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DAY 1:

I voted for Borderlands 2 for the fan vote. I think/hope that will win.

If a game you own is on sale, click through, the DLC is probably on sale as well.

Ex. Skyrim Legendary is 50% off, but so is Dawnguard DLC.

Yea, it'll win. Hopefully all the DLC gets 66% off also. (as the BLands 2 DLC has a normal sale going right now @ 30% off)

As far as the DLC for Borderlands 2 goes, is there one to get besides the most recent, Dungeon one?

Of course, depending , I guess it would make sense to get the Pack of DLC.

Apparently I have a copy of Don't Starve left to gift if someone wants it for free instead of picking it up on sale, just send me a PM.

Somewhat disappointed in the sale today. Nothing on that list that I'm interested in, and I only own a couple of them. I'd consider Bioshock Infinite... for a lot less cash -- maybe next summer sale.

If you are going to get two, get all four. Big Game Hunt was the only one not overly liked I think.

Check for a sale on the season pass or watch Greenmangaming for a sale + a coupon if they have one. The newest isn't going on sale (or so it seems) but it is part of the season pass.

I received the Mechromancer pack from pre-ordering, and I liked Gaige but not at that price when I believe it is only the character in that DLC. The same for Kreig in the psycho pack. I don't own the psycho pack but I'm not willing to drop $10 only for a character. If it goes to $3 or so I'll grab it.



That's my issue too, not at 50% off (though the gmg coupon might work with it as they have the same sale currently, I don't know as I haven't tried).

I'm just hoping Far Cry 3 goes real cheap soon. I want it but not for more than $15.

I don't think that's going to happen.   The community choice option is only 40% off.

In the case of Skyrim the main game was only 30 percent off but the three DLCs were reduced by 50 percent.  I got all three of them for 23 bucks.

Cart Life is only $2! http://store.steampowered.com/app/233390/

Still will wishlist it.. just in case.

Pending the servers un-logjam and I can add anything to my cart - I have a question about a couple of games.  I don't own an XBox style controller for my PC yet, and I find trying to play games that were originally designed as console games then ported over to PC extremely annoying to try and play (Warhammer 40k Space Marine jumps to mind) with KB / mouse.

I'm eyeballing Dragon Age: Origins and Kingdom of Amalur over at GamersGate, both on sale for less than 10 bucks.  Are these games that lend themselves more to a gamepad controller or am I okay with KB / mouse?

DA:O is best played keyboard + mouse.  The control scheme is the same as any Infinity Engine rpg.

Kingdoms of Amalur plays fine with kb + m. There's a demo available if you want to try it out.

Everyone already owns borderlands 2 its been half price already vote dishonored!

NO THEY DONT ILL CUT YOU

I want a discount on Krieg more than I want Dishonored, sorry.

Called it. $10 season pass.

($3 Krieg Pack)

The demo for this made me motion sick IIRC, so if you're someone who has trouble with that it is something to watch out for.

and I'm in for Kreig :)

I have the same problem with every Steam sale. I start by saying, oooo I want that and that and that. Then I get to checkout and start questioning things after I see the total. Then I drop a few off the list. Maybe a few more. Then I have one left. Probably for the best.

So, purchasing a game through the website gave me an option to install remotely....holy shit they've gone and added it :drill:


Yes, you're fucked with the rest of us. Just accept that and say good bye to your wallet

Is Call of Juarez any good?

I was also hoping (and voted for) Dishonored.

But I'm ok with Borderlands 2, I guess. Not a ton of stuff I'm looking for anyway. Looking out for Rocksmith DLC on flash at some point, but it's a decent discount already.

And now we get lolz like me and Lantyssa playing Dark Souls :p

Grabbed Krieg.  :drill: Time for another BL2 playthrough this weekend.

Picked up Tiny Tina and Bioshock.

Good start so far.

Can't seem to be able to download DSFix.

I bought it tonight, played just a few minutes.  Fun, kind of on rails shooter, but seems well done.  It got some decent reviews which was what prompted me to buy it in the first place.  For 10 bucks I'll take the chance.

If any needs DSFix let me know, I can put it up on my Dropbox. It's a must have for Dark Souls.

Gonna wait a bit longer on BioShock for a better deal.  I did grab BL2 + the season pass for $20 during the flash sale just a few minutes before it went back up to $40 for both.   :awesome_for_real:

I went ahead and grabbed Bioshock.  Why do you think a better deal will come?  Its up for the daily deal today, they aren't likely to put it up again as a daily deal for even cheaper later on in the sale..

Also grabbed the borderlands DLC and Dont Starve.  To many fucking games lately..

I guess I meant "wait for the fall sale."   I want to play this, but I'm cheap. 

Ah, understood.

Civ 5 + First Expansion for $12.49? Sold.

Is the Saint's Row 3's season pass worth it?

If it's cheap I'd say yes, some of the add-on content was well done.

So far: Defiance, Dragonborn, and just now Civ5 BNW. Knew I was being smart in waiting a week for that.

Need some people to chime in on if Defiance is worth it or not.

For ~$10 it's worth a look if you feel like trying a pretty average 3rd person shooter with no cover system but in a world with other people and random events.

Dunno yet. Fiddled with it for two hours last night. Its an actual MMO shooter. The animations look like I'm running with a load a crap in my pants. No real shortcut bar combat at all that I can see so far. You get a power, two gun slots, grenades, and a melee attack. Improve your power or add perks to it as you level. Standard MMO style loot.

Seems like I shouldn't have a hard time getting $12 worth of enjoyment out of it.

Whoever animated Nolan's character put his eyes too close together. Looks creepy.

It would be nice if they would add upgrade pricing ala Civ V => Civ V Gold for more games. I'd upgrade my Skyrim, but I'm not buying it over again or stacking the DLC that high.

Yeah, they need to improve their DLC handling.  If I have the season pass for something in the cart, it shouldn't be allowing me to add the individual DLCs included in the pass, or at least provide a warning or something

I agree, I'm wary of buying the SR3 DLC because I have no idea what's in there.

Civ V Brave New World went on sale the same day it came out. Shit is fucked up.

Yay! nothing I have to buy today!

Anyone who hasn't played Just Cause 2 would be silly not to get it for $3
Even just messing around with the grappling hook for a couple hours is worth that.

There are still Flash and Community Sales to come.

Yesterday's daily deals are still available and today's are good for 48 hours.  I don't seem to remember them doing that before but then my memory sucks.

They've done that before. Can't remember which Sale they first started doing it.

Playing Far Cry® 3 Blood Dragon does not require a copy of Far Cry® 3.

