The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Roguey]

Never give your card info to Gaben. I almost exclusively use Steam Wallet.

Yeah, I don't want odd numbers of funny money just hanging around in a virtual account.

 

[Astral Rag]

So far I've acquired the following games:

Dropsy (€4,99)
Broforce (€6,99)
Thief 2 (€1,74)
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (€4,99)

 

[Abu Antar]

Fucking Northern Hemi-spherist discrimination.

"Steam WINTER Sale". Eat your Winter privilege Gaben and shove it.

Winter has apparently skipped the Northern Hemisphere, though.

Winter is probably sold out.

Damn those Steam sales.

It's back in stock! First day of snow over here.

 

[Atomkilla]

Fucking Stick of Truth. I went to the bank, placed money on my debit card, got home, shit's not on sale anymore. It's 30 euros again.

 

[Modron]

Fucking Stick of Truth. I went to the bank, placed money on my debit card, got home, shit's not on sale anymore. It's 30 euros again.

Steam day changes at 10 am (-8gmt), keep in mind for future reference.

 

[Metro]

Shouldn't matter because there technically are no daily sales, anymore. That said, Ubisoft and some other publishers seem to alter their prices on a whim with no way of keeping track.

 

[Akratus]

Fucking Stick of Truth. I went to the bank, placed money on my debit card, got home, shit's not on sale anymore. It's 30 euros again.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

 

[racofer]

That's a good thing, Metro. Steam prevented you from installing an Ubishit game.

 

[Metro]

Not me, the other dude. I would never even consider buying Shit of Truth.

 

[Excidium II]

Shit of Turd.

 

[racofer]

Oh yeah, that other guy.

 

[Atomkilla]

Fucking Stick of Truth. I went to the bank, placed money on my debit card, got home, shit's not on sale anymore. It's 30 euros again.

Steam day changes at 10 am (-8gmt), keep in mind for future reference.

As said, I though there were no more changes to the prices since there are no daily sales.

Eh, fuck it, I'll get something else if it doesn't get on the sale by the Jan 4th.

 

[Abu Antar]

Stick of Truth doesn't use uPlay. Not that you guys would give a fuck.

 

[Telengard]

It may not use UDon'tPlay, but it still belongs to USuck, and anyone who buys from them, UGotSuckered.

EDIT: The record so far - that I know of - is a Uplay update that broke the load function for a number of older Mac games and wasn't fixed for 3 months. Thus, UDon'tPlay.

 

[Baron Dupek]

anyone who buys from them, UGotSuckered.

 

[Outlander]

If you can get a 50% off coupon for The Talos Principle, it stacks with the current discount lowering the final price to 4.99

 

[pakoito]

If you can get a 50% off coupon for The Talos Principle, it stacks with the current discount lowering the final price to 4.99

I could beg for one of those.

 

[Telengard]

anyone who buys from them, UGotSuckered.

Another beautiful one, if you were stupid enough to purchase the Anno 2070 double pack, the install for Deep Ocean has to be done in game. So, one activates it, then the game reboots and loads an external installer and adds the pack, then reloads the game. But the external installer doesn't work for a large number of setups, so the install fails, it auto-loads the game, detects a patch, reboots and loads the installer. Ubi's solution after more than a year? Zilch.

 

[Belegarsson]

Fucking Stick of Truth. I went to the bank, placed money on my debit card, got home, shit's not on sale anymore. It's 30 euros again.

£4.99, steam code, might need UK address.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ICSSO78

 

[Correct_Carlo]

I wonder if not having changing prices will affect their sales at all? I don't mind it personally, but it has created way less of a sense of urgency in me. Whereas in the past this sense of urgency (something will only be on sale for 24 hours!) maybe spurred me to by stuff I otherwise wouldn't have, thus far I've yet to buy anything. And the steam front page is a fucking mess. It's been a mess for the past year since the redesign, but even more so during the sale. I have no idea why shit is being displayed and why it's being displayed in any given order. I know that Valve probably has some algorithm working behind the scenes tailoring what is displayed to stuff I've bought in the past, but on my end it all just seems like complete chaos.

Although, they do seem to have static "highlighted deals" that are universal, even though prices don't change. It's interesting that the top sellers seem to ebb and flow according to these "highlighted deals," even though the prices aren't actually changing. I guess if people will just buy what's in front of them, perhaps the algorithm model will work in the end. Who can say?

 

[DwarvenFood]

I think they would have made more with the daily deals etc., but they can't do it anymore because of the refund policy.

 

[J1M]

History also teaches us that at the end of the sale everything will be back on sale for a final push.

 

[racofer]

Combining this sale and the the previous Fall sale, I have acquired the following games so far:

• The Talos Principle + Road to Gehenna
• Broforce
• Super Hexagon
  
• KOTOR 2
  
• Assetto Corsa Dream Pack 3
• Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
• Rogue Legacy
• Dishonored GOTY
• Hotline Miami 2
• Infested Planet - Trickester's Arsenal

Total: ~R$100,00 or US$26, discounting all the monies I've made in the past week selling trading cards at the market place, ~R$18,00

And for the first time in like, ever, I've paid for all the games I have in my disposal.

Except NWN of course, since it's a Bioware game and all and A Dance with Rogues is what that game is all about.

 

[sullynathan]

was gifted New Vegas, Vampire the masquerade bloodlines and FEAR. Will be gifted even more games in trade for a picture of my feet.

 

[Metro]

Bought nothing. Went to buy Grim Dawn the other day to 'demo' it for two hours but got a store error. Will try again later.