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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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Someone should leak the sale prices for the Steam Summer Sale as well so I can get my disappointment out of the way six weeks early.

 
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FoxyPie said:
Someone on Reddit is blaming indie devs for not caring about the Steam community and leaking confidential information. Lol. Oh no, we know the annual steam summer sale is this summer! Will
someone think of the Gaben!
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On the one hand Valve is being ridiculous for making it such a huge secret but on the other hand if someone tells you something is confidential it's kinda tacky to go posting it all over the internet.

This never happened as much before they let every RPG Maker, Flash game, Unity Asset flip, Renpy Visual Novel cut and paste asshole in. I mean there were rumors sure but usually not screenshots with don't share this plastered all over it.

Valve are really dumbasses to think they can open the flood gates to every idiot and his grandmother and think any of them will give their requests any consideration whatsoever.

Their site is the god damned wild west since they refuse to get off their ass and curate anymore.
 
Admittedly Russians are scheisty as fuck and got no shame in their game, but there's been Russian shit on their for a long time way before the Greenlight floodgates open, like 1C and crap like that.
 
I think it's some indie asshole.
 
In other news no one cares about, I completed a game of This War of Mine after using a stacking mod to increase stacks by 3x.  Yeah, it made the game easier but it also made the game much more enjoyable.  In a sense, the game sort of made me feel like Ebert had a point so many years ago when he pissed off a bunch of nerds by saying that the "game" in video games holds it back from being art.  For all it's weighty themes, the game still boils down to getting some rat traps and a veggie garden running for a food cycle and juggling other resources.  The horrors of war get lost in just juggling the balance of getting people rested, feeding them just enough to prevent stat loss and inventory management.  The whole set-up isn't any deeper or more philosophical than Recettear -- spend half the cycle getting shit done around the house and half the cycle in a "dungeon" trying to collect loot which you can use to get shit done around the house.  You're just trading cartoon fairies for Slavic war refugees and calling it deep.

All that said, there's nothing wrong with the game.  If you like that sort of management genre than the game does it pretty well with only a few weird details (killing kidnappers and then 'stealing' stuff from their desk still makes you sad that you stole?).  It was interesting enough to run through and see how the story ended.  It just sort of works as an example of how shallow 2Deep4U usually is.

 
So you give this war of mine a thumbs up?

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wasn't that like $80 on Amazon yesterday?

Would've ordered if it didn't sell out before I woke up. Even with shipping across the world, taxes (24%) it would've been cheaper than buying locally.

 
@Syntax Error

Not taking anything away from how you chose to play. But strongly recommend for others not cheating on a first playthrough. It's a game about consequences, item collection and task management  is merely the vehicle through which those decisions are parsed. Juggling the balance of getting people healthy/fed/protected IS the horrors of war in this game. It's like Graveyard of the Fireflies, the aftermath of war is harrowing, unpredictable and brutal.

 
Steams sales are nothing I anticipate anymore. Unless a game is two plus years old you can expect, at most, a 30% discount -- about the same as what you'd get preordering from GMG.

 
vherub said:
@Syntax Error

Not taking anything away from how you chose to play. But strongly recommend for others not cheating on a first playthrough. It's a game about consequences, item collection and task management is merely the vehicle through which those decisions are parsed. Juggling the balance of getting people healthy/fed/protected IS the horrors of war in this game. It's like Graveyard of the Fireflies, the aftermath of war is harrowing, unpredictable and brutal.
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Sure, but again, you can say the same about any resource management game. In a business sim you go broke, in this game some Slavic dude dies but it's still essentially the same game. It's half spreadsheet and half dungeon crawl which is why I compared it to Recettear.

I did play several other games without modding (albeit, not to completion) but that didn't do much to impress the horrors of war upon me. Really, the resource management part was less difficult than dealing with its atrocious "combat system". My deaths were never due to resource issues but rather the terrible way the game moves and handles combat. And I understand that combat is to be avoided but, when it does happen, it would be nice if it actually worked. Even in this game, almost all the dudes I killed were via hidden backstabs or Arica's backstab ability because a blind hobo could kill you before you worked out how to swing your axe at him (plus the weird combat/salvage "modes").

If you thought it was impressive, that's great. I thought it was a good game, but nothing impressive as an experience. Which is what the devs were obviously trying for.

 
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Leaks like this im sure kill game sales as everyone is just going to wait.
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The idiots who buy Steam games in June (unless it's 75% off, etc) aren't the people reading articles or forums about Steam sale dates. If you're in the second crowd, you already know that a sale is coming and to wait.

 
Can there really be a shortage on vanity-level graphics cards -- did anyone buy a Titan X for price/performance ratio?

 
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madjoki said:
wasn't that like $80 on Amazon yesterday?

Would've ordered if it didn't sell out before I woke up. Even with shipping across the world, taxes (24%) it would've been cheaper than buying locally.
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y u no bai something on sale in another country while you were sleeping? :p

Syntax Error said:
The idiots who buy Steam games in June (unless it's 75% off, etc) aren't the people reading articles or forums about Steam sale dates. If you're in the second crowd, you already know that a sale is coming and to wait.
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For the most part yes, but wind of the sale could trickle over to Gamespot or lame 'mainstream' media places like that that some lemmings read.

I guess that's old school though. The modern thing would be some Youtuber could talk about it, which is also a possibility.

 
I wouldn't expect any prices to be lower than what we've seen from Humble's Spring Sale offerings.  Especially since Steam has adopted the 'get the lame discounts out of the way the first day' approach with no more flash/daily deals.

