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Daily Deal:
Please check the Steam homepage.

Weeklong Deals:
Steam usually has week-long deals that change on Mondays at 6PM UTC. They mostly feature indie games, and may not run every week.

Sale summary lists:

Key:
⤷ indicates DLC, — specifies part of a pack, + shows alternative versions, ⚠ highlights things worth knowing, ♫ is obvious, and ... denotes a multi-pack.

Holiday Sale 2013 | 19/12/13 through 3/1/14:
Days 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-14.

Spring/Autumn Sale 2013 | 27/11/13 through 3/12/13:
All days.

Steam deals on other stores: (Related threads on CAG.)

Indie* bundle threads: (*Not always indie, nor always a bundle.)

Free stuff:
There are quite a few free games (mostly Free to Play) and mods available via the Steam platform, a comprehensive list of which can be found in this thread on the SPUF.
(NOTE: free games are not permanently attached to your Steam account like actual purchases would be. You'll need to manually download a game again from the website if you uninstall it.)

Past Steam Deals Threads:

 
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n8rockerasu said:
Maybe I just have an older perspective, I don't know. I'm 31 years old and have a 2 year old daughter. And I'm constantly bouncing from one activity to another. The times where I get to sit down for some uninterruptable gaming sessions are few and far between. So, at least on that level, that's my reasoning for appreciating and finding value in experiences like Gone Home, Stanley Parable, etc.
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Conversely, I'm 40 years old with a 3 year old son (and a 14 year old) and a story had better be fan-fucking-tastic to waste 2-3 hours of my time without offering any enjoyable game play.

 
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Welcome monheim0! Thanks for posting on the subject and for your opinion. I'm now interested to see if I approach a similar conclusion or not when I decide to play these games.

It's interesting that immersive experiences end up being very unique per individual when interacting with any medium. Then we generate our own distinct opinions which I find valuable because of the different insight they provide. I'm open-minded so I don't mind hearing different people's perspective on a game, movie, album, or book. If it conflicts with mine so be it, but I also don't mind if people disagree with me either.

This thread has such a wide array of CAGs with different interests and opinions on games which I find engaging, along with the humor and sarcasm.  I love sarcasm and feel sorry for those that (wooosh) can't identify it. ;)

 
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Deuterium7 said:
Welcome monheim0! Thanks for posting on the subject and for your opinion. I'm now interested to see if I approach a similar conclusion or not when I decide to play these games.

It's interesting that immersive experiences end up being very unique per individual when interacting with any medium. Then we generate our own distinct opinions which I find valuable because of the different insight they provide. I'm open-minded so I don't mind hearing different people's perspective on a game, movie, album, or book. If it conflicts with mine so be it, but I also don't mind if people disagree with me either.

This thread has such a wide array of CAGs with different interests and opinions on games which I find engaging, along with the humor and sarcasm. I love sarcasm and feel sorry for those that (wooosh) can't identify it. ;)
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n8rockerasu said:
There's a reason movies don't last 15 hours.
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I can't seem to find what it was called, but I remember a few years ago watching (some of) this Chinese documentary that consisted of a continuous 24 hour shot of the breakroom of an offshore oil rig.

There was a lot of downtime, but the bits where workers were actually in the breakroom drinking coffee and playing cards was surprisingly interesting.

For the record I only watched 2 hours of it, and it was part of an art installation.

So I'm really not sure what my point was.

 
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The best interactive game is still this classic gem - Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/Lho4hvbZjS4[/youtube]

 
Eldredpe said:
I can't seem to find what it was called, but I remember a few years ago watching (some of) this Chinese documentary that consisted of a continuous 24 hour shot of the breakroom of an offshore oil rig.

There was a lot of downtime, but the bits where workers were actually in the breakroom drinking coffee and playing cards was surprisingly interesting.

For the record I only watched 2 hours of it, and it was part of an art installation.

So I'm really not sure what my point was.
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Sleep (1963) is a film by Andy Warhol which consists of long take footage of John Giorno, his close friend at the time, sleeping for five hours and 20 minutes. The film was one of Warhol's first experiments with filmmaking, and was created as an "anti-film". Warhol would later extend this technique to his eight-hour-long film Empire.
Sleep premiered on January 17, 1964. It was presented by Jonas Mekas at Film-makers' Cooperative. Of the nine people who attended the premiere, two left during the first hour.


I also present you with: List of longest films by running time

And for the record there is a 15 hour cinematic film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resan

Also, The Lord of the Rings films directors cuts (or whatever) in a marathon run well.. a full day.