Buy Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon
FLASH SALE! Offer ends in XXX

$6.74

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av5pqJaIeCk

Daily Deals
Chivalry - $6.24 (75%)
Walking Dead - $6.24 (75%)
Just Cuase 2 - $2.99 (80%)
Darksiders 2 - $9.99 (80%)
Sniper 2 - $4.49 (85%)
Surgeon Similator 2013 - $3.39 (66%)
Anno 2070 - $14.99 (50%)
Fez - $4.99 (50%)
CoD BLOPS 2 - $29.99 (50%)
FTL - $2.49 (75%)

Flash Sales
Legend of Grimrock - $3.74 (75%)
Runner 2 - $7.49 (50)
XCom - $9.99 (75%)
Farcry 3 - $23.99 (40%)

They are really holding on to that Farcry 3 price.

Maybe in a year they'll be willing to sell for $15.

Gasp, Surgeon Simulator 2013 is on sale!

I wonder if GTA IV on PC is worth $5. Also, is Just Cause 2 any good?

Just Cause 2 will be one of the best purchases you make.

Just Cause 2 is a must-own imo. Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie meets Spiderman.

I vote yes for GTA IV because I have hundreds of hours out of it and like the grittier tone (and GTA V pc won't be out for at least another year)

XCom is definitely worth picking up for $10.

Sleeping Dogs really looks like it is geared towards console play, how is it on the PC?

I liked it and it played well for the most part on the PC. The problem is that driving is kind of shit in games like Sleeping Dogs and Saints Row (though there are usually mods to help improve it). It has some fun melee though (even as a kb/m user), my biggest complaint though was that the Sleeping Dogs mod community is nothing like SR though and is pretty bare last I checked.

Picked up Sleeping Dogs for my first purchase of the sale -- is any of the DLC worthwhile?

Considered Anno 2070.. but I remember all sorts of stories of DRM and shit and.. only 50% off? Pass, but maybe I'd have impulse bought it at 66% off.

The Dragon Master Pack is worth it, almost game breaking though as the outfit reduces too much damage imo

Sleeping Dogs is a really solid open-world GTA-alike. I bought a bunch of the DLC, the cop one is the one I leaned on most early on. 50% damage reduction suit and cop car in the garage (and you can pull a shotgun out of the trunk with a perk, iirc).

I use a 360 gamepad for any game like this.

I don't see a dragon master pack.

Got the Gaige & Krieg BL2 DLC, nice to finally see them on sale.

Went to get Just Cause 2, although I already have it on the PS3, and discovered I already have the Steam version too. Must've picked it up in a previous sale  :awesome_for_real:

And damn you all, I just got Sleeping Dogs and the Dragon Master DLC too!

Its below the DLC pack list and is basically just a collection of five of the DLCs and, I think slightly cheaper bought as this pack.

Yeah, what Ceryse said

link http://store.steampowered.com/sub/18089/

Tropico 4 on Flash sale for the next 3+ hours. I am thinking of picking it up.  Is the DLC worth the extra couple of bucks?

Depends on what you use and how you play.  I would say that all of the buildings help a lot.  The outfits and dictator traits are personal style and flair.  If you play with Modern Times you're effectively cheating anyways, so yeah  :why_so_serious:

Are they doing package deals this time around? Can't see a link to them anywhere.

Anyone played Mars: War Logs?

StarDrive or Endless Space?  Go.

Nothing I want here.

Maybe Tomb Raider, but I've reached the point where I know which games will sit on my shelf and not get played.

Heroes still isn't cheap enough for me to put up with Ubisoft's nonsense.

Very flawed but scifi...on Mars (not that great but I did see it to the end)

Will I actually play Tomb Raider or not...

I keep thinking about tomb raider but I guess it is very quicktimey with all those scripted events.  I also hate that first steam video.

Finally bought the Witcher and the Witcher 2. Made $1.11 selling those idiotic Steam cards, so total cost was $6.37 for two epic RPG's. I'll buy that.

I've got 4 more bucks from those cards...need something to buy now!

I've played it a bunch but not beaten it. It's a janky rpg with heart. It recently had a patch where they redid a lot of the (bad) voice acting. Perfectly playable.

You Need A Budget is on a flash sale today for 14.99.  I'm a huge huge fan of it.

I wonder if they put that one in there as a message to us. :awesome_for_real:

We paid full price for it, and it was worth every penny.

Getting YNAB for 75% off...and then paying for half of that with money from selling those dopey cards? Awesome.

Wow: It's fucking nothing!

Kerbal Space Program is 40% off if you're into that sort of thing I guess. Meh.

Any opinions on Eador? 

Yea, today blows.

Kerbal is fun to a point, and then the difficulty level goes up so steeply that when the initial shiny wears off, you either buckle down and learn astrotelemetry like a pro nerd or you fizzle out. There are a few mods out there that help make the game marginally easier, but in the end, if you don't understand and don't want to understand Buzz Aldrin level of shit its not a game for you

I finally crumbled, went in for Sanctum 2, HoMM VI and Remember Me.

Picked up the last bit of Fallout New Vegas DLC I didn't have and reinstalled for another playthrough.

I am going to blow right through my horrible Canadian ISP monthly download caps re-installing old games for the dlc.  In the future I will be less ocd about uninstalling once finished.

Any insight on Deadlight?

Published by Microsoft but apparently does not need gfwl.  So I decided to try it.  Still downloading so I have no idea if it was a good idea.  haven't even confirmed no gfwl (which would be a dealbreaker).

Basically this is a worthless post and should be ignored.

It did remind me how gwfl looks like shorthand for god awful.

Yeah i agree about the gfwl. I've accepted it rarely and don't like it so give an update when able


Now that I've noticed it I cannot see it any other way :why_so_serious:

I also would like to know this. I'm considering this as the only purchase today.

I just started bioshock infinite but I bought the Columbia dlc.  Why don't I have those silver eagles and extra guns yet?  Is there a trick or should I be patient and assume I get them after the prologuey type stuff?

If you like the genre its not bad. I like it, personally -- but I enjoyed Eador: Genesis. Its fairly buggy, however. If you don't have an issue waiting I'd pick it up at the next big sale when its a touch more stable and isn't using wrong event descriptions to tell you what's happening (leaning you no clue as to what actually happened with the actual event you got) and some bugs that skew difficulty to the harder side of things, regardless of difficulty setting.

Perfect. I'll put it on the wishlist for the holidays. Thanks!

Perhaps it is the horribly long day I had and how tired I am, but for some reason NBA 2K13 is intriguing. Anyone played it?

Really tempted with Fallout3 and New Vegas for cheap as well as Total War: Medieval 2....

Starting up a new game of New Vegas and I had almost forgotten how much I like this game.  The "Courier's Stash" DLC i just picked up is basically like cheating as it gives you a bunch of stuff for free at the beginning.  I sold most of it for caps anyway.

Played it for 30 mins.
Mash Left + Right to swing.
Mash Left + Right to climb slippery surface.
Mash E to grab.
Dodge Rock with Left / Right

I think 50% of the game would be like this.
Kinda regret my purchase.

