You post on CAG. You can't really use the 'lol no lifer' claim in terms of people looking for video game deals. Also you seem to be forgetting during the last few major sales that had flash an daily deals that the flash deals would almost always be repeated as dailies and/or vote deals. So you usually had two or three chances to get something at the lower discount. Hell, they even made 'daily' deals 48 hours.
And while I know you must have been terribly busy doing lines of coke off of super model's asses on your luxury yacht, you probably could have had your butler monitor the sales for you.
Behold the modern gamer:
- My Systems
PS3
Wii
DS
PSP
PS2
Xbox
GC
PC
3DS
PS Vita
Wii U
PS4
Xbox One
Someone who has a bajillion consoles in addition to PC and probably plays them maybe two hours a week ('cuz those super models would get bored, otherwise). I get that such people think 20% off a five year old indie game is an impressive deal. These are the types of people who have made gaming 'mainstream' and why Valve is pulling down more money than ever.
However, might I suggest you'd feel more at home on Neogaf and not a forum called CHEAP ASS gamer...
Pretty much this. I have 22 different game consoles hooked up in my house.
I've a few pcs, a good half dozen variants of tablets, and at least a dozen different handheld game systems along with bunches of other smart devices... along with libraries of media for each of them.
But even I can't stand thinking that 20% off a 5 year old indie game is a deal... software is the area where I can scrimp and save, make the hard choices, and balancing things out that I can actually manage to pay for hardware.
Most of my stuff gets bought just after hardware generations rotate. I'm patient. I wait.
I budget and I buy when things are completely in my favor. While I can appreciate that some of the changes that have occurred (games being able to be returned on Steam and the like) have been good for some people, they've been dreadful to me.
I don't ever buy a game that I'm not certain will run on my setup, or that I'm dubious about the quality of (in comparison to the price I've paid). Valve's return policy adds NO value to me, and the direct cost of it is that picking up bargains actually now takes more effort. Now instead of checking steam once or twice a day, I now need to keep an eye on CAG AND IsThereAnyDeal so I'll know if stuff shows up on any of a couple dozen different sites.
The ONLY people that the new sale structure is good for is Valve, people who will actually use the return policy, and possibly developers or publishers, as they do look to have made significantly more money on only 10% more sales during the sale. However, I've not seen the data chopped up as finely as I'd like.
I'm curious to see if the vast majority of that gain in profitability went mostly to AAA devs and publishers or if it's more of an across the board change. I guess I'm willing to ignore lame steam sales in the future if it's good for the health of indie devs and their publishers.
But Steams sales are now pretty much in the same brain space as a sale on Humble, Amazon, GOG or Origin. They're not the "Ooh and Aah" spectacles of days past.
I'm just amazed by looking over at reddit and seeing how many people are such kissasses that they're crowing about how this is an overwhelmingly good thing, and how Daily and Flash sales were like a cancer.
ING VR HEADSET AND IT MAKES ME RAGE SO 
