Steam Holiday Sale

[NiX]

It begins... say goodbye to your savings, chaps!

Click here to contribute to the Steam Stimulus Package!

[Chimpy]

24.99 for all Valve games O.o

(Would jump on that if I didn't already own everything but L4D/L4D2)

[Xerapis]

Oh, you are truly evil.

ME WANT ALL THE SHINY!!!!! 

[Malakili]

 
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[Mosesandstick]

If the Steam sale was the only thing I had for Christmas I would still love this holiday.

[Rasix]

I'm not seeing a whole lot yet that's jumping out at me at the moment. That's a good thing. This is time of year has a lot of credit card scrutiny.   

However, Super Meat Boy may just be too cheap to pass up at this point.  

[Xerapis]

I snagged Tropico 3 and I'm eyeing a few combo packs that have pieces I don't have (legally)

[trias_e]

Tons of indie packs available on the second page of the packs section.

I highly recommend the 2d pack for VVVVVV+ other games, and the fright pack for The Void+other games.

Super Meat Boy at 3.75 and VVVVVV for 2.50 (if you don't get the pack that is) are fucking no-brainers.

[Sky]

2k pack = awesome....if I didn't own most of it already.

It's pretty bad when I have to keep my library window open so I can remember which games I already own on steam...

[Ard]

Standard common sense here applies.  Don't buy anything that's not in the daily sale or already priced ludicrously low until the final day of the sale.  Things on sale have gone even further on sale during the daily deals in the past.

[Xerapis]

I'm starting to seriously think about this holiday sale as a de-discing process.

[pants]

Deus Ex and Deus Ex 2 $3.  I played the pants off Deus Ex, and I know DX2 doesn't hold a candle to it.  Will I get $3 worth of entertainment out of it?

[Tebonas]

Super Meat Boy, Lego Batman and all but the Latest Prince of Persia. I try to stick to 75%+ sales this holiday, and I still fear it will be expensive as hell.

[Sky]

I'm starting to seriously think about this holiday sale as a de-discing process.

I did a lot of that last year.

And Ard has the skinny on these, if anyone is new to them :) I've got my eye on a couple things (Anno 1404 Gold, Fallout Vegas, FEAR complete pack, a bit more of this and that), and $50 allocated. In a way I'm hoping nothing great goes on sale (other then those listed), because I'll have the dough for Vegas. The game, not the wretched oasis of sin.

[Thrawn]

Steams next step will be to launch its own credit service so it can collect inerest on your charges too.  

I can see it now "Valve bundle - 75% off with no finance charges!, Buy all of the weeks daily sales in one mega bundle and pay it off over the next 12 months!"

[Lucas]

Oh no. 

[Ard]

I've got my eye on a couple things (Anno 1404 Gold, Fallout Vegas, FEAR complete pack, a bit more of this and that), and $50 allocated.

The FEAR complete pack isn't getting any cheaper.  It's actually on the daily deal today.  I probably shouldn't have pointed this out to you.  It might come back up again on the last day, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

[Kail]

24.99 for all Valve games O.o

You sure?  Looks like 75% off $180 to me = $50.00

Deus Ex and Deus Ex 2 $3.  I played the pants off Deus Ex, and I know DX2 doesn't hold a candle to it.  Will I get $3 worth of entertainment out of it?

I dunno, I thought DX2 was decent.  Everything felt smaller and more toy-like (for lack of a better term) but I don't think I'd say the game was overall horrible unless I was comparing it to DX1.  Personally, I grabbed the pack when it was on sale a while ago just for the convenience of having the games without the disks.

[Llyse]

24.99 for all Valve games O.o

You sure?  Looks like 75% off $180 to me = $50.00

Deus Ex and Deus Ex 2 $3.  I played the pants off Deus Ex, and I know DX2 doesn't hold a candle to it.  Will I get $3 worth of entertainment out of it?

I dunno, I thought DX2 was decent.  Everything felt smaller and more toy-like (for lack of a better term) but I don't think I'd say the game was overall horrible unless I was comparing it to DX1.  Personally, I grabbed the pack when it was on sale a while ago just for the convenience of having the games without the disks.

What's the full list of valve games?

I'm in Aus so I can't see what's offered but it sounds like it might be a good idea to get it gifted...

Can see it now,

Not sure it's worth it since TF2 and L4D2 are the main things I'm missing...

Damn F3 GOTY edition and New Vegas...

[Kail]

The entire Prince of Persia series is on sale, but there is no Prince of Persia collection?  Weeeeeird.

Also, does anyone know if it's possible to gift someone something today (or whenever) but not have them get it until the 25th?  I'm  not seeing a way to do this.

[Fabricated]

Oh no. I really don't need this. I actually need every penny I can keep my hands on this Christmas. Loans are coming off grace period fuckkkk.

[caladein]

Also, does anyone know if it's possible to gift someone something today (or whenever) but not have them get it until the 25th?  I'm  not seeing a way to do this.

You're right in that there is no process for delaying delivery of a gift, but it's still possible to get something quite like it.

