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

  • cron
    161·
    4 months ago

    At least for me, the sales got a little boring. Many games are on sale every month, e.g. cyberpunk 2077:

    • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • Dandroid@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        4 months ago

        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.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    4·
    4 months ago

    Time to try and convince my friends to buy parkitect for the millionth time.

  • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1215·
    4 months ago

    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?

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
      154·
      4 months ago

      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).

      • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        4 months ago

        They deleted my comments that broke no rules and the reason for it was “annoying”. Not to mention they broke the rules themselves by being an asshole. That’s far from “unfounded”. At best, you can disagree.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
          94·
          4 months ago

          They deleted an entire comment chain of nothing but off-topic brickering started by you being a grammar Nazi after they decided to be the adult in the room and fix the title you objected to.

          • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
            52·
            4 months ago

            I made one comment because the title was lacking a key piece of information which was frustrating, and provided an explanation on why it was frustrating.

            They responded with a childish and asshole response, which breaks the rules by the way. I’m not sure how that makes them “the adult in the room”.

            • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
              74·
              4 months ago

              The title was perfectly understandable and they were the adult in the room by ultimately giving in and fixing what you complained about.

              • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
                51·
                4 months ago

                They could have just not responded with an asshole comment. They could have not done anything and ignored me.

                What did they do instead? Lash out at me like I was making a personal attack.

                That’s not very “adult” behavior.

                • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
                  47·
                  4 months ago

                  You could have also not have been a grammar Nazi. It was clearly you that started the debate, don’t expect people to adhere to higher standards than you yourself are willing to adhere to.

      • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
        64·
        4 months ago

        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.