# Steam sale not working?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 24, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-sale-not-working/1009126 "2024-10-24T01:07:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-sale-not-working/1009126/1 "2024-10-24T01:07:26Z")

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A few days ago, on recommendation from a friend, I put Valheim on my Steam wish-list. Hm, 20 bucks, not bad, but I’ll wait to see if it goes on sale.

Lo and behold, yesterday, I got an email “A game on your wish list is on sale!” Boom, Valheim, 50% off, $9.99. Well, it was too late in the evening yesterday, but it said the sale was good through October 27. OK, I’ll come back to it.

Today, I check the Steam listing, and it just says $19.99. Even when I add it to my cart and view cart, it’s still $19.99.

Am I doing something wrong, here, or is Steam?

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**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-sale-not-working/1009126/2 "2024-10-24T02:09:09Z")

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It’s showing as $19.99 for me. SteamDB does say it was listed at $9.99, but only for a day. Which is strange, because it usually goes on sale for two weeks at a time.

It’s either a glitch that made it cheap, or a glitch that changed it back. Other than that, I don’t have any explanation, sorry.

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**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-sale-not-working/1009126/3 "2024-10-24T02:20:17Z")

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I’m guessing, mind you, but I think it was likely a glitch on the sale at all, rather than a glitch back. I mean there are a metric ton of games on sale right now, but I actually own Valheim (many of my friends have already played through the campaign earlier in the pre-release) and if there had been a sale, I’m guessing they and all the other rabid fans would have been notifying all of the group that _haven’t_ bought it yet to do so.

But that’s just an educated guess.

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-sale-not-working/1009126/4 "2024-10-24T02:39:31Z")

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There’s a bunch of people on the Steam discussion group for the game also asking about the “flash” discount. No dev response but definitely wasn’t just you.

It’s been $9.99 a number of times in the past year so I’d guess maybe they put it back on the fall sale this week or else it’ll dip to $9.99 over Thanksgiving.