Liar. You're waiting to pull the trigger on a great Serious Sam 3 sale.
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STEAM | June 2014 - Enhanced Electronics Edition
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Liar. You're waiting to pull the trigger on a great Serious Sam 3 sale.
I think sometimes they put the wrong price, as in, they discount a certain game too much. I could be wrong though, as I'm fairly new to Steam.
I think it happened in the Winter sale for the Borderlands 2 GOTY Edition.
On the rare occasion, when the featured deals change over, the new discount is stacked on top of the general sale discount, e.g.: CS:GO has a general sale discount of 50% ($7.49) -> it appears as one of the new Flash Sales -> instead of the discount moving up to 75%, it's applied on top of the pre-existing discount of 50% and the game is briefly $1.87.
It happened for Don't starve. Game was literally 1.20 a copy if you bought the 4 pack
Mr. Poolman
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Come on Gaben, I need the Borderlands 2 season pass...
Garcia
Member
I suppose they only last for the very first couple of minutes once the dailies get updated, right? Which means I need coffee, gallons of it to stay awake, lol.
AbundantChoice
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I'd guess Enslaved, or maybe Hunted: The Demon's Forge. Enslaved is good enough fun. Hunted... less so.
Ogedai_Khan
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Something like 91% off on Dishonored GOTY or Sleeping Dogs
Mr. Luchador
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My Recommendations - Part 1
1. Papers, Please! [Store Front]|[Review]
2. Fallout [Store Front]|[Review]
3. Fallout 2 [Store Front]|[Review]
4. Hotline Miami [Store Front]|[Review]
5. Sleeping Dogs [Store Front]|[Review]
1. Papers, Please! [Store Front]|[Review]
2. Fallout [Store Front]|[Review]
3. Fallout 2 [Store Front]|[Review]
4. Hotline Miami [Store Front]|[Review]
5. Sleeping Dogs [Store Front]|[Review]
racketpunch
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I'd say there's a good chance since it did in the last last sale.
Its always weird reading stuff like this. You made assumptions about the game and now its coming back to poke you in the eye
He's jokingly referencing the fact that it goes on sale regularly.
Same! I saw some gameplay and thought it like absolutely awesome. Then I realised it was multiplayer and a little part of me died.
Eh, before I was paying for a 7/whatever and I actually got less than 1/0.3. It was really bad. It took me 5 and a half days to download Wolfensteain the New Order... it will take me hours now. Hours!!
Anyway, I really wanted to go with Fastweb's fibra, but they apparently stopped like 2 km from my house, while Telecom's fibra arrived a few few days ago.
edit: pseudo-fibra of course, only one street in Reggio Emilia has real optical fiber, and Fastweb hasn't expanded it since 2001.
bobnowhere
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A feeding frenzy!
Garcia
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Dios mío, ¡mi cuerpo aún no está listo! // Oh God, my body ain't ready yet!
Yes!! Enslaved. I'm in the mood for some 3rd action gaming, so adding it to my wishlist. Thanks to both of you!
Joe Molotov
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See: GamersGate's Bethesda Pack
AstuteClass
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lol I never played that, but I remember the glitches... oh there were glithces... like a piano playing Xenomorph!
Oh damn. Does it actually say those sales are stacked, or do people just tell from the price being so ridiculously low?
Hahaha and no doubt some admin employee getting a finger wag!
What happened there?
derExperte
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Goat Sim is downloading a 500MB patch, I hope they fixed the broken achievements. Wouldn't mind something sale related either.
Thatoneguy64
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So do we think it's likely Xenonauts will get a sale? It's been on Steam since roughly July of last year in early access, but only released officially three days ago. Hoping it will hit 50% off, but not really holding my breath for it.
And any chance we see Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance at 75%? I know it's hit 50% off on Amazon in the past.
And any chance we see Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance at 75%? I know it's hit 50% off on Amazon in the past.
AstuteClass
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Speaking of GamersGate, even though they have PixelJunk Eden and Shooter for really low on their weekend sale, would it be silly to take the plunge now when we're less than 2 hours away?
Pretty much the same here. Fastweb stopped building its line 3 years ago ONE FUCKING BLOCK south of mine.
I was thinking of switching to Telecom or Vodafone (both brings fiber to my house), but at the moment it would cost almost double per month compared to now, so hell, I'll at least wait until after the sale to assess the damages.
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.
The Bethesda Complete Pack (Skyrim, Dishonored, Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, New Vegas, + DLCs) for $38. Was only on sale for a short time before they ran out of keys.
I made no assumptions about it, and I'd be way more interested if it had single-player content.
Huh, I hadn't heard of that game at all, looks really nice! Wishlisted.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
No one knows. Maybe the games will be less than 75% off on Steam. Maybe the games will be more than 75% off on Steam. Maybe they'll be flash sales, maybe they won't.
