it's not valve who sets the prices, it's the publishers/developers. blame them

Oprindeligt skrevet af Jazz:

it's not valve who sets the prices, it's the publishers/developers. blame them

Steam decides which games are put on the advertisement list. STEAM put 10% sales in that list.

I mean there´s a sale on steam like every 6 weeks...

In around 3 weeks the winter sale starts.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Triple G:

I mean there´s a sale on steam like every 6 weeks...

Every retail business has frequent sales. BUT Black Friday is about abnormally deep cuts to prices.

It's not the same.

Do not look at the low discounts. Look at the number of very recently released games that already have 20-30% discounts. That is very eye opening.

Just buy keys bro

Black Friday is a joke.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Jazz:

it's not valve who sets the prices, it's the publishers/developers. blame them

lies.....valve taking a 30% cut has changed the prices of PC gaming.....was here for it....oh and their sales are always a joke.....you buying things is the punch line....

Oprindeligt skrevet af Supermarket Sushi:

Every retail business has frequent sales. BUT Black Friday is about abnormally deep cuts to prices.

It's not the same.

Black Friday wasn´t a thing since around 2 decades ago. It´s an US thing i guess. Same as Helloween. But it´s a global selling platform.

And a few decades ago we´d only have summer and winter sales. Mainly becasue of the textile industry. But i guess it´s also an US thing to have them frequently - to optimize profits. While i don´t understand, why they just don´t reduce the prices all across the board. As it works - it seems to me that the prices out of a sale, are only done for stupid people. Or they only have these prices to show that the price on sale is a really good one. Or both of course. These frequent sales seem like a scam to me.

Yeah, I have to admit that Steam sales have been going down in quality. Before was very common to see deep cuts in prices of semi recent games but now it seems like a mirage...

Oprindeligt skrevet af Triple G:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Supermarket Sushi:

Every retail business has frequent sales. BUT Black Friday is about abnormally deep cuts to prices.

It's not the same.

Black Friday wasn´t a thing since around 2 decades ago. It´s an US thing i guess. Same as Helloween. But it´s a global selling platform.

And a few decades ago we´d only have summer and winter sales. Mainly becasue of the textile industry. But i guess it´s also an US thing to have them frequently - to optimize profits. While i don´t understand, why they just don´t reduce the prices all across the board. As it works - it seems to me that the prices out of a sale, are only done for stupid people. Or they only have these prices to show that the price on sale is a really good one. Or both of course. These frequent sales seem like a scam to me.

Two decades ago was right around when I first heard of it, actually. I didn't hear it called that, and I don't remember there being any sales or anything, but I do remember driving by a strip mall and being like WTF is going on, and my mom/sister explaining that it's the biggest shopping day of the year because it's the last holiday lots of people get off before Xmas.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Supermarket Sushi:

Do the people working at Steam not know what Black Friday is about? It's about DEEP cuts to prices.

This 10% here and 20% there is a flippin' joke!!

Hire smarter people.

Lol Bro speaking the obvious but at the same time its not steam who makes the prices for non steam games

When a ledger goes "into the black" that means it's made a profit for that period. This is where the term "Black Friday" came from, because there was an observable trend in the US where retailers would predictably go "into the black" on the day after Thanksgiving.
Eventually they made a type of sales holiday out of it, to take advantage of consumer spending habits already long in place.

Steam: Give us sale

OP: Noooo, we need bigger sales!!!

Oprindeligt skrevet af NSLucs:

Steam: Give us sale

OP: Noooo, we need bigger sales!!!

Brasil store has different prices, often better prices then the stores of other countries...besides that...you have 5 years on steam, soooo.....opinion discarded