Steam is ditching its annual Lunar New Year sale subsequent yr, opting as an alternative for a brand new spring sale. That means the digital storefront will now have gross sales for all 4 seasons, and Valve have additionally outlined the dates for the following three main gross sales occasions.

Valve outlined the information in a publish on the Steamworks weblog. “The addition of a Spring Sale was a preferred request from our developer and writer neighborhood,” reads the publish. “It will permit us to create more room between our 4 main seasonal gross sales and supply extra alternatives all year long for builders to increase and execute their discounting calendar.”

The first spring sale will occur subsequent yr from March sixteenth to March twenty third. That’s three full gross sales away, nonetheless. First up is the autumn sale from November twenty second to twenty ninth, after which the winter sale from December twenty second till January fifth.

The spring sale will apparently function like all the opposite seasonal gross sales, by taking up the Steam homepage and driving guests in the direction of tons of of discounted video games throughout the platform.

Steam’s Lunar New Year sale was launched in 2016 because the storefront skilled an inflow of builders and gamers from Asia. Lunar New Year takes place in January, nonetheless, which implies there wasn’t a lot time between it and Steam’s winter sale the month earlier than. “We assume many publishers will nonetheless decide to low cost video games across the Lunar New Year vacation, utilizing the customized low cost instruments,” says Valve’s publish. “But we suspect clients might be higher served by a bit bit extra time between the massive Steam-wide seasonal gross sales.”