The Grim Heaper
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It included more than that, and was around $27, wasn't it? I know it came with Rage, Brink, Rogue Warrior, and probably a few more things...
racketpunch
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Haha ok. Sorry, I'm not sharp enough to catch sarcasm this early in the morning.
Both. There's a small green rectangle showing the percentage off opposite the price. In the case of the example I gave it'd show -88% (rounded up a little).
AstuteClass
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Yeah but that's what I meant... the potential for being cheaper on Steam is there, so why not wait 2 hours?
I just really fancy a dabble on PixelJunk Eden dammit!
Edit: Lmao I got the Steam store up, and Gus Fring is on the PayDay 2 cover!
Well sure. But if you just assumed it had single player and it didn't... lol
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.
Right you are. Was $28.76 and included:
- Brink Complete Pack
- Dishonored™
- DOOM 3 BFG Edition
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
- Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
- Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™
- RAGE
- Rogue Warrior
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
This was Dec 22nd 2012
AlphaProspector
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The funny thing about the Steam sales is that even if you are disappointed about them (as I've been), it's the whole previous moments before it starts, all that tension (what in spanish sports slang we would call "la previa") what makes everyone lose their minds and what I find so engaging.
People discovering for the first time that their spreadsheet device is actually a more than capable gaming machine, that you can switch from work mode to game mode on the fly and even plug the dude on a TV for some comfy couch action, etc.
I have been delving into Steam sales since 2010 so I saw them d/evolve from fun events where you would achievement-hunt or collect tickets, had sections for indies and one for bigger games to this somewhat lifeless, massive, mastodontic events of badges, card collecting, flash sales, big dailies and such.
To think I thought I had an awesome deal for getting Front Mission Evolved for $12 back in those years (and played nearly 50 hours thanks to the very small but active multiplayer community) or $7.50 for War for Cybertron...
Getting something 75% off at $2.49 was like the mega deal. (It still is a great deal today but with the backlog wars, a lot enters into the "will I play this right now?" territory.)
Someone bring me my cane, I'm feeling old already...
edit: Of course, I understand a lot of the "magic" is lost when there are so many weekend, mid-week deals, bundles over bundles in the bundle of the bundle into the bundle, Amazon, GOG, Origin handing games for free, etc. Flooded by offers everywhere.
People discovering for the first time that their spreadsheet device is actually a more than capable gaming machine, that you can switch from work mode to game mode on the fly and even plug the dude on a TV for some comfy couch action, etc.
I have been delving into Steam sales since 2010 so I saw them d/evolve from fun events where you would achievement-hunt or collect tickets, had sections for indies and one for bigger games to this somewhat lifeless, massive, mastodontic events of badges, card collecting, flash sales, big dailies and such.
To think I thought I had an awesome deal for getting Front Mission Evolved for $12 back in those years (and played nearly 50 hours thanks to the very small but active multiplayer community) or $7.50 for War for Cybertron...
Getting something 75% off at $2.49 was like the mega deal. (It still is a great deal today but with the backlog wars, a lot enters into the "will I play this right now?" territory.)
Someone bring me my cane, I'm feeling old already...
edit: Of course, I understand a lot of the "magic" is lost when there are so many weekend, mid-week deals, bundles over bundles in the bundle of the bundle into the bundle, Amazon, GOG, Origin handing games for free, etc. Flooded by offers everywhere.
corrosivefrost
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What? How dare you, sir. If I knew how to make one of those gifs showing that I was removing you from my friends list... well... just imagine that here.
Strider is a "hack and slash" my ass. Maybe "Created by hacks and slashes any hope of a resurgence of the Strider franchise to glory"... but really, it's more like "boring hold right and mash x until you get carpal tunnel syndrome waste of $15".
Strider is garbage. It's a metroidvania that has practically nothing going for it other than the climb anything/anywhere mechanic which gets boring after awhile because the world is so ... dull.
[I just realized I'm the morningbus for Strider... start recommending it and I show up to straighten people out with #TRUTHFACTS. Wow, that's kind of heavy... ]
Now i just want to cry.
corrosivefrost
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Inb4 sale starts, steam crashes
This is true.
I remember that sale... I was so pissed because I would get it in my cart and get to the payment method page and without fail every time I thought it would go through... NOPE, SCREW YOU FROST, NO GAMES FOR YOU.
Many tables were flipped, several magazine racks were knocked over, and several metric tons of glitter were thrown.
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.
Don't worry, it wasn't all rainbows and unicorns. (Most) people who got in on the deal while it was still live got nothing but support headaches from Gamersgate. Especially people who paid with Paypal, where the money was immediately taken from their account and keys weren't issued for months. A lot of orders got cancelled.
But it was a really stellar deal for those of us that got to take advantage of it.
Don't worry about it.
While some people were lucky and kept their games, GamersGate went back on their words that they would honor the price error and revoked and refunded a lot of purchases.
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