What Is On (Secret) Sale?

Holy cow. I paid $95 for it a few years ago, and it was well worth it. $0 is obviously a great price.

 

holy cow! I was literally about to pull the trigger on this...and now I no longer have to?!

 

Do you think Unity would give me my money back, or at least a store credit? It's a great asset, but now I feel like I'm out on this deal... haha

 

Yeah, it seems most expensive items I buy on the store are later replaced by Unity for free within about a year.

Maybe I should learn something from that ...

 

I am about to buy textmesh pro last week. Thanks god now its free

 

Need to make 3D letters and numbers in your game? Glyph 3D is on 40% off sale.

(Also, just thought I'd note that iRDS never went on sale. I don't know what the plan was there, as the description was changed for a week to indicate a sale was occurring, but the price never varied from the normal price.)

 

What's better than good stuff on sale? Good stuff that's free, of course!

Here's two projects on Github that have some promise. You might check them out.

Using the GPU to produce many instances of animated skinned characters. (Ought to be great for crowd scenes.)

A very nice fog type effect. (Screen space multiple scattering)

 

FIY
-25% Village Exteriors Kit SALE

Cheers
Cobus

 

Gaia is on sale as well.

 

• Fantasy Horde - Enemies $39.90 (30% off)
• The Old Hospital $9.00 (75% off)

 

I don't remember if I listed this store freebie or not, but if so, here it is again:

Custom Screen Space Scattering

 

I noticed the Population Engine is one sale for $35.

 

Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion is 40% off.

 

• City Land Pack $9.50 (50% off)
• Toon Level Desert $17.50 (50% off)
• 3D platformer level art pack $32.50 (50% off)
• Cartoon Boxing Arena $7.75 (50% off)

 

Spotted. https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/27821

edit - Looks like the most of the devs other assets are on sale as well. https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/search/page=1/sortby=popularity/query=publisher:10644

 

Hi everyone!

Happy to announce Beautify 4.4 has been submitted to the Asset Store! In celebration for this new update, which includes a new great feature (Sun flares) and cool improvements and options to existing effects, every new purchase until end of month will get a free asset of our portfolio of up to $20 price (check our publisher page or kronnect.com for the full list).

Cheers!

 

• Floating Island For Mobile $14.50 (50% off)
• Old House Cartoon package $14.50 (50% off)
• Fighting Weapons $4.99 (50% off)
• Level Island Toon Kit Pack $12.50 (50% off)

 

That's a generous offer. I am considering taking the leap and buying Beautify. Is it possible getting a $20 coupon for Dynamic Fog & Mist? That's the cheapest asset of yours that interests me.

 

Hi there! Thanks.

This is a great moment to purchase Beautify. The new update, which should be available in a few days, will come with a slight price increase to reflect all the recent additions (goes from $35 to $40).

And just to clarify the current promotion, the assets gifted for new purchases of Beautify until end of this month are listed below. After purchasing Beautify send me a pm with your invoice number and you will receive a free voucher or a download link in case of no free vouchers left for one of these assets at your choice:

Compass Navigator Pro: add Skyrim-style navigation bar with nice text and beacon effects.


Shader Control: helps you reduce shader keywords, compilation time and build size


Grids 2D: flexible hexagonal, squared or Voronoi grids with cells and territories


Tunnel FX: space travels / warp / falls / drops - and similar effect with lot of customization options


World Flags & Weather Symbols pack: ready to use high quality resource pack in raster and vector formats


Enjoy Beautify and thanks for your support.

 

Our sale:
• Tower Defense Template -50%
• Gravity Runner Template -50%
• Color zigzag template -50%
• Guess the picture -50%

 

• 2D Sandbox Game $18.00 (50% off)
• S Tank SciFi $6.00 (50% off)
• Tile Tool 2D $9.95 (50% off)

 

Global Snow 40% OFF for limited time

 

All my assets are on sale for two-three weeks.

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/search/page=1/sortby=popularity/query=publisher:11539

 

• Low Poly City (Mobile Optimized) $10.00 (30% off)

 

• Boat Endless Runner Mobile Game Template $60.00 (40% off)
• Nature Textures Pack 1 $19.90 (35% off)
• Photon Shooter $15.00 (50% off)

 

Toon Character Pack by Unluck Software is on 50% off sale.

 

• Realistic City: Buildings $24.99 (15% off)
• Steampunk Industries $9.00 (80% off)
• Ninja Hero - 1200 levels included! $5.00 (70% off)
• PBS Barrels and Crates $0.99 (80% off)
• Math Game - Brain Workout $5.00 (70% off)
• Light Cube: Gravity Jumper & Dynamic Light and Shadow $10.00 (50% off)

 

I don't know about others, but I'd rather see direct links to Unity Store deals rather than go through someone's third party asset store deal webpage to find the link to the on-sale asset. No offense, but it's just not necessary.

 

You mean the third party that just links back with an affiliate id?

 

I have no idea what you mean.

 

In all fairness, Asset Store Deals is one of the few sites which list asset store sales. Using this thread to promote their site a bit isn't that bad of a deal.
I don't mind getting links to that site before checking out the asset store links, because there are also other deals to be found on that site.

