The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Morgoth]

By the God-Gaben,that Space Marine game has a shitload of DLC,are any of that shit necessarry/good?

The whole game is utter shit. Don't bother.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Dreadnought Pack is meant to be good. No idea about the map pack. As for the rest, they are fun if you want to play dress-up in the 40k universe. I've always liked the army painter feature of Relic's games, more variety is good IMO, although it would have been better if they were free.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

I'm still waiting for a good DoW pack sale myself. Those damn things have been stubbornly staying at stupid prices for a long while, like dark crusade's normal price is twenty bucks. Needs a 85%+ discount sale to get into the magical just fucking buy it range. Then install DoWPro and oh my god all the unitss ohh yeahhh feels like expensive shampoo on a lady

 

[mck]

Bought EYE, Audiosurf, Binding of Isaac, and Trials 2. I regret not picking up Back to the Future when it was cheap last night. Hopefully it will go on sale again.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

BtTF was ok but it was a waste of the license in my opinion. The Walking Dead is the best game Telltale have made so far, with Tales of Monkey Island being second on the list.

 

[sser]

Oh shit, that canteen is infinite? Goddammit. The main problem was I had all these items, and then the doctor gave me more and I lost track of which ones were which. I dropped damn near everything except a 9mm, some crap food, a vault uniform, and the canteen because I figured it was one of them. Thanks for the heads up. Also looking into Drakensang. I actually liked Dragon Age and it's hard to find games of that ilk these days, no matter how streamlined their gameplay has become.

I loved (okay, maybe that's too strong, I didn't like the writing) Dragon Age, but I found both Drakensang games pretty bad except for the character system (which wins over DA in every category except active abilities). So I've finished neither of them. You might like them though, I suppose.

Have you tried the Game of Thrones RPG? It's surprisingly good.

Waiting to see if GoT drops further; will be picking it up by the end of the sale, at the least. Probably the same for Drakensang though I kind of doubt it has the popularity to make one of the bigger deals.



Agree about the sales being kind of hectic, but I guess that's what they're aiming for. I've picked up what I've wanted so far (CKII: Sword of Islam/New Vegas Ultimate), but those flash deals are pretty lame, especially if you have the graveyard shift or just... you know, work during the day.

 

[Jaesun]

I'm hoping Spec Ops gets a sale. As that sound actually quite interesting from reading the thread here about it.

I picked up Eschalon Book II and Divine Divinity. Seriously 3$ each. SOLD!

 

[commie]

I'm still waiting for a good DoW pack sale myself. Those damn things have been stubbornly staying at stupid prices for a long while, like dark crusade's normal price is twenty bucks. Needs a 85%+ discount sale to get into the magical just fucking buy it range. Then install DoWPro and oh my god all the unitss ohh yeahhh feels like expensive shampoo on a lady

Where were you a couple weeks ago when each DOW2 game was going for 2.50 euro(retribution was 5) and DOW Platinum was 2.50(included Dow plus expansion and Dark Crusade), Could get Soulstorm for 1.75 euro as well...


Ahh right it was one of those miraculous sales that actually was far cheaper in Eurofagistan rather than the KWA. Though even in the US it was pretty cheap.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I'm hoping Spec Ops gets a sale. As that sound actually quite interesting from reading the thread here about it.

http://www.amazon.com/Spec-Ops-The-Line-Download/dp/B0085NTITS

Seriously doubt it will be cheaper than that on Steam, given the game's a week, maybe two weeks old. What Amazon's selling is a Steam key, too.

 

[Infinitron]

I'm still waiting for a good DoW pack sale myself. Those damn things have been stubbornly staying at stupid prices for a long while, like dark crusade's normal price is twenty bucks. Needs a 85%+ discount sale to get into the magical just fucking buy it range. Then install DoWPro and oh my god all the unitss ohh yeahhh feels like expensive shampoo on a lady

Where were you a couple weeks ago when each DOW2 game was going for 2.50 euro(retribution was 5) and DOW Platinum was 2.50(included Dow plus expansion and Dark Crusade), Could get Soulstorm for 1.75 euro as well...


Ahh right it was one of those miraculous sales that actually was far cheaper in Eurofagistan rather than the KWA. Though even in the US it was pretty cheap.

Damn, I should have gotten one of you Eurofags to gift it to me.

 

[Jaesun]

I'm hoping Spec Ops gets a sale. As that sound actually quite interesting from reading the thread here about it.

http://www.amazon.com/Spec-Ops-The-Line-Download/dp/B0085NTITS

Seriously doubt it will be cheaper than that on Steam, given the game's a week, maybe two weeks old. What Amazon's selling is a Steam key, too.

Nice thanks BRO.

