https://scientificgamer.com/steam-sales-again/ Science, gaming, and all things in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 https://scientificgamer.com/steam-sales-again/#comment-30788 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 09:25:21 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=5003#comment-30788 I didn’t realise they didn’t send out emails about games on your wishlist when it was a sale event. I’ve been sitting here waiting for notifications, totally unaware there was even a sale on.

]]> https://scientificgamer.com/steam-sales-again/#comment-30752 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:39:29 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=5003#comment-30752 Paradox destroys this rule. They are constantly calling you back for more and more DLCs. Other games like FTL, Desktop Dungeons, Rise of Nations, Civilization – they just wake up once in a while to destroy some of my time (and this is a problem I can not solve). Europa Universalis 4 also asks me to by new stuff.

]]> https://scientificgamer.com/steam-sales-again/#comment-30749 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:48:18 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=5003#comment-30749 It took me a surprisingly long time to figure this out, but about three years ago I instituted a rule of “one in, one out” and it really made me appreciate the value of a game I want to play right now versus one that I think might be interesting but which I’m not really in the mood for, as slogging through what was in my backlog at the time was actually pretty painful – I wasn’t invested at all. I didn’t stick to that rule for long, but the experience did completely change the way I approach buying stuff on Steam.

]]> https://scientificgamer.com/steam-sales-again/#comment-30748 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:44:02 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=5003#comment-30748 Oooh, that’s an excellent point. I’d completely forgotten they’d introduced the refund system in the last year, and you’re right that it’d make time-limited deals very awkward.

]]> https://scientificgamer.com/steam-sales-again/#comment-30743 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:53:09 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=5003#comment-30743 Completely agree. Buying the one game I actually want to play, even if it’s not on sale, saves much more money than buying games I don’t feel like playing now but buy because they are a “good deal”. Buying something to languish in my backlog is never a good deal, no matter the price.

]]> https://scientificgamer.com/steam-sales-again/#comment-30723 Sat, 25 Jun 2016 21:46:45 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=5003#comment-30723 Probably the refund system was the thing that killed off fluctuating discounts (i.e. flash sales/dailies), as there’d just be a flood of refund requests whenever the price dipped lower.

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