 
Eldredpe said:
I can't seem to find what it was called, but I remember a few years ago watching (some of) this Chinese documentary that consisted of a continuous 24 hour shot of the breakroom of an offshore oil rig.

There was a lot of downtime, but the bits where workers were actually in the breakroom drinking coffee and playing cards was surprisingly interesting.

For the record I only watched 2 hours of it, and it was part of an art installation.

So I'm really not sure what my point was.
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Avoid "Chinese Oil Rig Breakroom" in the next indie bundle? I mean, unless it comes with a Steam key.

Chinese Oil Rig Breakroom is a revolutionary new game experience that brings the participant to a strange and mysterious world within a Chinese oil rig breakroom. Unravel the mysteries of the breakroom as you watch Chinese oil rig workers filter in and out; pouring coffee, smoking cigarettes, playing cards and talking. In the quiet moments when the room is empty, you'll investigate surreal enigmas. Who took the last cup of coffee and didn't make more? That dude just picked his nose.. is he going to eat that? Will anyone get the vending machine to drop those five jammed bags of pretzels? What does that worker safety sign on the wall say... it's all Chinese and I can't read it. After 24 hours of uninterrupted observation, you'll be ready to comprehend the answers.

Chinese Oil Rig Breakroom is currently available for voting on Greenlight.

 
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asheskitty said:
Sleep (1963) is a film by Andy Warhol which consists of long take footage of John Giorno, his close friend at the time, sleeping for five hours and 20 minutes. The film was one of Warhol's first experiments with filmmaking, and was created as an "anti-film". Warhol would later extend this technique to his eight-hour-long film Empire.
Sleep premiered on January 17, 1964. It was presented by Jonas Mekas at Film-makers' Cooperative. Of the nine people who attended the premiere, two left during the first hour.


I also present you with: List of longest films by running time

And for the record there is a 15 hour cinematic film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resan

Also, The Lord of the Rings films directors cuts (or whatever) in a marathon run well.. a full day.
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Starts to make you wonder what kind of drugs Peter Jackson was on when you compare it to those other movies now doesn't it?

Also, since when has size mattered? I mean...come on...

 
Foxhack said:
The season pass has never been bundled. Only Episode 1 or Episodes 1+2 have been bundled.

If you had the Season Pass then you would have all four episodes.

The only way to upgrade to the full season is to buy the missing episodes from the dev or buy the upgrade at another site. You can't do it at Steam.
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I bought it at daily royal, steam still says I have only episodes 1 and 2 in the DLC tab, however all 4 episodes and the comic appear and are playable from the launcher that pulls up. So it's basically impossible to know whether you bought the season pass before or not unless you find the receipt. Thanks again.

 
So, I figured out what's going wrong with my attempts to restore previously downloaded games.  For some reason, Steam does not like one of my external hard drives.  If the files are on my PC or on a 1GB Seagate portable drive (linked using Steam Mover), then Steam reads them just fine and installs them without downloading anything.  If the files are on my 3GB Seagate expansion drive (linked using Steam Mover), Steam doesn't detect them and redownloads everything.  That's not a problem for installing the games (I just move them to my PC hard drive temporarily), but this is a problem for everything else.  The games PLAY just fine off the big hard drive, but if I try to verify the game cache or if an update is issued, the files refuse to validate and Steam insists on redownloading everything.  This is probably a hard drive question more than a Steam question, but anyone have any ideas on why this might be happening?

 
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I remember that day.


BigSpoonyBard said:
Last call for BGCQ Secret Santa sign-ups
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Am I too late? What are the requirements?
 
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asheskitty said:
It really shouldn't know/care that it is an internal/external/network/virtual drive. As someone mentioned before, maybe a permissions issue? (Yes, I recognize that you seem to know what you're doing.)
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It's possible, but everything seems to check out. There's no discernible difference between the file structures of the two drives, other than storage space -- they're both formatted with NTFS, and the permissions all appear to be the same. I can't find a reason why one would work, but the other wouldn't. I'll have to dig a bit more in the morning, I guess, though I'm not sure where to start. Thanks, though.

 
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Item Rewards? What the fuck is that?

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about (which is probably most of you) a new category has been added to our steam inventories. You can now select between Gifts, Coupons, Community & Item Rewards in the drop-down menu to filter your inventory.