Is Fallout: New Vegas worth $2.50?

it was worth $50 to me, so, yes.

I think I put a hundred hours into the base game, and there was still stuff to do. 

You won't see it any lower.
I bought the Ultimate Edition.
It's basically the 'final' collection of DLCs ever released with the base game.
I wish more games would do this unlike fucking Sims 3

Dont feel bad I crumbled too, I purchased Remember me, Borderlands 2+ season pass, My first Tomb Raider game, and Kerbal Space Program.

Decided that I'd never play Tomb Raider (I have all the others in the series - unfinished) so gave it a miss.

Did pick up 20 bucks worth of Borderlands 2 DLC. NFI why but good to see I'm still an impulse buyer :S

Shit, I just saw Kerbal Space Program and Sanctum 2 on sale :(

I'm waiting for something I want and don't already have that is $2.50 or less so I can spend the money I made from selling my Steam cards. :awesome_for_real:

This is a strange sale. Looking at the Store frontpage you'd think only the listed ones are on sale, but if you actually go browse games (by genre for example) you'll find out that almost everything is 25-75% off until July 22nd.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/218844/

Regretted buying that game.

This is how they do it every year.  For the length of the sale, most games are put on sale.  However, the daily deals cut the price of the selected games even more (so may go from 25% of to 66% or something).  Thats why its always best to wait till the games you want go on daily deal sale.  Only on the last day when all the daily sales are done should you then go out and buy games at their normal sale price.

It is true, though, that they are doing a better job this sale with hiding the non-special deal sale items than they usually do with their horrible UI. E.g. in previous sales publisher catalog sale bundles were predominately featured. Now I can't find any publisher catalog sales this time. I'm not sure if that's because there are no catalog sales or the horrible UI is hiding them better as mentioned above.

I actually like steams UI, never had any problems with it really.  What about it do you find horrible?

Publisher packs/bundles seem to be mostly missing this time, I noticed only two so far (Stardock -66%, Daedalic -75%).

A lot of stuff is -75% for the whole duration, those probably won't be discounted further in daily sales.

Me, too.

Shit, I almost forgot that they put the DLC cheap when the main game is. I didn't have any of the New Vegas DLC. Just got it all for $5.

Use your wishlist!  Just roll through that every day to see what is on sale.

Except that you don't know from that what is on flash or daily deal. Never buy a game during the steam sale unless it's on flash or daily deal.

Needs a tabbed interface.

As far as regular sale pricing, I'm with sickrubik; not concerned about it until the final sale day. Then I'll poke around and see what didn't make dailies or flashes.

Stupid community selecting Natural Selection over Monaco.

STUPID.

Yeah, I just don't understand that. When I saw Monaco in voting I made sure to check back to grab it on the cheap, only to find that it lost... I guess you should never underestimate the sheer numbers of "shooters only" gamers.

I don't even see the sale page anymore. My Steam has reverted back to the normal frontpage.

I use the Pixelvision skin; it kinda cleans the UI up IMO.

http://pulseh.deviantart.com/art/PixelVision-Skin-for-Steam-211426153

Maybe not bitch so much, GAWD.

Also, 10AM does weird shit. I just get the heavy load page right now.

Daily Deals:
Reus (50%) 4.99
Max Payne 3 (75) 9.99
Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion (75) 9.99
Kiling Floor (80) 3.99
Wargrame Airland Battle (50) 19.99
Dust (50) 7.49
Dishonored (66) 10.19
Castle Crashers (75) 3.74
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (75) 7.49
Terraria (75) 2.49

Flash Sales
KOTOR 2 (66) 3.39
Oregon Trail Directors Cut (75) 1.24
Mirrors Edge (70) 5.99
Bioshock Infinite (50) 29.99

If you didn't have dishonored pick it up, it's good.

The rest: meh

I still have a back log long enough to avoid something like Dishonored, but yeah, otherwise today seems meh. Reus seems to get a lot of interest, but I hadn't even heard about it until now.

Yea, I pulled the trigger on Dishonored... 66% off is good enough.

If you don't have Terraria, you should buy it.

Fallout: New Vegas is one of my favourite games ever!  And I think I laughed more playing that game than any other.  I miss laughing.

I have not yet bought anything mostly because I keep forgetting to look and when I do I can't decide.  Don't know if I should get Borderlands 2 for the pc.  I played it on xBox but didn't have all (maybe not even most) of the DLC. 

I think I might be wishy washy.  :(

I've spent more than I expected to during this sale (but less than I allotted, thankfully). I'm up around $75 spent already, just picking up;

- Dishonoured
- Dust: Elysian Tale
- DLC for New Vegas
- Tomb Raider (and some DLC, I think)
- Eador: Broken World
- Sleeping Dogs (and some DLC)
- Torchlight 2
- Ys 1 & 2
- Just Cause 2
- Fallout 3 and its DLC
- Universe Sandbox

Think I'm pretty much done. I can't think of anything else that might come on sale that I'd even want to buy or don't already have. I have made about $6 back in selling duplicate cards, though.

Just filling out some games that I've been wanting to play but probably won't and some DLC while its on sale:

Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon $7
Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate $5
Mirror's Edge $6
Bioshock Infinite $30
Civ5 Gold DLC $5
Dishononred Knife of Dunwall DLC $3.50
BL2 Tiny Tina's Assault DLC $3.50

Been good so far, but I picked up a bunch of stuff during the winter that I haven't even touched so I'm being a little more restrained this time around.

Dishonoured is the one I was waiting for.

Dishonored is really good - I'll be picking up the "Knife of Dunwall" DLC.

Look at all these games!?!  We used to have to go searching for good games to play and now they grow on game bushes or something.  I don't know if I'm happy or alarmed.

I've been a good lad so far and purchased only what I originally planned, and that is The Cave and The Walking Dead. I also planned to buy Kerbal Space program (still have a bit of time for that) and probably the Knife of Dunwall DLC and Slinghost DLC for X-com and that's it, sigh.

On the other hand, given how great Crusader Kings II was, I'll probably purchase Europa Universalis IV (and Day1 dlc) at full price when it's released in August, so I'll save for that.

Finally, I read somewhere that "You need a budget 4" was on sale a couple days ago? I might purchase it if there's going to be another sale.

Apparently the sale goes until the 22nd, so we still have another full week.

I badly want to stream Rogue Legacy but I want it even cheaper than $11.99.

I'm holding out hope for a flash sale, but it's so new, and is apparently very popular, I don't know if that'll happen.

Yeah but they did put 33% off Civ5:Brave New World and a discount on BL2: Tiny Tina's Assault, both of which are probably more popular and also brand new

Besides Dishonored, Wargame:ALB has been some decent fun, $20 is about right. Beyond that, today's sales are kind of shitty (even the flash sales). Though I have heard good things about Reus.

