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Steam Summer Sales Thread: remember: you can actually play after buying

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coopolon

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hamchan said:
The first time Last Remnant was on sale it was $10 btw, which was probably less than what it was worth. Let's see if Square Enix will match that again. They should, it's been a while since that sale, game is totally worth that now.
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Pretty sure last christmas it was a daily for $20, and I think it was a weekend sale for $20 before that as well. It was on sale for $10 once, but I think SE figured that price was way too low and have never done it again. If it goes up as a daily I doubt it would go lower than $15 (although I would be very pleased with a $10 sale and hope I am wrong.)

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The Last Remnant about to reach Bloodlines type category.
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Haha, not even close, it goes relatively frequently.
 
Shai-Tan

Shai-Tan

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these sales were good for seeding a secondary multiplayer steam account that I can have peeps log into to play with me. got css, l4d2, killing floor, monday night combat, trine, lara croft guardians, frozen synapse + tf2 went free2play, and already had portal2 and magic 2012 on it.

not sure if I should have passed on homefront or brink, dont have on my main account & borderlands 'cause i've already played that way too much. bc2 was on sale but I already have 4 copies of that from EA store sales, lol
 
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Ryan_

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gdt5016 said:
Is Company of Heroes good for someone who doesn't have much experience with strategy games?
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It is. Might be a bit overwhelming at first but you get used to it pretty quickly.
 
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Discotheque

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I hope Bulletstorm gets a daily deal and one of those summer camp achievements, just so more people can play it. Criminally underrated since it's easily one of the best fps campaigns I've played in so long. The ads did it no justice.

Oh and the lack of Mirror's Edge sales recently is weird, I remember copping it for 5 bucks a long time ago, such a good deal considering the amount of hours I've put into that beauty.
 
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ShaneB

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Will ask this now before the last day rolls around and gets fill with "should I buy this?" posts. I have Eschalon book 1 and 2 on my wishlist, but with my steam wallet nearing it's bottom I allocated for the sales, is it necessary to get both? Know that even the trailer for Book 2 says no knowledge of Book 1 is necessary, so if I should just get that and save a few dollars, that would be nice.
 
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Princess Skittles

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So this is the first time Vampire has been on sale on Steam, eh? And only 33%.

Also, the general consensus is that tomorrow we can start buying our wish list games that weren't featured on dailies?
 
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Subterranean

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Princess Skittles said:
So this is the first time Vampire has been on sale on Steam, eh? And only 33%.

Also, the general consensus is that tomorrow we can start buying our wish list games that weren't featured on dailies?
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Yes it is the first time.

Usually on the last day they have the best of the daily deals for a day, which will be Sunday.
 
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Easy_D

never left the stone age
I'm on the fence with Risen. If I loved Divinity 2: DKS, will I enjoy Risen? I'm a sucker for exploration as well.
 
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Sportbilly

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ShaneB said:
Will ask this now before the last day rolls around and gets fill with "should I buy this?" posts. I have Eschalon book 1 and 2 on my wishlist, but with my steam wallet nearing it's bottom I allocated for the sales, is it necessary to get both? Know that even the trailer for Book 2 says no knowledge of Book 1 is necessary, so if I should just get that and save a few dollars, that would be nice.
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It's entirely up to you. I'm enjoying Book 1 at the moment, but Book 2 is regarded as the better game, so it's not really essential and you're correct in that it doesn't require you to have played the first game. Maybe wait until the last day and see if there's anything the same price as Book 1 you'd rather have?
 
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xXJonoXx

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Hey guys, me and friend just bought RIFT on Steam for $9.99. It says the 30 days of free game time are only good with new accounts. Me and him have been playing all day on the free trial version to see if we liked it. Now that we both bought it, can we just take our Steam CD keys and add them to our trial accounts on the Trion website? Will we still get the 30 free days? When I enter the Steam CD Key on the Trion website, it asks for my credit card info. How can I tell that I am getting the 30 days free or am I going to be charged immediately?

