Steam Xmas Sale 2010

Sephiroth_dude

What a disapointing final day sale

titan18

Disappointing Steam Sale in total for me.Might be that I've got bored of these sales, or just cos I never played any I got in the last sale yet, but only got a few new stuff in it

Dead Space
Killing Floor
Stalker Bundle
Indie Heavy Hitters

BeardyFunzo

Need for speed: Hot pursuit got a great review in pcformat and can be bought from amazon for the low low price of £14.74 (roughly 17.50)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Need-Speed-Hot-Pursuit-DVD/dp/B003S3R5LI/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1294005638&sr=1-1

the untitled user

BeardyFunzo wrote: »

Need for speed: Hot pursuit got a great review in pcformat and can be bought from amazon for the low low price of £14.74 (roughly 17.50)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Need-Speed-Hot-Pursuit-DVD/dp/B003S3R5LI/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1294005638&sr=1-1

Add in another €5 for shipping.

TheChrisD

This year's sale, all I bought for myself was Bad Company 2, and the Half-Life collection to fill out the bits I was missing. Only €19.13 spent.

Probably because I already loaded up during the Treasure Hunt sales and picked up Bob Came in Pieces, Zombie Driver, Droplitz, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!, Poker Night, Chime and the Indie Story Pack for €16.38.

Also received Sid Meier's Railroads and C&C4 as gifts.


Now gifts bought by me on the other hand totalled €54.03

Polar101

AI War: Fleet Command 2,10 EUR
Paradox Complete Pack 54,99 EUR (normal price 500,08 EUR)
Plants vs. Zombies 6,99 EUR
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale 5,10 EUR

I reckon I'm going to buy a bigger hard drive too.

Shy_Dave!

Just the three for myself:
Metro 2033 to make me excited with my new gfx card.
Mafia 2 as I loved the first one and it looked decent.
NBA2k11 not a sale item but only 20euro and seemed interesting!

Kiith

I bought...

The Witcher
Winge of Prey
Torchlight
Titans Quest
The Polynomial
Overlord pack
Mafia 2
King Arthur
Oblivion
Dragon Age: Awakening
Dead Space
Batman AA
Amnesia
Alpha Protocol
Mass Effect 2

quarryman

To those people who bought 30+ games laughing at having spent ~€100 or whatever - how many of the games will you actually play?

The Steam sales seem to extract the same amount of money from people as a few premium titles, the difference being you'll actually PLAY (and possibly complete) the big releases!

Buying a ton of games doesn't seem like much of a saving to me at all.

flyingsnail

quarryman wrote: »

To those people who bought 30+ games laughing at having spent ~€100 or whatever - how many of the games will you actually play?

The Steam sales seem to extract the same amount of money from people as a few premium titles, the difference being you'll actually PLAY (and possibly complete) the big releases!

Buying a ton of games doesn't seem like much of a saving to me at all.

I only buy games I intend to play, I see no point in buying them otherwise. There may only be one or two titles during the year that I would buy at full price the rest of them I buy on sale.

Sasquatch76

quarryman wrote: »

To those people who bought 30+ games laughing at having spent ~€100 or whatever - how many of the games will you actually play?

Didn't buy anywhere near 30 games, but I'll play all of them.

quarryman wrote: »

The Steam sales seem to extract the same amount of money from people as a few premium titles, the difference being you'll actually PLAY (and possibly complete) the big releases!

A lot of the games people are buying ARE big releases. Just because they're available at bargainous prices doesn't suddenly make them any less of a triple A title.

quarryman wrote: »

Buying a ton of games doesn't seem like much of a saving to me at all.

If they're left unplayed, you're correct. But don't assume everyone has this problem

Outkast_IRE

All i got was assasins creed 2
and Amnesia
anymore and i wouldnt get the time to play them with dead space 2 on the way soon

cherryghost

Got

Amnesia
The Ball
Assassins Creed 2
Machinarium
Greed Corp
Mafia II
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
The Polynomial
Dead Space
Shatter
Kane & Lynch 2
Arma II
Arma II: OA
Rush
Serious Sam HD 1
Serious Sam HD 2
Flatout
Flatout 2
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage
Cities XL
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Max and the Magic Marker
Toki Tori
Delve Deeper
Secret of Magic Crystals.


Been playing The Ball. Great game so far.

Nehaxak

Didn't buy anything throughout the whole sale
Had most of what was on offer, that or I just didn't want what was for sale.

Nollog

Anyone willing to gift me http://store.steampowered.com/app/70300 ?
Credit card keeps being declined.
I can send the 2.50 by bank transfer.
I think my bank thinks someone stole my card with all the steam purchases lol, so I probably can't paypal it to you until I call them.

cherryghost

cherryghost wrote: »

Amnesia

Enjoy that. Terrifying survival horror game.