I'm surprised it was on sale at all during this sale.  It hasn't been from any of the other summer sales, it's what pushed me to just paying full price for it.

I'm waiting on the rest of the Assassins Creed games to go on sale.

Rogue's Legacy: love the concept but my metrovainia skills are pitiful.

If I've learned one thing, it's that you shouldn't go prodding around in gamey bushes.

This. 50% off and I'd jump.

Trying to decide whether to pull the trigger on Dishonored.

Pulled the trigger on a few sub $10 games so far but Rogue Legacy is the one I'm actively watching.  If it doesn't drop before the end of the sale I'll probably pay that price.

I'd probably die of old age before I enumerated all the issues so I'll just give a sampling.

* The product lists (New Releases, Top Sellers, etc.) don't fit on a 1080p screen without scrolling. They don't even fit on a 1920 x 1200 screen as the new layout takes up even more vertical space for each item. And "paging" does that fucking annoying slow animation each time you page.

* And to add insult to injury if you go to a different page (e.g. list 11 - 20), click on a game, and then use the back button to go back to the list you are back on the first fucking page (1 - 10).

* Pop quiz (and no cheating) -- from the big called out HTML page menu options (Store, Library, Community, <Your_Name_Here>) which page under those options do you go to to search for people to add as a friend? Bzzzt! Wrong. It's not the Friends screen -- that would be too easy. Activity or Community pages are acceptable answers though the searches differ between the two for some inexplicable reason. Activity is player search only while Community is player or group search.

* Next pop quiz -- which page do you go to to manage your friend invites? Bzzzt. Wrong. It's not the fucking Friends page, again. The only place to manage your invites is the pop up Friends list.

* The UI now thankful shows you if you own a game. However it does not show you if you own a DLC for a game you own when viewing the DLC page, making buying DLC for a game with a lot of DLC, some of which you may have purchased before a fucking painful experience. I end up either adding all the DLC if there's an option for that and then deleting the ones I already own (cause it shows you the ones you own in the cart, fuckers) or bringing up the separate window when you right click on a game in your Library and click on View Downloadable Content and refer back and forth. But just to make things interesting the DLC names in the product window can differ from the names in the View Downloadable Content window.

* Speaking of the cart, only a handful of pages actually show a link to your cart if you have an active one (most but of course not all of the Store pages will show you a cart link). The client can show you a message/notification icon in the top right in the main client UI (outside of all the HTML garbage) but it can't show you a fucking cart icon too?

* Modal and modeless dialog boxes look exactly the same but of course modal dialog boxes block the entire client and plays that fucking sound when you try to use the client when the modal dialog is up.

* When backing up files it fucking always defaults to CD as the split size. Who fucking uses CDs to archive games these days?

Cant remember what the verdict was on Carrier Command, but I see it up on the flash sale for 70% off.  Is it worth it, or should I hold on for a better deal on something else?   Seem to recall someone said it had serious issues with unit pathing or something when you let the AI run things?

It's bohemia interactive so I assumed it would be clunky, buggy and not much fun... certainly the video looked that way

I wouldn't say Carrier Command has serious issues with pathing, but yeah it can be a bit 'oh for fucks sake stop trying to ram the goddamn tree and get back on the road fuck it I'll do it manually' on occasion.

FWIW I was a huge fan of the original and have been wanting an updated version for many years, I was pleased with it overall.

I think this is gonna be the most expensive Steam sale for me ever. Got Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion lastnight and just sprung for Carrier Command too.

Send that to Steam in an email!  99.9% of the feedback we get on our site at work is "yur site sucks", but the one in a thousand that provides quality feedback like yours will go straight to my VP.  From what I understand, Steam is about as large as our company from an employee quantity standpoint.  There's a fair chance you'll be heard at least.

Because... you're right on all counts.

Completely agree.  I'd also like an option to be able to view only playing members of a group.  As of right now, the f13.net group is too many members to view in the Friends list.

Not good enough for that price. It's just too damn short and some powers made the game trivial.

So not a quality product like surgeon simulator?  :oh_i_see:

Short actually sounds good right about now. 

My main gripe is that you can't click on the preview screenshots to move forward and back.  You have to use that small scroll bar to see them or just sit there and let the default scroll timer fire.

I actually hugely enjoyed the setting as well.

Fun game.

I had to pull the triggered on Dishonored and all it's DLC. For $16, why not?

Also, short doesn't really bother me much anymore. Hell, I've put over 40 hours into Skyrim and I'm not close to finishing it but I get fatigue with games that long.

I'm shocked none of these are 75% off.  Kind of weird actually considering we've seen a few for lower.

Edit: refreshed to glorious 75% off.

Yeah, that's fucked up. Shitty day today. Sleeping Dogs has been 50% off the whole sale except for that one Flash sale.

Also, you motherfuckers need to vote for Civ5 on the community vote, in case they drop the price of the new expansion with it.

Given the issues they seem to be having today, those prices might still be updating. 25% off is a pretty low discount, for instance.

Edit: And just like that, the prices are lower.

Yep, reload and the prices drop. Weird.

Not weird at all, it's quite common that people end up reporting on prices too soon. Steam's database seems a bit sluggish when it's getting hammered.

Was hoping that the Skyrim DLC would be a bit cheaper, nothing else today for me to snag.

Awesome.

That said if you don't have Mark of the Ninja yet, you should. It's fantastic.

I really enjoyed Orcs Must Die 2, but I really enjoyed the first one and I'm a big fan of tower defense games.

Sleeping Dogs is still on my list form the Winter Sale where I got it for $17.  I hear good things about it though.

Still considering Dishonoured.  Other than that, I'm good. I got Sleeping Dogs for that price when they mispriced it last sale.  And unlike those Best Buy dickbags, Steam actually honors mispriced items.

$3.99 is the right price to pay for the Alan Wake franchise.

Picked up that Sleeping Dogs Dragon Pack also.

Not only is best buy a bunch of dick bags but in the AM hours after they stopped people from buying, but before they refunded the orders, they went into their TOS to perform a ghost edit that was captured by companies that log and track TOS for online retailers. The ghost edit gives them to the right to never make good on mis-priced items in stores or online. Basically says they have a right to cancel all orders or refund all sales at their discression including instances of mistaken pricing.

Not really because of the penny game screw up, but more because best buy has been horrible for years, I probably wont buy anything from them ever again.

Just voted for Civ5

I'd love to pick up the FEAR and Silent Hill games I never played if they go on sale some day.  I'm kind of wary about buying them for the PC, though.  I've only ever played them on a console.  They really scare me half to death, too, which I sort of like.  I wonder how crappy they got since my PS1/PS2 days... I would be disappointed like I was with Resident Evil... umm... raccoons or sommat.

And will vote Civ5... won't play, but will vote.  :)

The only good Resident Evil is 4. 

