Just go to Fantastical for even more discounts,

Yep, ten year old games still listed at $£50 price with a 50% discount is still uninteresting to me and most people I know. Most of these modern sales seem to be resisting going below 50%. I remember when steam sales was like "pick up a banger of a game for 7 bucks", now its "pick up a half good game for 25 bucks". Its not the same feel, and I no longer think it pays off to get a bunch of stuff during the sale to put on the backburner.

Not really. And the only people underwhelmed seem to be those expecting games to drop to 50% or higher discounts 6 or so months after release.

This current sale seems to be rather underwhelming. I see a lot of discounts that have already been there throughout the year, so it just doesn't really seem any different.

Still found something with a decent enough discount tho; https://store.steampowered.com/app/740240/Snake_Eyes_Dungeon/

The art hasn't been great this year. The only autumnal thing about the art for this sale is the orange colour...

Perhaps a little.

Actually I've already gotten used to being dissapointed. Some things just don't want to go above 30-50% off for years...

Heck... With those base prices, I'm too broke even for "60-75% off" ones.

The worst part is that I've run out of tags to exclude, so I can't narrow the search enough and it becomes a chore I'd rather avoid altogether.

Originally posted by Samantha ::

The art hasn't been great this year. The only autumnal thing about the art for this sale is the orange colour...

Yeah... as far as I'm concerned, Steams graphics theme was always unremarkable. Then they got the delivery girl and her cat and stuff -- no idea what made it special, but it worked. Afterwards, they went back to their usual theme of making it unremarkable.

I've noticed a lot of titles gradually increasing in price from historical lows. This sale hasn't been astounding, but I've picked up 27 games from my wishlist, roughly 18 were at historical lows and the few that weren't were $.50 cents-$3 from their all-time lows. The Steam sales aren't as much of a spectacle as they once were because publishers are setting the pricing higher on older titles and refuse to come down.

Originally posted by Jonny Panic:

This Autumn sales event is... unremarkable, at best. The Summer sale was a bit of a letdown, as well. These sales events seem to have lost their wow factor; with the climbing price caps in combination with falling household average disposable income, it feels... petty. Even spiteful. I've been hoping for better.
:exhume:
Thank you, Team Cherry, for at least giving us Silksong, and at an amazing price even without sales.

I am quite underwhelmed but far less than the previous two sales.

What bother me quite a bit is that I was closely monitoring my wishlist just yesterday and I can spot at least two games, with 100% certainty, which sport lower reduction during the sale than right before it. One of the two is only different from a few % but this is still jarring.

No, it's all pretty much the same to me. Same games go on sale for almost always the same prices. Sometimes they get lower as time goes on, sometimes they'll be higher than the last sale. Game prices in general can change due to new ownership or leadership changed, and also different strategies, this has happened for decades.

But it's all predictable. I'm neither underwhelmed or overwhelmed.

I pay little to no heed.
Perhaps it is because of age, quite likely.
I live my life to see and study wildlife here in Tasmania.
I enjoy the normal aspects of gaming albeit with ' stuck in my way genres'.

It isn't important anymore. The days of yesteryear sales have long ceased to be a valid marketing option, least for my own choices.

So I glance up at the screen, see nothing that appeals. head off to get washed and dressed and head out.

I was once a geek a nerd fill in the dots. Built countless PC's etc. All of that ceased around 20 years ago.

Now aged 61 I frankly no longer care.

I enjoy pinball emulation and some other emulation.

Got mostly it seems what I need.

So my suggestion is go outside and touch green things :)

P.S.

I t is tad wet outside at the moment, and so perhaps I shall help the other half make some bread.

Exciting? No. but fine with older me. And tastes so good freshly baked with heaps of butter.

By the summer sale absolutely not in the slightest, I racked up a substantial body count with that one, because I knew inflation was about to kick in hard, and I'm happy to say that in most cases I was right, and I'm likewise sad to say that I was so very right.

You can tell the sellers have really clamped down, and that the days of being seduced are past us. They aren't hellbent on undercutting one another anymore. Now they're full focus is on setting price points, and reusing them for every sale they participate in.

I'm glad that I stocked up in advance, but likewise sad that this sale sucks.

ive been using steam for 20+ years. at first it was just for steam games(half life 2) and just a launcher. then they added the store and sales events even later....in all that time, this might be the least interesting one.

edit: just after posting this i think i might know the problem. this one might have been entirely made by AI.

Na its just they have raised prices to coincide with console games and them some, with the dlc etc etc you now pay £90 for one game, years ago (not that long ago) you could buy 20 games for that in a sale. Now sales are crap cus they offer 20% on a £60 game, so its just not worth it. Loaded (stupid name) does them cheaper than this all year round. Only thing I ever buy in a sale now is either dlc, or a indie title, I just bought Prince of Persia

Originally posted by Chelle:

I pay little to no heed.
Perhaps it is because of age, quite likely.
I live my life to see and study wildlife here in Tasmania.
I enjoy the normal aspects of gaming albeit with ' stuck in my way genres'.

It isn't important anymore. The days of yesteryear sales have long ceased to be a valid marketing option, least for my own choices.

So I glance up at the screen, see nothing that appeals. head off to get washed and dressed and head out.

I was once a geek a nerd fill in the dots. Built countless PC's etc. All of that ceased around 20 years ago.

Now aged 61 I frankly no longer care.

I enjoy pinball emulation and some other emulation.

Got mostly it seems what I need.

So my suggestion is go outside and touch green things :)

P.S.

I t is tad wet outside at the moment, and so perhaps I shall help the other half make some bread.

Exciting? No. but fine with older me. And tastes so good freshly baked with heaps of butter.

Your response is cute, but unnecessary; you could easily have just said nothing.

I don't need to be told to touch grass; I'm an ex-drifter who sang my way across half the US, I take city hikes and take pictures of Chicago, I'm a retired fraud detection agent, and I volunteer at a food pantry. If you're looking to one-up kids, you could be making better choices yourself.

In the meantime, while I balance disability and a limited budget and help my sisters afford my Mom's care, I notice household disposable incomes have plummeted over the same span of time that games have capped at $60 USD, so yeah... I'd like a better value for my own disposable income, and I think others deserve the same.