HP_Wuvcraft
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Yeah, I'm not even trying. By the time the Market Lock goes up, the sale would be long over.
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Steam Summer Sale 2016 |OT| It's better than nothing
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Yeah, I'm not even trying. By the time the Market Lock goes up, the sale would be long over.
Pro tip for this sale: get Tales from the Borderlands. Even if you don't like Telltale games. You don't need to know anything about B'lands, it's 66% off and the game is incredible. One of the best games I've played this year, combines comedy & heart like few games have done recently.
I'll probably even gift a few copies to people in my friend list, I love this game so so much.
will this give me the update later this year?
SolidSnakeUS
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So it's true you can't get cards with buying then? Weak...
Haunted
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Dropping some more recommendations - no unknown gems, but great deals for high quality games nonetheless.
Valkyria Chronicles 4,99
The Banner Saga 4,99
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter 3,74 (!)
Valkyria Chronicles 4,99
The Banner Saga 4,99
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter 3,74 (!)
Chubzdoomer
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Wow, I don't understand those people because although you did occasionally miss out on deals because they were specific to one day, at the same time you got much better deals when you didn't miss out on them. It just seems like for the most part, the huge discounts aren't there anymore like they used to be. Steam sales suck now. :-(
The Lamonster
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Depending on how weak I am, I might just getting Skyrim Legendary Edition (just the "license," never going to install and play it) so I can play the remaster in the fall.
Dre_G_Writer
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Aawwww yyiiiiiissssss.
Thanks y'all!!!
Gonna be playing the shit outta those.
Nabs
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No, it's really bad.
petethepanda
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I know they never really do the meta-game stuff anymore, but I was holding out hope for at least something small and cool like the Monster Game from last summer.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Pro tip for this sale: get Tales from the Borderlands. Even if you don't like Telltale games. You don't need to know anything about B'lands, it's 66% off and the game is incredible. One of the best games I've played this year, combines comedy & heart like few games have done recently.
I'll probably even gift a few copies to people in my friend list, I love this game so so much.
Listen to this guy, great game
Nah, you won't get the extras in your inventory.
29.98 a year ago on Steam, according to http://isthereanydeal.com
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Which is a bad deal because you're buying 5 games from completely different companies & series & the chance you wanted to buy all 5 games (or even 4 of them) is really low. You're much better off just buying any games you want separately.
Of the two, the Metroidvania bundle is much better since the games are newer & of generally high quality. The JRPG bundle is a joke though - Valkyria Chronicles has been discounted & bundled so many times already, Disgaea is a port of an old game, and the other two non-Tales games are really niche and generally not considered very good games. It's also kind of funny that in the JRPG bundle, 3 of the 5 games are Strategy/RPGs.
Maintenance
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What's the bonus discount on Danganronpa 2 if you have the first? I have it and I'm still getting only 20% off.
Lumination
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If anyone has been looking for a good visual novel without any of the usual Japanese ecchi stuff, The House in Fata Morgana is 20% off. It's a gothic horror mystery that I've been enjoying this past week. The soundtrack is phenomenal.
You can find the OT here and the 3ish hr demo here.
You can find the OT here and the 3ish hr demo here.
All I remember is everyone in the sales topic last year declaring how much better this format was, how they HATED waiting for flash/daily sales. Shortly after I recall reading an analysis from Valve that showed sales traffic in that format was significantly increased over previous sales formats.
As someone else mentioned, it also avoids refund headaches on Valve's part. Someone has to take a loss on credit card processing fees.
Pro tip for this sale: get Tales from the Borderlands. Even if you don't like Telltale games. You don't need to know anything about B'lands, it's 66% off and the game is incredible. One of the best games I've played this year, combines comedy & heart like few games have done recently.
I'll probably even gift a few copies to people in my friend list, I love this game so so much.
Far and away the best game to have the name Borderlands. It is fantastic.
Shadowrun HK is so much fun and the price is awesome considering they just did a free update not too long ago that added a new mini-campaign.
Ugh, I got to the final step of the purchase process and it's been sitting on this screen for 10 minutes:
Any thoughts on what I should do? Refresh the page? I don't want to be double charged...
Let it stay there. Mine were stuck there for more than 10 minutes and then suddenly it went through.
OK. So I get a much better deal buying Dragonborn in a bundle than I do buying it by itself.
What?
That's the point of those bundles - you own everything else so you get a big discount on the remaining items.
electroflame
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I've got everything set up with the authenticator, so I don't have to worry about the market lock.
I just have to wait for the market to not be locked up and let me sell crap. By then, the artificially-inflated price of the event cards will drop down to ~7-8 cents a card, so, yeah, pretty lame.
This sale's pretty much a disaster for this kind of stuff. I'm not even sure why they bothered adding a set of trading cards for it.
TheVoidDragon
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It seems there''s nothing to make Steam sales special anymore. The prices aren't that great and there's no activities now.
Another decision to make:
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood or Tales of Symphonia?
I love The New Order and have The Old Blood on my wishlist for a very long time now. Heard mostly positive things about it. Tales of Symphonia I'm interested because I never played a Tales game before. I know about the technical issues and that they can be fixed. But I kinda don't want yet another RPG on my backlog.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood or Tales of Symphonia?
I love The New Order and have The Old Blood on my wishlist for a very long time now. Heard mostly positive things about it. Tales of Symphonia I'm interested because I never played a Tales game before. I know about the technical issues and that they can be fixed. But I kinda don't want yet another RPG on my backlog.
SSPssp
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Buying turds is exactly what I love doing to maximize dem +1s! *Clicks all bundles* Of course I already have them all!
Vanishing is on my list, but I am worried it's too scary for me (no jump scares right?)
Well Cdkeys is a grey market...
eh. Some things may be added later. Ubi tends to do that. For the most part, though, yeah. No harm. It'll only be additions from now on, mainly.
super-famicom
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Oh, its status got updated for the sale? When i checked my wishlist around 10 minutes ago it was still normally priced for me.
Puck Beaverton
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Is the Symphonia port better now? User reviews say it is but I'm still not sure.
Had this guy on my wishlist for awhile, will probably have to bite.
Just waiting for my STEAM cards from best buy to come in the mail.. supposed to be here tomorrow.
I think youl'l get a better sonic deal from the humble bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/sonic-25th-anniversary-bundle
I just completed it and it's decent. It doesn't leave the best first impression due to poor implementation of controller support (can be changed), some limb rotating animations that make it seem cheap and cringeworthy meme filled dialogue. Add to that a lot of asset reuse throughout the game and it might seem like there's no coming back, but it does become quite compelling once you start upgrading your character and I ended up enjoying looking for secrets, made in the old school tradition where it can be completely arbitrary what you have to do to find them. Not everyone will find that enjoyable, mind.
If you've already played the more obvious better quality examples of the genre (Axiom Verge, Ori, Environmental Station Alpha and others..) and are still hungry for more, Ghost 1.0 might be worth a look.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Pretty much. The sales are free-for-alls now.
Not a good metric to measure by.
PedroPanache
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For a mostly PC gamer, it's probably slightly shameful that I've never ever played a rogue-like, so aside from Necrodancer and Flame in The Flood (which are in my cart), what are some good easy ones for a beginner in the genre to dip their toes into?
That sale never really happened though.
It's about 28% off if you own DR1....you get the bundle discount, which should be right below the other price.
Baron von Loathsome
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OK. So I get a much better deal buying Dragonborn in a bundle than I do buying it by itself.
What?
The bundles working as intended.
adamantypants
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Might get Doom. But considering that by the time I actually get around to it, it'll probably be cheaper anyway.. maybe not.
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