could this be the worst steam sale yet?
what happened to daily/flash deals s m h
My only complain is how they added the stupid authenticator being mandatory to sell anything on the market.
Now I don't even have a reason to do the stupid daily queue anymore.
desu i actually dont mind this sale, i got a couple games out of it, gave like 1 to like 2 friends too
i just wish i wasnt as broke so i can get more
Can someone at least explain to me why its really that bad? (i just got steam 8 months ago >.>)
what does baka censor to desu senpai?
Flash sales are gone because they'd have to deal with people refunding games that go on flash sales and then just rebuying them for cheaper.
I hate the shit too but I understand why they don't want to deal with it.
Is there any good racing or driving game for cheap on this sale? Don't care if it's old, but preferably it should have populated online or a very robust single player.
>>342861312
i actually put "to be honest" (in its abbreviated form) and it replaced it with desu LOL
I miss when there would be things you would have to do in the games on sale to get hats and other stuff. Made it a lot more fun.
>>342860885
>"I hate supporting companies so much I refuse to buy anything without a 80% discount flash."
>>342861742
>Money from an 80% discount is better than no money at all.
Sometimes that little extra cash I save will push me over the edge on games I wouldn't have bought.
Refunds ruined daily and flash sales. Russians during Winter Sale 2011 ruined games and giveaways during the sale
OP, fuck your bitching, let me use this shitty thread to ask a question:
Shogun 2 or S2: Fall of the Samurai or both?
>>342861221
Do you not have a phone or something?
Any reason why we aren't mining bitcoins for gaben like last year?
>>342862437
>Trusting Valve with even more personal information
>>342861221
Google Steam desktop authenticator.
I've been using it since I don't want to give out any more personal info.
>The last sale like 2 months ago was better than this
How do you fuck up this bad
>>342862578
>actually believing that any corporate entity whatsoever has anything but their own best interest in mind
>>342862437
yes
>>342862578
>v-valve can do no wrong guys!
>just give personal info away even if there's no logical reason to do it!
Fuck off.
>>342863035
What does that have to do with anything?
>>342862520
>>342863035
>>342863283
I've never had a Facebook because Skynet, but not even I am this paranoid
Flash sales had to go when they started doing refunds.
>>342862860
Blame the faggots that keep refunding every little game they get when it doesn't please them in less than two minutes.
>>342862437
I have a windows phone. No steam authenticator.
I got dropped a 8 dollar CSGO case, can't sell it.
Am I the only person glad they're not doing flash sales?
I'm waiting till payday to get my games so I'm pretty much set and I'd hate to miss out
>>342860885
No it's actually the best. You're either one of those retards who hopped in late believing the nonsense that every game was 90% off in the past or you just bought everything you were interested in during past sales and now became jaded. Take your anti-consumer garbage off my board scum...
>>342864382
Every single flash sale and daily sale was back on the last day anyway.
>>342863905
Flash sales left because most of the devs complained that they were missing out on sales due to the fact that most people were expecting them to be cheaper. Same reason the vote left. Devs didn't think it was fair.
>>342864860
I'm glad the votes were gone, it was annoying seeing good games at like 70% get passed up for shit like DayZ at 20%.
>>342864667
75% sales were VERY common for 1 year or older games till arround 2012. Since then, the publishers arent allowing their more recent but Still old games go to sale. Skyrim took nearly 3 years to get less than 15 bucks
I dunno, I've been meaning to play undertale and now I have thanks to this sale. Also picked up stardew valley so I'm pretty satisfied.
Speaking of, is it worth playing through undertale again and doing a genocide run or should I just look up the ending?
>>342865364
The game makes fun of you if you do that.
Also the two exclusive boss fights are the only reason to do that run anyway.
>>342864353
There's an unofficial authenticator for wibdows phone
>>342860885
any of you fucks play Titan Quest? Any good?
>>342864860
>be dev
>valve says steam sale soon and wants to know what discount to give our games if any
>"[number]% off should do"
>sale happens
>nobody buys because they were expecting a better deal
>"surely this is valve's fault"
>>342860885
I know rite, there's not even a game to play like last summer
>>342861553
7/10
Made me mad
>>342860885
Flash deals were shit, anyone with an actual job would miss one set each day entirely.
>>342866704
You underestimate how stupid and stubborn the steam community is.
>valve discounts game for 25%
>amazon has same game for 75% and it gives a steam key
>"oh well the amazon deal is nice but i feel more comfortable just spending my money here"
>>342867415
So take the day off you stupid fuck.
>>342867660
>Take every day of the sale off
>When you don't know what deals you'll miss or even when the sale will be beforehand
>>342867059
>game to play
everyone used scripts to automate it. shit played it self.