Is it better played with a controller? I am definitely picking it up today and have been hemming and hawing over a controller for my PC for awhile now and having another game that plays better with one will tip that scale even further.

That was my vote and my thinking on it.

Resident Evil Zero was my favorite.

That ninja games looks so awesome and I love stealth games....but goddamned sidescroller.

Its really good and I played it with controller.

I dont even want Alan Wake but 90% off.

I have dishonored (haven't gotten to play it yet).  Is the DLC worth $8 or so (too lazy to do math)

Anyone tried Reus? It looks interesting.

Dragonborn needs to be dropping down under $9.99 damn it.

I bought it on the 11th for $9.99 and it has already been well worth it. The new island is really fun.

Reus is not what they advertise it as.  I liked it a lot, but it's more a puzzle game than a god game.

Dishonored seems cool....but oh my achin' consolitis.

Really, esc out of every popup? I wonder what they mapped B to.  :oh_i_see:

They keep repeating deals with the same discounts :-/

Colonial marines is on sale.

Colonial marines is listing a pre-sale price of 49.99.







What.

Cheap bastards!

Yah, I somehow missed out on the slips with Dragonborn and Brave New World both being mistakenly discounted.   :crying_panda:

And yah, I totally voted for Civ V hoping for BNW discounts and it's a big pile of NOPE

No discount on the BNW, so I grabbed Sleeping Dogs and the 2 mission packs for it instead.

I think Dragonborn still is on sale for $14.

It's another one of the games that is better with a controller, yeah.

FINALLY FUCK YEAH BEST DAILY FLASH EVER COLON CANCER MARINE.

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/829607/daily/04/acm2.jpg)

G&K dropped to $7.50
Should I get? Hmm.

Yeah, I've pretty much only picked up DLC in this sale so far, and it's a fucking pain in the arse to do so. Even worse, sometimes the DLC that you apparently don't own, even when sold singly ie, not in a bundle, shows up in the cart without "you already own this" still comes up with a "you already own this, retard! NO BUY!" when you actually try to complete the purchase. So either it's not all showing up as owned, or it's not letting me buy things by their mistake. (I was trying to buy a CivV scenario pack 30 or so mins ago, which was apparently the only thing I don't own excepting the new huge expansion...)

For $2.49 I'd probably pick it up. JUst to see what the trainwreck looks like firsthand.

It's the one that makes it fun to play, yeah?

I like Gods and Kings. It added a lot of stuff that I think turned the game around.

Dead Island Riptide (-50%) $19.99
Mount & Blade With Fire and Sword (-75%) $2.49
Evoland (-50%) $4.99
Tropico 4 Steam Special Edition (-80%) $5.99
Arkham City GOTY (-75%) $7.49
Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition (-75%) $7.49
Fallen Enchantress Legendary Heroes (-66%) $13.59
Ace of Spades (-75%) $2.49
Grand Theft Auto IV (-75%) $4.99
Deus Ex Human Revolution (-85%) $2.99

Flash Sales
Lego LOTR (-75%) $7.49
Left 4 Dead 2 (-75%) $4.99
Gunpoint (-40%) $5.99
War of the Roses Kingmaker (-75%) $4.99

Hmm...all of Grand Theft Auto IV for $14....tempting.

Too bad the Fallen Enchantress DLC isn't on sale.

Yeah, I'd have gone for the DLC for sure if it had been on sale. The latest iteration of Fallen Enchantress isn't terrible. I'll still never trust Stardock again but they've redeemed themselves a little at least.

I had the same question a couple days ago, and found this tiny little thread on Reus (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=23280.0) from the PC/Console main board.

Fallen Enchantress. Shall I buy it or not?

Edit: I love 4x and turn based games. Still feeling nostalgic for Master of Magic. But despite never informing myself much about Warlock Fallen Enchantress I still can smell the aura of doom surrounding it.

People are saying that Legendary Heroes has made a significant improvement of the game, but I haven't tried it yet.

Hmm. Legendary Heros is the DLC below? If so, it's sadly not on sale.  :oh_i_see:

(http://i.imgur.com/J8arJTa.png)

No, it's a standalone expansion that has the DLC you pictured there. The game is listed as 66% off, but the DLC doesn't seem to be. When I was home for lunch, the game itself wasn't showing up to buy on its store page, so it might change at some point.

I bought it. I'm throwing money down a well at this point, what's one more thing?

Absolutely right. Too late to start saving money, so you might as well buy another copy for me!

I no longer support Stardock products cause of Brad so for me that's a no on Fallen Enchantress even if it does sort of work now.

Ditto. Fuck that guy. Seriously. Prison-style.

Because of his right wing douchyness towards employees? (Wasn't he the "I'll fire liberals first' guy?).

But too late, I bought it.  :oh_i_see:

And his constantly say "Next patch will fix things" and next patch made things even worse.  This happen over and over again. The guy is Baghdad Bob of video games.  Any penny that goes into this guys pocket is a travesty.

Meh, EA is worse.

And after Double Fine's latest stunt on Kickstarter, I'm willing to put Schafer in that class of customer-abusing assholes as well. (Molyneux as well, lol Godus)

And his gamer manifesto leading into Elemental's release.

But...I'm a Kael supporter. It's like tithing to the catholic church. Sure, some of the money goes to child molesters, but it also does some good for deserving people.

Also, though the store index says 66% off, the game page is 75% off.

FFH was his one-hit (and he's barely a wonder, since it didn't exactly make him rich). Stop giving them money, numbskull.

I don't disagree with you.

I am staring down the barrel of Dark Souls. I think I  need to stop watching streams of that game.

Eh, it's one of the only games in the entire sale thus far worth buying at full price let alone some portion of that price.

Sleeping Dogs is god-tier as well. GOTY of '12.

To be fair, 2012 was one of the worst years of gaming in recent memory. So there's that.

Yeah? Okay, thanks for the input. I was kind of hoping someone would chime in with "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING, GOD NO" so I wouldn't buy it. PURCHASED.

Dark Souls is amazing. I cant really imagine playing it with a mouse and keyboard though.

It made me really motion sick with KB/M. I think I've probably posted that like 12 times before, but JUST IN CASE I didn't do it here. Don't play it with KB/M if you are inclined to motion sickness.

I managed decent with a kb/m - but downloaded the Dark Souls mouse fix (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~petska/) which smoothed it out a TON.

I was bored since I didn't have enough time to start a new game before I go out of town, so I decided to categorize my steam library.  The final counts came out to:
Finished: 85
Probably Won't Play: 33
Maybe (unplayed): 62
To Play (all unplayed): 31


I think I have a problem

Okay, I think I'm finally going to pull the trigger on Sleeping Dogs.  Are any of the actual content DLC's worth it?

I'd go with

Zodiac Tournament (Bruce Lee movie spoof)
Wheels of Fury (silly supercar with some funny missions)
Nightmare in North Point (Halloween special, loads up separately from the main game)
Year of the Snake (side story, takes place after the events of the main game, also loads up separately)

The rest is cosmetic crap I think.

