PC Gaming

8589 readers

3 users here now

Rule #1: Be civil

Rule #2: No spam, memes, off-topic, or low-effort posts/comments

Rule #3: No advertisements

Rule #4: No streams, random gameplay videos, highlights, or shorts

Rule #5: No erotic games or porn

Rule #6: No facilitating piracy

Rule #7: No duplicates

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

workerONE@lemmy.world

Valve Plans 29 Steam Sales Through 2026 (www.techpowerup.com)

submitted 1 week ago by commander@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 9 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

please don't do dynamic sales based on AI or some shit like that

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The article describes a few big events and a bunch of other genre based events. Seems like a great idea to me.

[–] Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they've been doing this for a while now. Slowly doing more of these themed sales every year.

So this is nothing new and nothing to be worried about or something like that.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 11 points 1 week ago

Oh Lord my wallet

[+] artyom@piefed.social -7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oof. Valve taking the Target approach.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except Valve isn't artificially raising prices just to "cut" them in sales, like Target does.

You can complain that game prices are too high, but that's a publisher problem not a storefront problem.

[–] artyom@piefed.social -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except Valve isn't artificially raising prices just to "cut" them in sales, like Target does.

Whose to say they aren't?

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Me. I can very easily go to another digital storefront and see that the same game has the same base price. Unless you're suggesting that Valve is setting prices on the Microsoft store, and the Epic store, and Amazon, and GOG, and the Humble store.

[–] artyom@piefed.social -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah and you can cross-shop Target and Walmart and find the same prices as well. That's not the point. At some point, if the product is "on sale" 90% of the time, then there is no "sale" price, just a regular price, and an extortionate one that they expect no one to pay. It only exists to manipulate the consumer into thinking they're getting a good deal. If it's "on sale" >2x/mo, its never on sale...