>>342867747
No shitface you're the one going full retard not taking the day off for a sale you could miss. Don't whine to me that you missed it because of muh job ;_: if you're not even going to fucking bother to take some initiative in your life. In fact just do us all a favor and hang yourself you're clearly too fucking stupid to exist on this planet any longer. I'm so god damned sick of you kids whining about based Gabe giving you these sweet deals solely because you're to god damned lazy to do something about snagging them on time. FUCK!
>>342867958
>>342867958
You take days off work for steam sales?
>>342868442
>>342868457
Keep crying fucksticks I'll just enjoy my ridiculously cheap games I got while taking paid leave.
>>342865201
Why the hell would anyone buy skyrim?
>>342868583
I work on a computer so I've always been able to keep up with the sales, but I wouldn't take the day off for them.
>>342867415
Every flash deal lasted for eight hours, do you not have lunch breaks where you work anon?
>>342868583
I use my paid leave for stuff like vacations.
>>342869225
Summer sales ARE a vacation.
>>342863035
>>342863283
I hope you guys dont use windows, nor apple products, nor google search, google chrome, friedfox and only secure 256 bits encrypted VPN traffic goes out of your router to your ISP. Actually, you guys have programmed and review every line of code your OS, phone, MOBO and router firmware.
>>342867958
You had like 12 hours with the flash sales, I'm guessing you don't have a smartphone or you can't use it at work...It takes like 5-15 minutes tops to pick a game or two and buy them.
>>342869209
I'm not allowed to carry anything on me for my entire shift, and have no internet access on my phone there if I were to try and use it during lunch break.
>>342869401
Flash sales lasted for 8 hours, there were three a day.
>>342864275
Or when games constantly crash on start up or run like shit or are just completely awful, yeah.
>>342869680
My bad, still 8 hours is plenty of time unless >>342869587 works at Area 51 or some other bullshit job. It's not our fault you have a shitty job environment.
>>342869680
Also a lot of those games did go on sale every 24 hours over the week or so during past sales.
>>342869395
This.
People act all "muh privacy" when Valve asks for a phone number, but use windows, chrome, apple products, etc.
Plus whats the big deal about putting a phone number to your steam account? Its a phone number you are supposed to use it, when a girl asks for your number do you go "NO I DON'T KNOW YOU MUH PRIVACY".
where's the "le nothing to hide" meme?
Someone post it so I can tell you to go kill yourself
>>342870094
The flash sales were bigger discounts.
>>342869831
The only ones at fault were Valve for having a retarded sale system. There was never anything good about the flash or daily sales.
>>342860885
Yeah most of these deals suck ass. So many games I would buy if they went down to 5usd or so. But all I see are 25-40% off.
>>342861254
This is probably my 4th summer sale? I dunno. They used to have daily deals which would almost always be 80-90% off popular franchises, and quick-time flash sales that were similar.
These fostered a bunch of the hype around steam sales, as everyone would be checking the store every 12 hours for new daily or flash sale deals, constantly speculating about what the upcoming deals might be, etc.
Now it seems, at least to me, that the sales are often less than they used to be, both in magnitude and hype. Don't get me wrong, the sales are still great, knowing you will be able to get a game you want for at least 15% off as a fact is pretty cool. Just seems like they've burned out a bit.
>>342860885
I cant believe that there is just nothing besides the deals. The minigames achievement hunts and all that jazz is WHY I liked the sales. Now with just nothing its pointless.
I already have everything I wanted and everything I want comes out aug or later.
>>342870598
I found it exciting to find new shit on sale every day, the flash sales did kinda suck, but I think 8 hours is plenty of time to decide "maybe I should buy this soon"
>>342861528
Dirt 3.
Multiplayer is on and off but the single player is hella fun.
>>342862437
I have no need of a phone. Like at all. If I need to contact someone for something I just use facebook.
The sales just don't seem to be as low as they have been in the past. For example, the Assassin's Creed games are all $10 at the lowest. I distinctly remember a year ago and beyond they would routinely go for $5.00 each.
Even more recent releases aren't as heavily discounted as I would expect.
>>342867059
Horse fucker has autism.
Shocking.
I'm just more afraid of losing my phone than forgetting/losing my steam pass.
It DOES feel kinda fishy how Valve are asking us all for our phones now, though.
>>342869789
Check the fucking game online if it works you faggot.
Do I need to play the witcher 1 to play witcher 2? I see the bundle is 26$ right now, and I'm thinking about swinging that. I rarely buy single player games, but I want to support a company that seems like it actually gives a shit about the games it puts out.
>>342864275
I just refunded Tharsis because it was literally a 30 minute game. It looked awesome and exactly like a game I would love. But after one game I mastered it. It prided itself that winning would be both hard and luck based and that I simply couldn't do everything but after learning the mechanics it was piss easy and had no replay ability.
Refunds protect buyers from bullshit that looks good but in fact is shit.
>>342864275
That's like blaming Valve, they made refunds for a reason.
