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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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I just got an Oculus Rift & was wondering if VR games are expected to go on sale during the Steam Winter Sale based on previous seasonal promotions? There are games I want to buy right now but I can wait a week or so if it means I'll get a better price. Thanks :)

 
BossKey_Fox said:
Thank you! I learned my lesson. I bought BOIIII for $30. No more temptation for me.
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In for 10 got

FIVE Champions of Canaan

Layers of Fear

Survive in Space

The Cat Lady

Operation Flashpoint Red River

Still Not Dead

The Invisible Hours

STARWHAL

Neon Prism

Upside Down

Still Not Dead

 
If anyone who got the Invisible Hours wants to trade for one (or multiple) of the ones I got, PM me:

Distrust

Starwhal

Wick

Hungry Flame

Neon Space

Neon Space 2

Cally's Trials

Cally's Caves 3

Slash It Ultimate

 
Larry Davis said:
If anyone who got the Invisible Hours wants to trade for one (or multiple) of the ones I got, PM me:

Distrust
Starwhal
Wick
Hungry Flame
Neon Space
Neon Space 2
Cally's Trials
Cally's Caves 3
Slash It Ultimate
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Wow that's some "IndieGala on its way to the hood called Groupees" level shite you gots there!
 
fatalclout said:
I just got an Oculus Rift & was wondering if VR games are expected to go on sale during the Steam Winter Sale based on previous seasonal promotions? There are games I want to buy right now but I can wait a week or so if it means I'll get a better price. Thanks :)
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yes they do

Though i would recommend buying the elite dangerous pack right now, 14$ is a hell of a deal for the base game and expansion

Also before you think about buying anything during the sale I would check the oculus store, they run flash deals every day during their sale and while their base prices usually match steams their flash prices beat steam by far. So its worthwhile holding out if theres something on there you are looking at (unless its a multiplayer game with NO cross play, in which case you probably want the steam version anyway)

 
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it's always hilarious how this board will bitch and moan about poor humble bundles, steam sales, etc, but when it comes to bundle trash mystery box it's impossible for people to help themselves. the .0000001% chance you get an actual good game for 7 bucks is incredibly alluring

 
pasports31 said:
it's always hilarious how this board will bitch and moan about poor humble bundles, steam sales, etc, but when it comes to bundle trash mystery box it's impossible for people to help themselves. the .0000001% chance you get an actual good game for 7 bucks is incredibly alluring
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I'll give any store a shot once to see if they can actually put anything good in there

did it once with Greenman, that sucked shit, at least with this one I got two games that seem alright. Problem is that I already have one of them, but que sera, sera... still wouldn't do it again, tho

 
Larry Davis said:
I'll give any store a shot once to see if they can actually put anything good in there

did it once with Greenman, that sucked shit, at least with this one I got two games that seem alright. Problem is that I already have one of them, but que sera, sera... still wouldn't do it again, tho
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it's okay, i was going to buy it until i decided to come here and check out what sort of games people were getting. decided to light 7 dollars on fire instead

 
I also bought Blops 4 for $30. I haven't played it yet, but I assume it's like Call of Duty. The last Call of Duty I played was Blops 3. Honestly, the last 3 Call of Duty's I've actually kinda enjoyed have been Blops 1-3.

DUSK is good.

 
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yes they do

Though i would recommend buying the elite dangerous pack right now, 14$ is a hell of a deal for the base game and expansion

Also before you think about buying anything during the sale I would check the oculus store, they run flash deals every day during their sale and while their base prices usually match steams their flash prices beat steam by far. So its worthwhile holding out if theres something on there you are looking at (unless its a multiplayer game with NO cross play, in which case you probably want the steam version anyway)
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Great info. Bought Elite Dangerous deluxe after reading your comment & watching some videos. Thank you!

 
shrinerr said:
https://www.gog.com/connect

GoG connect is up, as well as a sale i guess, but it doesn't matter because it's not the EPIC GAME STORE...
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Should also point out that Full Throttle: Remastered is free on GOG for 48 hours.

