Feels like every year has been going more and more into this

[u/Inksrocket]

Oh well

Edit: Im not against old games, quite opposite - I love most of them.

I just own them already.. and waiting 14 years for game to go -90% is bit "eh?" (not to mention -60% for 10 year old game)

[u/No-Return-9261]

I assume it's a bug or something, but this gave me a good laugh

[u/Hatjin → u/No-Return-9261]

When you greedy fuck, but still want to hop on a sale.

[u/troirman → u/Hatjin]

I think it only emails wishlisters when discount reaches 15%, and emails and notifications seem to be the reason to do sales for publishers and developers

[u/Pijkstras → u/troirman]

Last I heard it was 20% unless they changed it recently 

[u/Tassadar_3-10 → u/No-Return-9261]

12¢ btw

[u/MoshPete → u/No-Return-9261]

Get it before stocks run out! 

[u/memefarius → u/No-Return-9261]

Didn't nioh 3 also have 1% discount in Poland?

[u/Professional-Sense63]

I know that for me it feels like this because i already got all the good games like 10 years ago in those sales.

So now they dont pop up for me anymore and it feels like the sales are worse

[u/Worried-Shower-9528 → u/Professional-Sense63]

Yeah everyone's first couple sales feel amazing when you haven't gotten the Valve complete pack yet, or the Batman Arkham Collection, or the Mass Effect trilogy, etc

How many times every sale do I see this conversation:

"No good sales this year"

"What about [a bunch of classics that are 80% off or greater]"

"I already have those"

[u/Serdones → u/Worried-Shower-9528]

The trick is to remember other complete packs you haven't bought yet. Like I got Max Payne today. Surprised I'd never thought to buy it before.

Think there's also an issue where game development has slowed down in general to where there aren't like three-game series spanning just one or two generations that'd naturally be super cheap to sell today in a complete pack.

Nowadays you're lucky to have a triple-A studio pump out more than one game in a generation.

[u/maxdragonxiii → u/Serdones]

I just started Alan Wake. DLC is on deep discount well as Control Ultimate Edition. so thats my summer sale sorted out. even the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is just too expensive (27 dollars or something).

[u/Numerus12OO5O → u/[deleted]]

Completely disagree. Back in the day you'd have entir publisher catalogs for like $20 where you'd get an entire publishers back catalog.

Games that were 3 years old were 60-80% off.

Also games were $30-40 back then, so the discounts dropped them way down.

Now a $70 game with 20% off isn't a sale. I mean. I know it technically is. But it's not enticing enough when you've grown up on sub $20 top tier games.

[u/TheSpecialApple → u/Numerus12OO5O]

my favourite is when the base game doesnt go on sale but the deluxe edition goes on sale, but just enough of a sale to still be more $ than the base. yeah its a sale, but thats a pretty mediocre discount to see

[u/TadLessSkinny → u/TheSpecialApple]

Borderlands 4 looking right at you! And then they're selling $168 in DLC. The game isn't even a year old yet...

[u/LongswordGames → u/TadLessSkinny]

The paradox interactive sale: base game is 95% off but the bundle with the DLC still costs $225 lol

[u/Suavecore_ → u/Numerus12OO5O]

This is just describing desensitization

[u/26_paperclips → u/Numerus12OO5O]

Yeah i think a lot of people here havent seen just how good it was back when they had the daily deals and 8 hour flash sales. You were checking back 3 times a day and it was a whole experience.

Now i just skim through my wishlist, maybe get one indie game and thats it

[u/HistoricalFunion → u/[deleted]]

That’s exactly it. Once your library hits a certain size, the Steam sales aren't actually worse—your backlog is just full of all the heavy hitters you bought for pennies five years ago.

it's not X — it's Y

delete your account, bot

[u/Leo_Lemonade → u/[deleted]]

wth why are we using chat gpt to write reddit comments

[u/90scherrycokedesign → u/Worried-Shower-9528]

I sorta disagree somewhat. Sure your first few sales are the ones you buy the most. But from my point of view I did that in 2014. I stopped purchasing in bulk around 2017. But I still add tuns of games to my wishlist, and games that are even 5 years old on my wishlist aren't getting discounted to low prices. Alsmot none of my vr wishlist is on sale at all. Why is cuphead still above like $10? Shovelknight collection above $25? Im sorta wanting my wishlist to go actually on sale after sitting for 5 years but so many just dont now.

[u/CustomerSuportPlease → u/90scherrycokedesign]

VR isn't going to go on sale because there aren't new VR games releasing to diminish demand for the old games.

Indie games like Cuphead aren't going to go on sale because they don't really age unlike older FPS games. The downside to getting so many really mechanically good and graphically stylized games is that they just don't appear to age. When I was growing up, I could look at Morrowind and Skyrim and see that one was just clearly graphically better than the other because they were both striving for realism. If you aren't striving for realism, then there is no obvious point of comparison.

