The next three major Steam sale dates have been leaked

Steam sale dates are not exactly random. So hiding them at all is pointless to begin with.

I've been seeing discussion about this, wondering just what the devs who leaked are getting out of this. Seeing as sales are traditionally depressed right before a sale people know the date of, this just hurts their full-price income. It's not exactly a benefit, and in fact I don't really see anything positive for the leakers.

Steam creates a bad habit in their users, me for example, I wait a price drop for at least 40% of the full price...

Halloween and Autumn are awfully close to each other.

Halloween and Autumn are awfully close to each other.

The Autumn dates include Black Friday.

Steam creates a bad habit in their users, me for example, I wait a price drop for at least 40% of the full price...

WHich is not bad at all since before I used to pirate games and now I don't at all and spend a lot more then I used to.

In my case, steam sales doesn´t mean much to me anymore. When I used windows, I used to wait for the sales and then splurge on tons of new games but since switching to linux the pickings have naturally gotten much slimmer.

So, it´s almost gotten to the point where I try to *avoid* the sales, in order to make sure that the linux-porter or linux-supporting developer get the most money from the linux sales. (not that I really think I´m making any significant difference)

Steam creates a bad habit in their users, me for example, I wait a price drop for at least 40% of the full price...

WHich is not bad at all since before I used to pirate games and now I don't at all and spend a lot more then I used to.

I used to do the exact same thing. However, my excuse was "Well, it don't support my OS (Linux) so why the heck should I buy it?".

That excuse got shot out the water, the prices were lower than console so it was "well... I guess I can buy just this one game.. maybe that one too oh and that one.."

Next thing, I've got 165 legally purchased games and don't really pirate them anymore. :(.

But I'm still a pirate in other media such as music, movies and tv that'll never change. ;).

My Redemption: Piracy is bad folks, don't do it!


Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 21 Oct 2017 at 9:13 am UTC

I've been seeing discussion about this, wondering just what the devs who leaked are getting out of this. Seeing as sales are traditionally depressed right before a sale people know the date of, this just hurts their full-price income. It's not exactly a benefit, and in fact I don't really see anything positive for the leakers.

I've read things by people talking about the impact of Steam sales, where they talk about how they expected to make less money from the sale but actually made a lot more. It seems to be that, instead of getting, say 1,000 people to buy your product at 100% price, dropping to 50% doesn't get you 2,000 people buying for twice the sales (for the same overall profit), but much more than twice the sales.

Like, I have a number of games on my wishlist that I'm only kinda-sort interested in, probably not enough to buy them at full price no matter how long I wait (given that I already have plenty of games competing for my interest). But drop the price by 20, 30,…,75 percent, and suddenly I'm giving it another thought (currently trying to decide on Everspace, which is 33% off at the moment. :) )

Unfortunately Steam sales aren't what they used to be after they got rid of the flash sales. Still the best time to buy from Steam of course but some of the excitement's gone and the deals aren't as good as they were.

I've been seeing discussion about this, wondering just what the devs who leaked are getting out of this. Seeing as sales are traditionally depressed right before a sale people know the date of, this just hurts their full-price income. It's not exactly a benefit, and in fact I don't really see anything positive for the leakers.

How many persons with a healthy mind pay full price for a game?

I think the TRUE price of a game is the one that the game has on sale...
Take a look at [Shadow of Mordor Bundle](https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-bundle) AKA Shadow of Mordor GOTY... How many months the game has been "on sale" for just 5 U$D?

But, sadly, big publishers raise the base price before joining the steam sales.


Last edited by Comandante Ñoñardo on 21 Oct 2017 at 4:56 pm UTC

I wonder if Valve intentionally "leaks" this information to build up hype.

I've been seeing discussion about this, wondering just what the devs who leaked are getting out of this. Seeing as sales are traditionally depressed right before a sale people know the date of, this just hurts their full-price income. It's not exactly a benefit, and in fact I don't really see anything positive for the leakers.

How many persons with a healthy mind pay full price for a game?

I think the TRUE price of a game is the one that the game has on sale...
Take a look at [Shadow of Mordor Bundle](https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-bundle) AKA Shadow of Mordor GOTY... How many months the game has been "on sale" for just 5 U$D?

But, sadly, big publishers raise the base price before joining the steam sales.

That answers a grand total of nothing. Markup exists, I get that. But why would a publisher leak something that, for the period preceding the sale, makes them fewer sales at full price? How does any of this benefit the developers who made the leak?

The legends have foretold the alignment of the Steam Sales but no one took notice.
This will be remembered in history as "The Great Steam Sales of 2017".

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I kinda wish there was just one annual Steam sale. Man, when that first one landed years ago during a winter that I was trapped in another State due to a snow storm, it was amazing! I was so pumped! I spent over $100 on that sale. But now, there have been so many sales that I have a pile of games I've never played. I'm not very excited to get new games, even if they're brand new, because I don't know when I'd even play them. I'm just now playing through The Witcher 3 for the first time since buying it on Black Friday last year.

I kinda wish there was just one annual Steam sale. Man, when that first one landed years ago during a winter that I was trapped in another State due to a snow storm, it was amazing! I was so pumped! I spent over $100 on that sale. But now, there have been so many sales that I have a pile of games I've never played. I'm not very excited to get new games, even if they're brand new, because I don't know when I'd even play them. I'm just now playing through The Witcher 3 for the first time since buying it on Black Friday last year.

I know what you mean. It used to be an event, something to get excited about. But now it's like eh, there's gonna be another one in a couple of months anyway (or what, three before the end of the year?) so what's the big deal? Plus the fact that I have a lot less money for games these days, so I'm less likely to buy something on the spur of the moment anyway.