So lets get ready for steam sale, lads!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

waiting 6+ months to buy games at 3-4 euro a go isn't that much better for the industry than pirating tbh

N64

Yousef wrote: »

No, says the guy that has just downloaded over 32 of the latest games for a whopping E0.00....

Jakes on you

People like you are reasons why I sometimes have sympathy for the copyright trolls :rolleyes:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

waiting 6+ months to buy games at 3-4 euro a go isn't that much better for the industry than pirating tbh

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/16/steam-deals-dont-cannibalise-sales-says-valves-director-of-business-management/

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

oh wow, valve said that?
well that changed my mind.

Mr E

Yousef wrote: »

No, says the guy that has just downloaded over 32 of the latest games for a whopping E0.00....

Here is an infraction for a whopping E0.00.
Please familarise yourself with the charter before posting here again.

chrislad

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

waiting 6+ months to buy games at 3-4 euro a go isn't that much better for the industry than pirating tbh

In all fairness, most of the games around that price are years old or a bit crap.

N64

Train simulator is not crap :mad:

chrislad

N64 wrote: »

Train simulator is not crap :mad:

Most. Most!

ShadowHearth

omfg, you wont believe this lads... i finished a game bought on summer steam sale! :eek:

just finished dead island. i have to say i really enjoyed that. well worth 10eu i payed for it. It is really rare when i sit down and finish a game so i guess its a good sign. :P

22h entertainment for a tenner so far. and i still got dlc to finish. not bad

Washington Irving

Still no Arma, but pretty good deals today

Sound of Silence

Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad for £3.74 (Not sure of Euro price).

It's brutal, tough and unforgiving. Everything you could ask for in a realistic WWII shooter!

It's brilliant!

nesf

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

waiting 6+ months to buy games at 3-4 euro a go isn't that much better for the industry than pirating tbh

It's often 3-4 Euro from people who would never buy the game at full price.

ShadowHearth

****... my cc will hate me today...

okay got civ 5 and there are few more games i want to pick up! yikes!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

some times but have a read through this thread.. loads of people saying they wouldn't buy games they actually want until it drops in price enough thanks to the steam sale. these are people who most likely would have bought the game at full or near full price but knew damn well it was going to get a huge discount at some point during the year so just held off

it's killing the perception of value games have. people humming and hawing over paying a tenner for a 10-20 hour game, wondering if it will drop even further in a few days.

johnny_ultimate

Driver: San Francisco for 4.99! Huzzah!

The system works.

Yousef

Fallout: New Vegas - Ultimate Edition
Max Payne 3
The Walking Dead
The Witcher 2
Portal 1 and 2
Skyrim
L4D + Left4Dead2
Amnesia
Deus Ex 1, 2 and 3.
Sniper Elite
GTA 4 to DLC's.
Alan Wake
Metro 2033
Stalker SoC, Clear Sky, CoP.
Bioshock 2
Crysis 2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Call of Duty WaW (never played this)
Ghost Recon Future Solider
Pro Evo 2012

That should keep me busy for a while....and to think that would set me back well into the hundreds....LOL. f*ck steam and all the haters above. <SNIP>

TheChrisD

Now they're just rehashing old flash sales

ShadowHearth

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

some times but have a read through this thread.. loads of people saying they wouldn't buy games they actually want until it drops in price enough thanks to the steam sale. these are people who most likely would have bought the game at full or near full price but knew damn well it was going to get a huge discount at some point during the year so just held off

it's killing the perception of value games have. people humming and hawing over paying a tenner for a 10-20 hour game, wondering if it will drop even further in a few days.

right. do you prefer people pirate and play them or wait until they can afford it and then buy it and play it?
Valve said it themselfs: "make a good service and there will be less piracy. so far service is savage. i bought 150eu worth games in last few days, which i would not buy and would not play. that gave developers money for old titles with no extra spending on publicity.
Would i have spent money to buy Civ 5? **** no, i am still enjoying my civ 4 and i heard way too many changes that i would not like. so no way i would pay full price for it. so its for sale on 15eu with all dlcs included... you know what? for 15eu i will check it myself if i like it or not.
so just stop moaning and enjoy sale!

chrislad

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Driver: San Francisco for 4.99! Huzzah!

The system works.

And there goes my last fiver!

titan18

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

some times but have a read through this thread.. loads of people saying they wouldn't buy games they actually want until it drops in price enough thanks to the steam sale. these are people who most likely would have bought the game at full or near full price but knew damn well it was going to get a huge discount at some point during the year so just held off

it's killing the perception of value games have. people humming and hawing over paying a tenner for a 10-20 hour game, wondering if it will drop even further in a few days.

