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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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Nothing371 said:
It was disappointing that a few games like Total War: Warhammer didn't get discounted at all. But the sale is still pretty good. It's better than no sale at all. If there was anything you were considering picking up from the previous 1-5 years, most of it is at a very good price.

We just hate spending real money on appropriately priced games. We're also still adapting from the disappearance of flash sales.
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Motoki said:
Did you try it? They should have retroactived all those old keys to Steam when GFWL went tits up?
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I just installed Bioshock and tried it. The game still runs fine. You have to do a complete install from the DVD and then the first time you start the application you have to enter the key. It doesn't activate on steam. There is no sort of GFWL login or anything. It just sent the key attempt to some server and failed the first time, then worked on the second try. Then the game plays normally.

(It failed because companies were stupid back then and included both 'O' and '0' in their activation codes. So you can't really determine which is correct on the first try lol)

 
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smackattack said:
so is all this Depth talk spurn interest in a 4 pack and/or a night with fox's mom?
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Both shark games are scheduled for the week of July 19. Don't be left out!

I'm sure you'll like depth because you and syntax can compete over who is better at not being seen for whole rounds.
 
FoxyPie said:
I think we just have to come to the realization that any Steam sales are just an opportunity for us to fakeybro some games at a slight discount if we don't have enough patience to wait for a bundle or real sale elsewhere.

It is sad though. I was going to recommend Everyday Genius Square Logic again, but I see it is not discounted at all, but was discounted back in January. Dead Realm is also not discounted at all because the devs apparently abandoned it.
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Great game. I have 21 hours in Square Logic.

 
Motoki said:
Did you try it? They should have retroactived all those old keys to Steam when GFWL went tits up?
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You can still log onto the stand alone GFWL client and download games through it if you bought any. There were a few massive discounts back in the day. Though the client is a pain to install on Windows 10.

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Malkan said:
Both shark games are scheduled for the week of July 19. Don't be left out!

I'm sure you'll like depth because you and syntax can compete over who is better at not being seen for whole rounds.
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God, now I remember one round where someone hid the entire time and won because we had to hunt him down before the time expired. Weiler likes to hide too as you know from our Sniper Elite V2 session.

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Also Gamestop has Overwatch for $40. Not sure how much of a deal that is, but there you go.

Not a deal, see below.

 
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Nothing371 said:
(It failed because companies were stupid back then and included both 'O' and '0' in their activation codes. So you can't really determine which is correct on the first try lol)
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GFWL was also stupid in that you could use Kane & Lynch keys to activate most GFWL games. By using the same key from a free Polish game, users could activate and play pretty much any Live game. Remains to be seen if you can somehow obtain a copy of the ISO, mount it to a virtual drive, then use the product key to redeem it to your Steam account...

 
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I'm tempted to pick up the Genesis/Mega Drive pack for $16, or the 5 smaller collections for $1.87 each.

How's the emulation? Is the new hub interface cool, or gimmicky? How's the mod scene? It looks like a lot of the popular mods are for the Sonic games, which are only part of the more expensive collection. I'm not a huge Sonic guy. The completionist in me is leaning towards throwing in the extra $6 to get the Sonic and Toejam & Earl games.

 
Blade said:
GFWL was also stupid in that you could use Kane & Lynch keys to activate most GFWL games. By using the same key from a free Polish game, users could activate and play pretty much any Live game. Remains to be seen if you can somehow obtain a copy of the ISO, mount it to a virtual drive, then use the product key to redeem it to your Steam account...
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I think this is why most GFWL games never got a Steam redemption option.

Well that and the very special way GFWL accounts shit the bed when it comes to purchases and licenses.

 
HEY FLOWETTE, HOW DOES YOUR COUNTRY LIKE LOSING TO ICELAND IN UEFA 2016? HOW DO YOUR MILLIONAIRE SOCCER PLAYERS ENJOY LOSING TO A COUNTRY WITH FEWER REGISTERED PLAYERS THAN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND?

