I've only had a gaming PC for a couple years so I wouldn't know...

I've only had a gaming PC for a couple years so I wouldn't know. Why did Steam sales used to be great but now everyone complains about them?

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*why were steam sales great
sorry

Because people gradually realized video games suck

Before the refunds policy games would go on sale for a much higher percentage off so they're overall worse in the regard. The worst thing to happen was the removal of community choice and daily deals that incentivized you to check in daily and made in truly feel like a week long event. The sales are still good, but they're low energy and not nearly as good as what the were.

it isn't steam sales that changed, its you

They are less frequent and the newer games don't go on sale for a long time.

People always try and pull this n-no u shit and it isn't true at all. The sales removed the interactive features of it and a reason to log on every day. I'd check every six hours for new sales and the last few years there isn't a reason to not buy everything day 1.

Flash sales. There would be short term deals only available for a few hours that had huge discounts. Was fun seeing what would show up on flash sale and incentivize you checking frequently and or interacting with the event they had going. Couple that with over the years accumulating a bunch of games you eventually see less and less games you want to buy every sale, because you’ve already bought them during some previous sale.

This desu
They might be coming back thought this sale

This, making the sale into a game was a great idea, and a natural expression of what Steam is supposed to be. I am not sure what happened at Valve; maybe key players left, maybe corruption set it, or maybe the project got axed before it could mature.

Either way, I don't go to brick and motor stores for bland sales, and I sure as shit aint going on Steam for a bland sale either.

They stopped making video games

why would you get my hopes up just to shoot them down

I still check gog hourly when they do flash sales, so... nope.

I don't have any issues with the current Steam sales but in the past they used to do these bundle deals. Like you'd buy one game and you'd get 2 other games with it. It was rad and a good way to pad out that library.

Valve instituting a return policy would screw Valve and publishers if they kept the big sale structure the same as it used to be. Before, there would be the overall sale, but each day there would be a selection of games that would be on much deeper discount than on days they weren't featured. The return policy almost guaranteed people would just refund purchases and re-purchase on the deeper-discount days if a game got featured.

>no more trading cards
>no more daily sales
>discounts aren't as large

what went wrong

I still remember when they used to do events like a chance at winning every single game on the Steam library for free and forever. That shit just wouldn't happen these days anymore, Steam sales are bland. They simply apply a set discount to a set game for the entire duration and that's it. Either you buy the games or you don't, but either way it's over once you have decided on your first day. The rest of the sale is there purely for those who are late for it. And the discounts are nowhere near as steep as they used to be.

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To be fair, nowadays winning every single game on the Steam library for free sound like a fucking nightmare.

True, but there is nothing equivalent at all. An equivalent reward these days would be something like "Pick 300 games for free" or something, so you avoid all the garbage on the store and get a fuckload of stuff still. But instead there's literally nothing.

I think what happened to me happened to most everyone where after a couple of summer sales you don't need to buy anything now.

This, the whole sale was a game, both due to it being an actual small game with rewards, teams, cards, and fun stuff in general that was engaging through the entire week, and due to the flash deals keeping the hype high and make people with tight budgets stay in their nerves on what to buy now or wait for.
The whole week was a fun event.
Now you can check the first day and be done with it cause nothing changes.
There's some smallish game that gives you emotes and backgrounds, but none of the last ones were engaging or anything, just "vote for this or that and get emotes if you do it each day", boring stuff.

>And the discounts are nowhere near as steep as they used to be.
I remember when they put gmod for $2.50 but now it never goes under $5

Most gamers become extremely jaded with time. The industry also has done a fair bit of changing over the years that plays a part. Personally there's still some jems on the summer/winter sales but most of the deals fall upon the developers. Steam is still okay in my book but I typically prefer GOG or humble bundle.