Anyone else do this during this sale?
 
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3rdman

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Discotheque said:
I hope Bulletstorm gets a daily deal and one of those summer camp achievements, just so more people can play it. Criminally underrated since it's easily one of the best fps campaigns I've played in so long. The ads did it no justice.

Oh and the lack of Mirror's Edge sales recently is weird, I remember copping it for 5 bucks a long time ago, such a good deal considering the amount of hours I've put into that beauty.
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Have there been any EA games up for sale? I haven't been paying attention...
 
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Princess Skittles

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Fourman said:
Usually on the last day they have the best of the daily deals for a day, which will be Sunday.
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Right, so once the dailies are announced tomorrow I should be okay to buy a few things seeing as there won't be new dailies on Sunday.

benjipwns said:
No, it's not. Some of us got it for $10 like three or four years ago.
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Lucky boys. Yeah, the Steam Sales site's data only goes back to February 2010. Thanks.
 
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ShaneB

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Sportbilly said:
It's entirely up to you. I'm enjoying Book 1 at the moment, but Book 2 is regarded as the better game, so it's not really essential and you're correct in that it doesn't require you to have played the first game. Maybe wait until the last day and see if there's anything the same price as Book 1 you'd rather have?
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Well yeah, they will be last day purchases, but since I have other things I want to purchase as well on the last day, I'll probably just get Book 2. Thanks!
 
benjipwns

benjipwns

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Princess Skittles said:
Lucky boys. Yeah, the Steam Sales site's data only goes back to February 2010. Thanks.
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Didn't mean to seem insulting or bragging if I did. Just that people always post "NEVER BEEN ON SALE" when those of us there that Halloween got it.

I'm pretty sure the only reason it even went on sale at all is because of the late demand though.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
well it's pretty obvious that one of the main points of the wishlist is to get demographic data for valve to see which products merit working actively to get publishers to put on sale.
 
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StuBurns

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Stumpokapow said:
well it's pretty obvious that one of the main points of the wishlist is to get demographic data for valve to see which products merit working actively to get publishers to put on sale.
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Wouldn't Bloodlines have been on sale more over the years then?
 
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coopolon

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StuBurns said:
Wouldn't Bloodlines have been on sale more over the years then?
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Well, just because Valve knows people want the game doesn't mean Valve can convicne the publisher (activision) to put it on sale. And the wishlist is relatively new isn't it? I thought it was implemented last year?
 
LiquidMetal14

LiquidMetal14

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I still can't add funds to wallet and I still can't log into the support site, damn this is frustrating. I had them resend the email like 8 times already and it still says I need to see the welcome email. I've received every email they've sent and it gives me my user name and email but no pass, what the hell.
 
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knitoe

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xXJonoXx said:
Hey guys, me and friend just bought RIFT on Steam for $9.99. It says the 30 days of free game time are only good with new accounts. Me and him have been playing all day on the free trial version to see if we liked it. Now that we both bought it, can we just take our Steam CD keys and add them to our trial accounts on the Trion website? Will we still get the 30 free days? When I enter the Steam CD Key on the Trion website, it asks for my credit card info. How can I tell that I am getting the 30 days free or am I going to be charged immediately?

Anyone else do this during this sale?
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If it's anything like the retail, after you enter your info, the account will show you have 30 days before being charged. You can cancel and still have the 30 days left.
 
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StuBurns

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coopolon said:
Well, just because Valve knows people want the game doesn't mean Valve can convicne the publisher (activision) to put it on sale. And the wishlist is relatively new isn't it? I thought it was implemented last year?
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I don't know, I've only been a Steam user for a few years, but I used the wishlist for the first time like a week ago.
Weenerz said:
Outside of GAF, how many people really want that game? Be honest.
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I have no idea. It's one of the highest rated PC exclusives on Steam though I think. I imagine the kind of people who have wishlists know about it.
 
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Island

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Weenerz said:
Outside of GAF, how many people really want that game? Be honest.
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Well I frequent the PA boards, and its pretty much a given that people want it there too.

