The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread - WINTER SALE 2024

[Fedora Master]

I joined team pig because pigs are the obvious superior choice. Trying to figure out the best way to squeeze goodies out of the metagame bullshit. There's a "Buy a bigger discount" thing on offer, but to reach that you need 15,000 good boy points. I apparently can get something like 26,000GBP just from my Slay the Spire achievements (Why? Lord knows), but I'd only actually get a couple thousand because my "Boost meter" is limited, and it says I can expand it. Okay. So I see how to expand it is by spending money during the sale. So I'd have to spend some money to open up the "Boost meter" to get my good boy points to get an extra discount on my tendies, and they don't even specify how much of an extra discount it is and if it's on a full order. If it is it might be worth some bullshit to unlock then place a final order to clean up and squeeze everything from that.

Edit: Oh, so apparently the "Boost meter" starts at 100 by default, but it's increased up to a maximum of 1k based on your account size/purchases/etc. So I'm already maxed out, so my StS GBP excess will apparently be wasted and only GBP generated by purchases carries between days. Well fuck. 1,000GBP a day possible earnings, 15,000GBP to buy the discount, 14-15 days the sale's running. Huh, I must be missing something.

Sure as shit not doing all this crap for a 5 bux discount.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

"There was an error joining a Grand Prix team. Please try again later."

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Sure as shit not doing all this crap for a 5 bux discount.

Oh you're right, they did clarify it to say $5 discount on next purchase. Originally it just said "Discount on next purchase". Then what the fuck? I do have to be missing something, because reaching 15,000 points to get that $5 coupon looks exceedingly difficult to do even if you're already starting off as best equipped as you can.

 

[Solid Snail]

I don't know what the fuck is going on. Joined a team, I immediately got a 5€ voucher, which I applied to Myst Collection. But I can't checkout, and Steam locked me out. I'm using credit I have on my Steam wallet.

 

[Don Peste]

 

[Ivan]

Are they doing a similar spend 30 to get 5 type of thing as before? Not going to look at the sale until after work.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I clicked my StS button to see what would happen. Got 3,900 on the odometer and wasted 18,000 apparently. Don't know what that means. Clicked boost. Odometer went to 2,900. Looked at the pit stop to check tokens, I've got 1,000 tokens.

 

[pOcHa]

Like, what the fuck do ya'll even hope to get from the sale anyway? Do you really NOT already have literally everything you would ever want to play AND a gigantic backlog of games you'll never touch to boot?

Need to buy all the train simulator dlc
https://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/Train_Simulator_2019/

yess most of the DLC is 50% off. Time to buy it all.

you weren't kidding? are you maybe german (or sean bean fan)?

 

[Curratum]

Nobody knows what the fuck they're doing, the game has like eleven pages of rules and nothing is intuitive.

 

[Curratum]

Right, so if you use the BOOST YOUR TEAM button, you get tokens. 15,000 of those will give you a 5 EUR discount from your next purchase.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Okay, I sorta figured it out. Sorta. Odometer is "Points", but it doesn't do you any good until you click the boost button. Boost somehow turns odometer into "Tokens" in lumps of up to 1,000. Kept clicking boost until I ran out, and now I have 3,900 tokens. I have no fucking idea how to actually influence the race but I don't really care about that part since the odds of winning the giveaways would be minuscule, but this seems like I could maybe get the $5 coupon in a few days which is alright. Confusing as fuck though, they should've just done it like the Chinese new year sale.

Edit: Curratum got it a smidge earlier!

Edit 2: Wait a minute, Gaben you lying sack of shit. I didn't get ANY tokens to start with. "Your account received 5,000 tokens based on your previous spend on Steam."

Edit 3: Intredasting. That 5,000 tokens became boost meter "Your account received 5,000 Boost Meter capacity based on your previous spend on Steam.". It's like they're writing all this bullshit the day it launches.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I've managed to pick a team... and not much more. Everything's too laggy to get anything done.

Managed to check my wishlist, though. I have a $20 game with a 50% discount, that's the best deal in there. :/

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I wonder what kind of idle game they have set up this year...

I joined team pig because pigs are the obvious superior choice. Trying to figure out the best way to squeeze goodies out of the metagame bullshit. There's a "Buy a bigger discount" thing on offer, but to reach that you need 15,000 good boy points. I apparently can get something like 26,000GBP just from my Slay the Spire achievements (Why? Lord knows), but I'd only actually get a couple thousand because my "Boost meter" is limited, and it says I can expand it. Okay. So I see how to expand it is by spending money during the sale. So I'd have to spend some money to open up the "Boost meter" to get my good boy points to get an extra discount on my tendies, and they don't even specify how much of an extra discount it is and if it's on a full order. If it is it might be worth some bullshit to unlock then place a final order to clean up and squeeze everything from that.