[u/Serdones → u/CustomerSuportPlease]

I think something like Cuphead also commands a "premium" by being a critical darling and having name recognition. Plus, when its starting price is $20, it's not like $13 on sale is that steep.

[u/Jalina2224 → u/Serdones]

Cuphead is nearly 10 years old. I'm not it should be going on sale for $2. But at the very least they could offer it for 50% off by now.

[u/Deaffin → u/CustomerSuportPlease]

Indie games like Cuphead aren't going to go on sale because they don't really age

Does Terraria not still go on sale for like a quarter or whatever anymore?

Genuine question, I haven't actually steamed my clams in quite a while.

[u/Vladishun → u/90scherrycokedesign]

My wishlist items never seem to get a permanent price reduction, which is what annoys me. TimeShift came out in 2007 for example and it's still sitting at $19.99 full price on Steam. When it does go on sale, it's down to $9.99. Call me a cheap bastard, but I'll wait until it's like 5 bucks or just never play it again.

[u/Liawuffeh → u/Vladishun]

I almost feel like companies saw that people would wait a year or two for game prices to come down, decided fuck that and tons just decided to do the Nintendo model of keeping everything at the same price forever lol

[u/RMAPOS → u/Liawuffeh]

we've been sabotaging ourselves with public wishlists :(

But here is a funny psychology: If I'm not willing to spend 60$ on a new game, I'm twice as unwilling to spend 60$ on a 2 year old game, even if I realize that a proper sale is being dragged out.

People aren't waiting for these sales because they want to scam the devs, they wait for sales because that's an acceptable price point to them. People who have the money will rarely wait two years for an anticipated game. Likewise, people who don't have the money will not suddenly start spending four times their budget on a game just because it doesn't go on deep sale.

[u/Liawuffeh → u/RMAPOS]

I mean I agree, there's very, very few games I'm willing to pay full price for on launch, let alone 6 years later lol

[u/The_Void_Reaver → u/Liawuffeh]

Definitely. Especially now that big name games are being released on a 6-7 year cycle instead of a 2-3 year one. There's just not as much critically acclaimed stuff coming out as often. There's a few indie darlings a year, but the flow of high quality games has slowed. Ultimately that's going to lead to companies extending how long they're able to capitalize on being the new hot thing.

Hell for a game like cuphead there's really not anything like it to have usurped it's place.

[u/PrisoonMike → u/Professional-Sense63]

Dark souls was so deeply discounted before elden ring dropped. Now it's absurd how it doesn't go down to same discount for that old game

[u/Mental_Tea_4084 → u/PrisoonMike]

It's not even on sale! I wanted to pick up ds3 because I'm almost done with 2 but nothing. Almost bought lords of the fallen out of spite 

[u/unky_moe_myteethhurt → u/PrisoonMike]

Elden ring didn't even go on sale for this one too just ridiculous

[u/ABHOR_pod → u/Professional-Sense63]

Honestly I don't think it's just that.

I think since there's no more physical marketplace and a need to move copies that are sitting on shelves, companies have no real incentive to lower prices over time anymore. e.g. Far Cry 5 and Half Life Alyx are both still $60 retail. Those games are 8 and 6 years old, respectively.

So even when they go like 50% off they still cost more than many of this year's best selling indie games.

Instead of lowering prices, studios are doing the old "Disney Vault" bullshit and using FOMO tactics: "This is your only time to get this game for less than $60! hurry up and buy it now! Don't wait!" Like, fuck off. you better put that shit at 75% off to get me to even think about it.

[u/anthonycarbine → u/Professional-Sense63]

This. Its survivor bias in action. All the good deals have already been added to your account. Bethesda games consistently go on sale for super cheap and still do... But I already own them so I dont see it in my feed anymore. The only remaining games that are interesting to me are the ones that haven't gone on steep discount yet.

[u/OrangeJuiceLuvr69 → u/anthonycarbine]

No its not for starters games used to go on DEEP discounts when companies didnt give a fuck about PC. Not only that but games dont even get down as much as they used to. You could get the whole yakuza kiryu series for like 30$, now its like 70. Same with darksouls it used to routinely go on sale for like 10-20 now youre lucky if it even goes on sale.

[u/Quixotic_Seal → u/Professional-Sense63]

“We already have all the big discounted games” doesn’t make any sense though. Every year a new batch of games get older, and experiences less demand, and so should see steeper sales than in the past.

This is like saying you’ve already seen all the good movies, so you won’t notice when new ones hit streaming or become affordable to buy/rent.

It’s nonsense.

[u/sneakyCoinshot → u/Professional-Sense63]

I mean, depending on when you started on steam the sales 100% were better before. I'm talking when they actually had different sales each day and there would be flash sales that would come and go throughout the day.

