The 2016 Steam Summer Sale Has Begun

[FPLOON]

HahaHA! Jokes on you! I've spend on my money on Humble Bundles!! Sure, I owe them about 45 grillz in Paypal cash, but at least my wallet is safe from the SSS... <url=https://youtu.be/QKeMCXKSk5c?t=53s>*phone rings* Hello? What do you mean my paycheck will arrive before [American] Independence Day? *hangs up* Well, shit... Where did my wallet go?

Other than that, I have my list in check... I'm a bit surprised that it's smaller than my [last two] Humble Bundle purchases...

 

[The_Great_Galendo]

With the refund thing they added, they couldn't have flash sales anymore. It would mean they would have to deal with a bunch of returns from people who bought the game before it was on flash sale.

I'm not really sure that's the reason. I mean, worst-case scenario is that you effectively increase the flash sale length to "official flash sale length + refund policy length", and honestly, even that's not that bad. Sure, some percentage of people will be checking the website regularly and save a couple bucks here and there -- but then that means some percentage of people will be checking the website regularly, which is probably an overall plus.

Besides, a lot of online retailers will have a sort of "least price guarantee" for pre-orders: pre-order it at one price, and if the price drops before release, you only get charged the lesser price. I don't see how this would be all that different. Just treat purchases early in the sale as pre-orders in the event of a flash sale.

Ultimately, Valve could bypass the issue entirely with a policy stating that if you refund a game, you can't buy that game again for some period of time. Actually, I'd be a bit surprised to learn they don't have a policy like that already in place to prevent refund scamming. As long as that period was longer than 8 hours or however long a flash sale takes, refunds to hit flash sales wouldn't be a problem.

I suspect Valve just thought they were leaving too much money on the table with flash sales. Why give someone a game at 75% off if most people will still buy it at 66%?

 

[Worgen]

With the refund thing they added, they couldn't have flash sales anymore. It would mean they would have to deal with a bunch of returns from people who bought the game before it was on flash sale.

I'm not really sure that's the reason. I mean, worst-case scenario is that you effectively increase the flash sale length to "official flash sale length + refund policy length", and honestly, even that's not that bad. Sure, some percentage of people will be checking the website regularly and save a couple bucks here and there -- but then that means some percentage of people will be checking the website regularly, which is probably an overall plus.

Besides, a lot of online retailers will have a sort of "least price guarantee" for pre-orders: pre-order it at one price, and if the price drops before release, you only get charged the lesser price. I don't see how this would be all that different. Just treat purchases early in the sale as pre-orders in the event of a flash sale.

Ultimately, Valve could bypass the issue entirely with a policy stating that if you refund a game, you can't buy that game again for some period of time. Actually, I'd be a bit surprised to learn they don't have a policy like that already in place to prevent refund scamming. As long as that period was longer than 8 hours or however long a flash sale takes, refunds to hit flash sales wouldn't be a problem.

I suspect Valve just thought they were leaving too much money on the table with flash sales. Why give someone a game at 75% off if most people will still buy it at 66%?

That sounds like a lot of effort when you could just make the sales last the full length of the sale and not bother with flash sales. I miss them too since there are some games I really want to be a bit cheaper. However it just doesn't make sense to do flash sales anymore.

 

[JayRPG]

I've been quite underwhelmed so far.

Square Enix are being particularly poor with their discounts. Several of their games are not discounted at all, and most of them are bloody remakes and ports!

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Well since my copy of Fable: the Lost Chapters has gone walkabout, I decided to see if Anniversary was on sale. Lo and behold, 85% off. $12 for the full game and all DLC instead of nearly $60.

I'll take it

 

[Xorph]

Honestly, I don't see why they don't add some sort of price-matching bit to the refund policy. Say, if a game goes on sale /more on sale when you're still qualified for a refund, you can request the difference in steam wallet credit. It's a shame when I see games that went 75% off for daily/flash sales a year ago (Assassin's Creed 1 and 2, for example) that are now just gonna sit at 50% the whole sale. And not cuz the base price lowered either, I bought them two years ago for $5 each, now they're $10 apiece.

Ever since the refund policy stuff has just been less on sale than it was before, -and- we don't get any fun sale events either.

Wow, good thing I didn't buy that newly release bartender game (I still have abit of cash in my wallet from my bro present). Now if only it stop lagging at the moment (I know ALOT of people are on it at the moment).

Also I really need to played DeadStar demo soon due to my newfound hatred for competitive games!

You talking about Valhalla? Cuz if so dood, it's beyond worth the full price. If you get around to it, make sure you play the Demo and Prologue first, as they're both events prior to the main game, and the demo especially has important plot stuff.