{"id":111601,"date":"2016-11-24T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=111601"},"modified":"2016-11-24T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T13:06:16","slug":"is-it-worth-waiting-for-the-next-steam-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/111601-is-it-worth-waiting-for-the-next-steam-sale","title":{"rendered":"Is it worth waiting for the next Steam sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Steam Autumn sale kicked off<\/a><\/strong> on 23 November, offering a number of fantastic deals to PC Gamers.<\/p>\n

Along with October’s Halloween sale, this would make it the second big Steam sale in just over a month, with an additional Christmas sale expected towards the end of December.<\/p>\n

As expected, many of the same games have gone on sale, which begs the question – which of Steam’s sales offer the best value?<\/p>\n

Historically,\u00a0the biggest price drops have come during the Spring sale<\/a><\/strong> and in Daily\/Weekend deals prior to the Halloween sale.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, games that feature in Steam’s November sale traditionally do not drop to a lower price point in December sales.<\/p>\n

There are natural outliers<\/strong> to this rule and some purchasers may be burnt as game prices rise or fall in the December sale, but statistics show the discounts are almost identical between the two sales.<\/p>\n

This works both ways, as DOOM <\/a><\/strong>and Just Cause 3<\/a><\/strong> are at historic lows this sale and are unlikely to drop further in the\u00a0next few sales.<\/p>\n

As always, if you spot a good deal and you know plan to play the game immediately we still recommend buying the game.<\/p>\n

However if\u00a0you know you may not touch the game until the next sale,\u00a0that money may be put to better use elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a0The 25 best deals to pick up in Steam\u2019s Autumn Sale 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We break down whether you should buy or wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":111667,"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":[3],"tags":[18521,797,15121,85,21803],"class_list":["post-111601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-buy","tag-sale","tag-statistics","tag-steam","tag-wait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111601","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111815,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111601\/revisions\/111815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}