{"id":103671,"date":"2016-09-12T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103671"},"modified":"2016-09-12T09:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T07:01:56","slug":"how-long-you-have-to-wait-before-a-steam-game-goes-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/103671-how-long-you-have-to-wait-before-a-steam-game-goes-on-sale","title":{"rendered":"How long you have to wait before a Steam game goes on sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a PC gamer on a budget, chances are you regularly take advantage of Steam discounts and flash sales.<\/p>\n

Many gamers no longer buy games at release, waiting instead for early sales and discounts before purchasing, which leads to the increased amount of sales on Steam.<\/p>\n

While it is difficult to measure how long it will be before your can grab your favourite game at a 50% discount, by measuring trends in Steam pricing data from the last few years, PC Gamer<\/a><\/strong> has constructed a reasonably accurate time scale for Steam sales after release.<\/p>\n

Using SteamDB data from 2014, 2015, and 2016, PC Gamer has identified the following trends regarding Steam sales:<\/p>\n

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2014<\/h3>\n

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2015<\/h3>\n

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2016<\/h3>\n

\"High<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sub<\/a><\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/h3>\n

According to the above data, popular triple-A games get a 50% discount after an average of 7 months<\/strong>. These include games such as The Witcher 3 and Dark Souls.<\/p>\n

Popular indie games take an average of\u00a09.2 months to hit 50% discount, slightly longer than their triple-A counterparts.<\/p>\n

The less popular a game is, the more\u00a0it will be discounted, and the quicker you will see it on sale.<\/p>\n

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Waiting for a game to go on sale before you buy it? Here’s how long you’ll be waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":83377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[14608,1826,21549,15397,241,85,21801,21803],"class_list":["post-103671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-discounts","tag-game","tag-length","tag-pc","tag-sales","tag-steam","tag-timescale","tag-wait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103977,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103671\/revisions\/103977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}