So, there are lots of Steam sales. There's a new one every day, every Tuesday-Thursday, and every Friday-Monday. Out of all the games that have gone on sale through these many avenues, have you passed on a significant portion of them? If so, what caused you to pass on them. Besides not having/not wanting to spend the money for them, anyway.

Yes. I've passed on all of them. I've a streak going.

My backlog is getting to the point that I would never be able to finish what I already have unless I quit my job and devoted the rest of my life to doing nothing but playing games.

Yet I still buy the odd game...

That's kind of an odd question. I pass on sales for games that I don't want.

Can you not say no to anything if it's cheap?

Unfortunately, I have to pass on almost all of them because I have a laptop which isn't suitable for modern AAA gaming.

Granted, I just beat Halo 2 on it earlier today and I have other games on it, but nothing too intensive.

Your Steam sale addiction has gotten pretty out of hand when you have to ask what reasons you have to not buy a game.

@Spoonman671: I GOT THE SHAKES! There hasn't been a good one in ages, and GOG.com has got interplay stuff on sale. It's got me thinking I need a different supplier.

An empty wallet.

What makes you pass on a sale?

Except you can't choose the reason why most people pass on a sale!

I tend to pass by the initial launch sale where it's only knocked down about 10%, with the summer & now winter sale of just about everything at hideously good discounts, it's easy to just wishlist most new releases & then wait for the seasonal steam sale. Plus rather irate still about buying things on steam at normal price & looking the next week or days to find they suddenly put it on sale.

I only buy games I think I'll enjoy, so it doesn't matter other games are dirty cheap if I'm not going to play them. That said I don't have the habbit of buying games on steam.

Having no interest in the game or not having the money to waste. I have bought a couple games I had no interest in just to try them out and see however. They have all sucked so far, but I'm sure that one day I will get one that's a real diamond in the rough.

@Zenaxzd said:

An empty wallet.

Lack of funds is a big one.

After brainstorming, these are the reasons I can think of that someone wouldn't buy a game during a Steam sale:

• Not interested.
• Better deal elsewhere.
• Already have the game.
• Prefer to have it from somewhere else (eg. DRM-free, consoles, etc...)
• Already have it from somewhere else.
• Expecting to get the game when it's cheaper at a later date.
• Poor reviews/word of mouth.
• Already have a large backlog.
• System requirements.
• Too cheap (ie. guilt for paying so little for a certain game).
• Not enough information on the game to make an informed decision.
• Already have a very similar game (eg. an earlier version of Football Manager).
• Played, and didn't like, similar games.
• Boycotting the game/developer/publisher.
• Unaware that the game was on sale.
• No one to play with (multiplayer).
• Played the demo and didn't enjoy it.

ok, I think that's enough for now...

money

If I'm not interested in the game at all. But pretty much any game that I am even slightly interested in if it is on sale for like under $15, maybe $20 if I'm really interested I will buy it. And that's why I have hundreds of steam games that I will never, ever play.

I don't turn on my gaming computer very often so I really have to want to play the game really bad. I don't check the Steam site everyday so I tend to miss a lot of the sales for the games I do want to play.

When I read "Checking Balance = $0".

Seems reasonable enough to me.

money

I have a Mac..

@fox01313 said:

I tend to pass by the initial launch sale where it's only knocked down about 10%, with the summer & now winter sale of just about everything at hideously good discounts, it's easy to just wishlist most new releases & then wait for the seasonal steam sale. Plus rather irate still about buying things on steam at normal price & looking the next week or days to find they suddenly put it on sale.

This for the most part. I also try to buy less games. Also, there's not many games that I wanted that I don't have.

Main reason would be money, I guess. But, close second would be that my computer is pretty much crap and can't play anything except a lot of the smaller indie type games. Also, if the game just doesn't look all that interesting to me, or I actually tried and didn't like a demo for it.

@Mesklinite said:

@fox01313 said:

I tend to pass by the initial launch sale where it's only knocked down about 10%, with the summer & now winter sale of just about everything at hideously good discounts, it's easy to just wishlist most new releases & then wait for the seasonal steam sale. Plus rather irate still about buying things on steam at normal price & looking the next week or days to find they suddenly put it on sale.

This for the most part. I also try to buy less games. Also, there's not many games that I wanted that I don't have.

This also more or less what I do. I do try to play a lot of the interesting games that come out each year, but at this point, I've turned that into "rarely buy things at release, but instead just add any game that looks interesting to my Steam wishlist so I don't forget about it." Then when the Winter Holiday Sale and the Summer Sale roll around, I wait until some of those games are crazy discounted and buy them then.

• Having no interest in the game.
• Having no money.

Telling myself that I have enough Steam games already that I haven't played/completed. Plus I have a horrible habit of buying loads of PS3 games and not finishing most of them, which I am slowly trying to fix.

I got a list of games that I keep my eye on. When one of them hits a price that I can agree with I will buy it. Stops me from buying everything.

Whether or not I want the game, and if I feel it's still too expensive for how much I want it.

Well, at my current 'state', everything.

Lack of interest for the most part. I don't really consider it 'passing on a sale' just 'not buying things I don't want to buy'.

No human being alive has the time to play all of the games. Don't let that one guy with the blog doing just that fool you.

@James_Giant_Peach said:

Lack of interest for the most part. I don't really consider it 'passing on a sale' just 'not buying things I don't want to buy'.

This. And those who I do want to buy, I just try to remember how often it is on sale and wait a little longer (And probably by that time I get sufficient funds). It doesn't matter to me if I wait to purchase it, or if it stays in my backlog for the same amount of time, or even longer. I don't usually play more than one game at a time, anyway (Games like Team Fortress 2 don't count).

Though sometimes I really get the urge to purchase something, but luckily I only operate with paysafecard, which limits my purchasing powers as well at makes me think if I really, really want to spend whatever little money I have left.

these days with my insane backlog, unless its 75% off i dont buy it

If its just some random Indie thing ive never really heard ill properly skip most if not all of them.

I tend to only really get games on sale if its something i know i want to play if its close to like 50% off since by the time im free enough to play the game it would have been enough time for the game to be on a 50% sale anyway.

Not being interested in a game.

this text on the game page:

Low Violence: German low violence version only available with German language

both the censorship AND the language restriction are completely unacceptable to me.