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Motoki said:
The problem is that most people are freaking out because they wanted to further increase their insane backlogs (and I put myself in this category too) but at those prices it's really only buy it if you genuinely are going to play it right now.
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FoxyPie said:
Yeah, if you want to plus 1 it's pointless. Anything really cheap will or has been cheaper in a bundle. And anything worth playing, hasn't been bundled but is too expensive for a plus 1 and will be bundled eventually.
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Dammit! You guys are making too much sense.

And yes, I do agree.

I stumbled upon a short psychological opinion piece about the past Winter sale, The Steam Winter Sale is Too Much Sale. Kind of interesting.

 
INMATEofARKHAM said:
That does sound like a nightmare... and your news explains why there was only one big expansion. (I was expecting to see several this being EA after all.)

Hmmm... Maybe Sims 4. I enjoyed the others but really enjoyed the first. (The step back in what you could do always bugged me, even though I sort of understood it.) I skipped 3 all together.
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SC2013 is fun for a few hours. Laying out towns and watching them grow is entertaining enough. My last game fell apart after trying to wrangle the region stuff. As a city-builder, it's more polished than Skylines, but you're far more restricted in SC2013. I'd recommend sticking with SC4 or maybe drop a month on EA Access... Pretty sure SC2013 is included.

The Sims 4 is awesome. Runs great, loading screens suck, but they're better than watching your Sim spend two game-hours lagging their way across town as in TS3. And yes, there is a ton of cut content, but the base has plenty to do and the new emotional interactions with most activities are slick.

You should have a 2 day demo available on Origin, check it out. Then buy it. And pick up the expansions the following day. Then realize how fun the game packs look. Finally decide that your game REALLY needs hot tubs and chocolate fountains, say fuck it, and just buy everything.
 
My Haul:

Mad Max

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

Both via trading other games from the Steam Store (shoutout to Hard Reset Redux, Fable Anniversary, and This War of Mine).

 
Syntax Error said:
Well, they killed flashes because checking every 4-8 hours was too hard and then killed dailies because people whined that checking the site once every 24 48 hours was too hard. I guess we need 14 days of shitty sales in case someone is only able to check the internet once every ten days.

Eventually we'll get a year's worth of 0.85% discounts for people who can only check Steam once every 365 days. Arctic research teams, people on the ISS, etc.
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Not exactly true, checking every 4-8 hours, then every day, then every 2 days was way too hard (since 99% of the deals repeated like 18 times during a sale anyways).

Not related to above, but honestly even with flash, bi-dailies, etc. I still think the discounts we'd see would be crap. As the economy has recovered everyone is pretty much jacking up prices. Video games seem to be no different, why discount now we know we need less incentive to get you to fork over the cash?

I will say indies seem to be dropping the ball big time though, seen a bunch with no discount or token discounts like morans. Look dude who made "shoe shining tycoon," unless you get PewDiePie or some massive youtuber to shit on your game, no-one is going to know about your game. So either discount heavily or be happy with the $100 bucks you made because 4 people actually bought it. Hell Youtuber's Life, which is one of those popular on youtube (shocking, right?) games, even put up at least a token discount.

 
FoxyPie said:
God, now I remember one round where someone hid the entire time and won because we had to hunt him down before the time expired. Weiler likes to hide too as you know from our Sniper Elite V2 session.

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Also Gamestop has Overwatch for $40. Not sure how much of a deal that is, but there you go.

Not a deal, see below.
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im confused, were we playing Sniper Target V2? I seem to remember winning a round or two of dog tag.

 
easper said:
I'm tempted to pick up the Genesis/Mega Drive pack for $16, or the 5 smaller collections for $1.87 each.

How's the emulation? Is the new hub interface cool, or gimmicky? How's the mod scene? It looks like a lot of the popular mods are for the Sonic games, which are only part of the more expensive collection. I'm not a huge Sonic guy. The completionist in me is leaning towards throwing in the extra $6 to get the Sonic and Toejam & Earl games.
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The hub interface is kinda gimmicky but it serves its purpose. The emulator now supports gamepads correctly, the old version of the emulator had some problems with 360 pads in the past. The one game that's pretty broken is Alien Soldier, because Sega insists on using the wrong configuration for it (you can download a patch via the workshop that fixes it.)

