Did you pickup anything in the Thanksgiving Steam sale?

Published on December 2, 2014 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

Steam had their exploration sale over the Thanksgiving holiday, and although they had some decent stuff on sale, I didn't pick anything up. Mostly because I had the few things I would have gotten, and adding to an already big backlog just doesn't make much sense.

Of course, that probably won't matter during the Winter sale.

Comments (Page 3)

Primal_Savage

on Dec 05, 2014

N/A

hedetet

on Dec 05, 2014

People not buying anything, even at great discounts, because they already have a huge library full of unplayed games bought in previous sales.

Borg999

on Dec 05, 2014

hedetet

reply 27

Do you think the backlog phenomenon will eventually cause Steam to change their business model? E.g. transition to subscription based.

If Steam goes to a subscription based model, I will find a new pastime.

Phaedyme

on Dec 05, 2014

Primal_Savage

reply 31

Possibly referring to the fact everyone has a few games on their Steam account they haven't played much if at all so there's little incentive to keep buying new ones.

hedetet

reply 32

People not buying anything, even at great discounts, because they already have a huge library full of unplayed games bought in previous sales.

Ah, yeah, that's me.

Island Dog

on Dec 05, 2014

hedetet

reply 27

Do you think the backlog phenomenon will eventually cause Steam to change their business model? E.g. transition to subscription based.

No.

heft

on Dec 05, 2014

Just an EU4 DLC - Wealth of Nations for 75% off. I don't even have time to mess with it though

Island Dog

on Dec 09, 2014

Just an FYI, I have a PC game deals thread where people can post sales they see.

https://forums.stardock.com/420381

jglazier

on Dec 09, 2014

Legends of Xulima. This is the best and most fun Wizardry type combat game I have played since . . . well Wizardry and the first few M&M games.

I highly recommend Xulima. The developers are top notch, and the game is bug free and almost perfectly balanced. Give these developers some money visibility, so they can continue to make excellent games.

Alstein

on Dec 09, 2014

Borg999

reply 33

Quoting hedetet,

reply 27

Do you think the backlog phenomenon will eventually cause Steam to change their business model? E.g. transition to subscription based.

If Steam goes to a subscription based model, I will find a new pastime.

The one thing a subscription based model will do is give competitors a chance. Steam won't do that. Also, I suspect Stardock would drop Steam in such a scenario because it would be screwing their customers. (I'm sure Brad has a contingency plan in case Valve goes evil, even if it's unlikely)

I think the PS4 switching to an online junk fee has done wonders for the PC as is- Street Fighter V is going to be a good test of how much it hurt the PS4 ,which has been successful in spite of this, but I think if they kept free PSN Microsoft would have been completely blown out of the water and ended up like the Saturn.

The reason I say SFV is a test is because the game is PS4-PC exclusive and will have cross-play, so folks can choose which version to play and can play against folks on the other platform. Fighting game fans see Street Fighter as their system seller for the most part as well- even if I don't (my all time favorite fighting game hits Steam Friday) The downside if the PC port of SFIV has a bit of a bad reputation, albeit undeserved- so that might hurt PC sales of V, especially since the crossplay is going to force Capcom to work on online harder.

In short, Valve isn't dumb enough to kill the goose by going to a subscription model, it's better to have a monopoly on the eggs.

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