LMAO, every year this happens 
oh Steam, when willst thou learn
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Thatās when you know alright.
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Theyāre never prepared, itās like blizzard is running the show.
Before the heavy load, I got myself a wishlisted FTL. Then everything went nuts.
hehe things always go nuts, every year, every summer/winter sale without fail lol, well that is steam fail without fail
Itās my first major seasonal steam sale, so I was surprised at the stuff happening LOL.
Theyāre past their prime now, youāre probably not gonna get a better deal on something than on other sites unless you buy those newer bundle types that exclude product(s) if you already have something instead of making you pay for everything.
Well their userbase keeps geowing so itās understandable.
Dont know if anyone had the same, but i finished a queue to get trading cards and I got 13 of them for finishing 1 queue
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yea but took me like 90 mins to get through that 1 queue, so i feel itās earned 
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it must be ridiculously bugged right now. The second queue didnāt give me anything. But i am happy with it as I can sell the cards while the price is high
lol am i glad you mentioned that, iām not even gonna try, struggling to get through my 2nd right now
donāt think iām gonna bother trying/wasting time to complete it just to risk it being bugged then and give 0 when already received a bunch
and woooow those are some uninspiring discounts compared to previous and even regular sales
jezzā¦ what a let down this year (at least for me), 50% discount, yaaaaay, special 
ā¦ glad i waited so long for that 
well, on the bright side; gonna save more money than i expected (by not buying so much lol)
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Donāt know what the sale haters are purchasing (Triple A?), but there are incredible discounts all over the board. Pretty awesome.
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not really if you compare to regular sales or other limited sales, even by steams own records
of an almost 200 game wishlist i have like 3 games with a āhigherā discount , most are either identical to other sales, meaning, nothing special, but a bunch are actually even lower than āusualā by steams own āsalesā
i invite you to go look up price history if you have any doubts
(and iām making comparisons based on my wishlist price listings, not their entire catalog)
50% discount aint much to cheer about, not when itās their standard, and especially not when they have had higher discounts even in recent times
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The sale is kind of sad, theyāve all been for a while now to be honest. But part of that is probably us being a little spoiled as well, the flash deal system got us expecting to pick up titles for a wink and a smile and now theyāre expecting us to actually pay for these games? What the hell steam?
Most games Iām looking at are under $10 now, even if itās just a 50% sale and thatās hardly too much to ask for many of those titles. But there are so many games I want though and at that price it adds up very quickly.
So Iām sitting here wanting to buy all the things but then having to pick and chose a few out of those gets me a serious case of choice paralysis. Add to that the fact that I already have way too many games I havenāt even played yet and Iām leaning towards just not buying anything at all.
Still would kind of like Ori though and Pillars of Eternit and Age of Wonders 3 and Wolfenstein the old blood oooh and Invisible inc is actually pretty well discounted and Aragami andā¦ god damnit >_<
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yea, flash sales definitely spoiled a generation, ahh those were the days, (you member, i member?
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but iām even just referring to āpost refundā sales era, steam had way better deals than these on many games
(granted you are perfectly right, itās not too much to ask 10bucks for many of these games and wanting something āoldā 80% off comes purely from being a cheap arsed bastard, and āspoiledā)
but take something like Old Blood for instance, itās usual discount is 50%, even was on same sale not but weeks ago,
but 1Ā½āish months before that we had it at 75% (which i now regret not buying just because hoping for 80+% discount during this sale), why you no do us like that Steam?
but a lot of it stems from (i think) Steam simply not wanting to put any effort into their sales anymore, in regarding to get deals with publishers,
and thatās why for a while you see them running with these exact same discounts over and over, Activision 50% most, Ubisoft 66% on x 50% on others, etc etc etc etc, where before (post flash sale/refund) most of them did 75% on average on āmostā titles
(tho Activision always been a 50% stubborn brat with their CoD titles),
but now itās āinfestingā more and more of their titles, and there is no āspecialā discount or special sales, itās always the same flat publisher rate 80-90% of the year during most sales,
like as if steam got quoted a set discount āyea you can use this always no need to ask/contact us again for that/moreā, and they just took it to heart and not bothered to spend X in trying to get bigger discounts, because getting better deals would probably take more effort or god forbid cut a few percentages off their profits
i donāt blame indie games as much for their 50% āsetā discounts, most of them are damn worthy of it, since they are already at low price, and again, and far from all do this either, and donāt feel like i could ask a 1-2 year old indie to do a 90% super deal (but wouldnāt you go absolutely nuts if Ori had? (yes i know technically not indie but still) )
but taking the āageā factor into account, when games get a certain a mount of years on their behind, and suddenly not getting any half decent deals (on steam), iām gonna get all grumpy and complaint with nostalgia goggles on full board,
ā25% discount on Zeus+Posidon are you kidding me, in my day huff di puff hum di hej, used to beā¦ so now most definitely supposed to be AT LEAST 90% hardyhahā 
yes iām cheap, and iām spoiled, but when i see a game going 8/10 times on sale for that same 50-60% price, it doesnāt feel special, just like itās the āstandardā price, and dangit, i expect summer+winter events to be special, (even without flash deals), they used to be
ahh those were the days, everything 75% or betterā¦ mmmm tasty
but hey, this year we got stickers, so itās all good right!?!
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273 games on my wish list are on saleā¦Holy Toledo, I only have 350 and something on my wish list. I think I need pizza and beer.
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thatās why having rules and setting soft, āhardā, and āthis is really it top MAXā, limits is such a good thing
i managed to stay within mine (for now)ā¦
but then again, this is only day one 
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