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From: Andrew Rybenkov
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 21:11

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On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 00:15:55 +0400, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's really not up to Valve what goes on sale, it's up to the
> publishers what they want to advertise and where.  It's possible that
> a lot of the marketing folks at these publishers are spending their
> advertising dollars on gaining audience for newer consoles (larger
> audience and higher cost per game) than preparing sales for older PC
> titles on Steam.
> ....

While I mostly agree with your arguments in general, in case of this sale I think
someone (responsible for it) should be fired: uninspired event, too many slips,
and at top of all they successfuly self-DDoS'ed own store.

-- 
Andrew Rybenkov

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