Honestly you're better off buying the complete $16 pack. The problem is those Toe Jam and Earl games, those two games are always super expensive - it would cost $5 just to get those two. And if you bought the Sonic games via Humble... you're basically paying nine bucks more for those. No point.

(Edit: And holy crap the BTA on that Sonic Humble is RIDICULOUS.)

 
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madjoki said:
Victor Vran was also free on random germany site.

Also soon to be free games for cheap:

14.36 - M̱̱᷉i̱̱͚̱̚s̱̞̱ṯ̱̓e̱͏̱ṟ̫̱Glitch: #4154 » [Steam Bundles] New: RPG Heroes Summer Bundle Discount: 95% (Complete the Set) - http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/833/

Missed only one and it was just 3 cents.
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For some reason, this bundle is showing-up at 99% off at 49 cents for me.

I think it's a "Complete The Bundle" thing.

 
The only reason I started caring about badges/levels is thinking I might get more boosters.

Probably isn't worth it though.

 
madjoki said:
Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay month of EA Access and actually play it?
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That depends on if will you get sick of DAI & plan to keep breaking it up here and there.

B/c it is side-quest city + also collect-a-thon city on the side stuff, I could see some growing tired of that rather quickly. Me, I didn't - really dug the main quest and somehow went 150 hours or so without playing anything else for a few months.

Go figure. [shrug]

 
Blade said:
HEY FLOWETTE, HOW DOES YOUR COUNTRY LIKE LOSING TO ICELAND IN UEFA 2016? HOW DO YOUR MILLIONAIRE SOCCER PLAYERS ENJOY LOSING TO A COUNTRY WITH FEWER REGISTERED PLAYERS THAN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND?

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Embarrassing to be sure but really the least of their worries right now. Germany is getting all frau farbissna on their ass to GTFO now. French are all huh huh HUH! offended. Angry Scots are getting Angrier. And Russians are pouring the vodka laughing it up. That Boris dude was probably a Putin plant. I mean seriously, what Englishman is named Boris?

indef said:
The Sims 4 is awesome. Runs great, loading screens suck, but they're better than watching your Sim spend two game-hours lagging their way across town as in TS3. And yes, there is a ton of cut content, but the base has plenty to do and the new emotional interactions with most activities are slick.

You should have a 2 day demo available on Origin, check it out. Then buy it. And pick up the expansions the following day. Then realize how fun the game packs look. Finally decide that your game REALLY needs hot tubs and chocolate fountains, say fuck it, and just buy everything.
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Amen.

I never knew I wanted to play a game that lets me play people multitasking talking on the cell phone on the shitter until Sims4 showed me the light.

Red_Lizard2 said:
I will say indies seem to be dropping the ball big time though, seen a bunch with no discount or token discounts like morans. Look dude who made "shoe shining tycoon," unless you get PewDiePie or some massive youtuber to shit on your game, no-one is going to know about your game. So either discount heavily or be happy with the $100 bucks you made because 4 people actually bought it. Hell Youtuber's Life, which is one of those popular on youtube (shocking, right?) games, even put up at least a token discount.
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I'm not even sure deep discounting well okay maybe the 9 cents and below will help at this point. There's just way too much out there and you won't get noticed unless you get some screaming idiot to play your game on Youtube or you have big booby underage looking anime girls which Valve seems to love plastering on the Steam front page lately (and no I don't have recommended for you enabled so it ain't that).

They're probably better off just trying to get into a Humble if they're willing to go low on the per unit price. At least that way the masses will buy it even if they don't pay attention to what they are buying.

 
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I was thinking about the low discounts of this sale, how the sales are getting worse and worse during several last years.

At first we had achivement hunts and it was great. 

Than was the flash deal era.

Later even this got scraped off and we've thought that nothing can be worse than plain 2 week sale.

Now we got the same boring shit but with remarkably lower discounts.

Refund system was probably the main reason, why flash deals were removed, but it doesn't explain, why the percentages off are lacking now. I know from one dev, that he got a discount guidelines from Steam staff, so maybe they actively encourage devs to set the sale prices higher. Steam is pretty much a monopolist, but I think its position is getting more and more undermined by other clients. They can still dictatate the price tho and people will buy games they want sooner or later.