Should also point out that those GOG Connect games will only be up for a week, and then supposedly some new ones will replace them. The list right now is:

Age of Wonders 3
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Shadowrun Hong Kong - Extended Edition
Shadowrun Returns
Trine Enchanted Edition

 
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Donatos?

fatalclout said:
Great info. Bought Elite Dangerous deluxe after reading your comment & watching some videos. Thank you!
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Its a great game, but be warned it does have a steep learning curve, can take a while to learn the ins and outs. It is one of the best VR games though hands down. I might even recommend doing the tutorials and a basic mission first outside of VR, and then switch to VR. The sense of scale you get while playing the game in VR is just something that doesnt translate from a screen at all, you are IN a massive space station with huge ships flying overhead. So its sort of an eye opening thing when you do that switchover

 
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I had a bunch of stuff to do last night so instead I played Civ VI until 4am.  Teddy Roosevelt is an asshole and surprise attacked me two turns after opening his borders and cheering "Bully" to me.   Little did he know the power of Spanish horses. That n00b failed to focus his attacks so he got crushed into oblivion.  Washington belongs to King Phillip II now.  Perhaps I will leave him with Boston population 3.  Boston sucks. 

 
sasquatc4 said:
Donatos?

Its a great game, but be warned it does have a steep learning curve, can take a while to learn the ins and outs. It is one of the best VR games though hands down. I might even recommend doing the tutorials and a basic mission first outside of VR, and then switch to VR. The sense of scale you get while playing the game in VR is just something that doesnt translate from a screen at all, you are IN a massive space station with huge ships flying overhead. So its sort of an eye opening thing when you do that switchover
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Best part is the voice commands. I love in VR seeming like you're there but the controls are a bit rough. So voice commands allow me to use my Joystick and still stay immersed.

 
When I become fascist dictator of the world, the very first thing on my to-do list is to ban the song "The Little Drummer Boy".

 
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If you were waiting to craft badges to get Winter Sale cards, start crafting.  Mystery cards are a go!

 
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Not sure whether to get the base game for $15 or the ultimate for $22. Are the 8 extra characters really good or important?
 
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Blizzard finally gave up on Heroes of the Storm esports.

Sounds like the talk of a change in culture at Blizz with cutting costs and maximizing profits being a new priority might be true.  Multiple mobile games in the works, giving up on a moba that was never able to compete with its two biggest rivals in any meaningful way, etc.  I'm guessing BFA being the most hated expansion in WoW history is not helping any.

Now to hope that other rumor about D4 being retooled twice and the current path for it being a darker, gorier game like the original is actually true.

 
Blizzard died years ago, after D2: LoD and WoW's crazy success (online-only MMO). They ain't been the same since, as most of those guys fled to Flagship...and then Runic, after Flagship failed. Both of those companies (Flagship and Runic): dead.

Now, we have Torchlight: Frontiers on its way (F2P online-only ARPG) from Echtra (with many ex-Runic dev's). I doubt this'll pan out to be anything spectacular - as what made Torchlight special (Torchlight 1+2) was that it felt like it was channeling Diablo's gameplay and old-school mind-set (neither games were online-only - Torchlight 1 was offline and Torchlight 2 gave players the option to go either offline or online as they saw fit).

It's a real crap-show and I really have very little reason to be excited about anything coming from the Blizzard group (which only sounds like Blizz in name and nothing else) and also Runic/Echtra. I'm also betting, after D3 PC went online-only, D4 on PC will also probably do the same.

And we also have companies like Zenimax and Bethesda dabbling into the online-only space with existing SP franchises like ESO (awful Beta, but this game has gotten better over the years w/ expansions and DLC's and revamps) and crap-shows like Fallout 76 (online-only ARPG/FPS).

BioWare doesn't seem to be BioWare anymore - as now they have that Destiny-wannabe called Anthem coming - again, another online-only game. Online-only looter-shooter. Seems that Anthem looks to be a far cry from their good-to-great line-up of RPG's like NWN, BG series, Dragon Age series, KOTOR, Jade Empire, and even the Mass Effect series. Most of their staff, except for Casey Hudson (who left and then came back), are no longer there anyways - such as David Gaider; Jennifer Hepler; Drew Karpyshyn; Mike Laidlaw (now at UbiSoft); Trent Oster (Beamdog founder); the two doctors (2 of the founders of BioWare).

These days, just give it a fair deal of time - our favorite companies are gonna be destroyed by corporate greed by their parent companies and horrible business practices.

