Originally Posted by fart_bubble if it ain't free, it

Official seal of awesomeness.

Originally Posted by CoffeeEdge Official seal of awesomeness.

and yes, it's an awesome thing to see in person

The conversion is complete. Looks like many of you have accepted the way and are on the path! Good work! Your decoder rings are in the mail!

Okay I think I have a problem.

Since the sale started I have already bought Zeno Clash, SSHD Double Pack, Ghostbusters, Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000, Cryostasis, Introversion Complete Pack, Overlord Complete Pack, Killing Floor and the Unreal Pack.

I want to pick up the iD pack, Call of Duty pack, Telltale Everything pack and Fallout 3 but waiting to see if any of them become a daily deal. Also want to pick up Batman:AA + Just Cause 2 if either of them goes on a daily deal or the Square Eidos pack if it gets further reduced.

I only got started with Steam back in the last holiday sale. Between that and some of the midweek and weekend sales since then I had about 70 games in my account . Of these I've probably got around to playing 30% for any length of time. I've completed much less than this. To be honest, Civ 4 has got more attention than anything else. I could have probably just bought Civ 4 and the Orange Box and been just as entertained but when I see a good game for $1.50 - $7.50 that I think I might want to play one day I just can't say no. According to Steam Calculator I now have 92 games for a total value of $1443.96 in my account and it's likely to go up most days for the next week or so.

I just added up what I've spent on Steam Games so far. It comes to about $280. That's probably a fair bit more than I would have spent buying old fashioned retail in the same amount of time but it's awesome having a big list of quality games ready to go whenever I want and it makes me feel better about all those games on floppy disk and later CDs my friends and I used to share.

Buying games on Steam has almost become a game in itself - trying to get the maximum amount of gaming goodness for the lowest price possible. Packs, daily deals and other non-holiday sales make for some difficult decisions.

What are the chances of that Call of Duty pack getting any cheaper? It's already 75% off but it's normally a bit overpriced I reckon. The possibility that there might be some crazy 80-90% off deal has made me hold back until now. I'll probably wait until the last day just in case but given how stingy Activision can be at times and how big the discount is I'm a little worried they'll pull the pin on the deal before then.

Originally Posted by elpolloestupendo Got a couple extra L4D2 games from the 4-pack, if anybody wants in. I'd also be willing to just swap one of them for a L4D1, if for some reason somebody has an extra one from some old 4-pack deal and they'd rather swap it then pay.

Can I get in on this one as long as you aren't in Australia like me? We only get a crappy censored version if we buy from the AU store.

Anyone wanna vouch for KANE & LYNCH being worth $5?

EVE is a great buy for $2. I played through my 2 weeks of the demo and decided it wasn't for me considering the monthly fee but it's good fun if you've got a good corp to roll with.

Nothing for me today though.

EDIT: Neat trick from the Reddit comments.

I haven't played EVE in a while, but if this Steam sale works like the previous ones, I'd like to point out that this allows you to effectively get as many months of EVE as you'd like for your existing accounts for $2/month. Just use the refer-a-friend program to invite a junk email account, then activate the account by purchasing through steam. The referring account will get a month of free game time, and as an added bonus, you get a 45-day alt as well. Once your throwaway account has subscribed, your main account gets its referral program invites back, so you can do this as many times as you like.

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So I bought the Civ IV pack, just to have it on Steam instead of Impulse (...... don't look at me like that). But now I see that Steam has put a bunch of extra, greyed out Civ items on there. Multiples of each of them, I think. An extra Beyond the Sword, extra Warlords, etc. Why? They don't do anything. They just sit there, cluttering my list. Any ideas?

Also, YES, Gothic bundle! This is hilarious to me, because I almost bought them both at their sale prices. Now I got them for $2 total. And Flotilla. Hope I like it, but if not, eh, $2. Pardon my paragraph of blah blah, please.

Originally Posted by Jesse_Dylan So I bought the Civ IV pack, just to have it on Steam instead of Impulse (...... don't look at me like that). But now I see that Steam has put a bunch of extra, greyed out Civ items on there. Multiples of each of them, I think. An extra Beyond the Sword, extra Warlords, etc. Why? They don't do anything. They just sit there, cluttering my list. Any ideas?

Pretty sure those extra greyed out ones are the mac versions.

Buncha crap on sale today. Why OG HL isn't free at this point I have no idea. It was a great game, but I don't think I'd ever pay for it in 2010 (assuming I didn't own it).

Originally Posted by El Gray Anyone wanna vouch for KANE & LYNCH being worth $5?

I would grab it for $5 but its 7.5€ here so i'm kinda doubting...

Originally Posted by SEH Why OG HL isn't free at this point I have no idea.

Well, it's not exactly standard industry practice for games to go freeware after hitting 10+ years of age, or anything. Why should HL be any exception?

Originally Posted by CoffeeEdge Well, it's not exactly standard industry practice for games to go freeware after hitting 10+ years of age, or anything. Why should HL be any exception?

Because Megazell compels it to?

Originally Posted by El Gray Anyone wanna vouch for KANE & LYNCH being worth $5?

Buyer beware regarding it working on your rig. My system SHOULD run it pretty well but it's near unplayable and abandoned by the devs, so don't expect any patches either. Disappointing because it seems like fun.

Looking for an extra copy of L4D2 from the 4 pack...PM me please.

Originally Posted by theGieche Pretty sure those extra greyed out ones are the mac versions.

Ah, okay! Thanks. Kinda obtrusive, though. It won't let me install them, so obviously it knows I don't have a Mac... so I wonder why they show up at all? Oh well.

Originally Posted by Jesse_Dylan Ah, okay! Thanks. Kinda obtrusive, though. It won't let me install them, so obviously it knows I don't have a Mac... so I wonder why they show up at all? Oh well.

It's a glitch, basically. For some reason, they weren't able to get both the PC and Mac versions of the CivIV games in a single Steam AppID entry, so, as a (hopefully) temporary solution, they've had to make them entirely separate entries, meaning that for now, they show up twice in your games list.

Well, it'll be cool if they fix it, but if not, I'll live. I'm just happy to have them on Steam.

Originally Posted by CoffeeEdge Well, it's not exactly standard industry practice for games to go freeware after hitting 10+ years of age, or anything. Why should HL be any exception?

It just seems odd that HL wouldnt be something that Valve would give away just for creating a Steam account. It's old, cheap, and like THE game that launched Valve, it seems like a prime candidate to be a freebie. Don't act like they haven't been known to give away some of their games before.

Any thoughts on the Space Rangers games, particularly the second one? Got shockingly good reviews.