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The absolute state of gaming: Everyone is ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE for sales

This year was particularly ridiculous. Steam moved their &qu...
Salmon big native
  01/05/26
This is only a Sega/Atlus sale, but yeah the industry is in ...
smoky charismatic space police squad
  01/05/26
Only Sega-Atlus? How about an EA Games "Winter Sale Ext...
Salmon big native
  01/05/26
oops- looks like the contagion is trickling down https://...
Salmon big native
  01/05/26
oh wow, it's not just steam: https://www.gog.com/en/promo...
Salmon big native
  01/05/26
The whole damn thing needs to be nuked and reborn. And it is...
smoky charismatic space police squad
  01/05/26
triple a gaming foots the bill for engine development
Adulterous Aphrodisiac Stage Boiling Water
  01/08/26
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Plum tripping center philosopher-king
  01/13/26
Now we're having official trailers to build anticipation for...
Salmon big native
  01/08/26
This is a pretty normal practice to pad out the quarterly ea...
Adulterous Aphrodisiac Stage Boiling Water
  01/08/26
Read the OP: THIS YEAR WAS PARTICULARLY RIDICULOUS.
Salmon big native
  01/08/26
ah i thought you were cowgod for a minute carry on
Adulterous Aphrodisiac Stage Boiling Water
  01/08/26
What’s wrong with cowgod
Plum tripping center philosopher-king
  01/13/26
Everyone just plays like 1 or 2 games for years at a time no...
Spectacular Parlour
  01/08/26
DLC and microtransactions are Ruinous
Plum tripping center philosopher-king
  01/13/26
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Spectacular Parlour
  01/13/26


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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:48 PM
Author: Salmon big native

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2)#49565440)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:55 PM
Author: smoky charismatic space police squad

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: Salmon big native

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2)#49565469)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:59 PM
Author: Salmon big native

oops- looks like the contagion is trickling down

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38394018/sale/indie_io-sale-extended-thrill

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2)#49565477)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:00 PM
Author: Salmon big native

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2)#49565480)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:03 PM
Author: smoky charismatic space police squad

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: Adulterous Aphrodisiac Stage Boiling Water

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: Plum tripping center philosopher-king



(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: Salmon big native

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2)#49573628)



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Date: January 8th, 2026 6:44 PM
Author: Adulterous Aphrodisiac Stage Boiling Water

This is a pretty normal practice to pad out the quarterly earnings and move keys

Keep your jewish tentacles out of my gamesphere

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2)#49573638)



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Date: January 8th, 2026 6:53 PM
Author: Salmon big native

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: Adulterous Aphrodisiac Stage Boiling Water

ah i thought you were cowgod for a minute

carry on

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2)#49574512)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 7:47 AM
Author: Plum tripping center philosopher-king

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: Spectacular Parlour

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: Plum tripping center philosopher-king

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: Spectacular Parlour



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817771&forum_id=2)#49586412)