Why I'm so sure about it?

It's because I've read many complaints here about how Steam doesn't want to take money from us. The thing is there is not so much money for them recently, because there is a lot (too much?) of Steambux around generated basicly for free. That's why Steam has stopped selling games on discounts that generated value some time ago (it happened mostly on weeklong deals). Some developers managed to avoid this restictions now by bundle pricing, but that's another thing.

My conclusion is that there is something like Steambux inflation. The lesser discounts are caused by the bigger amounts of Steambux in our Steam Wallets.

Taking me as example, I haven't spent real money on Steam since the 7th of June 2013.

Yes, that's more than 3 years as of now and I've managed to got about 1700 games during that time.

There is a chance that I'll never spend more real money on Steam, because after I've got into trading card beta program I've managed to invest some of that free Steambux into Dota items, later I moved to CS:GO skins and now I'm sitting on ~$1000 of Steambux in items after fees. 

You can argue that someone will pay for those items with real money on market, but what if that person has, for example, an army of 64 idle accounts?

He gets the stuff for basicly for free, Valve is only cutting the Steambux amount by fee, but they got no real profit from the market transaction.

Hell, I generate more Steambux with cards from bundle games and gleam crap between those 'great' sales than I spend during them.

What if that Steambux is spent on games?

Valve have to pay for the game, and their profit is only a cut from value that was generated without giving them real money. My real money goes directly (and indirectly through Tremor) to Humble or Gala.

I'm pretty sure that the most of Steam users have lesser or bigger backlogs, many of them stopped buying games that aren't deeply discounted because they can play other games while waiting on seasonal sale or a bundle. They are generating more and more Steambux and it cripples Valve's profit. It doesn't need to be $1000 per account. $10 should be noticable if you multiple it by millions of users. I've got several friends, who buy games only for that fancy free money. They stick to their backlogs, because they don't want to waste more of real money on unplayed games which at least should be only cheaper with time. 

The reasonable way to reduce the amount of Steambux is to make people spend more of it. You can do it by lowering the price of games deeply, but it's not good in the long term, because the less games you buy with Steambux the better for Valve. They need to pay that 70% of the value to publishers/devs anyway, but your wishlist is left with more things to buy. Furthermore, the next time you'll eagerly buy a game on a lesser discount, because you simply got used to it. 

I really wish to see more deep discounts during seasonal sales, but I doubt it will happen in the near future.

 
The percentages are lacking because publishers/developers aren't willing to put their games up at 75% discounts for 10-14 days.  You'll note a lot of examples on Humble or other digital stores where you'll see the same game more steeply discounted for daily/flash deals.

So all the people who complained how they didn't have time to buy dailies or about 'consumer rights' in being able to return stuff (thank the Euros and their pesky laws) ended up emasculating Steam sales.  Now you guys have the right to return your games... hope it's worth those awesome 30% discounts.

 
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I would think they get alot more purchases that way for the casual users. They get the one friend who's on top of things buying a game at a steep discount, by the time the other friends hear about it its back to a much smaller discount but they feel inclined to purchase it since their other friend/s now have it

 
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Nothing371 said:
It's 75% off, only $5 on Origin! (Orgin copycat sale ends in 22hrs btw)

I was going through all my old physical PC games last night, installed a few 'Games for Windows' to see if they still worked. Amazingly, Crysis from '07 still stands up pretty well today!

But all these other games I have boxes for: Bioshock, Fallout 3, Sins of a Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations II, Mass Effect 1-2, etc...I find myself just wanting to have them all on Steam instead, for simplicity's sake. and so they get proper updates that keep them running down the line.
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Mass Effect 1+2 should activate up on Origin.

But, yeah, I know - Origin's certainly not on Steam's level of platform-greatness.

 
They definitely operated on a bit of a bait and switch method before.  You put something up for 80% off, the people like us who follow the sales get in on it, spread the word, and later Joey 'I was busy banging super models' comes in and says 'ah well, 40% off ain't too bad' and buys it.

