I don't know where you live but I never get -50% to -75% sales where I live. Hell, there's never any sales on video games where I live and PS3 (or PS4, I can't remember) used to cost 120$
UK where retailers constantly undercut each other. Retail games for pc are just from wherever, come with a steam code so all good. Lowest price steam has ever offered on the surge as an example is £17, retail physical was £15 well before that and is steam code. Even for console games, I can't remember the last time I paid over £40 for a game (judging by psn prices, retail is suppose to be something stupid like £49.99-£59.99).
But for PC and not grabbing physical copies, even other storefronts that you can buy from wherever you are, are better.
Resident evil 7 gold edition, £30 lowest on steam. Was £19 on cdkeys when they had it.
Evil within 2, steam £20. Cdkeys £15 + pre-order dlc
Prey cheapest it's been is £15. Cdkeys had for £12 + bonus dlc.
Wolfeinstien 2 is £20, cdkeys is £15.
Thats's all just one retailer.
Nioh is £30, gmg pretty much had it for that not long ago in their last sale.
Wait for steam sales to come around and don't match what has already been offered for months on other storefronts.
It's not the worst recent Steam sale, but it certainly makes me remember the days where Steam would literally overload at the flash sale reset at noon, and everyone's buying everything cuz it's all 90% off. I really miss that business model they had. I used to have alarms set, stay up all night, get hyped, just for sales. It was a good time.
A better time. Makes sense, pub might want to do 75% off for a day, but not 75% for the whole sale. Shame as it was much better (at least for people buying
).
