Steam Summer Sale 2024 is live now
Steam Summer Sale 2024 is live now
Here it is once again. It's that time of the year. Valve have opened the floodgates for you to throw money at your screen during the Steam Summer Sale 2024.
Locked the post due to many, many off-topic comments
RIP our wallets 😓
At least for me, the sales got a little boring. Many games are on sale every month, e.g. cyberpunk 2077:
This is in large part due to the EU forcing Valve to allow refunds. I think it was a good change but it is the source of the boring sales.
Before the refunds, Valve used to encourage developers to do flash sales (hour or day long surprise sales) of upwards of 90% off, and similar events. You'd also frequently see that much during the major seasonal sales like the summer sales. There was no risk really for either party because you spent very little on a game and if you didn't like it then oh well, you only spent a few dollars/pounds/euros/chuck-e-cheese tokens on a game so who cares. Conversely, Valve and the game developer had guaranteed income the moment you bought it.
I do miss the pre-refund days as a "patient gamer" because of the insane sales, but refunds have protected us against a lot of things like the cyberpunk 2077 launch, the helldivers controversy, and several other major problems.
Could you elaborate more about why returns discourage deep sales? I'm not sure I'm getting it from your comment. It seems like it is just correlation rather than causation.
Time to try and convince my friends to buy parkitect for the millionth time.
The owner of this gamingonlinux site used to be a mod on this Lemmy community until they got caught abusing mod powers because they didn't realize mod actions were public. They deleted their account and complained about the public moderation aspect on Lemmy on their mastodon account.
Can we just not link to that site here?
This is nonsense. They stepped down voluntarily because of unfounded accusations of such (and because they felt their time was better spend elsewhere than to deal with such community drama).
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ is a wealth of information, of which, I am not willing to let go, as it is a resource of current news that is very relevant to this "Linux Gaming" sub. So no; I will not stop linking https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ to this sub just because you got butt hurt.
It's not about being "butt hurt" it's about consequences for abusive behaviors. I don't think people who abuse their moderation powers and status should be rewarded with free advertisement on the place they committed their abuse.
I think that this community needs to change its displayed rules, since it seems that it does not apply to the moderators:
Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.
