Bartimaeus 2,559 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 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. 1 Quote Put fascists and sociopaths on your ignore list. Quote Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Link to post Share on other sites
HoonDing 4,252 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Call me when Ryse of the Tomb Raider goes -75% Quote The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to post Share on other sites
Oerwinde 1,272 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 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. Quote The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity. Link to post Share on other sites
Fenixp 2,074 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 (edited) 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hassat Hunter 1,380 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 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? Quote ^ I agree that that is such a stupid idiotic pathetic garbage hateful retarded scumbag evil satanic nazi like term ever created. At least top 5. TSLRCM Official Forum || TSLRCM Moddb || My other KOTOR2 mods || TSLRCM (English version) on Steam || [M4-78EP on Steam Formerly known as BattleWookiee/BattleCookiee Link to post Share on other sites
Fenixp 2,074 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flouride 704 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 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... Quote Hate the living, love the dead. Link to post Share on other sites
Labadal 1,696 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Keyrock 9,230 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) 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 Quote I wonder if there is beer on the sun Link to post Share on other sites
Oerwinde 1,272 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 X-com Enemy Within pisses me off. How does a 2 year old expansion still go for 7.50 with a 75% discount? Quote The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity. Link to post Share on other sites
Humanoid 1,935 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 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. Quote L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G Link to post Share on other sites
Malcador 7,638 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 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. Quote Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to post Share on other sites
Humanoid 1,935 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 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. Quote L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G Link to post Share on other sites
Malcador 7,638 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 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. Quote Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to post Share on other sites
Katphood 2,107 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 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 1 Quote Katphood on PSN, Steam & Xbox Live Link to post Share on other sites
ShadySands 7,836 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) 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 1 Quote Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to post Share on other sites
Malcador 7,638 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Battlefleet Gothic on sale, not very deep but what the hey. Quote Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to post Share on other sites
marelooke 613 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 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. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blodhemn 135 Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 ^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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hurlsnot 8,273 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 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! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tale 2,470 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 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. 1 Quote "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater." Link to post Share on other sites
rjshae 9,786 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Rumor has it Steam was down today due to a DDoS attack. The spotty faced kid living in his Mom's basement strikes again. Quote "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to post Share on other sites
Bartimaeus 2,559 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 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. Quote Put fascists and sociopaths on your ignore list. Quote Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Link to post Share on other sites
BruceVC 2,860 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 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 Quote "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to post Share on other sites
rjshae 9,786 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 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... Quote "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to post Share on other sites
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