PA is close to GAF in some aspects and probably has a lot of overlapping members. But still.
 
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Sanjay

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gdt5016 said:
Is Company of Heroes good for someone who doesn't have much experience with strategy games?
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I would say yes, it works in real world realms mostly. The knowledge is there already from watching thousands of world war films and games. A good example is tying to shoot a tank with bullets and throwing grenades at tanks will do zero damage. You can't game the game. At It's core the game is about out smarting the enemy then overpowering them with mass units or how fast you can click per minute like a robot.

It's single player campaigns are good too even if you don't venture on-line. The expansions add different on-line modes like last stand horde mode, tanks Vs tanks battles to add more variations for on-line gameplay. By far the best strategy warfare game made in the last decade, so bloody buy it!
 
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Island

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Sanjay said:
I would say yes, it works in real world realms mostly. The knowledge is there already from watching thousands of world war films and games. A good example is tying to shoot a tank with bullets and throwing grenades at tanks will do zero damage. You can't game the game. At It's core the game is about out smarting the enemy then overpowering them with mass units or how fast you can click per minute like a robot.

It's single player campaigns are good too even if you don't venture on-line. The expansions add different on-line modes like last stand horde mode, tanks Vs tanks battles to add more variations for on-line gameplay. By far the best strategy warfare game made in the last decade, so bloody buy it!
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Also if CoH tickles your fancy, be sure to check out the Dawn of War series from the same developer. One of my favorite PC games in the last few years.
 
benjipwns

benjipwns

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Sanjay said:
It's single player campaigns are good too even if you don't venture on-line.
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And if you don't have much experience with strategy games, you may not want to venture online right away because it will likely demoralize you forever.
 
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Carm

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Fourman said:
Yes it is the first time.

Usually on the last day they have the best of the daily deals for a day, which will be Sunday.
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Vampire was on sale on 11/3/07 for 9.99. =p

Anyone know the reason why Steam store transactions prior to Jul 2008 wouldn't be showing up?

These four are listed as complimentary:
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
The Orange Box Retail
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2 Retail Standard

Which is odd since I obviously have the email for Vampire. There transactions weren't implemented at the time maybe in the client?

Heh, Vampire was my first digital purchase ever, anywhere, then Audiosurf.
 
benjipwns

benjipwns

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Carm said:
There transactions weren't implemented at the time maybe in the client?
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I have nothing before December 29, 2007. But I checked my card records and I bought NEITHER game (Vampire and The Orange Box) on that date but in the months before. So they must have implemented it before but not added account info until then or something.

Nothing before The Orange Box (Geometry Wars, Red Orchestra for two examples) is listed for me, it's complimentary.

And oh how I once thought I was getting the worlds most amazing deal by getting BioShock for $14.99.
 
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Carm

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benjipwns said:
I have nothing before December 29, 2007. But I checked my card records and I bought NEITHER game (Vampire and The Orange Box) on that date but in the months before. So they must have implemented it before but not added account info until then or something.

Nothing before The Orange Box (Geometry Wars, Red Orchestra for two examples) is listed for me, it's complimentary.

And oh how I once thought I was getting the worlds most amazing deal by getting BioShock for $14.99.
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Yea, I'm guessing it wasn't in the client then. My first purchase showing up that isn't complimentary is Audiosurf on 7/26/08
 
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marrec

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benjipwns said:
I have nothing before December 29, 2007. But I checked my card records and I bought NEITHER game (Vampire and The Orange Box) on that date but in the months before. So they must have implemented it before but not added account info until then or something.

Nothing before The Orange Box (Geometry Wars, Red Orchestra for two examples) is listed for me, it's complimentary.

And oh how I once thought I was getting the worlds most amazing deal by getting BioShock for $14.99.
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Hey, that's still good value for that game. Even if market forces have driven it's price down lower. Still one of the Top 10 of this generation.

I'm waiting for it to drop to 5.00 *trollface*
 
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