Hmm, warframe starter pack up on flash sale.  I know a number of people here seemed to like it.  $10 for everything in that pack seem like a good deal?

You want to pay to win? That's really what it is. $50 for the whole thing was overpriced. $10 seems like a good 'virtual currency' - if you're really into the game.

I'm thinking of picking up Van Helsing when I get home.  It's gotten fairly decent reviews.  FarCry 3 still isn't cheap enough.  Let me know when it's $15 or less.

wtf Van Helsing is a reskin of Diablo 2? I mean, bought.

Looks like Skyrim will be the Main Offer tomorrow, as a heads up. Maybe the DLC will be priced better then.

It's 1 player right?

It has multiplayer co-op.

Van Helsing certainly "feels" right. Just started a character on heroic - better than expected.

I can't decide on Van Helsing. I don't know if I will even get around to playing it if I buy it.

I'm DL this now.  Hopefully its as good as I'm hearing since they've already announced a sequel where you can import your saved character from the first game.

Skyrim Legendary (-40%) $35.99 (Discounts on this and base game/DLC seem to be exactly the same currently as it was on the Flash Sale.) DLC seems to be priced down now.
Even Online (-75%) $4.98
Awesomenauts (-66%) $3.39
Metro Last Light (-40%) $29.99
Trials Evolution (-50%) $9.99
Monaco (-50%) $7.44
Train Simulator (-80%) $10.99
Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition (-75%) $4.99
Civ V (-75%) $7.49
Grid 2 (-40%) $29.99

Flash Sales
Rayman Origins (-66%) $6.79
Portal 2 (-75%) $4.99
STar Trek (-75%) $7.49
Fable 3 (-75%) $4.99

Dragonborn at least changed from 30% to 50% so down to $9.99 instead of the $13.99 it has been.

At the time, it was still at 30%, but I was just coming back here to point that out. Purchased!

Van Helsing and GRID2 are making my finger itch...

Fable 3 finally down to $5 and I no longer care.

I think it sucked. The combat was meh, and the game was fine until the end, then for some reason I'm making pies to save the universe.

I got Van Helsing and the Dead Island bundle.  That's all I got so far.  I hope nothing else I might like goes on sale.  Skint.

Yah, there definitely was a bit of steam nuttiness for about 15 minutes or so before the price updated.

I'm really interested in Monaco - but don't know how much I would actually play it.

You really need to play it co-op with friends to get the most out of it from what I hear.

New flash sale:

(http://i.imgur.com/gE91gCV.png)

Are people still happy with their Van Helsing purchases?

What is up with Star Conflict? It's F2P, but is it any good? I don't remember hearing anything about it.

So far, very.  With the money I got from selling those stupid cards, I bought it for less than $5.  Its much better than it has any right to be.  If you're into arpg's that are Diablo-like, you could do a lot worse.

I've only bought stuff that's over 50% off and that has kept my spending at check... so far  :awesome_for_real:

Seconded.  The roommie made me install this before I even launched.

Blood Bowl Chaos Edition is 50% off this weekend.

If you don't already own then I don't know what to tell you. (you should buy blood bowl)

PSA: Don't buy Starforge. It's a mess.

Is Prison Architect even fun yet?

I just bought it and it is rather like Diablo 2.  I like it.

If Van Helsing didn't have a STUPID license attached to it and it was called like WITCH SMASH or something, people would be all over it and sit around discussing how a tiny dev house made a better Diablo 3 than Diablo 3.

I'm not saying it's anywhere near that quality in terms of raw gameplay, but the Loot and Skill systems are better than D3 and it's certainly better than PoE.

tl;dr: Van Helsing is a tiny indie darling that dreams of being something bigger.

I have to agree.  I absolutely like it better than Diablo 3, which I didn't even bother to play half way through. I love these sorts of games.  I wish I could be a girlie Van Helsing with a hunky man ghost but it's not a game breaker. 

Should I buy Saint's Row 2? I've heard the port is awful.

It's not great, but I've played worse.  The one major issue I had was that the game didn't recognize my processor speed and ran at something like double speed, but there was a fan patch that fixed it.  Aside from that, I managed to make it through the game without any problems, though it was a bit janky in some parts.

Other than that, it's less over the top than SR3 (but still pretty crazy compared to, say, GTA4) and a bit less polished.  It's got co-op mode, too, so that's fun.  I'd say it's worth four bucks, but if you've already got SR3 there's really not much that SR2 does better except for more diverse character customization.

Thank you! Almost bought it.

Bought Witcher 2 earlier in the week and holy crap does that run terrible on my system at max settings. I run Skyrim at max with no issues. What gives?

Even with GotR fan patch and tweaking, SR2 still ran like crap for me. Too bad, I was getting hooked into the game itself, but the controls and just the, I dunno, way it ran; sucked.

Have you played Just Cause 2 yet? That's on community choice and awesome.

Don't know.  It always ran somewhat bad for me.  I had to kill a lot of fancy shit and even then some areas were slideshows.  First Witcher had similar issues. You needed a fairly strong system and the visuals just weren't on par with what you needed to get them.

Just a word of warning.  I've heard it's a bad idea to install the combat overhaul mod.  It apparently makes some difficult encounters into impossible ones.

I had issues with Witcher 2 as well. You can turn a lot of advanced detail options down without making it look too shit though.

Picked up DCS: Black Shark yesterday. Wasn't mentioned on the Steam splash page or the specials or Flash sales at all, but I was browsing and saw it was 70% off.

Why didn't any of you assholes tell me that Antichamber is currently the best game of 2013?  :heartbreak: This would have been the first day 1 purchase I've made in two years, had I known about it.

I picked it up for 5ish a couple days ago. At $10 right now(50% off), it's still a good deal.

Kentucky Route Zero looks super cool and I totally voted for it.

Antichamber is pretty fun. The Day[9]'s Day Off run of it is more fun. I've been playing a review copy of it for a bit and while I like it, "best game" of 2013 is a little much.

Dead Island seems to be all buggered up for me.  :(  I have 20 games in my whole Steam life and 1 card.  ONE.  I thought that was a lot of games.  I thought wrong.  Geez, you lot have a fuck ton of Steam games!  I guess I fell harder for console games. 

It's true, I only own 3 console games.

(3,000)

I only have 20 games. All my fingers plus all my toes, then I start over. 20!

It's fun solo too, but is a completely different experience.  I find solo play to feel more puzzle-game-like -- careful planning and execution, and multiplayer to be just crazy mayhem.

Since the sale is winding down, I'll post the list of doom:

FTL: Faster Than Light
Grid 2
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Dishonored - The Knife Of Dunwall DLC
Might and Magic Heroes VI Gold
Remember Me
Sanctum 2

I showed a lot of restraint this year, only spent $30 because I've got a backlog of console and handheld games to play already.

