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Article #697999Re: Steam Summer Sale
From: Toby Newman
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:19
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:19
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On 2017-06-23, Mike S <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:36:08 +0100, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com> > wrote: > >>> By hourly lighting sales, do you mean games that are literally on sale >>> for one hour and only one hour? >> >>Yes. > > That doesn't sound exciting to me. It sounds extremely annoying. I'm > glad they stopped doing it. I'd rather check a couple times a week for > 20 percent off then every freaking hour for 80 percent off. Not worth > it. Not for a $40-$60 product. I guess the difference is with the current way you have one sit-down browse of the shop and one purchase at some point during the sale. The old way was a fun week of checking for deals and making snap judgements on whether to buy something or not, always waiting for the next stonker deal. -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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