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filister@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fsxylo@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What, but you can save 3 bucks on this $40 game!

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• EmoBean@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know when exactly it happened, maybe it was a slow creep, but steam sales no longer mean anything. Just put games that you actually want on your wishlist and wait a year for it to go on sale once, maybe twice in a year. They used to have really good games going for less than $10 and I could buy a few that I had zero intention of buying. I’m a big boy, I don’t have to pirate, I’m willing to pay $30 for a handful of games I know I will play eventually.

  Now it’s a handful of seemingly corporately predetermined sellers. I’ll pay for games and media, if you make it cheap and easy. Oh well, cracked games run faster anyways ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was when they were forced to accept refunds.

    The next year the Steam sale did away with flash sales and all the discounts were noticeably less.

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    • KeenSnappersDontCome@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Games would go on sale for example 50% off and people would buy them. Then they would have a flash sale for 90% off. People who bought the game for 50% off then refunded and bought it at 90% off. This resulted in lots of refunds steam had to process. Since they couldn’t get rid of refunding games they got rid of flash sales.

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• FatTony@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fr. this meme is false advertising.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably an old meme from when it was the truth.

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Come to !freegames@feddit.uk where everything’s 100% off (probably a bit less choice though)

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• Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just recently bought an AAA game 75% off, which I was relatively surprised about. Not 80-90% but definitely not lukewarm, it’s actually a really good game.

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