 
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I just hope Blizzard remasters Warcraft 2 before they croak

At least start supporting it again

 
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Never watched e-sports but it's an obvious sign that Blizzard is making a huge shift to becoming a mobile game company.  Even with lootboxes, HoTS isn't profitable enough for them.  There has been a dramatic shift in the management at Blizzard over the last several years but as MysterD points out: the writing has been on the wall longer than that.

It's funny the HoTS announcement comes out on the same day they announce yet another $25 in-game shop mount for WoW -- a subscription game riddled with microtransactions.  Never mind the fact that the latest expansion is probably the laziest to date and entirely derivative of the prior one.

Outside of WoW expansions and remasters, I do not think you will see another PC-centric game released from Blizzard in the next five to ten years... if ever again.

The bright side is that 2018 seems to be the year a lot of (real) gamers are FINALLY waking up to the crap AAA companies have been pulling for over a decade now excoriating Blizzard, Bethesda, etc. for tactics the same gamers used to lap up in the past.

 
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I've felt for a very long time now that you shouldn't get attached to a dev or publisher because if they are a publicly traded entity at some point they will go too far for profits. My "loyalties" change frequently because I am aware that these corps. only worry about profit and as such I will only worry about purchasing items that benefit me. Getting attached to anything in the gaming industry is a fool's game and a recipe for disappointment.

MysterD said:
Blizzard died years ago, after D2: LoD and WoW's crazy success (online-only MMO). They ain't been the same since, as most of those guys fled to Flagship...and then Runic, after Flagship failed. Both of those companies (Flagship and Runic): dead.

Now, we have Torchlight: Frontiers on its way (F2P online-only ARPG) from Echtra (with many ex-Runic dev's). I doubt this'll pan out to be anything spectacular - as what made Torchlight special (Torchlight 1+2) was that it felt like it was channeling Diablo's gameplay and old-school mind-set (neither games were online-only - Torchlight 1 was offline and Torchlight 2 gave players the option to go either offline or online as they saw fit).

It's a real crap-show and I really have very little reason to be excited about anything coming from the Blizzard group (which only sounds like Blizz in name and nothing else) and also Runic/Echtra. I'm also betting, after D3 PC went online-only, D4 on PC will also probably do the same.

And we also have companies like Zenimax and Bethesda dabbling into the online-only space with existing SP franchises like ESO (awful Beta, but this game has gotten better over the years w/ expansions and DLC's and revamps) and crap-shows like Fallout 76 (online-only ARPG/FPS).

BioWare doesn't seem to be BioWare anymore - as now they have that Destiny-wannabe called Anthem coming - again, another online-only game. Online-only looter-shooter. Seems that Anthem looks to be a far cry from their good-to-great line-up of RPG's like NWN, BG series, Dragon Age series, KOTOR, Jade Empire, and even the Mass Effect series. Most of their staff, except for Casey Hudson (who left and then came back), are no longer there anyways - such as David Gaider; Jennifer Hepler; Drew Karpyshyn; Mike Laidlaw (now at UbiSoft); Trent Oster (Beamdog founder); the two doctors (2 of the founders of BioWare).

These days, just give it a fair deal of time - our favorite companies are gonna be destroyed by corporate greed by their parent companies and horrible business practices.
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I am honestly shocked that Blizzard hasn't ruined Overwatch with all of their nonsense by this point.  But it's one of the best games of the last few years.  They've actually had the self-discipline and oversight to not attempt to monetize any of the gameplay.  Meanwhile the rest of Blizz is going down the gutter because making billions on WoW wasn't good enough for them.  What's really bizarre to me are the mindless drones that flock to Blizzcon every year and eat up anything and everything that Blizzard spoon-feeds to them.  The dirtball PC gamer couples crowd shoulders much of the blame for the last decade bc apparently Blizz can do no wrong and nobody holds them accountable.  They're like a younger generation of the low-class people that you find inside casinos. 

 
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Nothing371 said:
I am honestly shocked that Blizzard hasn't ruined Overwatch with all of their nonsense by this point. But it's one of the best games of the last few years. They've actually had the self-discipline and oversight to not attempt to monetize any of the gameplay.
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They make it up in licensing Funko Pops and D.Va body pillows.

 
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