Steam Summer Sale 2011

[Paelos]

I bought Two Worlds II because I didn't get the first time around.

[jakonovski]

I are dumb

[Trippy]

Do you think putting Saints Row 3 on the wishlist will actually work?  I sort of assume they won't actually count games which can't be preordered.   Of course nobody will win so meh.

Yes it works. It's in the rules that preorders are allowed.

That's what I'm saying.   You can't preorder Saints Row 3.

Sorry, I meant "unrelased" not "preorderable". If there's an ADD TO YOUR WISHLIST button on the game it's valid for the contest even if hasn't been released yet:

Sweepstakes Prizes. The Sweepstakes winners will each receive the top ten (10) games on their Steam Wishlist at the time of the drawing. Unreleased games will be delivered to the winner at the time of their release.

[HaemishM]

So far I've gotten Mass Effect 2 and both the Battlefield Bad Company 2 DLC packs. I'm considering Football Manager 2011 really hard even though it's last year's version. I've been jonesing for it, but not sure I really want to give it a go until the new one comes out.

[Lucas]

Bought FNV plus the two DLCs, and also F1 2010. Thinking about purchasing Titan Quest gold to de-disc it (€6.69) ; also thinking about Drakensang (€6.79) and A Farewell to Dragons (€7.49).

[Tebonas]

So, I didn't imagine that Dawn of War 2 thing. Got it in my cart for -75%, shopped around for some DLC to go with it, and after the refresh it was back to -50%. Well, their loss, not mine.

[5150]

Grabbed Garry's Mod since it was dirty cheap and there was nothing else I wanted today (not paying £10 for Morrowind just to de-disk it)

[Thrawn]

"The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request.  Please try again in a few minutes."

Argh, can't install games.

[Kail]

"The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request.  Please try again in a few minutes."

Retries.  "Damn."  Retries. "Damn DAMN." Retries "Damn damn DAMN."

Been like this for like an hour.  On the last day for tickets, too...

[Merusk]

THQ Pack has turned out to be a really good deal.  I enjoyed Homefront, short as it was and I didn't own any of the War 40k games, so getting all 3 at that price was great.  S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has been an interesting one to puzzle out.  Very "worldy" shooter so far. No idea how it turns out in the end but the beginning's been fun.  I can't speak for the rest of the package, but for $50 its been worth it just on those 5 games.

[fuser]

F1 2010

GFWL. vOv

I'm going to have to squee like a fanboy over the id superpack at 30 euro.

Yeah it's only needed for online apparently. 2011 will make it needed for everything.

Funny I picked up the id superpack today also as a last splurg. Weeee

[Ginaz]

I've bought nothing so far and don't think I will.  I was going to pick up Terraria but they seemed to have jacked the price up mid sale.  Looks like my wallet is safe...until the Christmas sale.

[Thrawn]

I was going to pick up Terraria but they seemed to have jacked the price up mid sale.

I'll probably be crucified by some people for this opinion but Terraria is over-rated and gets boring very quickly for a "sandbox" style game.  So you're not missing out on much.

[Ruvaldt]

It does get tiresome after a while, and may even be overrated, but it's only $5.  I paid $10 when it came out and feel I got that much worth of entertainment if not more.

[raydeen]

Well, thank God that's over with. Between Steam and GOG I've got a shitton of games that I'm going to have to quit Life to get around to playing. Although GOG is running daily treasure sales through the 20th but so far nothing has sparked my interest. I got the Half Life pack, the Doom pack, the King Arthur pack, Horde, Descent 1 and 2, Freespace 1 and 2, the X pack...oy vey. I need to move to a desert island for about 2 years so that I can get my money's worth out of this.

[Trippy]

Has anybody gotten more than 27 tickets or did I win the f13 Summer Camp Catass award?

[Ginaz]

Has anybody gotten more than 27 tickets or did I win the f13 Summer Camp Catass award?

Probably.  I only got 6.

[Strazos]

27? Shit, I didn't even own enough of the games to bother with the tickets.

[Trippy]

Probably.  I only got 6.

You can get 9 of the 10 Steam community/sharing tickets without much work and without buying any games. Only the video sharing one is kind of a pain.

[Trippy]

27? Shit, I didn't even own enough of the games to bother with the tickets.

I can probably get to 30 without much more additional work but there's nothing I really want to get with those extra tickets and they really won't help my Grand Prize chance much. In fact I ran out of things I wanted to redeem for after spending 18 tickets (6 items) so now I'm complementing whether I should buy some more games so I can redeem those 9 tickets

[Thrawn]

12 and only got that many to cover the 4 purchases I at all cared about.  Need more free time!