[u/CatOnAFightstick]

Don't forget everything you wishlisted 6 years ago still being in Early Access. Love that.

On a related note I wonder how Scrap Mechanic is doing

[u/DeadlyYellow → u/CatOnAFightstick]

Considering Wicked_Wizard put out a video on it, not well.

[u/Cavalya → u/CatOnAFightstick]

Don't remind me. Such a fun and unique game with seemingly so much potential left, only to be basically abandoned. They put out an update devlog like once a year so maybe with some luck, I'll be playing the full release in a retirement home.

[u/Corsonacon]

Insane to me that Starfield is still $40 after all these years, not that I'm that interested in it. RE4 remake the same year is 10 bucks by comparison.

[u/Dude_with_the_skis → u/Corsonacon]

10000% this. GTA San Andres definitive edition is still somehow going for 60$ on steam (20$ on “sale”right now). San Andres was literally published in 2004.. get fucked rockstar

[u/Delicious_Dare768 → u/Dude_with_the_skis]

They also delisted the original games. Fucking сunts.

[u/VegetaFan1337 → u/Delicious_Dare768]

They still sell the original versions on their website. After backlash I think.

[u/[deleted] → u/Delicious_Dare768]

I'm glad I bought a key for a few euros the day it got delisted.

[u/LatkeShark → u/Corsonacon]

Generally I agree with you, but... for games that are actually old lmao. "All these years" Starfield came out in 2023, 3 years ago.

[u/Whoa-Dang → u/LatkeShark]

Yeah I was super confused when I read this. Starfield isn't an old game by any metric.

[u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir → u/Whoa-Dang]

True. But usually at the time a year since release rolls around you'd see the price start to drop.

As of a few years ago, this has stopped cold for big-name titles and they stay at full price no matter how much time has passed since.

[u/Nettlgae → u/LatkeShark]

and is still recieving dlcs, all of which you currently get for free with premium, like i get the quality of the game is debatable, but it'd be surprising for it to get a substantial discount taking all that into account

[u/Yung-Jev → u/LatkeShark]

starfield was way too outdated on release, it felt like a 2017 game, so this is why he said it like that

[u/White_C4 → u/Corsonacon]

After all these years? It's only 3 years old.

[u/SuperSocialMan → u/Corsonacon]

And the gold edition is only $15 lol

[u/Tjep2k → u/Corsonacon]

Honestly the best part of Starfield is the Star Wars overhaul called Genesis.

[u/escapedfromhel → u/Corsonacon]

Capcom is the goat with sales even on PlayStation.

[u/Brandles5]

It's the same discounts the games have 100 times throughout the year. Disappointing.

[u/skoomski → u/Brandles5]

Yeah because the publishers set the sale price. The summer sale is a quantity of sales event a not quality event.

[u/LatkeShark → u/skoomski]

Now, at least. It used to be both. Back in like 2010-2012 the sales were batshit insane, one year they had crazy packs of multiplayer games you could buy. I remember buying like 10 copies of Terraria for $5 or something stupid like that to gift to everybody I knew. The sales have 100% been getting less interesting over the last decade.

[u/TheSpoonyCroy → u/LatkeShark]

Multiple factors to it really

1. Refunds make flash* deals no longer a viable thing. It will only lead to problems and angry since even if they decide to make them exempt from price adjustments will still lead an abundance of support tickets on why their case is special.

2. The simple hard truth, big sales massive sales are simply just bad business because you are undervaluing your game and people will just wait for your game to drop down to that value again. This isn't to say some games shouldn't decrease in price over time since it is absurd that any of the cod games are still 60-80 dollars after years to decades of being released but we all know its a trend for a newly released game to go on sale for 20-30% off after a few months of release. So people wait for that, it sucks but they were eating away sales due to patient gamers. So you set a bar and don't move much past it so people either accept they will have to pay _ or they won't get it all (or pirate it). Its also a big reason why we don't see many great bundles anymore like the hayday for humble bundles since they don't really provide much to the devs/publisher besides their games getting sold on greymarkets.

[u/Lison52 → u/TheSpoonyCroy]

Basically why Factorio dev announced that he's never going to place a discount on his game

[u/Yogsulate → u/Lison52]

And I respect it.

Don't have to wait and guess on sales, which then doesn't have to be factored into the base price.

It's going to be valued at what I paid, no matter when I pay.

Probably also helps that Factorio is fucking awesome.

[u/alerosa97 → u/skoomski]

Idk it used to be quality sales too. I remember the flash sales and I was able to get Dishonored Definitive Edition for $3.19 in 2013, like a year after it came out. It was 98% off for like 15 minutes or something. Best deal of my life and I still remember it after all these years.