ShaneU

Winterbottom 0.39
Super Meat boy 3.50
The Witcher 4.00
Puzzle Quest 1.50
Lara Croft 5.10
Tropico 3 7.50
VVVVVV 2.49
Team Fortress 2 5.00
Mafia 2 9.99

All those for 39.47

VenomIreland

I haven't played much of the few games I bought (bar Amnesia, I really wanted to play that and I'm glad I played through until the end), S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat has taken up most of my time.

Turtwig

quarryman wrote: »

To those people who bought 30+ games laughing at having spent ~€100 or whatever - how many of the games will you actually play?

The Steam sales seem to extract the same amount of money from people as a few premium titles, the difference being you'll actually PLAY (and possibly complete) the big releases!

Buying a ton of games doesn't seem like much of a saving to me at all.

Every single one of them. Apart from the majority of indy titles which merely incorporated on the spot research to see how well they were received, every game I bought was either a game I had eyes on in the past and badly wanted or one I had previously owned and loved but no longer had the original CD. For example, Left 4 Dead was a game I always wanted to own, but had to settle for just minor skirmishes at a friend's house because there were other games that caught my fancy first. Same too for burnout paradise and world in conflict. Games such as Half Life I, Ghost Recon, GTA :SA, were games I owned in the past but no longer had the original cds.In the case of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory I simply bought it so that starforce protection would no longer be a pain in the arse on vista. (It really is quite pathetic when your DRM fails to initialise at start up meaning you cannot run the game without actually getting a no cd crack for a game you legitimately own! Oh Ubi). Others were games I never heard of but got pretty darn good reviews and were on a genre I preferred e.g Men of War 9/10 Eurogamer, strategy, tactics, must at least try.

SeantheMan

Ahhh but its a bargain, and it was xmas, and I deserved it

I spent over 250 in the STEAM sale, I've not played ANY of the games yet though. But I will eventually ...at least they are there forever
If you look at it as an investment, and in the long run, I saved over 600 euro, and means im sorted for games for the next while. Chances are they won't drop for the next while or till next xmas, and anyways, I haven't played em all as its only been 2 weeks really.
I was probably just angry I didn't win the 100 games after getting all the required Achievements

Amnesia Dark Descent
Sniper Ghost Warrior
Dead Space
THQ Complete Pack
Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising
The Witcher : Enhanced Edition
Portal
Square Holiday Pack
The Rockstar Collection
Beat Hazard
Battlefied BC2 Vietnam

marco_polo

Final tally, as you can see I have gone some way towards righting my criminal neglect of RPGs over the past few years.

Dirt 2.
Crysis + Warhead (Donated old disk version to poor student brother).
Doom Complete Pack.
FEAR Bundle.
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Dragons Age Ultimate Edition.
Oblivion.
The Witcher.

Roughly around the 85 mark I think not bad for around a gazillion hours worth of future gaming.

Sephiroth_dude

I got

Fear 2
dragon age pack
recettear (sp?)
patrician 4
tropico pack
brothers in arms pack
greed corp
mount and blade
left for dead 2

AlmightyCushion

I bought a good few games in the sale.

Left4dead 2.
Amnesia.
Some other penumbra games (never heard of them but the reviews looked good and they were cheap).
Stalker pack.
Crysis pack.
The ball (and some other smaller games like that).
Bad company 2 + vietnam.

The only one I've played is bad company 2. Can see that stopping me from playing all the other games as well.

Sephiroth_dude

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I bought a good few games in the sale.

Left4dead 2.
Amnesia.
Some other penumbra games (never heard of them but the reviews looked good and they were cheap).
Stalker pack.
Crysis pack.
The ball (and some other smaller games like that).
Bad company 2 + vietnam.

The only one I've played is bad company 2. Can see that stopping me from playing all the other games as well.

Was thinking of buying vietnam,any good?

AlmightyCushion

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Was thinking of buying vietnam,any good?

I only played two games of it. I didn't like the map (same map in both games) and I was getting my ass handed to me on a plate (to the point of sever frustration) so I didn't particularly enjoy it. Saying that two games where I was playing awfully isn't really giving it much of a chance. One of my friends loves it though, more than BC2.

SeantheMan

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Was thinking of buying vietnam,any good?

It's better than BC2 yeah.
Playing it on Hardcore, absolute quality. Have it for PC and 360, brilliant on both !

Fanny Cradock

What's with the hardcore setting on servers?

5uspect

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

What's with the hardcore setting on servers?

It turns on friendly fire, disables the minimap etc.

Kiith

5uspect wrote: »

It turns on friendly fire

Friendly fire should always be on...in all games.

Sephiroth_dude

SeantheMan wrote: »

It's better than BC2 yeah.
Playing it on Hardcore, absolute quality. Have it for PC and 360, brilliant on both !

Might get it so :-)