 
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DaiMonPaul said:
So, I figured out what's going wrong with my attempts to restore previously downloaded games. For some reason, Steam does not like one of my external hard drives. If the files are on my PC or on a 1GB Seagate portable drive (linked using Steam Mover), then Steam reads them just fine and installs them without downloading anything. If the files are on my 3GB Seagate expansion drive (linked using Steam Mover), Steam doesn't detect them and redownloads everything. That's not a problem for installing the games (I just move them to my PC hard drive temporarily), but this is a problem for everything else. The games PLAY just fine off the big hard drive, but if I try to verify the game cache or if an update is issued, the files refuse to validate and Steam insists on redownloading everything. This is probably a hard drive question more than a Steam question, but anyone have any ideas on why this might be happening?
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asheskitty said:
It really shouldn't know/care that it is an internal/external/network/virtual drive. As someone mentioned before, maybe a permissions issue? (Yes, I recognize that you seem to know what you're doing.)
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This is a long shot but, I used to have an external Western Digital 1 TB, but when it was put under load, it simply could not handle the throughput being asked of it (through the USB connection), corrupting the transfer and the files being transferred (losing file marker data in the process). I recall this because you said it's only when Steam verifys the game data or updates it (which requires it to still do a deep scan to see what version you already have), causing it to max out the connection (bus) speed. Depending on the quality of the controller in the drive itself, it could be losing data instead of throttling it back like my previous WD drive. The only other possibility that I personally know of is the fact that some larger drives 3TB+ can have issues if they are not 1TB per platter (things get hinky when transferring large single chuck files over the transition from one platter to the next due to the way the file system has to be split between them).

My money is on the first theory though. I think the controller chip/card in your drive can't appropriately handle the data being forced at maximum speed. Since you can use a similar drive without replicating the same result, you have isolated the problem to either the drive itself, or the particular cable being used with that particular drive. The problem can also be replicated by a cheap power supply that is supplying the drive in question, when the drive is asked to spin up to maximum speed (not exclusive to disc type hard drive, power drops can also effect SSD's in the same way) to saturate the bus. the power drops and the drive motor can't recall the data as fast as requested making what data does make it through as the drive varies speed corrupted. My guess is that Steam doesn't see the hash it's looking for (or sees it's corrupted) and re downloads everything again. Check the cable, then the power supply to the drive, finally see if you can drop the data rate of the drive down (can you drop it from a SATA III to a SATA II rate, for example) and see if that solves the problem, if not then that drive isn't suitable for this application. I would also suggest staying away from any power controlled or "green" drives for the very same reason. Either they throttle back at the wrong time to save energy (causing lag as data is requested, leading to possible corruption magnified by the fact your working with hashed files, meaning it takes just 1 bit out of place to screw up the whole file), or wear out prematurely due to the constant spinning down of the drive head.

 
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walkonshadows said:
This is a long shot but, I used to have an external Western Digital 1 TB, but when it was put under load, it simply could not handle the throughput being asked of it (through the USB connection), corrupting the transfer and the files being transferred (losing file marker data in the process). I recall this because you said it's only when Steam verifys the game data or updates it (which requires it to still do a deep scan to see what version you already have), causing it to max out the connection (bus) speed. Depending on the quality of the controller in the drive itself, it could be losing data instead of throttling it back like my previous WD drive. The only other possibility that I personally know of is the fact that some larger drives 3TB+ can have issues if they are not 1TB per platter (things get hinky when transferring large single chuck files over the transition from one platter to the next due to the way the file system has to be split between them).
My money is on the first theory though. I think the controller chip/card in your drive can't appropriately handle the data being forced at maximum speed. Since you can use a similar drive without replicating the same result, you have isolated the problem to either the drive itself, or the particular cable being used with that particular drive. The problem can also be replicated by a cheap power supply that is supplying the drive in question, when the drive is asked to spin up to maximum speed (not exclusive to disc type hard drive, power drops can also effect SSD's in the same way) to saturate the bus. the power drops and the drive motor can't recall the data as fast as requested making what data does make it through as the drive varies speed corrupted. My guess is that Steam doesn't see the hash it's looking for (or sees it's corrupted) and re downloads everything again. Check the cable, then the power supply to the drive, finally see if you can drop the data rate of the drive down (can you drop it from a SATA III to a SATA II rate, for example) and see if that solves the problem, if not then that drive isn't suitable for this application. I would also suggest staying away from any power controlled or "green" drives for the very same reason. Either they throttle back at the wrong time to save energy, or wear out prematurely due to the constant spinning down of the drive head.
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Thanks for the suggestion -- I'll play with the cords and see what happens. I'm not sure if that's what causing the problem, though. It's not a green drive, and everything seems to run fast enough to play the actual games. I also managed to install a game on the external drive via Steam's "install your games on another library" feature, and those files verified just fine. It just doesn't want to verify files/read them as already downloaded/installed through a junction point, for some reason. Everything else works fine. It's a really weird problem to have, I know... I *COULD* install games directly on the drive, apparently, but that leads to some messiness and prevents me from moving games back and forth between the drives. Ugh.

