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[Discussion] The Steam Spring sale is live, what games are you buying for your Deck? (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz [M] to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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[+] AarynBlack@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] Panron@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Fortunately, price info is actually tracked! If you use the SteamDB browser extension you can see the historical low price right on a game's product page on Steam.

For example, Terraria is on sale for it's 2 year low price of $4.99, but the lowest it's ever been is $1.99 (a little over ten years ago).

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[+] AarynBlack@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

https://www.isthereanydeal.com/

This site not only shows you historical data on steam, but on 3rd party sites and other launchers as well (fully configurable). And it'll send you a mail is any game in your wait list meets any of the criteria you set (e.g. under $10, lowest historical price, etc.)

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[+] AarynBlack@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

The sales were way better maybe like 10 years or so ago, but when they ended the "flash sales" to instead guarantee that the sale price of a game won't change during the sale, they also kind of neutered the sales imo. They're still alright, but they used to be consistently better.

I get why they ended the flash sales, and I'm not even sure if it's related or just a separate choice that they made at the same time.

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