[u/DarkNightPhoenix → u/Brandles5]

I understand missing the excitement of a steam sale, but still we really want to go back to having to wait for the next steam sale before buying the game we want as opposed to just waiting the next weekly sale that fits it's category/publisher/release year/whatever the current sale is themed around. I understand wanting bigger discounts, but asking for discounts less often doesn't seem great to me.

[u/LordHumorTumor]

I opened my steam app, and I wasn't expecting much. But man, my low expectations for discounts on my wishlist were not low enough it seems.

[u/LordForrest90 → u/LordHumorTumor]

It went from 50% to 20% REAL FAST this year 😂 Nothing to be bought for me. I was excited too.

[u/Dreamful_Hopeful]

I'm here for the 90% off a bonafide classic from 2012 that I haven't had time to play yet.

[u/Rouge_means_red → u/Dreamful_Hopeful]

I literally just bought Dishonored, which is from 2012 lmao

Take my 1 dollar, Bethesda

[u/Crytaz → u/Rouge_means_red]

Great choice. Legit top 10 game of all time for me

[u/Animashka1337 → u/Rouge_means_red]

I'd recommend buying prey(2017) and Dishonored 2 also. Really good games (:

[u/SuperSocialMan → u/Dreamful_Hopeful]

real lol (I still won't play it).

[u/nmbronewifeguy]

yeah, steam sales haven't been anything particularly special for like... a decade, at least. it used to be an event because games were very rarely discounted outside of these sales, but now there's a whole plethora of discounts every week. really takes the shine off.

[u/martyfox → u/nmbronewifeguy]

Remember voting on the flash sale and getting the result you wanted ?

[u/DisillusionedHobbit → u/martyfox]

Nope, because i never got the result I wanted 

[u/Serdones → u/martyfox]

The flash sales were so fun.

[u/chaosind → u/Serdones]

They could be but they were kinda predatory.

[u/Seekret_Asian_Man → u/chaosind]

Engagement bait no one want to admit, I don't want check my screen every now and then to see if games I'm interested go on sales or not.

[u/Serdones → u/chaosind]

You're not wrong, but I miss the event feel they gave Steam sales. Now it's kinda like you just check in once at the start of the sale and grab what you want.

[u/Robodav → u/nmbronewifeguy]

Also a lot of these deals do come back every sale, but if you've been on Steam for longer than a few years then you probably bought all the ones you want already

[u/xGhostBoyx → u/nmbronewifeguy]

Yeah I think it really happened with the "death" of physical media. You used to be able to pick up almost any game (aside from Nintendo games) used on console for like 5 dollars a year after they released, this was especially true in my experience with PS4 games. That kind of forced publishers to compete with the used market and make new games cheap digitally during big sale events, even on PC. Now that digital sales make up 80-90% of sales on consoles, publishers no longer need to compete with the used games market, and can just price things however they want.

[u/ImaginaryRea1ity → u/xGhostBoyx]

Steam wishlist is almost useless. They ping you for some 20% discount.

Instead, I use this weekly newsletter which sends a list of steam games which are 90% off. I buy my games when I see them on that list.

[u/Namuli → u/ImaginaryRea1ity]

you can setup an isthereanydeal account and just add the games you want to your wishlist and once a discount reaches a threshold that *you* determine, it will notify you

[u/sendmebirds → u/ImaginaryRea1ity]

Thanks for that link! 

[u/MyBananaNoseNoBounds → u/xGhostBoyx]

I specifically remember the sales that happened immediately after steam introduced its 2 week/2hr game time no questions asked refund policy were disappointing, and have been ever since

[u/JSoppenheimer]

There are still some rare killer deals around, such as The Binding of Isaac Complete Bundle for 5 euros, but sure, the average sale prices are pretty much on level with what we get in every other bigger sale every couple of months.

[u/Fareshiii69 → u/JSoppenheimer]

that’s insane. I paid 30€ and got 300hrs of
content and i’m not even halfway through the first Dead God. such a goated game if you like the style

[u/vaxhax → u/JSoppenheimer]

That's what I'm getting. Been waiting for an Isaac sale, I only had the base game forever.

[u/AntonRomanovich2 → u/JSoppenheimer]

It's even cheaper in my regione. 1.73$ is insane...

[u/wordswillneverhurtme]

I used to buy a lot of games but at some point I just stopped. I bought crimson desert after not buying a game for like 2 years and it was good, I enjoyed it a lot, but I still return to older games and keep playing those.

[u/Larkalis]

Buy games that were released 3 to 4 years ago, should have steep discounts and all in one Game of the Year or Complete Edition.