 
Mooby said:
I wouldn't expect any prices to be lower than what we've seen from Humble's Spring Sale offerings. Especially since Steam has adopted the 'get the lame discounts out of the way the first day' approach with no more flash/daily deals.
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doesnt matter still playing Ark.

Come play Ark!

 
I played ark with a 6870 and i3... and it worked really well. On low, of course.

Then bought a 7970... Now I'm playing on medium xD
 
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AdmiralGialHackbar said:
I tried Ark with my 965 and 6970 and it didnt go very well. Once I get my new 6700k paired with a 1080 or 1070 I think I will be ready for it!

Can I still be a CAG with a 6700k and gtx 1080 or will I be shamed for buying new hardware?
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No, you are worse than a fakeybro. But truth is, a good amount of CAGs that Gleam for free crappy games are hardware fakeybros.
 
FoxyPie said:
No, you are worse than a fakeybro. But truth is, a good amount of CAGs that Gleam for free crappy games are hardware fakeybros.
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But it's allowed if I only do it once every few years, right? ...Right!?

Perhaps the real reason we're all so cheap when it comes to games is to recoup what we spent on the hardware we use to not play those games.

 
Tomasety said:
@MysterD

Now FFX/X-2 HD 1080p 60fps!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2smLwSCpA68
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Nice!!!

Though, he ain't done (see the modder's replies/comments on the Youtube vid) - as he says he has to do the gameplay and every single cut-scene properly to make it 60FPS. Ouch - sounds like that'll be one HELL of a crazy job to take on.

Hopefully, either the modder or Square can get this done in full + release it.

Regardless, I'm fine w/ the game at 30FPS lock and never-ever wanting to drop at 1080p w/ everything maxed.

Though, I'm really looking forward to Untitled Project X releasing w/ cut-scene skipping (in case there are poorly placed saves causing cut-scenes to be repetitive if you die over + over; and/or for any sort of game-replays) - unless Square wants to patch this in themselves.

EDIT:

BTW, I really am digging the game (FFX HD Remaster), so far. Combat looks and feels just fine here; quite good, IMHO. Really liking this game's style of turn-based combat.

Despite some odd muddy textures and the obvious textures of some non-important NPC's not really looking good at all - I can't help but think, as usual with a Final Fantasy game, the art direction itself is unique, artistic, gorgeous, and fantastic. Despite some not-so-great English audio voice-acting - sometimes I just wish they'd use NO voice-acting instead, if they ain't going to get decent voice-acting - and some not-so-hot dialogue/writing here & there, I can't still but help (as usual w/ FF games) like the overall direction of the plot, character, & story stuff they have going on here.

 
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No, you are worse than a fakeybro. But truth is, a good amount of CAGs that Gleam for free crappy games are hardware fakeybros.
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Yeah, most CAGs that I know (especially the ones that show up to bronights) have decent hardware. There are some exceptions though.. like Bobby, who doesn't ever spend money on hardware and only games on Xbox One.

I don't understand the point of not spending any money toward PC hardware if you're gonna put hundreds of dollars into crappy bundles

 
spoderman said:
Yeah, most CAGs that I know (especially the ones that show up to bronights) have decent hardware. There are some exceptions though.. like Bobby, who doesn't ever spend money on hardware and only games on Xbox One.

I don't understand the point of not spending any money toward PC hardware if you're gonna put hundreds of dollars into crappy bundles
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does anything that dipshit does make sense?

 
madjoki said:
Just listed 1002 cards on Steam market. That wasn't fun.
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I feel you. I just listed ~2300 the other week. I'm going to have to go back and re-list half of them I'm sure.

Though, even worse, I still have about that many to idle since I'm a slacker.

 
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No content = it's a builder game.  If you like building stuff, farming, and crafting and derping around, great.  Not my thing.

 
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Mooby said:
No content = it's a builder game. If you like building stuff, farming, and crafting and derping around, great. Not my thing.
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derping around with fuck DINOSAURS!

plus there are a couple of high level caves, arena and underwater caves that require derp teamwork.

come play Ark.

 
Last I checked, you can +1 on anything that supports a browser.  Only non-CAGs spend *any* money on hardware as who actually plays the games anyway? (Holding strong w/ my glitched 970.)

 
Syntax Error said:
How beefy of a machine do you need to run some bottom of the Greenlight barrel lolretro8bit-bullethell-platformer-roguelite?
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My point was you get more out of good hardware than you would out of shitty bundle games. Might as well put the money toward something useful if you're on a budget

 
Gedemer said:
Apparently ppl are getting cancellations for the TV's yesterday + $50 Gift Cards to Samsung.

Nothing for me yet.
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See, this is why nice CAGs post things so others can get $50 GCs to Samsung and overpay for some Samsung products.

Anyways, here is a Foxypie exclusive deal for my Tru CAGs!

Newegg has the Mad Catz F.R.E.Q.3 gaming headset for only $9.99 w/ free shipping. Regular price is $79.99 and current price on Amazon. Overall good reviews with a few oddballs, but for $9.99 it's hard to go wrong.

Search for Mad Catz F.R.E.Q.3 on Newegg since CAG always messes up Newegg links.

Get them while they are hot as I will be posting it on Slickdeals after about an hour or so. Someone is going to post it, so I might as well get all the epeen myself. OMG I sound like Smackattack's mom wanting to hog all the peen for myself!

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And sold out :(

 
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