Steam Autumn Sale 2023: Official Trailer

Games@lemmy.world – 65 points – 11 months ago

Steam Autumn Sale 2023: Official Trailer

Get ready to stock up on games for you and yours and celebrate your favorites during the Steam Autumn Sale: November 21st at 10am PST to November 28th at 10am PST!

This time I won't buy any games I'll never play.

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Ah fuck, who am I kidding.

GAS, game acquisition syndrome. I have it bad.

Thank God, I thought it was just me..

I can offer you a less harmful addiction, get yourself some !freegames@feddit.uk and load up on all the games you'll never play without hurting your wallet ;)

Any games in particular you'd recommend purchasing and not playing?

Welcome to the game 2

Duskers

I wish we could resell games that we don't play anymore.

This feels like you just posted an ad.

Hey so I'm not the only one. I was saying in another comment that I saw hype posts for sales were people didn't get hype. The posts got deleted. I think Lemmy is starting to get marketing teams controlling content like reddit.

I'm worried Lemmy has the same marketing teams in it that destroyed reddit.

I just saw a post yesterday trying to hype these sales that instead had honest opinions. Then the post gets deleted. I assume because we all weren't swooning

Not sure if people are not bothered by that type of manipulation of these platforms or not but it bothers me so much to see legit opinions and views get crushed by PR teams.

Interesting opinion considering most posts are constantly bashing companies on this platform

Re: "This post is an ad"

All trailers are ads. Any article promoting a game is an ad. A movie trailer is an ad. The only difference is whether people are interested in the content or not. It's not some grand conspiracy that many people (me included) look forward to the Steam sale so they can buy games they want and be on the lookout for sales. This is a gaming community so this is very relevant to be posted here. Don't be overdramatic.

That dynamic changes when its not organic. what I wrote about is not talking about regular users posting things they are interested in. My issue is when companies take over platforms and control discussion and content. This is what happened to reddit and most other social media platforms.

As far as I can tell, a lot of people here are conceded about avoiding pitfalls that ruined reddit. The biggest pitfall reddit succumbed too was focusing on attracting advertisers and marketeers over reddit. If having a discussion about that is dramatic then so be it. But makes me curious why you are concerned about stifling that conversation

If having a discussion about that is dramatic then so be it.

It's not a discussion when your point is basically accusing Lemmy of being controlled by marketing PR teams, which is clearly not the case

But makes me curious why you are concerned about stifling that conversation

Because people that are posting comments like yours aren't adding anything, it just sounds like they're upset people are excited about things they aren't excited about.

Post: Trailer for the next Steam sale, which a lot of people are interested in
Comment: So sad that people are being controlled by marketing teams and posting ads for companies. We should not have these posts. You are all being manipulating by big capitalism.

basically accusing Lemmy of being controlled by marketing PR teams

You accused me of being dramatic but then discredit what I said with an overly dramatic take like that.

That is not what I said.

Because people that are posting comments like yours aren’t adding anything

That also is not true. They do add their thoughts and observations which is what I thought these forums were suppose to be about. These are communities that should be for users. What I said I observed is suspicious because it happens only in places like r/marvel or other sub reddits that are heavily controlled by PR teams. Posts are made, people give their honest opinions, posts get deleted. I have been seeing it more and more.

These marketing teams are the reason all these social media sites fail. Lemmy is unique right now because lots of us learned from reddit. The issue isn't posting a sale you like. The issue is censoring and hiding what the community really thinks and manipulating these spaces so its favorable to whatever marketing team pay the most.

You said other users have said similar. It tells me there might be something to pay attention to if people really want Lemmy to stay as honest and community focused as it is right now.