ones that do my head in are Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyperpunk. Basically never seem to drop under £15 which is odd considering their age. I get an alert saying "OMG WISHLIST GAME ON SALKE!!!!" and then it will be like reduced from £50 to £25, brilliant.

What's doubly annoying is RDR2 was on gamepass a while back but then got removed before I played it.

I know I should just bite the bullet and stump up the cash as I waste more money than they cost buying "bargain" games to add to my backlog, at least then I'd get to try these AAA games I really want to, but sort of on principle I don't want to be overpaying for them.
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Why would you be over paying? RDR2 is a fantastic game and easily worth £15, I realise we all expect games for peanuts if they've been out for a few years, but never understand why people keep holding out forever for a game they really want.
 
Because it was 'free' a couple of years ago, it's kind of like inverse sunk cost fallacy, don't want to pay more for something that used to be cheaper and normally depreciates in price.
 
ic1male said:
It just bugs me that all these key sites can even exist because Steam let developers have keys for nothing. Someone has to then pay for all the Steam resources - bandwidth, servers, etc. Or is it just worth it because of all the traffic Steam gets and people may then spend money on other things like trading cards.
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Sorry but i have zero concern for valve. they were the ones who implemented the forced downloading of bloatware to play a game (even my retail copy of games like HL2) and implemented the system where we no longer own the games we buy.

For the longest of times they managed to manufacture a monopoly in PC games and even now a huge number of people are angry when another company dares to try to compete with steam like somehow valve have a right to the ...... is it 26% I cant remember (edit 30%), cut of every game sold on the platform. Compare that to 12% that epic or microsoft take.... but developers often still often need to sell on steam such is the mindshare of many pc gamers that will only buy on steam.

I use steam because unless i want to cut my nose off to spite my face , i have to as a pc gamer but I am happy that other sites exist. I do draw the line at the likes of G2A however who happily sell stolen keys and what not.
Some developers (such as the guys who make IL2) have said they would rather people pirated their games than used G2A.

edit just noticed the age of the post.......... quite the necro!.
 
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HangTime said:
The ones that do my head in are Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyperpunk. Basically never seem to drop under £15 which is odd considering their age. I get an alert saying "OMG WISHLIST GAME ON SALKE!!!!" and then it will be like reduced from £50 to £25, brilliant.

What's doubly annoying is RDR2 was on gamepass a while back but then got removed before I played it.

I know I should just bite the bullet and stump up the cash as I waste more money than they cost buying "bargain" games to add to my backlog, at least then I'd get to try these AAA games I really want to, but sort of on principle I don't want to be overpaying for them.
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Some games will just keep on selling so there's little incentive for the publisher to drop the price. GTAV is probably one of the best examples, and that was given away on EGS!
 
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