 

The user you are talking about links to the item in their own 'store' and that store actually just links back to the asset store but with an affiliate link in there. So they get a percentage of the sale if you buy.
e.g. If you clicked on the 'Realistic Buildings' above and it were to go to the asset store the link would look like:

If you click on their link it has an affiliate code in it:

I like the concept, but seriously, just post the affiliate link in this thread and have the deals site url in their sig or something. Quit sending me to another site just to click their own link to find out more about the asset in the first place.

 

You like the concept? Ugh! Not me. Someone is getting kickbacks on sales by doing that? That's just wrong. I'll just type the asset name in the store and find the sale for myself. Wow, I can't even believe that.

 

They put in the effort and time to put together a system that allows people to promote their own sales (which the asset store sucks at) and they did a decent job so they can get some moolah from it (it is probably pennies). It posts those sales on their own site, twitter, etc, so good for them. But putting those links back and forth to their own site does nothing but annoy the crap out of me in this thread.

 

Agreed

 

Only very recently did the Affiliate Program start accepting affiliate links directly in Unity forum posts. This is why @Asset_Store_Deals had to link back to their site. They're putting in the legwork to find the deals, so I agree that it's only fair for them to get a few pennies out of it.

My problem is that there's some certificate issue on their site, so I can't actually visit it without having to manually add it as a trusted site. This means I never click on their links. Now that the Affiliate Program lets you link directly in the forum, I hope they start including direct links.

 

I think they could technically fix this by including http:// in their links when they post, instead of leaving it up to your browser to figure out what to do with "www.assetstoredeals." They likely don't intend for you to use the https protocol. Of course they could fix it by renewing their SSL cert since it expired last September as well. If they are only making pennies though, that might not be cost effective.

 

All you have to do to find most of these sales is type the word "sale" in the search box for the asset store and then sort the results for "updated."

If you are familiar with what's in the store, you can also find the sneaky sales by doing a search with a blank key. Then click the updated button. Assets that have changed their price that day will show up, along with all the new stuff in the store (which may include items with introductory pricing).

 

I do this too, but here are some additional terms for which to search. Not everyone uses "sale" when they reduce their price.

For some crazy reason, you can't search for the term "%", which would make life much easier. Unity search doesn't recognise it.

Here are terms I search for : "sale", "discount", reduced", "off", "special", "deal". Many assets do not use the term sale. Many say "50% off!" You can also search for the numbers 90, 80, 75, 70...etc.

And this thread is also great.

 

Probably filtering it because it's a database wildcard by default in many databases. It would be more complicated(but not impossible) to escape it, so they just ignore it.

 

3DForge have put the Exterior's Kit on sale for the same time period that the Interior's Kit (25% off on both kits) is in the current Unity 3D Sale event.

 

As the OP, my intention was/is to provide a conduit for asset makers to advertise sales without the need to be officially sanctioned by the Asset Store and included in an "official promotion".

I had hoped that this thread would be used by the asset producers themselves, without the need for a third party to get involved.

Having said that, I don't mind anybody posting with an affiliate link because that is exactly what they are for. If somebody makes you aware of something and you decide to buy it, having learned about it from the link, then the poster deserves the pennies in return.

I don't mind "stores" posting to this thread as long as they don't try to obfuscate who they are.

If you disagree with any of the linking, affiliate linking, redirected linking, etc., just type the name of the asset into the asset stores search box, and nobody gets credit.

If people get credit, they will post more, as it's worth their time. If they don't get credit, they won't post, and we all lose out on "secret sales."

 

Where did you get the information that affiliate links can now be placed directly in Unity forum posts? We would be more than happy to post the affiliate links if it is allowed. This would be better for everyone.

We have renewed our SSL cert, so it should work better now. Thanks for the feedback.

 

Well said! It's a win-win.

 

It was announced on March 10. Sorry, a quick google search didn't turn up confirmation, but I have an email from the Asset Store on March 10 that confirms it.

 

The reason we were not posting the affiliate links in this thread is because it was not allowed; but now thanks to you and magique bringing up this issue, we found out (thanks to TonyLi) that Unity has started allowing affiliate links in forum posts. So from now on, one click on the link will go directly to the asset on sale. As others have mentioned, using the affiliate link helps support the free service we're providing to people looking for deals and to developers wanting promotion for their temporarily reduced-price assets. Thanks for helping us improve this service!

 

I would have been fine with it if it was an auto redirect, honestly. Glad it is all worked out for the better! I hope you didn't take my posts the wrong way, as I am all for the service done, just being redirected to then have to click was annoying me.

 

This weekend only, THE Dialogue Engine, MBSCore and my Wordpress for Unity kits are on sale for up to 80% off
Included in THE Dialogue Engine and WULogin kits is a voucher valid for 1 LIFETIME for use on ALL items onwww.renderer.site
See http://www.mybadstudios.com for details

p.s. Existing customers of The Dialogue Engine or WULogin, simply download the latest version to claim your free voucher. For the rest of you, NOW is the time to pounce and get your lifetime discount via an item that is on sale... Time is short so check it out now!

 

Spring music sale by La Manna, some popular selections are more than 50% off.

Sale ends April 21.