Of course, now Steam is so popular Joey doesn't need us to tell him about it.

 
Mooby said:
The percentages are lacking because publishers/developers aren't willing to put their games up at 75% discounts for 10-14 days. You'll note a lot of examples on Humble or other digital stores where you'll see the same game more steeply discounted for daily/flash deals.

So all the people who complained how they didn't have time to buy dailies or about 'consumer rights' in being able to return stuff (thank the Euros and their pesky laws) ended up emasculating Steam sales. Now you guys have the right to return your games... hope it's worth those awesome 30% discounts.
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I was thinking about games like A Wolf Among Us. According to Is There Any Deal it was 75% off many times, notably during the whole winter sale and one random week in February, bundled in the meantime and now it's only 50% off.

 
poxi said:
I was thinking about games like A Wolf Among Us. According to Is There Any Deal it was 75% off many times, notably during the whole winter sale and one random week in February, bundled in the meantime and now it's only 50% off.
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I had a great time with that game. I went into it knowing nothing about the story line and I think it was way better than both the walking dead games. It is worth the money at either price.

 
Mooby said:
They definitely operated on a bit of a bait and switch method before. You put something up for 80% off, the people like us who follow the sales get in on it, spread the word, and later Joey 'I was busy banging super models' comes in and says 'ah well, 40% off ain't too bad' and buys it.

Of course, now Steam is so popular Joey doesn't need us to tell him about it.
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I don't know if Funbux are a big part of it.  After all, no money enters the system unless someone puts it there.  Every time I get 3¢ for a card, it's because someone else put a nickel into the system and bought it from me.  And, if I use my Funbux to buy a $5 game, that just means that someone else put $5.50 into the system to allow that to happen.  It's always in Valve's interest to promote use of Funbux since it's straight up free money for them.

Steam can hold lame sales because everyone shows up anyway even without the contests and giveaways and other hoopla.  Even now every digital gaming rag is running some stupid "Ho ho! It's time for Steam's sale so hold on to your wallets and watch out for those 35% savings!" article.  Publishers are discounting less because they don't want to hold a deep cut for 10 days and because it's not 2012 any longer and they've learned that cutting the price for your new game by 80% doesn't cause you to make it up in volume, it just makes everyone value your new game at $3.50

 
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Mooby said:
The percentages are lacking because publishers/developers aren't willing to put their games up at 75% discounts for 10-14 days. You'll note a lot of examples on Humble or other digital stores where you'll see the same game more steeply discounted for daily/flash deals.

So all the people who complained how they didn't have time to buy dailies or about 'consumer rights' in being able to return stuff (thank the Euros and their pesky laws) ended up emasculating Steam sales. Now you guys have the right to return your games... hope it's worth those awesome 30% discounts.
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I do think the refunds have a lot to do with it. I don't necessarily think their worth the crappy sales. I mean I refunded one game, but I would have been fine keeping it too. But I used to think refunds were conceptually a good thing, now I know the error of my ways and the filthy europeans and their consumer rights.

But at the end of the day I think Steam sales suck because Steam knows it doesn't matter. We're a minority and casuals will just pop in and buy what they want and then pop out.

 
FoxyPie said:
I do think the refunds have a lot to do with it. I don't necessarily think their worth the crappy sales. I mean I refunded one game, but I would have been fine keeping it too. But I used to think refunds were conceptually a good thing, now I know the error of my ways and the filthy europeans and their consumer rights.

But at the end of the day I think Steam sales suck because Steam knows it doesn't matter. We're a minority and casuals will just pop in and buy what they want and then pop out.
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that's b/c you don't fakeybro.. like us :whistle2:

when you do, the refund system is gold.

 
Any thoughts on Windward? Is it fun? Worth the purchase? Kinda interested in it but it looks like it would be a good fit for the HB Monthly. 

 
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poxi said:
I was thinking about games like A Wolf Among Us. According to Is There Any Deal it was 75% off many times, notably during the whole winter sale and one random week in February, bundled in the meantime and now it's only 50% off.
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That's true for hundreds of games now -- tons have been cheaper in past sales.

 
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