[u/purpletonberry → u/Larkalis]

I always take a moment to comment this when it's relevant:

Before Elden Ring launched, the original Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition went on sale for $5 at basically any opportunity. After Elden Ring's success, the Dark Souls 1 "Remaster" (which is basically just built-in dsfix mod while delisting the old game) has never gone below $20

Edit: It's not even on sale this time! Hilarious

[u/anonssr → u/purpletonberry]

Dark souls 3 is 60 bucks lol

[u/Parepinzero → u/purpletonberry]

Oh yeah, ever since Elden Ring, the Dark Souls games never have good sales anymore. As someone who swapped from console to PC, it sucks, because I want to buy them all again but I want a good sale for it

[u/ChromaticInk → u/Parepinzero]

I basically stopped playing them altogether since I own them mostly on console and now only play pc.

[u/Nanowith → u/Parepinzero]

I bought Elden Ring on PS4, now on PC and I'd love to replay it but fuck paying £50 for an old game I already bought once at full price.

[u/EatABag-o-Dicks → u/Larkalis]

Conan Exiles is like 8 years old and on sale for $29.99. It was cheaper in April 2026, January 2026, December 2025, and an all time low of $3.99 April last year.

Steam Summer Sale used to have deeper discounts. Now, it's more like quantity of discounts at one time. It's become very whelming.

[u/TrippleDamage → u/EatABag-o-Dicks]

It also just had its biggest patch since inception. Completely logical that they aren't doing an end of life sale when they just pumped something big out.

[u/Nervous_Anxiety_3686 → u/TrippleDamage]

Have they actually addressed the numerous bugs and issues with the game? I played that game YEARS after it launched and even the original island base game was riddled with bugs and issues

[u/maxdragonxiii → u/Larkalis]

Control Complete Edition are 85% discount, if you missed the Control Resonant sale like I did.

[u/Inksrocket → u/Larkalis]

Most featured, curated sales on front page that are 3-4 years old are 30% or 40% off. Some can go bit more. But not really that "steep discount" we used to expect. On games I personally care anyway.

Thing is, after said 3-4 years its highly likely its been part of things like Humble Bundle, Humble Choice, (legit) 3rd party seller's better "super sales" or "free" on.. competing launcher. Unless the game is big AAA game, super popular or such. The big sale events arent just the big massive events anymore

[u/Top_Instance5349]

I think the issue here is also that most Historical Low Sales often happens outside the sales

[u/FoulestGlint19]

Ever since we got the refunds. They are an amazing pro consumer feature but we lost the flash sales, where every 8 hours you could vote for a game to go into a deep discount for 8 hours, it really was something special

[u/Celcius-232]

Just purchase a game when you want to play the game. Don't buy anything just because it is on sale, even if you think you plan to play it "someday".

You'll save more money in the long term with that thought in mind.

[u/Silt-Besides-66812 → u/Celcius-232]

I just scrolled through my wishlist and realized I don’t really care about games much anymore, I spend my free time with other hobbies for now.

When I eventually get back wanting to play video games again I’ll buy them but right now I’d rather spend that money on bonsai supplies or fancy Chinese teas or a few months of a Dropout subscription

[u/Nalha_Saldana]

What do you mean, ms flight simulator is only 60€ this sale!

[u/Junkbot00001]

Atleast tboi is 90% off with all of it's dlcs

[u/DevinY1]

Ok I'm not the only one. I looked at my wishlist and was like meh. My backlog is well... backed up so I'm not in a hurry to get another game atm.

[u/AandWKyle]

God of War is 11 years old and it's only 60% off. And I feel like a dick complaining "Only 60" but it's a decade old. I'm a millennial, I'm used to decade old games being 5 bucks in the "please take this plastic from us" bin at wal-mart

[u/Sweet-Track15 → u/AandWKyle]

Sony has always been like this. Last of Us still 29.99 even horizon is overpriced. They are like nintendo. I guess this why they aren't making any more pc games.

[u/unoriginalname55 → u/AandWKyle]

Wait how is God of war 11 yrs old? I thought the pc ones were God of war (2018 , 2022 steam) and God of war ragnarok (2022, 2024 steam)

[u/sp1keeee → u/unoriginalname55]

Yeah you are right man, also i just noticed it's at 19.99€, i would say not that bad of a deal

[u/SaintNimrod]

Not like Fatal Fury: City of Wolves price increased in my shopping cart overnight or anything 🤣

[u/CirieFFBE → u/SaintNimrod]

Kenshiro wants those extra 5 bucks from you 😂
(I also waited for the sale, thinking it would go lower because of EVO this weekend...Welp)

[u/Groundbreaking-Ad313]

I feel like this is 50% me having bought all of the games I wanted that have a tendency to go for super cheap, and 50% modern companies being super stingy.

Like, it makes me feel insane every time they hype this shit up as "MEGA SALE!!! 30% OFF!" and the game still costs like 40 dollars

[u/Vyxwop]

I like the 70 dollar games going on a 20% discount, putting the discounted price at basically the original 60 dollar mark before corpos chose to push their unfettered greed.

