Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun

tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’ve been pretty underwhelming for a while now.

  You used to get crazy deals on games only a few months old. Now it’s just the same 50% off a five year old game before being ramped back up to full price between sales.

  There’s a few bargains of stuff you may have missed, but likely they’ve been an Epic freebie, or on PSPlus or in a Humble Bundle by now.

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  • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Last winter sale was pretty good. I got the entire Borderlands collection, dlc included, for $36.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its a mix of things.

    • Part of it is that studios tend to price their games closer to what they are “worth”. So you have far fewer “This is a 20 dollar game we are gonna try to sell for 50”. They just put it at 20 to begin with (or get there pretty quick after launch). Which means that the same “get this for 10 bucks” is now 50% off instead of 80% off and so forth
    • Part of it is that game dev has gotten more expensive at all scales and all selling Big Rigs 1 for 5 dollars will do is prevent people from buying Big Rigs 6 for 30
    • Part of it is that… as you get older you are more likely to buy the games you want when they are “good enough” rather than waiting until EVERYTHING is at a max discount so you can spread the money you got from the banana stand over the summer as far as possible.
    • Which ALSO means that you have a huge backlog and it is a lot easier to say “Do I really need this?”

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  • GCanuck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I saw a game DLC I play that is ancient in game terms (Battletech) and they still want $15 per DLC.

    That’s barely a sale imo.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Battletech rocks tho

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  • llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah. I’ve missed out on Yakuza 0 for 5€, now it’s always 12€. I mean it’s probably worth it, but not when I already own a ton of games that I still want to play.

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• Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Basically me on the last few of these sales. Such a backlog I can no longer justify even the deep discounts.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have no data on this, but it doesn’t feel like the discounts are all that deep anymore

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