STEAM!

[Bartimaeus]

 

I still hate this newer format of Steam Sale...

 

What do youmean- the thematic style?

 

The lack of anything at all to look forward. The sale is here, and what you see on the first day is the same exact thing you'll see on the last day. No activities of any sort, either. All in all, it's just a miserable experience compared to the earlier years of these 'famed' Steam Sales.

[HoonDing]

Call me when Ryse of the Tomb Raider goes -75%

[Oerwinde]

 

 

I still hate this newer format of Steam Sale...

What do youmean- the thematic style?

The lack of anything at all to look forward. The sale is here, and what you see on the first day is the same exact thing you'll see on the last day. No activities of any sort, either. All in all, it's just a miserable experience compared to the earlier years of these 'famed' Steam Sales.

Also when most of the featured titles are 50% off or less when the appeal of the older ones was the 75-90% discounts, its kinda disappointing.

[Fenixp]

The lack of anything at all to look forward. The sale is here, and what you see on the first day is the same exact thing you'll see on the last day. No activities of any sort, either. All in all, it's just a miserable experience compared to the earlier years of these 'famed' Steam Sales.

The games and activities were a neat idea I suppose - but as far as I'm concerned, a sale giving me a list of games at a discount publishers are willing to sell them for is precisely what I sort of want out of a sale, as opposed to a whole bunch of games being withheld from deeper discounts in order to become dailies or whatever. Because, after all, that's what I'm using sales for - to buy games for cheap. To play games I have ... Well, games.

 

And besides, the old approach was quite exploitative. "Here are our discounts, but they're not actually our discounts and you can get deeper discounts if you keep refreshing our main page!" Annoying.

 

Anyway, I'm buying Doom. The Demo has really impressed me. HEAR THAT, BETHESDA!? I'M BUYING DOOM OVER YOUR DEMO! KEEP IT UP!

Edited June 26, 2016 by Fenixp

[Hassat Hunter]

Nah, it was fun. Made you return to the store. Now you visit then shrug your shoulders and don't have to look for stuff to buy for 14 days. Heck, weekly sales on monday are more enticing than this sale stuff.

Lacklustre sales doesn't help much either no. -20% is the new -75% :/

 

 

I still don't quite understand why people are actually joyous over this new system for "buying games for cheap", since infact you are MUCH more expensively off than during the heydays of dailies and flash. And if it REALLY bothered you for some reason, there's still the crap 14-day deal, you know, the one you are all fawning over now?

[Fenixp]

The games aren't much more expensive because of lack of dailies, they're much more expensive because, as it turns out, early deep discounts are kinda bad for long-term sales. As digital market grows and gets more established, expect deep discounts close to release be increasingly rarer concurrence. They seemed like a good idea at the time, but ... You know.

[Flouride]

Mostly just bought bunch of adventure and indie games. Seems like the bigger games are stuck in the 14-16 euros range for eternity and Divinity is still at 20 euros...

[Labadal]

I use enhanced Steam on my browser. If any of the games I am interested in are at an all time low price, I will likely pull the trigger.

 

Bought some games, but I think that I have spent less than €30 and don't intend to buy much more from this sale.

 

I have Steam credit left, but that's being saved for Tyranny and Zero Time Dilemma.

[Keyrock]

I scooped up Axiom Verge during the sale.  It's insanely blatantly obvious that it's a Metroid clone.  In fact, if this game were any more like Metroid, the developers would be sued by Nintendo.  I'm honestly surprised that this was even allowed to release.  About the only things differentiating this game from Metroid is the main player character being male and him not wearing the Varia Suit.  Not that I'm complaining, since I freakin' love Metroid and Nintendo themselves seem to have no interest in releasing a proper 2D Metroid any time soon.  This may well be the closest thing we ever get to another proper Metroid.

Edited June 27, 2016 by Keyrock

[Oerwinde]

X-com Enemy Within pisses me off. How does a 2 year old expansion still go for 7.50 with a 75% discount?

[Humanoid]

Especially since you can buy the complete edition for less. It was also one of the BTA games in the Humble Firaxis Bundle back in January.

[Malcador]

Got Subnautica and Civ 4 for cheap. Havr Civ 4 on discs, but might as well get a backup.

 

Pretty meh sale so far. They should copy GOG and do an Insomnia sale once. That'd be funny to see.

[Humanoid]

The Steam version of Civ4 is tricky to get working with mods, including the near-essential BUGmod. I tried and gave up, reinstalled from disc instead. No disadvantage these days because the final patch removed the disc-check DRM.

[Malcador]

The Steam version of Civ4 is tricky to get working with mods, including the near-essential BUGmod. I tried and gave up, reinstalled from disc instead. No disadvantage these days because the final patch removed the disc-check DRM.

Never really played with mods. But will have to see what that Bugmod is about.

[Katphood]

Hmm, I bought these:

 

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey  

Dreamfall Chapters

Unreal Gold    

Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth  

Age of Empires II HD   

Painkiller: Black Edition    

The Deed    

[ShadySands]

GMG has some 15 cent flash sales and some mystery bundles up in addition to whatever they have on sale

 

HBIXBZ-GYSTP9-53Z5TJ for an additional 27% off select titles

Edited June 28, 2016 by ShadySands

[Malcador]

Battlefleet Gothic on sale, not very deep but what the hey.

[marelooke]

So far I got:

• Civilization Beyond Earth - Rising Tide DLC
• Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY
• Pulse
• Shadowrun Chronicles
• Styx: Master of Shadows

Decided not to bother with Fallout 4. If I need a post apocalyptic open world fix I'll start another Fallout New Vegas campaign and for my Elder Scrolls fix there's ESO.

[Blodhemn]

^Good choice. No interest in FO4 either, but I still play NV.

 

I'm not sure I'll get anything in the sale. Most indie games are too quirky and major published titles too stiff. Went with P:T and Arcanum on GOG for handy digital versions.

[Hurlshort]

Dishonored 2 is 33% off, thinking about picking it up since a lot of folks enjoyed it here.  I've already got such a backlog though!

[Tale]

G-senjou no Maou, Pony Island, and Phantasy Star IV

 

Too much of a backlog to get anything else, but was sorely tempted. G-senjou is constantly and repeatedly recommended to me, so I decided to get it. The other two were less than a buck and also highly recommended.

 

I might get Comix Zone just to have the only other Sega Genesis game I'm interested in.

 

I already finished Pony Island and deleted it because the game encouraged me to. But there was so much left to do! I might have been tricked.

[rjshae]

Rumor has it Steam was down today due to a DDoS attack. The spotty faced kid living in his Mom's basement strikes again. 

[Bartimaeus]

It was not likely to be a DDOS attack, given that the entirety of Steam - every last server in every country - went down at exactly the same exact time. It was like somebody pulled a plug that just turned everything off.

[BruceVC]

Dishonored 2 is 33% off, thinking about picking it up since a lot of folks enjoyed it here.  I've already got such a backlog though!

I just bought this, Im busy downloading it as we speak 

[rjshae]

It was not likely to be a DDOS attack, given that the entirety of Steam - every last server in every country - went down at exactly the same exact time. It was like somebody pulled a plug that just turned everything off.

 

I can't get to it today either. That darn plug again...