Fucking rats

[u/RCEden]

I think both things are happening:

1. I got all of the amazing deals that I wanted years ago
2. new games are priced higher and getting worse sales and the base prices aren't going down after a year or two like they used to.

examples on my wishlist:

- nier automata is from 2016 and still $15 on sale. That should be under $10 by now by historical standards.

- BG3 is base price $70 and only has a 25% sale and it's the lowest it's ever been after 3 years.

I just don't feel like steam sales have been a real event since they got rid of flash deals a decade ago

[u/mage_irl]

Steam Sales are your opportunity to buy games at the prices you can get at keysellers all year

[u/stodal → u/mage_irl]

Nah, most are even more expensive than keysites. And yes, Reddit hates those sites, but actual people use them fondly.

[u/Tamethedoom → u/stodal]

Problem isn't the user experience, it's shady sourcing of product keys that's the issue with those sites.

Surely platforms that condone illegally obtained keys will be cheaper otherwise why would people go through the effort.

[u/Straight_Law2237 → u/mage_irl]

There's games that never source to grey markets and only get low prices when the steam version gets discounted. Looking at you binding of isaac

[u/SuperSaiyanIR]

Just like most people have said btw. But come winter sale all those engagement bait memes and how good steam is are gonna be back. It’s the same shit just like how every damn Tuesday everyone asks why steam is down

[u/GfrzD]

Does the library still grow every year? Thats probably why it feels like its going on more and more as the old selection shrinks and new releases are added.

[u/Seeteuf3l]

Yeah that's how they got those big percentages. Like Witcher 3 is normally 29/49€(normal/completed). But it's all 11 years old game.

Not that Witcher 3 for 3 euros (or 9,99€ with DLCs) is a bad deal if you somehow don't have it

[u/GlowstickConsumption]

Also Denuvo + 3rd party launcher + make an account.

[u/HoboBrosTv]

The only thing worthwhile is The Binding of Isaac being only 5 bucks with all DLCs but I already have it.

[u/HeelerDawg → u/HoboBrosTv]

Bought that bundle, Portal bundle, and Rain World. Excited to play these!

[u/darthpayback]

Every year I wait for Rimworld to be cheaper than $27, and I know that it never will be. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be one of those games where I enjoy reading about it but don’t enjoy playing it.

[u/skoomski → u/darthpayback]

It never will be the devs have two prices regular and sale. According to them they have no plans on going below the current sale price which has been the “sale” price for years. One of my favorite games though definitely worth $28

[u/Imca → u/darthpayback]

The dev has said the game wont go on a deeper sale because he thinks the concept of a sale is insulting to the games longest fans, to have been there since the beginning and to be punished for it by having the game go down in price below that...

I was one of the games backers, and personally I do not actually agree with that statement and would rather more people be able to enjoy the game... But I figured this was worth relaying because otherwise your going to be waiting for a very long time...

FWIW: 5824.6 hours says the thing is very much worth the price...

[u/Nanowith → u/Imca]

Yeah, I mean I understand not wanting to discount things but it's insulting to pretend that's "for the fans" instead of being about getting more money.

[u/7f0b → u/darthpayback]

I felt the same way about gtav, waited and waited for it to go super low, and just never ended up buying it because it never did. That is until literally 3 weeks ago when it finally hit rock bottom. Patient gamer. I have rimeorld on my wishlist too and have noticed that it hasnt gone very low. I'll probably never end up buying it due to that. Not that I can't afford it; more just I don't like spending on a game I'm not confident I'll like, and I don't have a lot of spare time anyway. But, a killer deal can tip the scales just enough.

[u/unky_moe_myteethhurt → u/darthpayback]

Wish the dlc would go on sale for less. I want it but really hate buying any dlc that's more than a tenner. I'm sure it's worth it and full of content but I'm a cheap man.

[u/FunkeeBee]

The irony 😅

[u/ParticularLet3769 → u/FunkeeBee]

when did people start expecting >20% discounts on games that are 2 months old?

[u/ifinallyhavewifi → u/ParticularLet3769]

The intersection between old people and gamers are like the most entitled people you could ever meet

[u/colorzFSU → u/FunkeeBee]

It's a fairly new game though so 20% off is generous imho

[u/_um__]

Fyi, for anyone interested: I compared the sale on gog vs. steam, and the same 4 games are about $25 cheaper on gog. Total cost: $50 vs $75.

Obviously they don't have the same catalog, so some games are just not on gog, but it's worth a look, as that $25 difference is pretty significant

[u/Kirazon]

"Nice, this game is 80% off !"

-> It's only the base game and there is a dozen DLC which are -20% off at best.

