How about saving your money for the next sale? There are four major sales per year, and their dates are not a secret. Plus there are dozens of other sales throughout the year. Having a coupon for it is absolutely pointless, and ultimately up to the devs.

All this suggestion would do is discourage devs from putting their games on sale, to prevent people from buying their games at a sale price when it's not on sale already.

Originally posted by LustyArgonianMage:

The item could possibly be awarded for Steam lvl milestones, bought in the point shop, or maybe given out at the end of each year. This would be great for people whose payday just missed the cutoff of a sale, or someone who simply needed a little more time. Other suggestions welcome!

That would be illegal. Valve does not own the games. They cannot override the price the developers want to sell their products at. Not to mention Valve has sales almost every month and it doesn't take long for a game to go on sale again

If you can't afford to buy a game before your payday, maybe you also can't afford to buy it after and you should save a bit more money than you have been.

The money doesn't go away if you don't spend it. Games go on sale multiple times a year.

Originally posted by LustyArgonianMage:

The item could possibly be awarded for Steam lvl milestones, bought in the point shop, or maybe given out at the end of each year. This would be great for people whose payday just missed the cutoff of a sale, or someone who simply needed a little more time. Other suggestions welcome!

Valve can only sell you the game for the price that the devs set. If something is no longer on sale you will have to wait or pay the asking listed price.

Originally posted by LustyArgonianMage:

An item/coupon that rolls back the price of 1x game to the last sale price

The item could possibly be awarded for Steam lvl milestones, bought in the point shop, or maybe given out at the end of each year. This would be great for people whose payday just missed the cutoff of a sale, or someone who simply needed a little more time. Other suggestions welcome!

Valve already discontinued regular coupons for crafting badges. So, good luck with that.

Valve tried coupons a couple times with the Token system for a $5 coupon off a $30 purchase. Each time people exploited the crap out of it and Valve never brought it back when they switched to the points system. Tokens also expired so people couldn't hoard so many like now.

If Valve wants to try this again, they'll definitely have plenty of restrictions in place and will cost tens of thousands of points for a coupon.

Valve covered the cost of the coupons for the purchases. Devs still got paid real $ by Valve. I don't know why people still think Valve didn't cover the cost of the coupons.

Plus, Valve events are held all the time...

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/497187349280587904