Civ V Gold
BL2 Krieg DLC
Rogue Legacy
Retro City Rampage

CK2 DLCs (I already had all the dlcs that actually added gameplay elements so just some music and graphics because ck2)
Organ Trail
X-COM+Slingshot DLC
Tropico4+DLCs
FTL

total spent:<30e

Not buying anything that wasn't on sale for more than 50% off worked out fine (especially after spending a bit too much on hex).

Got a little out of hand this year. It's been a while, though; my last big spree was winter 2011.

Rocksmith DLCs
Dishonored
Walking Dead
Dark Souls

Borderlands 2 + DLC
XCom DLC
Fallout: NV DLC
YNAB 4
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
Poker Night 2

First batch was what I had planned on buying.

Skyrim - Dragonborn
Fallout NV - all of the DLC
Remember Me
Metro Last Light
Hitman Absolution
Civ V - Brave New World
Defiance

I've discovered a couple things from this. One, buying this many games at once causes me to not want to commit to playing any of them, its quite annoying. And two, I finally found a game in Metro that my current system can't handle.

The Witcher 2 is an extremely detailed game using some rather advanced rendering systems. Its not really comparable to Skyrim on a technical level. Texture resolution alone in both diffuse and normal maps are at least 2x the size of anything in Skyrim. The lighting engine is, insane.

The Witcher 1 ran on a version of BioWare's Aurora Engine.

According to my summer sale progress I've spent $47.07 on:

Dishonored - The Knife Of Dunwall DLC
Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials
Dishonored - Void Walkers Arsenal DLC
The Witcher 2
Just Cause 2
FEZ
Saints Row: The Third - Season Pass DLC Pack
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gold
Borderlands 2 Season Pass ROW

For some reason, I didn't get a confirmation e-mail for about a third of the purchases I made.  They're still in my games list, though, so who knows what's up.

Damages to my wallet:

A New Beginning - Final Cut
Bionic Commando
Borderlands 2
Borderlands 2 Season Pass
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dishonored
Dishonored - The Knife Of Dunwall DLC
Dragon's Lair
The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn DLC  (bought it on flash sale instead of the daily sale, and didn't get the best deal on it  :mob:)
Gunpoint Special Edition
Hitman Absolution
Impire
Lucius
Monaco
Risen 2 Gold
Under the Ocean
Spec Ops The Line
Star Trek
Strike Suit Zero Mega Bundle
Surgeon Simulator
System Shock 2  
Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Tomb Raider 
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space  
Ys I and II Chronicles

I didn't do too bad.

Witcher 1 & 2
Dishonored + all the DLC
Sleeping Dogs + 2 pieces of DLC

I was holding out to see if Civ 5 Brave New World or CK Old Gods went on sale, but they never did when I had the cash to spend so those will be purchases for another day. It isn't like I don't already have a shitton to play.

Came out reasonably light this year:

Dark Souls PTD Edition
Saints Row 3
Civ 5 Gods and Kings
FEZ
System Shock 2
Rogue Legacy

Just under $40.  Couple of others I might have went in on but the discounts just didn't get there.

Ok, my shame list:

The Walking Dead
The Cave
X-com - Slingshot DLC
Dishonored - Knife of Dunwall DLC
Kerbal Space Program
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Other games I didn't plan to buy but wasn't strong enough to hold off:

Dark Souls (FUUUUUUUU----)
Saints Row 3 - DLC compilation
Borderlands: GOTY

I bought very, very little - just posting by receipt:
1. Borderlands 2 Season Pass / Psycho: $13.58
2. FTL, Surgeon Simulator, Fex: $10.37
3. Poker Night 2: $2.49
4. Van Helsing / DCL: $9.48
5. Dishonoured / all DLC: $16.62
6. Rogue Legacy: $12.xx (for some reason didn't get a receipt for this)

This sale was uninteresting and sort of blew though, which makes sense since gaming has been a dumpster lately.

I set myself a $10 max and had 2 titles I was watching for. As a result, the only thing I bought was the Dragonborn DLC when I caught it for $9.99 somehow. Far Cry 3 and Tomb Raider will have to wait until the Winter Sale I guess.

I managed to not spend much at all, thankfully.

Fez
Dead Souls
The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn DLC

Decided to hold off on Rogue Legacy. I'm sure it'll be on sale, somewhere at some point.

Rogue Legacy is actually super cool and $11.99 is a fine price for a Roguetroidvania.

I ended up with

Dishonored
Sleeping Dawgs
Alan Wake franchise


And from the bargain bin (like... around or below 1 euro):

Time Gentlemen Please + Ben There Dan That, Cthulhu Saves the World + Breath of Death VII - I have nfi what any of this is (other than doublepacks of games with Lots of Words in their Titles), but some friends had them and they were like 0.50E apiece, so yeah.
Last two missing F:NV DLC (GRA, Courier's Stash)
DX:HR:The Missing Link:Electric Boogaloo

Borderlands 2 season pass  
Dishonored
Spec Ops: The Line
Dark Souls
System Shock 2

Made it out for under $40, which is pretty bad for me considering how little I've bought in recent sales. Funny that I'll preorder a $60 game without a thought and cringe when I end up buying half a dozen for the same total price.

Of course, the $60 game I intend to play right away and always do.  Some of this shit might not ever even get launched.

Good to hear; grabbed it yesterday but haven't had a chance to play it yet. Does it control ok with kb+m or are you using a controller?

I have that Razer Xbox controller thing.

Total damage:

Call of Juarez Gunslinger
XCom + DLC
Van Helsing
Tomb Raider + DLC
Dragon's Lair
Dishonored + DLC
Hotline Miami
Just Cause 2 (gift)
FTL (gift)

I have a good amount of cards, I should probably pay attention and do something with them.

It's on my super short list, but I am trying to put rules on myself about completing things. But, like most indie games, it will be on sale again, at some point in the near future.

Man, I knew I was buying a lot in this sale, but then I just glanced at the summer card progress ticker.....

"You have spent approximately $146.83 USD in the store since the sale began."

 :ye_gods:

ew

Do we have a Walking Dead (pc game) thread? I'm seeing threads for the comics and tv show but not the game.

I started playing it last night and didn't want to stop, really compelling game and I'm already seeing the tough decisions not too far in (at the farm).

But holy crap I hate the lack of an inverted y axis on the lookstick. What sadistic bastard won't let you invert the view stick? Please let there be a hack for this.

I managed to contain myself, and only spent $100 this year.

StarForge
RAGE
Music Creator 6 Touch
Mars: War Logs
StarDrive
Rogue Legacy
Eador: Masters of the Broken World
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
The Witcher 2
Borderlands 2 Season Pass
Runespell Overture
Skyrim Hearthfire
FTL: Faster Than Light

Now to see if I ever get around to playing any of them.