[u/chalksnorter2137]

"oh cool "game i kinda want" is on sale i wonder how much space it takes" ONE. HUNDERED. GIGABYTES:

[u/Redshift11100]

Quite a lot of my list is above -50%.

[u/goawaynowpls → u/Redshift11100]

grab isaac

[u/Redshift11100 → u/goawaynowpls]

Grabbing everything by default that is discounted and below 5 eur. Then grabbing a few more based on my current whims.

[u/Vondi → u/Redshift11100]

Yeah got some good deep discounts on my wishlist. Probably because I havent been buying a lot for the past years

[u/LimpManufacturer5919 → u/Redshift11100]

grab flight angel special edition PLEASE

[u/Mysterious_Yellow805]

This is so accurate, literally all my games on my wishlist are 20% off

[u/DickeyMcNakey → u/Mysterious_Yellow805]

And that's probably mostly only to make sure you get notified. You'll get a notification when games on wishlist is discounted 20 % or more. That's probably the highest discount they're willing to make.

For whatever reason.

[u/ILikeReiAyanmi]

This is the worst one yet. I don't know what I expected, but I'm disappointed.

[u/M_Waverly]

the 90% discounts are there, but it's on the shitty shovelware where it's 90% off most of the time.

[u/BlueLegion]

[u/SyphaneX]

Or they discount it to 90% because it essentially spyware. 

[u/allitalli]

for a lot of games the sales price feels like the real price.

for companies that refuse to mark down their game ever i have a very simple response. you will never get my money. fuck you.

[u/Rutabaga258]

Games are 40% off and still 40 bucks. I still feel robbed

[u/ArtisticDesigner4302]

Yep, I know of zero games living up to the meme of 90-95% discount 1 year after release with "all bugs fixed and multiple DLCs".

[u/9isgt0]

lol, same feelings. wanted to pick up rise of tomb raider and shadow of tomb raider. And its more expensive than what it was in the last sale 🤦🏽‍♂️

[u/Moon_Devonshire → u/9isgt0]

I mean.. shadow of the tomb raider definitive edition is still only $6 bucks right now lol

[u/9isgt0 → u/Moon_Devonshire]

i know 😅 just 7 months ago it was only 4 😞

[u/WrethZ → u/9isgt0]

I think that was the tomb raider 30th anniversary of the first game so it was like a special celebratory event, now it's just a regular sale.

[u/Moon_Devonshire → u/9isgt0]

Damn you really missed out. Hopefully the next sale it's 50 cents cheaper than it is now so you don't have to get it at the egregious $6 dollar price tag.

[u/TrippleDamage → u/9isgt0]

You mean when it had its whole ass franchise sale? I'd expect it to be cheaper there lol

[u/Tzarkir]

Don't remind me, I was looking for elden ring...

[u/Inksrocket → u/Tzarkir]

After Dark Souls 3 the DS titles barely went to sale but still did. After Elden Ring they flatout either stopped sales (they arent on sale atm) or barely go -50% while DS 3 being 10 years old.

In 2020 it went on -80% sale and on 2021, last "not 50% sale", was -75%

Elden Ring came out 2022 and now it feels like hard -50% max on all DS games.

[u/ViolentBeggar92 → u/Inksrocket]

yeah dark souls 3 + dlcs was even in a monthly humble bundle for 12$ in March 2018
ds2 was in one a year prior and now they dont even offer more than 50% off on those games

[u/Chickennoodlesleuth]

People say this every year and its cause you've already bought the games that go on good sales. I dont wanna see this post 30 times a day anymore

[u/ApplicationOk3587]

All the games I want are so stingy on the discounts.

[u/doubleJandF]

Man half the sales are 67% man this meme is getting out of hand

[u/DragonzRcool]

How is starfield not heavily discounted like every other Bethesda game.

[u/ThinkOn_ → u/DragonzRcool]

Starfield should be 90% pure dogshit

[u/DragonzRcool → u/ThinkOn_]

Yeah Ive heard I only wanna try the Star Wars mod

[u/corieu]

I have 500+ games on my wishlist. 15 of those have 70% or lower discount.

Steam Sale is not what once was.

[u/7f0b]

This is literally my wishlist. Got an email this morning (14 games on your wishlist on sale!). All 20% or equivalent. No different than regular sales happening all the time.

[u/Ill-Solid-6853]

Yeah this summer sale is pretty mid rn, I look everything and want to buy nothing

[u/Hades684 → u/Ill-Solid-6853]

Because you already have everything you wanted

[u/klti]

I especially love the -40% that are somehow still 60 because they only discounted the premium mega deluxe whatever edition from 100 to 60.

[u/RealModeX86]

Getting rid of flash sales seems to have been the biggest move away from the steep discounts on lots of titles.

