I just want Jazzpunk and maybe Rust or The Forest

Must resist Colonial Marines for 75% off...I know I shouldn't, but guys...it's $5.

Well... fuck.

This is genius, actually. Get people to buy your shit game now because starting tomorrow, it'll get lost in a sea of games that are actually good.

For the record: I have 80 games in my wishlist now.

@mb: You can't say no to anything $4.99 or under, even especially if it's Aliens: Colonial Marines

@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?

Anyway, I may buy some things...

@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!

These are the only games I'm allowing myself to pick up this year. Looking to budget.

• Metal Gear Rising
• X-com Enemy Within
• Saints Row 4
• Killer is Dead
• Broken Age

I just want cheap telltale seasons. That's it. (speaking of Walking Dead S2 and finally Wolf Among Us)

Might grab KR0 if that's cheap, too, though.

Maybe I just like shitty games, but I really enjoyed Colonial Marines.

Only really looking for Wolfenstein, Watch_Dogs and Metal Gear Rising.

I doubt the first two will be that much lower than original price, if they even go on sale.

Maybe Rise Of Nations but that might be similar to the first two as well.

Why is this expected tomorrow?

The last two years it didn't start until well into July, this will be the earliest it's ever started by weeks.

@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.

That's downright logical; bring it on Steam.

Maybe wait 'till Amazon does their big digital games sale. I think I got that game for $1.99.

@vextroid: Great suggestion! I can wait, I just really want to see some Xenomorphs do the Marines' cover animation. That's worth 2 bucks.

GABOR.

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.

So keen.

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.

@capum15: Both the video you posted and the one that showed up as related when it ended(the one below), killled me. Thank you for that, very funny.

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.

If by "enjoying a game at a time" you mean buying the D&D pack and jumping between 3 50+ hour long games then I'm totally enjoying one game at a time.

Oh damn it to hell, Amazon has an all day sale on my dog's favorite brand of treats on the same damn day as the Steam sale's start? This is unfair!

So it begins.

@dudeglove: @super2j: I fucking love the Internet, guys.

Edit: @truthtellah That's pretty great too.

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.

God shitting damn it. I'm broke every time.

This could be dangerous. Very dangerous.

@dudeglove: oh my god that was amazing.

@kidavenger: I imagine it's earlier because there was no big spring sale this year.

Y'know, funny thing.

I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN THINKING ABOUT DOING THAT FUCKING LOL.

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!

Perverse is good enough for me. I'm going to film a 1080p60 Quick Look Solo of the start of today's Steam Sale.

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.

Alright. About 3 hours before the sale and I think I've finalized my list. In no particular order:

Hopefully this sale goes well and I don't make too many impulse purchases...

@fattony12000: Why do you quote your own tweets?

*AQUIRED: Assassin's Creed IV is number one on my list.

*GIFTED TO SAID FRIEND: I'd like to get Nidhogg if my buddy doesn't buy it first (but I'm betting he will).

*AQUIRED: Also hoping to get a second copy of Don't Starve for my wife so we can play co-op when it gets added.

And maybe Saint's Row IV.

Picked up Trine 2 for 1.99 :) Now everyone in the world finally owns it!

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.

shhhhhhh

I'M SO CONFUSED

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.

Going to trade in some console games that I don't play and grab some steam cards to buy a lot more games that I will not play...

o.o That Tiny and Big game is 99 cents! I remember Vinny doing a QL of it years ago. I remember it looking pretty good...

Welp, can't beat a dollar! Pre-sale sales!