Sales are only part of the story. Valve not treating us all with contempt and having a customer-first mentality is really what keeps me coming back. They embody the idea of "letting your enemy make a mistake", but just sitting back, making consciously customer-focused decisions, and raking in the money. The worst thing Valve does is their gambling loot boxes.

Here's me thinking that not having shareholders and having a business model that caters to the needs and desires of the customer base instead of extortional practices was that secret.

"secret"?

Yeah , if consoles were a good financial deal maybe I'd buy them. They're not. Steam is good value for the money.

I thought this meant sales as in they sold a game...

Like yeah, I imagine selling stuff IS great for business??

It's not a secret. It's never been a secret.

I ditched consoles over a decade ago after buying a game that was falsely advertised by Sony for my ps4. They refused to refund the game.

That's all it took. I was out forever. Went to stream and never looked back sure to their sales and refund policy.

I mostly just ignore them now. They seem like they are going on constantly. I just set alerts for when individual games I want go on sale.

I don't know if I've ever bought anything on Steam that wasn't during a steam sale. Well one thing, my single pre-order in Steam history. Which I regret so so much.

Sales are basically dynamic pricing that let's you to fully distribute your product to all available markets and with digital products sales hardly devalue the product making it a perfect strategy.

At first it was just Steam sales on Steam. Then Humble Bundle and GamersGate and GreenManGaming. Now it's those plus Fanatical bundles and Digiphile bundles

Makes sense

Yep. Steam sales are the way they get people to buy hundreds of games they’ll never play!

Also in other news, water is wet. More from this story later.

Oh, we know, Gaben.