Then again that also means you don't have to babysit Steam to keep an eye out for whatever you're hoping to find either

[u/Strict_Technician606]

Agreed. I’m completely underwhelmed. At least I picked up Dead Space (remastered) for 90% off; however, I’m sure it was roughly that price a couple of months ago.

Edit: I just picked up Huntdown for 90% off, too. (It’s a side scroller in the same vein as Contra.)

[u/Whyn0t69]

The discounts seem worse than those from few months ago.

[u/ThinkOn_]

Been dogshit for ages most games go 20-30% like others have said. I hardly see any new discounts, deep discounts is fantastic if u dont own any i have to say, but most people do..

[u/Flat-Panic8622 → u/ThinkOn_]

recently some regional prices were "updated" and some things become even more expensive

[u/LizardOfAgatha]

What disappoints me is that old games aren't priced accordingly. I don't want to pay $15 for a 15-20 year old game 😭😭

[u/Ok-Variation-4747]

I thought i was the only one. Did not understand the hype. Something is wrong or weird i dunno.

[u/Fine_Perspective7401]

20%-30% sales are a joke.

[u/Creepcube12 → u/Fine_Perspective7401]

Unless the game is already like 15-10 euro.

[u/WMan37]

I felt like this until I realized recently they're still awesome for people who are new to steam, because they don't have the classics yet. I've found this out cause my work buddies are only recently becoming PC gamers and the awe and wonder in which I am hearing them talk about the summer sale is really sweet.

Like, Hotline Miami is 1 dollar right now for example. Absolutely crazy good deal. You can get Doom + Doom II and the 30 years of mods that come with it for $3.99, 1 trip to mcdonalds costs almost double that.

Just because our steam libraries are absolutely stacked now and the good games are older doesn't mean things are bad now. If the sale's so bad, play your backlog of games you didn't play but bought last summer sale. I KNOW YOU HAVE ONE, WE ALL DO.

[u/leofr250]

Back in the day, around 2013 - 2015, I got GTA SA, VC, LC, and the complete collection for GTA 4 with all of the DLCs for 5 USD. Now you're lucky if you get them for 10 individually.

[u/Complex_Direction488]

Brother, You might have forgotten how to enjoy games along the road.

[u/JustCoffeeGaming]

What’s worse is all the sales we had for the last 3+ years. It’s always the same games on the front page with the same default sale tag. Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and Cyberpunk which finally dropped $3 this year. I got so sick of seeing these games I finally blocked them.

Instead of a sale this year, Dragons Dogma 2 decided to a price increase. Instead of the sale price of $30 now you can own it a $40.

[u/Beneficial_Sun6232]

That's like 80% of games I've been waiting in the last couple of years.

[u/LuntiX]

My favourite is looking at the price history of a game and the steam sale not even being close to the cheapest price it's had on steam previously.

[u/captain-ziggy]

i just get frustrated that a lot of the more featured games.............aren't even on sale, like WTF

[u/ChivyChives]

The best specials seem to mostly be on Fanatical this year

[u/Goodeugoogoolizer]

It’s a bummer for sure. I have 50+ games on my wishlist, about half went on sale but only 4 for more than 50%. Almost all are 15-20% off which is… nice I guess.

Back in 2020ish I remember picking up disco elysium, psychonauts, mass effect trilogy AND a few indie RPGs for $12 total. Total!

This year, not a single game on my list
Is less than $15 regardless of sale.

[u/Top-Agent-652]

The ole 20% sale that puts the game at $55. Comedy.

[u/MalusZona]

Well yea. When u have 3k games - sales is now digging, and not feast

[u/gruetzentoni]

steam sale isnt what it used to be for a long time now.

[u/demise0000]

It's because you've already bought the games that get 80-90% discounts in prior sales. Each new sale doesn't put a whole different set of games on deep discount. They'll be a few new deep discounts, but for the most part, you've dried up that well unless you've greatly expanded your tastes since the last sale.

[u/SidTheSloth97]

There are at least 10 games i have on my wish list right now that I was holding off on buying them for a sale. Not a single one is cheap enough for me to consider buying.

[u/wildcardbets]

There are great deals out there, just most of you already own the games. People tend to buy so much ahead of when you play games, which is why a lot of you have massive backlogs. A lot of the games you own are probably a lot cheaper now, some by a lot. I’m not saying things are the same as back then, but the lack of low prices for a lot people are compounded by the vast libraries of unplayed games that are lot of you own.

[u/Awarepill0w]

play your backlog

[u/stwabewwie]

I was looking forward to Silent Hill 2 and TLOU 1, but they’re both still over $30 after multiple years.

I’m genuinely just never gonna play these games and at this point I’m at peace with that.

[u/TNTgoesBOOM96]

It sucks but the devs do still need to make a living so I get it

[u/K7Sniper → u/TNTgoesBOOM96]

Sadly, most of the money goes to the publishers rather than the devs...