2019 Steam Sale | Year Of The Pig
Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale has kicked off today in celebrating the year of the pig. Certain products including a “focus” on chinse developers are now on sale till February the 11th. Along with some old favorites like Skyrim and The Witcher. They have added some fun in the form of opening a red envelope that contains tokens and having a limited time shop to use them in.
The Sale
While they are focusing on chinse developers many games that where a little too new during the holiday sale might now be at a slight discount. For instance, Egosoft’s X4 Foundations is now at 10% off for $44.99. Storewide there are over 27,522 discounted products. While many are not as amazing as there holiday sales where you can still find a few between 33% to 75% off with many appearing at around 50%. More about the sale can be from the Steam store.
Note that while they are focusing on chinse developers and publishers many of them are not even on sale. In fact, the recommended section that contained for me twelve games only had five at discount as low as 15% off. Perhaps this is an area they need to work on unless they want other platforms like the up and comer Epic Games to eat their lunch. You would think they have more discounts listed for what they are focusing on.
At least the good news is during the sale they are offering a special $5 off your first purchase of $30 for certain purchases (1). With a restriction on gift purchase, not counting. In addition, if you happen to find yourself with 15,000 tokens you can acquire another $5 off coupon. Which should help offset some of the lackluster sales going on.
I’ll admit outside of X4 foundations I’m not seeing anything yet that I’m really interested in. In fact, I might even wait longer for X4 to become cheaper and see how it's fairing by the Summer Sale. I have a bunch of games and reviews I need to get around to anyways. So anything I get now will just sit and wait.
Some games that are on discount that I’ve had fun playing are the Witcher Wild Hunt, Grand Theft Auto V, Skyrim, [7 Days To Die] https://steemit.com/sevendaystodie/@enjar/7-days-to-die-alpha-17-what-are-you-most-excited-about ), Ark Survival Evolved and Wurm Unlimited. If these sound familiar it is because they seem to take advantage of being on discount when a sale like this rolls around. They are getting a bit old but still great.
Tokens
In an attempt to gamify sales they have included the ability to earn and spend tokens only during this sale. They are under the use them or loss them so you might as well pick up some pig emoticons if you have nothing else to spend your tokens on.
One of the more cooler things is they are offering a bonus of 11 more tokens per dollar spent if it’s for gifts. Keep in mind these coins cannot be transferred. With a normal purchase earning 100 tokens per $1 spent (2).
So what can you even buy with these tokens other than the aforementioned $5 discount and chat emotions? The badge, golden profile, and a couple of backgrounds. I think it’s great you have the ability to pick and choose what you want instead of dealing with RNG to get stuff you might not have wanted in the first place. Stuff like the emoticons are only going for 100 tokens while getting the golden profile is 4k and an extra 12k tokens to make it last for a year (2).
They also give you a red envelope that contains some token in it as well. I think for myself I’ll be picking up the badge for 2k tokens and waiting to see if I make any punches before picking up some emoticons. That seems to be about it as far as free tokens go. You don’t even get any for doing your discovery queue.
Final Thoughts
Wake me up when it’s the year of the cat which apparently is not a thing. Looks like I’ll be enjoying a long nap. Enjoy the year of the pig.
Do you plan on buying anything or is the sale a bit lackluster for you?
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Screenshots were taken and content written by @Enjar. Screenshots are from the Steam Store.
My friends used to play a lot of ark. I should buy it, but my luck is they'll never play again and I'll have another discounted steam game "sitting on the shelf collecting dust"
I think epic or any other competitor has a long way to go to catch up with Steam. Even if they have better discounts of a better UI people have sunk hundreds if not thousands of dollars into their Steam library and don't see them giving that up any time soon, but it could happen one day.
Maybe that will trigger the release of half life 3 once they start to lose more and more market share to other companies.
Just saw you posted from @engrave. Have you connected google analytics to it yet?
Yep, I set up a google analytics account last night and after a few hours it started to show up. It was simple just had to create an account over there with the blog URl and copy and paste a tracking ID into statistics section on engrave.
There quite a lot of tools in google analytics. I’m going have to start learning those and some SEO to try and increase traffic. I got a random click or two last night and this morning. I suspect it will take a while and a fair amount of learning to do better than that. Which I expected.
Glad I’m getting the ball rolling now on this stuff at least. Going be a long road ahead. Thankfully I'm not having to learn while paying a lot to maintain a website and everything else in the short term and all the extra trouble that bring with it.
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