[Paelos]

I think I got 3. I didn't like the prizes.

[5150]

[Only] 15 here. Grabbed the Mount & Blade: Warband, TF2, X3:TC & Universe Sandbox tickets on top of the 'free' ones & Homefront which I already had.

Was exactly enough to get all the freebies I wanted though so all good.

[Kail]

Got 23 myself.  Missed that video one (does Steam allow you to make videos?  Or am I just supposed to upload whatever crap I've got sitting in my /Videos directory?) and the Facebook one (on principle).  There were a few I could stretch myself to get, but they either require me jumping into multiplayer in a game I'm not comfortable with, or downloading another game, which is starting to get tiresome.  Managed to grab all the prizes for games I own, so I'm not too worried about rounding out to an even 24 anyway, it's all about the grand prize, and even then it's not helping my odds much.  So, I'm probably done for this contest.

Bought:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Cyan Software pack (Myst and misc others)
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout: New Vegas
Garshasp the Monster Slayer
id Software Pack (Quake, DOOM, Heretic, and misc others)
Jamestown
Just Cause
The Last Remnant
Neverwinter Nights 2: Platinum
Ninja Blade
Oblivion Game of the Year Deluxe
Prototype
Sanctum
The Sims 3
Star Raiders
Star Wars: the Force Unleashed 2
Torchlight
Tropico 3
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2: Retribution
X: Beyond the Frontier
X Tension
X2: the Threat
X3: Reunion

[5150]

Got 23 myself.  Missed that video one (does Steam allow you to make videos?  Or am I just supposed to upload whatever crap I've got sitting in my /Videos directory?) and the Facebook one (on principle). 

It links to your YouTube account, so you can just upload anything you have posted there (mine wasnt even of a game, it doesn't check and I removed it immediately anyway)

[jakonovski]

Here's wot I got (the Civ V was not from Steam but the sale was clearly to one-up Steam):

Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
The Longest Journey + Dreamfall
Wolfenstein
RIFT
Civ V DLC - Polynesia
Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money
Fallout New Vegas - Honest Hearts
Two Worlds II
Plants vs. Zombies
Civ V

[SurfD]

Boarderlands: GoTY eddition for 7.50?  Hell yes.

[Azazel]

Has anybody gotten more than 27 tickets or did I win the f13 Summer Camp Catass award?

I got 21, so you out-catassed me. Unless you count my other 3 Steam accounts that I catassed on to a much smaller scale. 16 on my wife's and erm, about 6 or 9 each on the other two. 

Didn't do the facebook or the YouTube ones.

[Sky]

My haul:

F:NV DLC
Civ V DLC (which is biting my ass, thanks Vikings)
Guild Wars Trilogy (blech)
Battlefield BC2

Not sure I'll do much BC2, but my fiancee liked BF2 a lot, so should be fun to get shot while she watches. Really came close to Eschalons, Two Worlds II and Drakensang RoT + DLC.

Didn't play the ticket achievement thing.

[Hawkbit]

What's the difference between BF2 and BFBC2, other than age?  Considering the latter for purchase, though I'm terrible at these games.

[Severian]

Here's the answer on the Terraria pricing issue. Looks like I got lucky to grab it cheap, though we're only talking a couple of bucks difference.

we did not intend the sale price to be 75% off at any time, so when the situation was noticed, it was corrected. Hence why it so quickly changed to 50% and caused so many so much grief. We’ve received many angry emails for people blaming us personally, and calling us greedy, but that is simply not the case here.

When it comes to issues with pricing, purchasing and downloading, contacting Steam support would make more sense than contacting us. We do not handle distribution. It would be like blaming a food-product maker for a mistake a grocery store made in pricing. They just made the product, and besides telling the store what price they should use, they don’t control how it’s implemented by the sticker gun in the random stock persons hand.

We don’t feel Steam should get a bad rap for it either, as all it takes is a simple slip in human error to have a bad situation arise.

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[Paelos]

I wasn't going to buy it either way, but I thought I noticed that price change. Oh well, shit happens in the go-go world of crazy mid-season sales.

[Strazos]

The game is pretty cheap anyway, so I don't know what people got all up in arms about...

[K9]

I picked up NV, the Quake back catalogue, Audiosurf and the THQ catalogue. This should keep me going happily for the next few months.

[Strazos]

Picked up a few things, nothing major.