Edit: Oh, so apparently the "Boost meter" starts at 100 by default, but it's increased up to a maximum of 1k based on your account size/purchases/etc. So I'm already maxed out, so my StS GBP excess will apparently be wasted and only GBP generated by purchases carries between days. Well fuck. 1,000GBP a day possible earnings, 15,000GBP to buy the discount, 14-15 days the sale's running. Huh, I must be missing something.

WHAT IN THE GODDAMN...?

 

[Azalin]

Like, what the fuck do ya'll even hope to get from the sale anyway? Do you really NOT already have literally everything you would ever want to play AND a gigantic backlog of games you'll never touch to boot?

Need to buy all the train simulator dlc
https://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/Train_Simulator_2019/

yess most of the DLC is 50% off. Time to buy it all.

Lol even at discount they cost about 3584 euros,that means that I wouldn't be able to buy them since the main account that is linked to my card has about 2100 euros at the moment,I would have to transfer some money from my other account to get them

 

[markec]

Broken store and shitty discounts, yeah its a Steam sale.

 

[Solid Snail]

https://imgur.com/a/miMNCXm

This is what I have in my basket. It seems I have 3 vouchers and they stack?

 

[Curratum]

https://imgur.com/a/miMNCXm

This is what I have in my basket. It seems I have 3 vouchers and they stack?

So, did it let you check out without paying or do the vouchers actually not stack?

 

[Azalin]

WTF Devil May Cry V has a 34% dscount but the older DMC HD collection isn't even on sale?

BTW South Park Fractured but Whole has a 90% discount,biggest one so far,is this one worth it?Played the first and liked it but I thought it was a bit short and without any replayability so wasn't worth the full price.What's the Kodex Kritical Konsensus on the second one?




PS. Who the fuck made that stupid Summer Sale Race metagame,this thing is more complicated than half the games on sale

 

[markec]

So I go to https://isthereanydeal.com to see my waitlist, 2/3 of games have better discounts on others sites.

 

[vdweller]

Go play a difficult platformer, cucks.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1007880/BALL/

 

[Unkillable Cat]

So my team join-up thing finally got accepted by Steam.

Do the sane thing Codexers: Join team

 

[Curratum]

This is fascinating shit. It's been 4 hours since it started and the main store page still timeouts 10 times in a row.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

The actual sane choice is Team Doge. Just checked and it's 3x faster than the others, sasuga. You will never be truly free from this fucking thing so might as well give in.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Haven't been looking super deep, but the semi-notable discounts are Fractured But Whole, Dark Souls Remastered (If you own Prepare to Die already you get an extra discount, making it $4), and that's mostly it other than the usual suspects. Not much catching my eye, thinking about picking up Project Warlock now since after trying it I was a little bit wishy washy, but he patched in a higher difficulty and with a discount, eh. Surprisingly enough the Blood remaster is only 25% off despite them throwing 50% coupons around like candy at launch. Might pick up some of those garbage CYOA games I like playing just because I can wait for them to enter the group bundle for another discount on top of everything which enters "Cheaper than buying CYOA books at a used bookstore" territory. Admittedly this isn't the kind of CYOA book I'd buy normally, but who knows. Maybe a text-based drag queen RPG adventure will be the next Fallout.

 

[Curratum]

Haven't been looking super deep, but the semi-notable discounts are Fractured But Whole, Dark Souls Remastered (If you own Prepare to Die already you get an extra discount, making it $4), and that's mostly it other than the usual suspects. Not much catching my eye, thinking about picking up Project Warlock now since after trying it I was a little bit wishy washy, but he patched in a higher difficulty and with a discount, eh. Surprisingly enough the Blood remaster is only 25% off despite them throwing 50% coupons around like candy at launch. Might pick up some of those garbage CYOA games I like playing just because I can wait for them to enter the group bundle for another discount on top of everything which enters "Cheaper than buying CYOA books at a used bookstore" territory. Admittedly this isn't the kind of CYOA book I'd buy normally, but who knows. Maybe a text-based drag queen RPG adventure will be the next Fallout.

If you're doing CYOA, at least do the good kind: