The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread - WINTER SALE 2024

[Multi-headed Cow]

The Red number where it says "/ RED PTS ODOMETER" is based on recent purchases previous to or during the Sale, remaining points from the Lunar Sale and increases by 100 every day you participate in the "race" and indicates total number of possible points. If you buy things on Steam I think it also increases by $1 = 100PTS; 1€ = 121PTS.

Yeah, the previous odometer gains seem pretty fucky. Especially because mine claims I should be getting 5,000 from a previous sale, but I'm capped at 3,900 having spent nothing during this sale thus far. Already figured out the idling on achievements, hence all that rambling. In fact I would take a guess at if people actually wanted to play the game you're supposed to sit on your odometer so it's just over 1,000, since that seems to be what adjusts your speedo nail. So there's probably a degree of idle game in there too, you're just supposed to deny turning points into tokens to help the team because... They're banking on people forgetting to turn in tokens so they're lost, maybe? Still doesn't matter much but it's weird.

Thanks for mentioning that they stack though. It's still a little risky because if Valve changes how this shit works while the event's running it could be fairly ugly, but eh. I've been totting up my semi-reasonable high price single purchases to see what would get me the most coupons over the run of the sale. I don't really want to go whole hog and drop $120 for a coupon every day since that's too risky even though it's still a pretty good deal.

 

[Solid Snail]

In the end I got Forsaken Remastered, Myst 3 and 4, Simon The Sorcerer 1 and 2 for 10€ total thanks to the vouchers I had. And probably that's all I get in the sale, unless I'll manage to get other vouchers without spending money.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Gonna chime in with some shilling.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

alright I got like 70,000 of these tokens wtf do I do with them

 

[rusty_shackleford]

First, I'm not sure if multiple $5 coupons can stack.

they do, I just activated a few at the same time

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

alright I got like 70,000 of these tokens wtf do I do with them

Keep your farming up big spender. With a $700 dunk like that you can potentially earn 65 $5 coupons over the course of the sale.

Edit: God damn. Going through ridiculous mental gymnastics to figure out how much I want to spend based on potential maximum coupons earned over the sale, since it's most effective to buy during the first day to increase your "Earnings" over the event.
Right now I'd get 3 coupons over the sale if I spent $0. If I bought Dark Souls Remaster, Project Warlock, and Amid Evil I'd spend $26 but earn 6 coupon over the sale, essentially meaning those 3 games would total $11 which I'm perfectly content with.

 

[Wunderbar]

If anyone's looking into buying Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLCs like me, there's a seperate Royal DLC pack that doesn't show up on store page, which is much cheaper than rebuying Royal Edition or upgrading the collection.

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/368777/

is there any way to open it in steam client instead of browser?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Gonna chime in with some shilling.

gonna be honest, the game reminds me of virtual boy and I get a headache thinking about it
unless you're really tied to the red color I'd suggest doing a re-release in blue or something

 

[rusty_shackleford]

If anyone's looking into buying Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLCs like me, there's a seperate Royal DLC pack that doesn't show up on store page, which is much cheaper than rebuying Royal Edition or upgrading the collection.

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/368777/

is there any way to open it in steam client instead of browser?

copy/paste "steam://nav/console" without quotations into your browser's navigation bar, hit enter
copy/paste "open https://store.steampowered.com/sub/368777/"

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Gonna chime in with some shilling.

gonna be honest, the game reminds me of virtual boy and I get a headache thinking about it
unless you're really tied to the red color I'd suggest doing a re-release in blue or something

vs

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Gonna chime in with some shilling.

gonna be honest, the game reminds me of virtual boy and I get a headache thinking about it
unless you're really tied to the red color I'd suggest doing a re-release in blue or something

vs

Great idea for a $10 DLC.

 

[Doktor Best]

https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/deus-ex-mankind-divided

Mankind Divided for 3.59

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Ended up with a finely honed order of Project Warlock, Gold But Hole, and Amid Evil (Dusk bundle to save a couple bucks more) for $34 after tax which would become $19 after the extra coupons that order will generate over the course of the sale. Then I said fuck it and ordered Neofeud and Heat Signature too which will become $4 total after the additional coupon they'll bring along.

Apocalyptic worst case scenario and coupons don't work/Valve yanks them, I spent $43 for a stack of 5 games that all sound pretty fun/interesting even if I would've waited for bigger discounts on them if the coupons didn't exist. If the coupons work, $23 for those 5 games which is absolutely a price I would've spent. And then with the 3 coupons I would've generated naturally over the sale without spending anything, $8. Lotta variance in those outcomes but even the worst outcome isn't bad enough to bother me so what the hell. This is definitely one of the weirdest Steam sales.

 

[pOcHa]

if you'd put that amount of work and effort in your job, you wouldn't need discounts to buy games...

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Is it work and effort, or am I having more fun with that than I will with the games themselves?

 

[Villagkouras]

Your odometer resets every day (As in, if your maximum was 5,000, you reached that, you "Spent" that, you couldn't climb back to 5,000 until the next day)

Seriously, I don't think that the odometer/capacity will reset, it would be too generous from Valve.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

if you'd put that amount of work and effort in your job, you wouldn't need discounts to buy games...

It's understandable. When I visited Israel I spent 10 hours haggling with a shopkeeper to get 10% discount for a bottle of water.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

if you'd put that amount of work and effort in your job, you wouldn't need discounts to buy games...

It's understandable. When I visited Israel I spent 10 hours haggling with a shopkeeper to get 10% discount for a bottle of water.

Did you get it?

 

[pOcHa]

if you'd put that amount of work and effort in your job, you wouldn't need discounts to buy games...

It's understandable. When I visited Israel I spent 10 hours haggling with a shopkeeper to get 10% discount for a bottle of water.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

if you'd put that amount of work and effort in your job, you wouldn't need discounts to buy games...

It's understandable. When I visited Israel I spent 10 hours haggling with a shopkeeper to get 10% discount for a bottle of water.

Did you get it?

10% wasn't enough, I spent 90 more hours arguing and got it for free.

 

[Black]

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10909/Furry_Lover_Pack/

 

[Citizen]

Wanted to buy rimworld, but it's not on sale
So, Outward, Predestination and Heretic Operative - any of these worth buying?

 

[Kaethar]

Wanted to buy rimworld, but it's not on sale
So, Outward, Predestination and Heretic Operative - any of these worth buying?

Rimworld never goes on sale AFAIK.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Outward

On sale? Sure

 

[Zombra]

Wanted to buy rimworld, but it's not on sale
So, Outward, Predestination and Heretic Operative - any of these worth buying?

Rimworld never goes on sale AFAIK.

Yeah, isthereanydeal says $30 is the lowest ever.
Kaethar ... buy Rimworld anyway. It'll be way better than some 6 trashy games you buy for $5 each.