Multiple times a year, a special time in every gamer’s life takes place. A time full of whimsy and joy to all alike, expressing love of the niche and mainstream all at wickedly absurd prices. Who are we kidding? The unavoidable utter bliss of a Steam sale snakes its way to the mouths of the majority, shrieking at the fruition of affordable classics and new ventures.
Where political and interpersonal differences corrode as [Critically praised Niche Indie / AAA Game] drops to 90% off! Scatter! Etch out the worst of Black Friday and torpedo those prices. Truly, Steam Sales unite the gaming public. Why should we shy away from our lord and savior, Gaben? Here’s a few things to consider.
Save the quarters and blast everything to oblivion at home!
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.
I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol
Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.
Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.
Speaking about overgeneralizing much.
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.
Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.
I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.
I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
I agree with #1. Steam sales always seem great, but then I barely play any of the games I buy.
I've never once bought a game on a steam sale that I didn't want to play if you have then well that your own fault really.
obviously.. you end up with 1000 games you don't actually play.. yet you continue to buy more.
#FirstWorldProblems
"Oh no, too many cheap games" How this is a complaint is beyond me. I love Steam Sales because it gives me a chance to support the Devs that may not get the exposure of the AAA behemoths.
The ONLY drawback to Steam Sale is that its always a gamble on sales. One day its 33% off and literally the next day it will be 66% off. So even though the game is on sale, I hesitate just in case it drops further.
Only games I bought this past Steam sale were gifts for family members. For me there wasn't anything on sale I wanted that I didn't already have. I still have games from the 2013 Steam sales that I haven't even clicked on to play yet.