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Massive Steam Sale Starts Now

If I don't buy Trine for $4, I'm essentially losing money, right?


Get used to this page.You're going to be staring at it a lot over the next ten days.
Get used to this page.You're going to be staring at it a lot over the next ten days.
Looking for some hot summer deals? The folks at Valve sure hope you are, and are happy to provide an outlet for your desire to save. Starting today, Steam launches its "Perils of Summer" sale event, though apparently, the only peril is that you have too much money in your wallet.
 
Over the next 10 days, Valve will be doing discounts on individual games and collections of software from throughout the catalog. New sales will cycle in every day, further instilling you with that nagging question, "Have I seen what Steam is selling today?"
 
It's a pretty good group of sales, even on this first day. I picked up the entirety of the Introversion catalog can for $5.00. I would have paid $5.00 just for DEFCON: Everybody Dies! Getting Darwinia as well was icing on the money-spending cake. 

Have you guys purchased anything from the Steam sale today? And what games would you purchase for the right price?

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Today's Sale:
 
Zeno Clash - $3.75
Star Wars the Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition - $7.49
Company of Heroes Complete Pack - $24.99
Supreme Commander 2 - $7.47
Hearts of Iron - all 66% off 
Left 4 Dead 2 - $10.20 
City of Heroes: Architect Edition - $9.99 
AudioSurf - $2.50 
 
 
Some decent stuff there.

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@Rolento: Left4Dead 2 is 10 euros. It's not on the daily thing for some reason, though. Maybe they ment to put that there instead of Half-Life. Cause Half-Life was already -33%.
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@ChineseTea said:
" @Rolento: Left4Dead 2 is 10 euros. It's not on the daily thing for some reason, though. Maybe they ment to put that there instead of Half-Life. Cause Half-Life was already -33%. "
Yeah, they updated the sale page but not the prices.  Upon refresh I saw they had dropped a lot.  My post has been updated.  All of a sudden the sale isn't so bad.
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I just bought Zeno Clash for $3.75 (even though the front page said it was more), RE5 for 12 buks and both Serious sam games for 7.50.  They get me every time with this stuff.

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Nothing interesting today, already have like 4 copies of half life. 
 
*edit* oh wait Left 4 Dead 2 just appeared for 10$

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is anybody noticing the ridiculous warnings on the bottom of the steam page?

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Zeno Clash - $3.75
Star Wars the Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition - $7.49     
 
Bought them! :D 
 
Does anyone still play City of Heroes? I might give it a chance.

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@Marz:  
They removed Half Life and replaced it with L4D2 for $10.20
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@NekuSakuraba said:
" Zeno Clash - $3.75Star Wars the Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition - $7.49      Bought them! :D  "
Same two I bought. :) 
Already own L4D2, Company of Heroes, and SupCom 2.
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Zeno Clash and Audiosurf is disturbingly cheap, buy now!

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@Rolento said:
" @NekuSakuraba said:
" Zeno Clash - $3.75Star Wars the Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition - $7.49      Bought them! :D  "
Same two I bought. :) Already own L4D2, Company of Heroes, and SupCom 2. "
How is SupCom 2? I might check it out it it is good.
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@NekuSakuraba said:
 
"How is SupCom 2? I might check it out it it is good. "
It's not bad...  Not as good as the first, if you played it, but it's still better than most of the strategy games that have come out recently.  I'd certainly say it's worth the $7.47. 
The single player campaign is a bit weak, but you'll get your money's worth out of skirmish mode and multiplayer, if that's your thing.
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this day sucks. i either own everything on sale or its not something i really want. 
 
i take it back. this day doesnt suck because what steam is doing is awesome

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I just got notified that i got 55$ from my Bing Cashback account, just in time for some sales :)

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i bought another 2 games.  I gotta pace myself, this thing is a whole week long

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Do you guys think Beat Hazard will get a sale?

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@Durandir said:
" I really want to buy Mount and Blade Warband at 50% off right now, but knowing that it might fall down to 75% for one of the "Today Only" deals makes me hesitate. Damn, this is hard. What to do? "
Im with you, man
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@Scottydoentknow said:
" @Durandir said:
" I really want to buy Mount and Blade Warband at 50% off right now, but knowing that it might fall down to 75% for one of the "Today Only" deals makes me hesitate. Damn, this is hard. What to do? "
Im with you, man "
Yeah me too. I just going to wait it out and buy it on the 4th if it does not appear on a daily sale.
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Only thing interesting today for me is the Company of Heroes pack, but at $25 that takes a big chunk out of my steam sale budget. Funny how all these 75+% off sales make a deal like that look pricey. What a week!
 
Got Sacred Gold for $3.39. Already had 2 so it sounded like a good chance to try the original. 
 
Anyone think Borderlands will make it to the dailies?

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Only got Zeno Clash today and the 80 Atari Classics yesterday.
 
There's still a week left and I'm gonna be fucking broke.
 
@Fade2Gray said:

" Only thing interesting today for me is the Company of Heroes pack, but at $25 that takes a big chunk out of my steam sale budget. Funny how all these 75+% off sales make a deal like that look pricey. What a week! "
I was thinking the same thing. Also Arcanum rocks.
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How is zeno clash? It looks interesting, however I don't give a shit usually about indie games.  
 
I found a demo at least, i'm going to install it and see how it's like.

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@Zidd: thanks, that would be helpful.
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Lucky I gots some moneys! I think I'll only get L4D2 though, unless something else pops up, I didn't get around to playing much of the games I got from the winter sale. I've still got Splinter Cell games and stuff to play.

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Ah, Force Unleashed... why do you have to be 30 gigs? And why does your download have to go sooo sloooow...

