It's almost the end of November, which means it is technically but not spiritually still autumn. It is spiritually winter, the season of wearing gloves and using my phone's flashlight to look for my dog's poos in the long grass.
Yet it's not the Steam winter sale that started yesterday, but the Steam autumn sale. Discounts are definitely never a bad thing, but Steam sales used to feel like big events on the PC gaming calendar.
They don't anymore, to me. Friends, are Steam sales still exciting to you? I think I'm right in saying that Steam sales are, at the very least, not as exciting as they once were, if only because we've grown used to them.
It no longer seems like a miraculous surprise to have so many games deeply discounted all at once. Doubly and triply so once you factor in all the other digital storefronts, all of which also have their own big seasonal sales.
Maybe it's also just become harder to find the truly spectacular deals because there's now so many of them. Sure, it's great that Mad Max is £1.59, but it's forever slashed to cheap, so it's hard to get pumped about it.