 

[Metro]

Space Marine = Another crap over the shoulder console shooter. Walking Derp = barely an adventure game, just an interactive comic chained together with QTE. So far I've only bought Portal 2.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Is Legend of Grimdark any good?

 

[Metro]

Yes if you like blobbers/Eye of the Beholder series type of games. My hunch tells me it will be in a future Humble Bundle, though, so take that for what you will.

 

[kingcomrade]

Metro and Morgoth, trying to usurp skyway with their terrible judgement when it comes to games.

Space Marine is one of the most fun shooters that's come out in the past few years. It's very satisfying and worth the money. The one thing I've heard about the multiplayer is that the community is very fractured due to all the different DLC combinations. I haven't really bothered playing multiplayer.

 

[Metro]

Metro and Morgoth, trying to usurp skyway with their terrible judgement when it comes to games.

Space Marine is one of the most fun shooters that's come out in the past few years. It's very satisfying and worth the money. The one thing I've heard about the multiplayer is that the community is very fractured due to all the different DLC combinations. I haven't really bothered playing multiplayer.

Actually Morgoth tends to praise some shitty console games, too. The reality is Space Marine is a flat out console designed shooter. If you like it, fine, just don't pretend it isn't.

 

[kingcomrade]

Are you saying it doesn't run well or control well on PC?

 

[Metro]

I'm saying what I said in the last two posts: It is an over-the-shoulder third person console shooter. If you enjoy those type of games then more power to you. I'm sure it runs and controls just fine. The problem is one of design not optimization.

 

[Excidium]

It's more of a hack n' slash game than a shooter. And it's damn fun. If you're into 40k.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Just messed with Anno 2070. Gave an initial terrible impression with all the Ubisoft Uplay bullshit, but once I was in the game proper it was nice. Did the first campaign mission to get my sealegs a bit, not sure if I'll abandon the campaign entirely and just play in "Dick around" mode now or not. Shocked to learn the future hippies are apparently in the lead. The future capitalists have hamburgers as a resource! HAMBURGERS! WHAT THE FUCK ARE ANNO 2070 PLAYERS DOING

 

[Ulminati]

The future capitalists have hamburgers as a resource! HAMBURGERS!

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Huh. Guess it's good I grabbed Anno when I did. The bundle with all DLC went from $25 to $30.

 

[Gragt]

Nothing too interesting for me so far. Got Wrath of the Lamb because it was cheap. I wanted to get it earlier but was too busy to play The Binding of Isaac, so I figured I could wait until the sale to get it. Portal 2 can go cheaper before I'll be interested, and stuff like Trine 2 I'd rather get on GG and then activate it on Steam. I got Legend of Grimrock on GOG earlier, knowing it'll be on sale on Steam, but that's perfect since I'd rather avoid Steam if at all possible. I could be tempted by Blades of Times because boobies but it's also on GG and it'll be on sale some day or later. I got enough shit to play already.

I'm surprised to see they dropped the achievement system to go back to something more conservative. That was a somewhat fun and dynamic way to showcase the games, though morons complained that they bought a game for the achievements and it was hard to get. Their coupon system of the last sale left me completely cold though.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Well you can now acquire badges for participating in the Steam sale and stuff.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-games/201207/scarcity-and-the-steam-summer-sale

Consider a simple 1975 experiment by psychologist Stephen Worchel to provide an illustration of this concept involving baked goods. Posing as a consumer products survey, the experimenters offered each subject a chocolate chip cookie from one of two jars. One of the jars had many cookies in it. The other had only a few. Of course, people reported the cookies from the mostly empty jars as more delicious, more desirable, and more expensive. This despite that the cookies in both jars WERE THE SAME COOKIES.

But Steam and similar download services sell digital games, right? They’re not cookies that are about to disappear, there is literally an UNLIMITED SUPPLY of the 1s and 0s that comprise these digitally distributed games. True, but the scarcity effect still applies, because it’s not so much the scarcity of the physical product that we react to, but the opportunity to buy it.

The Steam Summer Sale invokes the scarcity effect by being a limited time event that only runs July 12 through July 22. On top of that, many of the items on sale change every day, so if you see a game you want, you'd better act now. But on top of THAT, Steam is TRIPLING down by offering "Flash Sales" that only stick around for a paltry 8 hours or less with the text "Short Deals. Get 'em while they last!" Then it really turn the screws by posting a countdown timer next to each deal.

It's a very well established fact that humans hate losing choices once we perceive having them. Any other day you might not buy Super Street Fighter IV even for ten bucks, but threaten to raise the price on you in six more hours and suddenly people are considering it for a lot more because we're simply averse to losing the chance to get it for cheap.