God dam you steam!!

So I'm not that big of a gamer during the semester.  I don't get games that often either but over the last 6 months or so I have just succumb to steam and their freaking insane sales.  First it was over the winter when I purchased nearly every freaking thing on sale during the holiday sales last winter.  Then I purchased Freedom Force pack, Braid, Audiosurf,  Red Fraction Guerrilla, portal, ALL THE X COM GAMES,  Trials 2, Torchlight, Trine,  Medieval 2 and its expansions, Mass Effect, L4D, Beat Hazard..... and today I just purchased the freaking Civilization 4 pack.   
I just keep purchasing them........WTF Steam seems to have some strange power over me,  these sales are so f'ing crazy that I cant not buy these things.  Yet I'm  fairly certain I won't play many of them EVER.  I'm just building a stupid ass collection of great games lol
Anyone else out there get caught up in steam fever?

So I'm not that big of a gamer during the semester.  I don't get games that often either but over the last 6 months or so I have just succumb to steam and their freaking insane sales.  First it was over the winter when I purchased nearly every freaking thing on sale during the holiday sales last winter.  Then I purchased Freedom Force pack, Braid, Audiosurf,  Red Fraction Guerrilla, portal, ALL THE X COM GAMES,  Trials 2, Torchlight, Trine,  Medieval 2 and its expansions, Mass Effect, L4D, Beat Hazard..... and today I just purchased the freaking Civilization 4 pack.   
I just keep purchasing them........WTF Steam seems to have some strange power over me,  these sales are so f'ing crazy that I cant not buy these things.  Yet I'm  fairly certain I won't play many of them EVER.  I'm just building a stupid ass collection of great games lol
Anyone else out there get caught up in steam fever?

Hahaha, welcome to the club. 

Ditto on civ 4. I haven't completely grasped all the game mechanics but I can't fight the urge to keep playing.

" Ditto on civ 4. I haven't completely grasped all the game mechanics but I can't fight the urge to keep playing. "

Hmm, I'm not caught up by the so-called "steam fever". Even though I check their deals every day.  If you know you aren't going to play it... don't buy it?
 
/selfcontrol

Yeah. Sometimes it's so bad for me that I get a game I already own, but it feels more convenient to just buy it for $2 than look for it in my closet.

It's not difficult to figure out, you can't resist a good bargain.

" Hmm, I'm not caught up by the so-called "steam fever". Even though I check their deals every day.  If you know you aren't going to play it... don't buy it?  /selfcontrol "

" @JA050N said:

" Ditto on civ 4. I haven't completely grasped all the game mechanics but I can't fight the urge to keep playing. "

Take heart, Civ 5 is around the corner :3 "

We need a Steam Users Anonymous or something. As it was said before, welcome to the club! It only gets worse from here....

" I just purchased the freaking Civilization 4 pack."

Civilization 3 is 75p on Steam 
 
 75 PENCE! I nearly dived for it. but I'm waiting for CIV 5

i hear you man, i recently dropped $10 each on hl source, manhunt, red faction, and avp 2000. couldn't help it.

I love Steam. I pretty much get all my games through Steam, and have taken advantage of some great deals. Torchlight for ten bucks, Left 4 Dead for eight bucks-they've got amazing deals. But the thing is, when you lose control of yourself and start buying every deal that comes up, deals, rather than having you pay less than you would have, actually have you paying more than you would have. I remember I almost bought the id software pack back when it was on sale (50% off I think it was). I owned almost every id software game already. But I was delirious because of the sale and the idea of having every id game conveniently in my Steam library. But I resisted, installed the id games I wanted to play again from my old discs, and I was better off. 
 
Just remember- when deals are having you spend more than you originally intended, stop. I set out to buy the Quake 2 expansion packs off Steam (which I did not own). Ten minutes later, I had almost bought the id super pack, about to spend thirty five bucks when I was only going to spend ten. Every id game for thirty-five bucks was amazingly tempting-but ten bucks for what I actually wanted, actually didn't own and actually would play was the more sensible choice.

I'd never pay for a game I know that I will never play even if the sales are great.   
 
I don't have the problem that most people have, I guess.

I like to only buy games on Steam when they are titles I really wanted to buy but there were other games out at the same time and financially it didn't work out to get them all. I wait til there aren't releases I want and them snatch them up on Steam. So I have not succumb to this same sort of problem.

I have a mac... and one thats a few years old by now... so thank god I won't get the "steam fever" whenever they do roll out steam for the mac. My wallet is very happy. 

Damn you forum thread, I just now purchased Civ IV. Of course, I've been on the fence over this game for months now but still I liked those ten dollars in my bank account.

" Damn you forum thread, I just now purchased Civ IV. Of course, I've been on the fence over this game for months now but still I liked those ten dollars in my bank account. "

" Hmm, I'm not caught up by the so-called "steam fever". Even though I check their deals every day.  If you know you aren't going to play it... don't buy it?  /selfcontrol "