>cause you don't actually own anything in your library
>>342871163
>Even more recent releases aren't as heavily discounted as I would expect.
DOOM is 40% off and it's a fucking month old
>>342871215
no, it's really not fishy at all
a lot of companies use 2 factor auth, it's a common thing now
>>342862520
>>342863035
>>342863283
Welcome to America, unless that's not where your from; in that case fuck off.
>>342871531
What companies?
Not a single other company/website besides Google and Valve demanded my phone number.
I can understand Google, they're fucking evil, but what's up with Valve?
>>342870645
>But all I see are 25-40% off.
From the non-variable highlighted deals on the storefront there are
>1 85%
>2 80%
>5 75%
>2 70%
>1 66%
>1 60%
>6 50%
>1 40%
>1 34%
>1 30%
>2 25%
>1 20%
>2 15%
That's 18 deals of 50% or more off and 8 deals of 40% or less off.
>>342871653
https://twofactorauth.org/
>>342871653
>Not a single other company/website besides Google and Valve
Anon...
>>342871925
yeah but those are all games I don't care about P:
>>342872163
>P:
Fuck off.
>>342871925
Ok let me rephrase myself.
But all I see are 25-40% off of games that look interesting to me. Even old as FUCK games like singularity that's been on my wishlist since basically the first sale has never once gone below 10usd.
>>342869209
Not him, but I'd always miss one, and usually the one with the game I wanted. I'm a cook and I work 10 hours no break, and I can't have my phone on me.
>>342868457
I took the entire week off, son
>>342862578
>>342869395
The Jews' greatest achievement isn't simply collecting everyone's personal data. It's how they somehow managed to convince a huge section of the general public that there's nothing wrong with giving away personal info online, and that those who DON'T just put themselves out there are the weird ones.
>>342872412
I just changed my name so it doesn't use my name
Wasn't that hard to figure out
>some games didn't even get discounts
nice final fantasy discount SE, leaving out the actually good final fantasy games like VII and IX.
>>342872412
does anyone actually use their fucking name on youtube?
>people forgetting that huge steam fuck up where it showed your phone number and email address to others
Doing a big giveaway at 500 members. Join up.
>http://steamcommunity.com/groups/saintsatan
>>342872412
>are you stupid enough to use your real name on youtube?
no? ok then. keep going.
>>342872412
This shit is the worst. I've been denied jobs because I wouldn't hand over my Facebook and shit.
A fucking grocery store wanted access to my WHOLE google profile and my Facebook because they couldn't find mine from the background check. When I told them that my work life and home life are desperate and will stay separate the guy interviewing me sighed and said that the interview was over and they would call me and I shouldn't call them.
>>342867415
You can just literally use your fucking phone if you are so waiting for 1 sale the entire time.
>>342867415
I literally used my phone to check flash sales and buy what I wanted.
How fucking stupid are you?
>>342873119
What the fuck? Social media is truly cancer
>I have to confirm on my fucking phone that it's indeed me selling a 10 cents card. Every single time.
Whoever engineered this is a massive retard
>>342872412
Well, it's harder for the jews to make money out of someone "without name" like us.
This Internet thing that has been brought by them lately is bugging me a lot.
I don't have Facebook, I'm the werdeist. I'm close to being a serial killer.
At least that's how I feel and how people make me feel.
>>342860885
>what happened to daily/flash deals s m h
They were shit. It's not like they made the prices magically lower. All they accomplished was having the best discounts limited to a specific time during the sale. By getting rid of that nonsense, those same discounts are now simply available throughout the entire sale period.
No more stupid gimmicks and just having a straightfoward sale makes this one of the best ever.
>>342872412
>>342874245
>tfw im a total weirdo because i dont use Facebook nor Twitter
>>342873869
Why do you see all these people being fired over things they say online. Companys have gone WAY past their bounds with this shit. They monitor you 24/7 and the second they see anything they dont agree with they sack you. Its funny when it happens to people /v/ doesn't like but this shit happens to normal people too. All of my social media shit is under false names and I never post anything because my online life and my in real life are separate things. I conduct myself differently on the job and when I am at home.
I should not have to worry that what I say online in my own home while off the clock will affect my job.
>>342873119
Really? This thing you are telling is true?
How fucking horrid, man. I've thought before that if I go to look up for a job the same will happen to me.
plus... IT WAS A GROCERY STORE. WHAT THE FUCK.
>>342875449
I wonder why this new way of lifestyle grew up since 2-3 years.
>>342875914
It was publix that was fucking retarded about it but I would say that at least half of the jobs I apply to have asked since they can find anything in the background check. Off the top of my head FedEx, Walmart, and Walgreen's are the biggest names that have done it to me. Most just shrug when I tell them no but I know its on my file somewhere and it could be held against me.
>>342876158
Because of the lack of unions and worker checks on employers. Workers need a way to protect themselves.
