I bought 2 packs for free to play games. Super Monday Night Combat and Age of Empires online. A weird time we're living in. I wish I had the money but I'll have to wait for the winter sale. All of the games will be on sale again. Definitely buying the Assassins Creed pack especially if 3 is in there.
That mug is great. I want one but shipping to the UK costs so damn much. In order to get cards against humanity I had to pay almost twice the cost in dollars.
@yeah_write: SMNC is really casual. I play once or twice a week for 30 minutes. I'm not amazing, but I have fun and I don't take it too seriously. I wanted to give them some money since everything has been free for me so far.
Didn't want half of them but I was buying games in the wrong state of mind lol, plus they were so damn cheap! Although, I can say I'm enjoying all of them so far, even though I haven't played them all a lot due to work and such.
I bought Painkiller: Black Edition, The Witcher 2, The Binding Of Isaac with Soundtrack, Saints Row: The Third and Binding of Isaac Wrath of the Lamb all for $45
I don't get why it's titled '' Surviving '' the Steam Sale in that case. I thought it was a blog on how you didn't spent money.
Anyways. I've got screwed over the last three summer sales because I'd purchase anything that had a low price. And guess what? I didn't play one third of the games I bought. Now, I follow one rule :
No matter the price, if I, in the immediate present, do not feel the urge to play the game, I just don't buy it. That's all. I've got so many games that I bought just because of the low price and that I've never played and probably won't every play either. You could put Alpha Protocol at 1 $ or GTA4 at 4$ and Bioshock 1 and 2 at 5$, I'll never buy those if I don't immediately want to dig in.
If there's one mistake I won't make again, its to think that eventually a said title will interest me and make me want to play it. It never worked on me.
@Inkerman: I'm judging you hardcore right now. FFS, spend your money on something useful. Or, better yet, put it in the bank. Â I got a few games during the Steam sale. I financed my purchases by selling an old PC copy of System Shock 2 that I had lying around as well as Mortal Kombat for the PS3. With the money I bought Civ 5, Civ 4 + plus expansions, The Wrath of the Lamb DLC for The Binding of Isaac, Just Cause 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Legend of Grimrock, and, thanks to @Falpatrick, every Grand Theft Auto game ever made. I'm pretty sure the whole thing came in at $38, which is how much I got from selling those two games. I'd call that a success.
Holy shit dude were you in prison for the past three years?
It kind of evens out, I don't buy games on release. In the past 5 years I might have bought maybe $200 worth of games outside of a steam sale, and last steam sale I only bought maybe $70 worth. So all up about $300 in the last 5 years.
Holy shit dude were you in prison for the past three years?
It kind of evens out, I don't buy games on release. In the past 5 years I might have bought maybe $200 worth of games outside of a steam sale, and last steam sale I only bought maybe $70 worth. So all up about $300 in the last 5 years.
Then your patience is a great strength of yours. I could never wait that long for the games I want on release.
I just got a job and don't have to worry about sales being the only way to buy games. So most of the major stuff I've wanted for ages now I got before the sale specifically so I wouldn't get a bunch of games cheaper than I could potentially afford. The sales were cool for little things or games I wasn't compelled to support with a full price purchase. Still spent like $130, but I've already played most of them, and the rest are games I very much want to play.
@yeah_write: I really don't know what happened to me... I have never been in a Steam sale before. I thought... I can play most of these games... they are cheap... I have disposable income... and time...
A week later, I have run up a total of some $350. Now, if only uni didn't start tomorrow...
Still, it is a nice problem to have - I am more perplexed as to how the exorbitant amount was actualised
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