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I finally caved, and got Introversion pack, puzzle kingdom, Force unleashed, overlord pack and cryostasis. But there might be more when this week is over:P

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Thank you GiantBomb!!! I nearly missed Left 4 Dead 2 for 10 bucks and audiosurf for 2.50... :D:D:D I've been waiting so long for that one.

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Just bought Zeno Clash out of today's releases, that father mother thing in the quick look really creeped me out and I just had to see more! Unfortunately I bought AudioSurf a few weeks back for full price otherwise that would have been a definite purchase as well. I bought Force Unleashed in a sale a while back too but haven't gotten around to playing any more than the Darth Vader level yet.
 
The only bad thing about all this is that I used most of my monthly data re-downloading all of my PSN games so I won't be able to play all of these games for a while...

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Today's sales are up.
 
Max Payne Bundle $3.74
EVE Online: Tyrannis $1.99
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men $4.99
Gothic Bundle $1.99    Edit: Price just jumped to $4.99             
Flotilla $2.50
Half-Life $1.99
Dawn of War II Gold $19.99
All Civilization Games 75% off
 
Nothing too exciting to me. On a funny side note, they had Civ IV Warlords listed for $349. Was probably supposed to be a bundle of some kind.

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oh damn, I was away from the internets for just slightly above 30 hours, and I managed to miss a sale on Left 4 Dead 2?

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I think I just crossed the "spent-100€-on-steam-sale" line.

Just gave up and gave away 35€ for the Complete Id Software Pack of which I already owned everything except Doom 3+exp, Heretic 1, Hexen 1+exp and Commander Keen, and the expansions for the Quake series ... none of which seems terribly exciting.

I do love Hexen though, and I think I'll love Doom 3. Not sure if it will end up being worth 35€ though.



I'm sure this was incredibly stupid of me though, there's bound to be incredible sales on individual Id Software titles later on during the summer sale.

Well, done is done, I'll just have to bang my head against the wall a few times if the later offer turns out to be a lot cheaper than what I just paid.

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holy eff, red faction Guerrilla for 5 BUCKS.....
 
Seriously, whoever hasn't played this game yet now is the chance, a fantastic deal that is.
 
edit: also heck yeah, torchlight on the "today only" offers, I knew it was best to wait.

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@onarum said:
" holy eff, red faction Guerrilla for 5 BUCKS.....  Seriously, whoever hasn't played this game yet now is the chance, a fantastic deal that is.  edit: also heck yeah, torchlight on the "today only" offers, I knew it was best to wait. "

Yeah, that's an awesome deal. Too bad I already own it, though I think I bought it for around $9, so I don't feel ripped of - except for the fact that it doesn't run very well on my current computer. :)

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damn this sale seems pretty damn awesome.  if i didn't just buy a handful of games and bluray movies at the local movie gallery that's going out of business i might have some money to spend on this sale.  oh well, i'm sure that these deals will come back in a year with bigger bundles.

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never played RFG. Loved the first like crazy, know this one is a big departure, but I'm interested. Was gonna grab it on 360, but $5, done deal! any duders wanna play some mp, steam id is in my mini bio

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Picked up Beat Hazard, GTA4, Zeno Clash, Ghostbusters, and Defense Grid for a grand total of $22. YES.
 
Also got Oblivion with all the official DLC/expansions for $8.50 a couple of weeks ago, but that was just another "weekly" sale.
 
Looks like I'm good on games for a while... unless something even more tempting comes out tomorrow!

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@fisk0 said:
" @onarum said:
" holy eff, red faction Guerrilla for 5 BUCKS.....  Seriously, whoever hasn't played this game yet now is the chance, a fantastic deal that is.  edit: also heck yeah, torchlight on the "today only" offers, I knew it was best to wait. "

Yeah, that's an awesome deal. Too bad I already own it, though I think I bought it for around $9, so I don't feel ripped of - except for the fact that it doesn't run very well on my current computer. :)

"
Yeah, well I do kind of... got it for my ps3, since all I have is a shitty notebook (kinda gave up on pc gaming about 3 years ago, got tired of having to upgrade every 6 months).
 
But seeing all this awesome deals steam is putting out I feel compelled to build a new rig.
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finished off the sale with a 65€ buying spree, bought the Call of Duty collection, Left 4 Dead 2, Act of War, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Trine and  Dawn of War: Soulstorm (I already own the Dawn of War Anthology box which contains all the other Dawn of War I titles except that one, and according to the Steam store page, I should be able to enter the serial numbers from those titles into Soulstorm to get access to the content of them in that game).


I kind of considered Red Faction Guerilla, since it was so cheap - even though I own the retail version already - then I remembered that it uses Games for Windows Live, which probably means I won't be able to give/sell the retail copy I own, since I doubt I can unregister that copy from the GfWL service, and because of that another copy would be totally useless.

I also considered BioShock 2 and Mass Effect 2, but both of these were still pretty expensive even with 40-50% off, I'm pretty sure these will be sold for a lot less in stores in a few months, so I'll wait out on those. The same goes with Bad Company 2, which I am sure will be available for around 15€ soon - with 33% off it's still 34€ on Steam.


I might still buy Guild Wars: Game of the Year Edition and Star Trek Online though. I own all the other chapters + the expansion for Guild Wars, but the first chapter I haven't seen that cheap so far, even though 10€ isn't that cheap. That's what I got the Collector's Editions of the two other chapters for. 16€ for Star Trek Online seems somewhat reasonable, though I'd prefer something around 10€ for that too, considering I'll have to pay monthly fees for that later on if I buy it.

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fuck my wallet