• Buy the item as a gift per usual but instead of gifting it to a Steam account, send it by e-mail to a secondary e-mail address of yours.
• Do nothing with this e-mail.
• On the 25th, go to Games -> Manage Gifts and Guest Passes...
• Find the game/recipient combination you want and hit the Resend button.
• Send your gift off as normal either to an e-mail address or directly to someone's Steam account.

E: I should add, I haven't done this exact method before, but I've done the "Resend unclaimed gift." part before without incident.

[Azazel]

24.99 for all Valve games O.o

(Would jump on that if I didn't already own everything but L4D/L4D2)

Not available in your region! 

I have pretty much all of it, if not all of it. Would have been nice to gift it, though. I gifted Titan Quest Gold and BF:BC2 (and got a TQ:G for myself - now I can ditch the discs into storage!)

[Azazel]

The Rockstar collection isn't available in my region either. Can anyone LMK what it's going for and also what the individual prices for Max Payne 1/2 are? I'd like to un-disc both of those...

[bhodi]

Bad company 2 for $6.79 :D

Also, fear complete pack for $9 for me.

The bethesda pack is temping, it's just a bit too expensive.

[caladein]

The Rockstar collection isn't available in my region either. Can anyone LMK what it's going for and also what the individual prices for Max Payne 1/2 are? I'd like to un-disc both of those...

• Bully
• GTA 1-4 + San Andreas + Vice City + Episodes from Liberty City
• Manhunt
• Max Payne 1+2
• Midnight Club 2
• Wild Metal

Full pack is $39.99 and both Max Paynes are $6.69 each (33% off the normal $9.99).

[Vaiti]

Super Meat Boy 3,50€

Battlefield BC2 13,59€

Who is willing to gift me BC2 at US price and have me Paypal them the cash?

[Hoax]

Thought about BC2, Fallout3, Fear.  Pulled trigger on none its only day one, lets wait and see.

[Azazel]

Bad company 2 for $6.79 :D

Also, fear complete pack for $9 for me.

The bethesda pack is temping, it's just a bit too expensive.

Interesting - BC2 was US$13.59 for us in Aust. Fear is $16.22
Of course, Steam now wants to update and shits itself when it gets to 26%. Which seems to be a non-unique problem according to google. Hopefully it's just their servers taking a right pounding with the sale. Unfortunately, I deleted my install on the laptop while trying to get it to work.

[Lucas]

So, regarding the first daily sale:

- I really enjoyed the first chapter of F.E.A.R. but never got around playing the second: worth it? I guess that, at E.4,99 it's basically a no brainer.

- F1 2010 is not available in my region; bleh.

- I would like to try out one of those Prince of Persia games (I only played the original one on Amiga, hehe). Latest one is the best?

- I'm intrigued by this "Oddworld" thing.

[Kail]

- I would like to try out one of those Prince of Persia games (I only played the original one on Amiga, hehe). Latest one is the best?

- I'm intrigued by this "Oddworld" thing.

Haven't played any Prince of Persia games aside from the first one (er, first new one, Sands of Time, whatever) which was pretty good.  General consensus as far as I'm aware is that it's the best of the batch and the series has been going downhill from there.  The collectors edition of newest one (Forgotten Sands) comes with Sands of Time, though, if you want to compare.

Oddworld I'm kind of lukewarm on.  I have the old Oddworld games and they are awkward as hell to play.  They've got a kind of interesting atmosphere (retarded "lol he gots fart powers lol" stuff aside) but otherwise it was just a frustrating mess for me on the PC.  Maybe the new ones are better, I dunno, I haven't heard much about them.

[Azazel]

The Rockstar collection isn't available in my region either. Can anyone LMK what it's going for and also what the individual prices for Max Payne 1/2 are? I'd like to un-disc both of those...

• Bully
• GTA 1-4 + San Andreas + Vice City + Episodes from Liberty City
• Manhunt
• Max Payne 1+2
• Midnight Club 2
• Wild Metal

Full pack is $39.99 and both Max Paynes are $6.69 each (33% off the normal $9.99).

Thanks for that. I'd kinda like to pick up the Max Paynes but $14 is a bit high for them. Wouldn't mind the GTA 1-3+ series as well, I guess, but I'll never get around to playing any but SA again, which I never completed. Maybe Max will be in a daily special for a bit less, then I'll just need to talk someone into gifting them to me in return for cash...

On a related note, how much are Star Wars Battlefront II? $9.99USD here, which seems a bit high.

[Hoax]

I sure as hell wouldn't recommend Max Payne games for $14, $5 is pretty much too much to pay for them in these modern times.

[raydeen]

Grabbed F3 GOTY. Now to clear up some HD space...
Slightly related note, GOG has a pretty good holiday sale going on as well. I picked up the Realms of Arkania trilogy for $6. I had #2 from way back but never got 1 and 3 so I've got some serious rpg'ing ahead of me this break.

[Thrawn]

Had to fight to not buy a single thing today (just have no money right now!)...and it's only day one.