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The absolute state of gaming: Everyone is ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE for sales
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:48 PM Author: Stimulating State Partner This year was particularly ridiculous. Steam moved their "fall sale" up because it was too close to the "winter sale." This meant that there was no "steam sale" during black friday, so all of the publishers just had their own bespoke sales around then. But they never ended -- instead the "winter sale" started and all of the games just remained the same price from the bespoke sales. The result was that all of these games were "on sale" for basically 2.5 months straight.
Now all of these "sales" by all rights should be over. There is no way they can be maintained with any veneer of plausible respectibility. The "winter sale" is done. The holidays are over. But these publishers just cant get enough. They need "bonus winter sales":
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32528477/sale/winterbonussale2026
The bottom line is that they are absolutely desperate. The house of cards is collapsing. Gaming is turning into a trip to a Jos A Bank outlet. |
Date: January 5th, 2026 8:55 PM Author: blue native puppy This is only a Sega/Atlus sale, but yeah the industry is in trouble…or so I’ve heard. Not sure if you’ve been paying attention but there have been rumblings about the State of Gaming in recent years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49565461) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:57 PM Author: Stimulating State Partner Only Sega-Atlus? How about an EA Games "Winter Sale Extension"?
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36135791/sale/winter-sale-extension
They're just small indie devs so it probably doesn't mean anything though. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:59 PM Author: Stimulating State Partner oops- looks like the contagion is trickling down
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38394018/sale/indie_io-sale-extended-thrill |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:00 PM Author: Stimulating State Partner oh wow, it's not just steam:
https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260103-winter-sale-encore?order=desc:trending
Winter Sale Encore 5 days 05 hours 59 minutes 53 seconds left Did you miss Winter Sale? Or maybe you just want more? We have a remedy - check out all the great deals we prepared to survive this cold time. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:03 PM Author: blue native puppy The whole damn thing needs to be nuked and reborn. And it isn’t about satisfying “the gamers” who are largely retarded and don’t have any idea what they really want. There just needs to be more Curation - less is more and all that. Bring budgets down, throw out dead weight, reroute some of the money to pay real Engineers, use real artists, etc. No more “big tentpole AAA” nonsense. If just one of those fails it can end an entire company ffs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49565484) |
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Date: January 8th, 2026 6:44 PM Author: Dull floppy parlor triple a gaming foots the bill for engine development (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49573641) |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 7:47 AM Author: mustard principal's office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49585569) |
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Date: January 8th, 2026 6:39 PM Author: Stimulating State Partner Now we're having official trailers to build anticipation for putting the exact same games back on sale at the same prices they were already on sale at for 2.5 months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb6uBwCkDEQ |
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Date: January 8th, 2026 6:44 PM Author: Dull floppy parlor This is a pretty normal practice to pad out the quarterly earnings and move keys Keep your jewish tentacles out of my gamesphere |
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Date: January 8th, 2026 6:53 PM Author: Stimulating State Partner Read the OP: THIS YEAR WAS PARTICULARLY RIDICULOUS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49573680) |
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Date: January 8th, 2026 10:59 PM Author: Dull floppy parlor ah i thought you were cowgod for a minute carry on |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 7:47 AM Author: mustard principal's office What’s wrong with cowgod (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49585571) |
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Date: January 8th, 2026 6:54 PM Author: talented temple Everyone just plays like 1 or 2 games for years at a time now. And a lot of them are free to play battlepass shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49573686) |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 7:48 AM Author: mustard principal's office DLC and microtransactions are Ruinous (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49585572) |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: talented temple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2/#49586412) |