 
asheskitty said:
35 watts, two cores, that's a mobile part no matter how they package it.
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It uses a desktop socket, so it's definitely intended for non-mobile use.

TheRainCoat said:
If you were a woman I'd marry you.

I like a girl who can talk dirty to me.
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:rofl:

spoderman said:
EDIT: Oh and.. I think my Steam machine has a low IQ, it doesn't know how to tell time. I have it set to Eastern time zone, yet it says it's 4:36 PM (correct time is 8:36 AM at the time of this edit). There aren't any settings to fix it.. it's bizarre.
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Is that the eastern time zone for another country?
 

warreni said:
Huh? Gone Home
is about lesbians?
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Spoiler alert....

MysterD said:
Can you allow friends to double-boot Win 7 + Win 8?
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Nah, you'd make sure they'e using Windows 8 unless they're "nt gud wth computa" or have some technical reason to stay with Windows 7.

MysterD said:
So, is the point of Gone Home to explore the game for 2 hours like it's a 2 hour movie?
Should I bring popcorn?
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Only if you want popcorn in your keyboard.
 
asheskitty said:
I'm wondering if there's going to be a sweet deal for kickstarter backers. They've treated us well, giving us GOG keys...
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If you kickstarted Shadowrun Returns at any level that included a digital copy of the game, you get the Dragonfall expansion for free since it was a stretch goal. I'm going to assume that they'll make Dragonfall available DRM-free as well on GOG, for all backers as they did the base game.

 
snakeybro said:
Sooo, I guess were exchanging gifts begining tomrrow right pasports bro?
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yessss daz rite


asheskitty said:
No Faux, you don't understand. The point that -someone- is trying to make is that if you don't like them you must be some sort of low-IQ, inbred, drain-on-society, who is probably barely able to read this sentence, because that's the only type of person who could possibly not love them.

Opinions expressed are not those of asheskitty, and in no way does asheskitty endorse them.
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Funny how said person assumes a "what are books" joke means you've never read a book in your life

Also falsely assumes that there is a 100% correlation between book reading and enjoying every non-gameplay centered game ever


Deuterium7 said:
Welcome monheim0! Thanks for posting on the subject and for your opinion.

(redacted blah blah blah)

I love sarcasm and feel sorry for those that (wooosh) can't identify it. ;)
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In other words, you moneheim0!, fuq off, deuterium7 hates you

 
walkonshadows said:
I bought it at daily royal, steam still says I have only episodes 1 and 2 in the DLC tab, however all 4 episodes and the comic appear and are playable from the launcher that pulls up. So it's basically impossible to know whether you bought the season pass before or not unless you find the receipt. Thanks again.
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... What in the Shaqta Claus? That game is a toasterduck of epic proportions...

The End said:
Item Rewards? What the fuck is that?

For those who haven't got the slightest idea what I'm talking about (which is probably most of you) there has been a new category added to our steam inventories. You can now select between Gifts, Coupons, Community & Item Rewards in the drop-down menu to filter your inventory.
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Crafting the Holiday Badge will give you one of six TF2 items.

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/December_18,_2013_Patch

 
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I hope you shit painful coal, you ho-ho-ho bastard.

Edit:  If Steam doesn't update the sales soon, I'm tipping my desk at work upside down and knocking over the water cooler.

 
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SInce you're all going to be antsy waiting for the sale to crash Steam's servers, here's something to entertain you for a bit.  Bonus: Best opening scene to any movie ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL46fAxWztA

 
Great.  At work.  Waiting for the Steam sale to begin.  Somebody posts a full movie about a homicide-filled Christmas.  I ain't getting shit done today.

*throws work papers up in the air*

Edit to add:  She is so hot.

 
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DPsycho said:
If you mean MORE popcorn in my keyboard, then sign me up!
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Is popcorn a euphemism for something else? ;-)

I also enjoy how I can't post on mobile and have to use the full version just to make fun of you guys.
 
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