Steam Sales Double [Again] in 2011

[Beryl77]

To answer your question. People buy from steam because idiotic fan boys of steam/valve go onto various web forums and profess " I LOVE STEAM FOR ALL THEIR AWESOME SALES" and they inadvertently dupe the highly suggestible and ignorant who read that into thinking Steams sale prices are somehow better than other outlets which I already illustrated its not. So the answer is that a majority of people buy from steam out of sheer ignorance and mob mentality, not out of product research, selective shopping or reading terms of service.

Steam sales prices are not even competitive with other outlets everyday prices.

Please stop generalising things which you can't proof at all. It makes you look ignorant.
You couldn't be more wrong about the prices on Steam in my country, Switzerland. Just to give you an example of how Steam saved me money. Let's see, Skyrim, big AAA title, costs about 50? for me on Steam. In Retail, it costs 80CHF. 50? are roughly 60CHF with the current exchange rate. So if I bought a game on Steam like Skyrim now, I would save about 20CHF.
On the last holiday sale it was 33% cheaper. You'd never see something like that in Retail so shortly after the game's release. The price was 33,49?, that makes about 42CHF. I bought it and I paid nearly only half the price I'd have to pay if I bought the game on retail in the next few months.
I bought it because it was the most cheapest and most convenient place to buy the game, not because of some mob mentality that you seem to think is the reason why everyone buys games on Steam.

As a side note, you can insult Gabe as much as you want on the Steamforums, they won't ban your Steam account. They aren't the same, they're two different accounts, not linked with each other.

 

[UltraXan]

There's some dick at my school that keeps saying PC gaming is dead. Reading this just makes me smile. Heck, one of his arguments is "Those games go on sale because no one wants to buy them!" Well, a simple rebuttal is "It's on sale because it's Christmas, and important time of year, you dolt. And besides, if no one wants to buy them, why are they STILL being bought by dozens of millions of people all over the world?"

I'm going to keep this tab open if he decides to bring it up again, just so I can show him this and tell him to shut his shit.

 

[Delicious Anathema]

I wish Microsoft and Nintendo would adopt Steam, and that Valve actually released some freaking games. Team Fortress 2 with updates on Xbox 360 would be so awesome, as well as cross platform play.

It's a shame it's practically restricted to PC gaming, which I still find much more expensive than console gaming, though mostly a superior experience overall.

Yeah I wish valve released games. Those constant updates to TF2, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Dota2 and all that business with Half-Life, on top of running a billion dollar distribution agency as well as a cybercafe program and a game engine must be so, so easy.

When I said release some games I meant games for the consoles, as in ports. Also, they must have dedicated people to Steam and people dedicated to developing games, just a wild guess.

 

[kebab4you]

I wish Microsoft and Nintendo would adopt Steam, and that Valve actually released some freaking games. Team Fortress 2 with updates on Xbox 360 would be so awesome, as well as cross platform play.

It's a shame it's practically restricted to PC gaming, which I still find much more expensive than console gaming, though mostly a superior experience overall.

Yeah I wish valve released games. Those constant updates to TF2, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Dota2 and all that business with Half-Life, on top of running a billion dollar distribution agency as well as a cybercafe program and a game engine must be so, so easy.

When I said release some games I meant games for the consoles, as in ports. Also, they must have dedicated people to Steam and people dedicated to developing games, just a wild guess.

About those updates that PC get frequently and not console, it's because Microsoft doesn't let Valve do it that way, if they want to released big patches(say the ubermedic update) then it would need to be handled as a DLC. If I understood it correctly.

 

[noobium]

Man I have so many game in my library I just sit in front of my computer and stair.

EDIT: LONG LIVE THE PC

 

[Gmans uncle]

Makes me wonder why EA decided to go on their own with Origin

sales in 2011 more than doubled the mark set in 2010, making it the seventh straight year of 100 percent growth.

Revenue decrease US$3.654 billion (FY 2010)[1]
Operating income decrease US$706 million (FY 2010)[1]
Net income decrease US$677 million (FY 2010)[1]
Total assets decrease US$4.646 billion (FY 2010)[1]

I just wonder.

Just be happy that EA is losing money, I sure am.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

So much rage, if you don't like Steam, don't use it, simple.

I got 4 games this year, plus a bunch of DLC, all for a discount.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Just be happy that EA is losing money, I sure am.

I must admit getting a shiver of delight when copying that.

 

[BarGamer]

Three pages of comments, and nobody's made this joke?

1st Corollary to Moore's Law: Steam sales will double every year until Origin or similar competitor gets a clue.