I suggest you all install Starforge asap.

Didn't you just say it was in bad shape like 2 days ago?

My total was similar;

- Prison Architect (impulse buy I semi-regret but I like Introversion so fuck it)
- Van Hellsing x2
- Port Royale 3 - Gifted
- Sleeping Dogs, some DLC
- Dishonoured
- Risen 2 - Gifted
- Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Eador: Masters of a Broken World
- Plants vs Zombies - Gifted
- Torchlight 2 - Gifted
- Fallout: New Vegas DLC
- Universe Sandbox
- Tomb Raider, some DLC
- Ys 1 & 2

Total cost: $139

More than I wanted to spend, but outside of the pre-orders I've already done on EU 4 and Total War: Rome 2 this is pretty much it for games for me until next summer, I wager. Between my Steam backlog, those two pre-orders and Hex.. I just don't see myself buying anything before then and not much even then as I'm done with my wishlist.

So far, only Sleeping Dogs has really grabbed me -- even if driving on the left side of the road fucks me up to no end.

And a bunch of fucking people fucking bought it, so I want those fucks to enjoy the fucking fruits of their fucking purchase. /farina

I didn't see the post until after I bought it.  :heartbreak:

Might try it tonight.

Rogue Legacy is excellent, not that the recommendation does you a lot of good now that the sale is over.

Total damage: $105.  :uhrr: I'd managed to keep the last 3 Steam sales under $30 each, not sure what happened here. Pretty happy with my purchases all the same.

-Defiance
-Don't Starve
-Fez
-Surgeon Simulator 2013
-Deadlight (only purchase on this list that was really disappointing, out of what I played anyway)
-Borderlands 2 Psycho DLC
-Swapper
-Dishonored & Dunwall DLC
-Reus
-Sang Froid
-Monaco 4 pack
-Ms. Splosionman
-Farcry 3: Blood Dragon

Definitely had more fun with this sale than any of the 2012 sales.

Risen 2,
Kairo,
Skyrim legendary edition.

I'm poor but those should keep me busy for quite a while. Especially because it motivated me to strip Oscuro's out of Oblivion and do one more try to finish the damn thing.

I totally forgot about Poker Night 2; guess I'll wishlist it until winter.

Borderlands Season Pass and Krieg + a couple skins
Dishonored - Knife of Dunwall
Tomb Raider
Poker Night 2
Farcry 3 Blood Dragon (holy shit this is awesome)
Risen 2 (this is my "I am never going to play this" purchase)
Mark of Ninja

Got pretty much everything I wanted. I was tempted by Monaco, but I expect it'll go for more than 50% at some point. All in all, about $60 spent, so $10 over the budget I had in my mind. I wasn't going to get Blood Dragon until it went on sale for more, but got convinced it was worth it. The Borderlands skins were total impulse buy and Risen 2 will be a game I hardly play.

Rogue Legacy totally seems like a game right up my alley, so that will get purchased sooner than later.

While Risen 2 is an overall better game at just about every level, compared to the previous titles, it does lack a bit of variety the triple character tracks of the previous titles. In other words, it tends to be PIIIIIRAAAAAATES. Where as before at least the whole mage/paladin/rogue split kinda changed things up a bit. You can also side with the natives, and maybe I should've done that to break up things a bit more. Still a cool game, but I took a break after getting my own pirate ship and haven't gotten around to continuing yet.

Forgot I wanted Blood Dragon.

I only spent about $5 on Van Helsing.  Suck it, Gabe Newell. :awesome_for_real:

I was tempted to get Blood Dragon but then I remembered Ubisoft.

Played for 20 mins, but took 20 mins to get UPlay sorted out.

Same here, and Far Cry 3. Really want to play those but fuck Ubisoft.

Unfortunately you're in the middle of the best part, episodes 1-3. By the end of 3/middle of 4, the seams start to show in the storytelling. It's still decent, but you start seeing more of the man behind the curtain than the wizardry itself.

System Shock 2 was my only sale purchase (I expected to get this to get put on sale by GOG before Steam)

I'd have grabbed Kerbal Space Program if it had had a bigger discount (I think 40$ was also it's release promotional discount)

And here's the aftermath:


I picked up

- ANNO 2070 + all DLC
- YNAB (thank to whomever pointed this out.  The wife and I are really taking this to heart, and it's showing already)
- Borderland 2 + Season Pass

I regret passing on Civ 5, but only because I had my heart on ANNO.  Besides, I'm sure Brave New World will be on legit sale for winter.

Waiting on Bioshock Infinite and Skyrim for winter.  Too rich for my blood right now.  With Hex coming, I may not even desire them by then anyways  :awesome_for_real:

 :thumbs_up:

Same here, but substitute in Anno 2070.

edit: tried to get all cutesy with the quote but failed

I'm not sure why but for the last few weeks whenever I open my steam library it shows all games instead of just those that are installed.  It's like it isn't remembering my selection in the show all/recent/installed list anymore and I have to set it back each time.  Anyone know how to fix this?  I couldn't find anything in their awful options pages and google is just a million questions about some bug that happened years ago.

edit: oops, hm, that's not it... can't find anything else, IGNORE ME

I have a -66% coupon for Krater (Valid until Sat Aug 03 2013 17:20:59 GMT+0300 (FLE Daylight Time)) if someone needs.

also a -90% coupon for Serious Sam 3: BFE (Valid until Sat Aug 03 2013 22:16:25 GMT+0300 (FLE Daylight Time))

Maybe not worth an own thread, so here:

Daily Deal: Fallout pack (Fallout 1 + 2 + Tactics) for €4,99.

(http://i.imgur.com/ZBxJG21.png)

Not sure what the exchange rate is now, but Euros sure do get the hose wrt pricing.  Same deal is $4.99 in Canada/US.  Poor Euros. :heartbreak:

Edit:  Defiance is $4.99, too.

I'm considering defiance to add to my collection of failed FPS-MMO's.

The crappy regional pricing has been in place for ages. I remember even back in 2008 when I first joined Steam there were petitions and complaints about that exact topic and it was the main reason for my early dislike of it.

Current rate is 1 Euro = 1,3432 US-Dollar, high point was 1,590. As you said: hosed.  :why_so_serious:

It's not like steam gets to set the prices.

Well, someone did. GoG sells in US dollar and is thus far cheaper for me. It's silly that when I buy a graphic card it's priced at a proper exchange rate (plus VAT) but for software suddenly 1 € = 1 $.  Especially for something thats digitally distributed.

Publishers set the price.  I wonder if Gog doens't do any region checking (out of their no DRM principle)

I think GoG demands those exchange rate price changes in order to let you sell on their platform. If the Publisher doesn't agree, he can't sell there.

Does anybody seriously think Steam wouldn't have more clout than GoG if they wanted to demand that and most publishers would cave?