@mb: Just a heads-up: the opening paragraph of your OP implies this isn't happening until next month; you (perhaps mistakenly?) say July instead of June. It appears it's happening tomorrow?
@jjweatherman: Wow good catch, thanks! I did mean June. I edited it and edited the title of the thread. 15 hours to go, get your virtual wallets ready!
@kidavenger: They already have the cards up for sale on the market and the week long deals only had 7 games this week and expire tomorrow when the store refresh instead of Friday as usual.
@kidavenger: They already have the cards up for sale on the market and the week long deals only had 7 games this week and expire tomorrow when the store refresh instead of Friday as usual.
I'm remembering a couple of years ago when I literally could not find 10 games to put on my wishlist. This was right when they first introduced profile rewards during sales. Now I think I'm up to over 40.
The last couple of sale have been a bit of a wash for me. I just haven't really had any games I wanted to buy after having already bought everything in years past, but it's getting back to the point where there's lot of stuff I want to buy. I have 19 games on my wish list at the moment and I know there's several more I'd like to pick up too.
I am so glad I broke my Steam addiction. Having over 200+ games and not playing a 1/4th of them is really stupid. And I felt stupid every single time I acknowledged it. Hooray GoG & enjoying a game at a time!
I get that the userbase has grown probably too big to do it again, but I sure do miss the days when they gave out tickets and rewards each day for games that were on sale.
To be fair, I've been pretty good at trying to play the games I bought during previous sales. Having gone through a few sales now, the availability of games has, in one way, made me not put up with as much things as I probably otherwise would have. As in, I'll load up a game and if I do not enjoy a certain aspect of it, I'll just move on to the next, maybe not giving each game the chance/time it needs/deserves.
Whereas back before I participated in steam sales, I would buy a game and then make sure I played it until I saw the credits and sometimes multiple times (unless I really, really didn't enjoy playing it) but now It's like well, this particular game mechanic feels really dumb and I have other things to play, so I'll just boot up something else instead.
You can actually burn through quite a few games when your standards become ridiculously high due to the availability of cheap games. Basically you start to value your time and the way you spend that time more than the price itself.
I would love to see South Park Stick of Truth get marked down at least a little bit. That is honestly one of the few games that I have been needing to get.
It was 26 eurobones on a Humble Store sale and just recently 29 eurobones on a Greenmangaming sale. So chances are good.
I think I will have to restrict myself from buying games this year. Which means I can only buy the top ten games on my wishlist, and with a minimum of 75% off... I have also set a limit on how low my "beaten games percentage" on Backloggery can be, which is 70%. It is currently 72.4%. Putting my games on Backloggery really helped me in not buying that many games on the sale.
The one game I really want this year though is South Park: The Stick of Truth, which I see is on a lot of peoples lists.
I have 23 games on my wishlist and probably a third of those are new enough that they either will not be on sale or they will but not to an extent that will make me buy them which is sort of a relief.
At the same time, these sales remind me of that old military saying about how no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy.
After investing into 5 sales or so, I realized this is just throwing money out the window :D because I haven't played half my library. I just buy the games I really want now while they are on sale or not.
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You've been around a bit, could a Steam Sale possibly dent that chunk of cash? The past few Steam sales, I put $100 US in my wallet and end up buying games for my friends because I have all the games. ALL THE GAMES!
A forum member of mine recently received a check for L1730 just by posting on an internet forum a few hours a week. Now he's bought a brand new Dark Souls 2 and a Occulus Rift DK2. I never knew it could be so easy! Learn more at giantbomb.ru!
You've been around a bit, could a Steam Sale possibly dent that chunk of cash? The past few Steam sales, I put $100 US in my wallet and end up buying games for my friends because I have all the games. ALL THE GAMES!
1) Hah! [thatsgoodthatsdamngood.gif]
2) If I remember rightly, I have something like 50 or 60 games on my Steam wishlist right now. There will also be all of the great counter sales from the other Digital Storefronts to consider as well!
Looking at Starbound and Transistor to go on sale. I know Transistor just came out, but if it goes on sale for like 33%, I'll definitely go for it. After that I'm not really sure.
I'm scared. Last year was the first time I had a PC to buy Steam games for and it hurt me in the end. I'm going on vacation in a few weeks time and I do need spending money. I'll limit myself to $200 and the games on my wishlist.
I have some trading card wallet money built up so I might finally get Borderlands 2 and/or AC4. Probably some random indie stuff too, though I probably haven't launched the stuff I bought from the winter sale yet.
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