Steam sale

Jase · 12 Jun 2015 at 21:25

I don't understand why people get excited about the Steam sales, the prices are no better than regular prices elsewhere. Sure there are a few cheap games for a few £'s but they tend to be really old.

If something like Witcher 3 was £25 then yeah that would be a good sale but their sale price for that is £44.99 which is a joke.

George Hincapie · 12 Jun 2015 at 21:25

XPE said:
Going to pick up Wolfenstein, is New blood worth getting as well?

I bought it a few weeks ago. IMHO, it's not. I loved the original, but have stopped playing this.

Flack88 · 12 Jun 2015 at 21:34

Jase said:
I don't understand why people get excited about the Steam sales, the prices are no better than regular prices elsewhere. Sure there are a few cheap games for a few £'s but they tend to be really old.

If something like Witcher 3 was £25 then yeah that would be a good sale but their sale price for that is £44.99 which is a joke.

Yeah this is very much true. A lot of games are not even technically on 'sale'.

Radec · 12 Jun 2015 at 21:43

Flack88 said:
Yeah this is very much true. A lot of games are not even technically on 'sale'.

I wouldn't have expected The Witcher III to be discounted all that much.
It's still very new, and I'd guess it'll be selling fairly well still. Can't just expect a game like that to be heavily discounted because other games are.

mark43 · 12 Jun 2015 at 21:43

FoxEye said:
Shame the deal on Wolfenstein main game sucks so bad. Trying to say non-sale price is £35 is lol-worthy.

75% discount my arse.

Okay the RRP may be nonsense but its still a good price, don't think its been much lower has it? (dodgy key sellers aside)

mark43 · 12 Jun 2015 at 21:44

Jase said:
I don't understand why people get excited about the Steam sales, the prices are no better than regular prices elsewhere. Sure there are a few cheap games for a few £'s but they tend to be really old.

If something like Witcher 3 was £25 then yeah that would be a good sale but their sale price for that is £44.99 which is a joke.

Mostly because it used to be amazing, in the days before there were loads of offers everywhere all the time.

And umm yeah, a game that was released just a few weeks ago should definitely have a massive discount, life is so unfair.....

Spacedeck · 12 Jun 2015 at 21:58

Anyone think the Lego Batman Trilogy is a good price? Tempted to pick this up.

Mp4 · 12 Jun 2015 at 21:58

well ive bought nothing so far

all impulse buys anyway and never play them

Bought Cities Skyline over a month half back and loaded it and closed it again

Flack88 · 12 Jun 2015 at 22:00

Radec said:
I wouldn't have expected The Witcher III to be discounted all that much.
It's still very new, and I'd guess it'll be selling fairly well still. Can't just expect a game like that to be heavily discounted because other games are.

Yeah that's to be expected and is fair enough.

I was on about things like this:

Just wanted to warn everyone, they have raised the price of the Ace Advanced pack by $10 pending the Steam sales.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/236390/discussions/0/598198173699336466/

Apparently this is Illegal in many places. I can kinda see why it would be. To put the icing on the cake they are banning anyone on the War Thunder forums who even mention it.

I really want to buy Wolfenstein but that 50GB download on my slow internet is a big put off

Craig1981 · 12 Jun 2015 at 22:02

Just bought Octodad: Dadliest Catch. Saw some videos of it on youtube and I thought it looked good enough to try

Digital X · 12 Jun 2015 at 22:05

Gave turbo discount a try, absolutely fantastic. 14,000th (?) on the leaderboards for the 1st track

FoxEye · 12 Jun 2015 at 22:05

mark43 said:
Okay the RRP may be nonsense but its still a good price, don't think its been much lower has it? (dodgy key sellers aside)

It's a year old game.

Better titles than this have been discounted more after a year (Metro, etc).

£9 for a year-old game, and Steam's non-sale price of £35, are nonsense. Steam sales used to be good, I think, but it's got to the point where I can't even remember when they used to be good, it was that long ago!

WingZero30 · 12 Jun 2015 at 22:05

I was hoping for GTA5 to be on sale on its own

Craig1981 · 12 Jun 2015 at 22:08

WingZero30 said:
I was hoping for GTA5 to be on sale on its own

It's not been out long enough for it to get a big discount yet.

mark43 · 12 Jun 2015 at 22:52

FoxEye said:
It's a year old game.

Better titles than this have been discounted more after a year (Metro, etc).

£9 for a year-old game, and Steam's non-sale price of £35, are nonsense. Steam sales used to be good, I think, but it's got to the point where I can't even remember when they used to be good, it was that long ago!

Don't buy it then, its well worth the money but whatever. I remember steam sales being good but my memory doesn't quite stretch to everything a year old being a fiver!

Mr Badger · 12 Jun 2015 at 23:04

If you want a Wolfenstein bargain you can always pick up the Wolf Pack (Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Spear of Destiny, Wolfenstein 3D) in the Steam Sale for £5.99

Which is obviously better than buying Return to Castle Wolfenstein £1.49, Spear of Destiny £1.49 and Wolfenstein 3D £0.74

Grumps82 · 12 Jun 2015 at 23:09

Just picked up a game i remember spending hours playing when it first came out 14 years ago. Its called "uplink" and its available for a whopping 89pence.

Cracking game.

FoxEye · 12 Jun 2015 at 23:12

mark43 said:
Don't buy it then, its well worth the money but whatever. I remember steam sales being good but my memory doesn't quite stretch to everything a year old being a fiver!

In most cases, barring Ubisoft games, that's exactly what happens.

Mark A · 12 Jun 2015 at 23:45

I wish noobs would stop nuking the boss on this monster game

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bushmins · 12 Jun 2015 at 23:59

Jase said:
I don't understand why people get excited about the Steam sales, the prices are no better than regular prices elsewhere.

People don't anymore. If you take a look at the Steam sale threads pre 2 years ago they would be at 20 pages on the first day.