Can't afford every game you might possibly want at full price though. At least in my case, if I want a game badly enough, I'll pay full price e.g Skyrim, Mass Effect 3. Don't have the money to buy every game I'd like at full prices, dont even have the money to buy every game I'd like at half price. Steam sales are the only way I could play those games barring piracy, and there's the games that I've only bought cos they're cheap or games that I've had on different consoles but were cheap so bought them again on pc

ShadowHearth

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Driver: San Francisco for 4.99! Huzzah!

The system works.

damn i am on the fence with this one! i just got civ 5 with **** loads dlcs, red orchestra deluxe, far cry 2 deluxe.
i want driver too, but i wonder if i am getting out of control

chrislad

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

some times but have a read through this thread.. loads of people saying they wouldn't buy games they actually want until it drops in price enough thanks to the steam sale. these are people who most likely would have bought the game at full or near full price but knew damn well it was going to get a huge discount at some point during the year so just held off

it's killing the perception of value games have. people humming and hawing over paying a tenner for a 10-20 hour game, wondering if it will drop even further in a few days.

I wouldn't agree. The only game that was somewhat new that I got was The Walking Dead and I didn't want to pay full price as it's only 40% of the full game now! It's still the most expensive purchase I had at 14.99. Most of the other games were ones I would not have normally gotten (STALKER, Driver, Company of Heroes) or games that I have actually played and completed already on other platforms (Mirrors Edge, KotOR, Splinter Cell, Red Faction, Fable, Fable 3) that were cheap and that I have already paid for once so getting them for next to nothing and the dev is still getting something! Hell, I even got Psychonauts again after only just getting it in the Humble Bundle!!

Mr E

Yousef wrote: »

That should keep me busy for a while....and to think that would set me back well into the hundreds....LOL.

Ah good. Something to keep you occupied during your 3 week holiday from the forum. Enjoy.

nesf

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

some times but have a read through this thread.. loads of people saying they wouldn't buy games they actually want until it drops in price enough thanks to the steam sale. these are people who most likely would have bought the game at full or near full price but knew damn well it was going to get a huge discount at some point during the year so just held off

it's killing the perception of value games have. people humming and hawing over paying a tenner for a 10-20 hour game, wondering if it will drop even further in a few days.

Sure but you're assuming these people would pay out 40 quid or whatever for the game in the first place which is a rather big assumption. Demand just doesn't work that way. Would these people still want these games if they were guaranteed to stay around the 40 quid mark? Or would they just ignore them until they came out in discounted Game of the Year Edition forms?

Completionist

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

some times but have a read through this thread.. loads of people saying they wouldn't buy games they actually want until it drops in price enough thanks to the steam sale. these are people who most likely would have bought the game at full or near full price but knew damn well it was going to get a huge discount at some point during the year so just held off

it's killing the perception of value games have. people humming and hawing over paying a tenner for a 10-20 hour game, wondering if it will drop even further in a few days.

If a game releases that I want then I will buy it regardless of price.

Its the other games that I wait for the prices to drop, The games I normally wouldn't buy or those that I can do without.

As for people "Huming and hawing over paying a tenner for a 10-20 hour game", Have you considered these people may only have a limited amount of money to spend and as such want to use it the most efficiently. The logical thing to do in this situation is to spend the money on games that have reached their rock bottom price rather than on new releases as you then get more hours/euro spent, And the perceived value of your collection will not drop much more.

Killing the perception of value games have? Sounds like what EA said a few weeks back. The sales provide a method of selling games to people that otherwise would never of bought them, I highly doubt that day 1 buyers of games are holding off for months/years just to get it at 75% off on a steam sale, Rather the day 1 buyers will buy as normal and everyone else will wait until it drops to a price they find acceptable. There is nothing wrong with that.

ixoy

Far Cry or Far Cry 2?
And is Driver: San Francisco worth it for the single player?

ShadowHearth

ixoy wrote: »

Far Cry or Far Cry 2?
And is Driver: San Francisco worth it for the single player?

driver is well worth it.

far cry 2 might too, but you better off getting crysis 1 and warhead if you havent played those 2.

Nody

ixoy wrote: »

Far Cry or Far Cry 2?
And is Driver: San Francisco worth it for the single player?

FC2 gets very repetitive if you want to do all missions and unlocks but it's a nice enough game imo (I know most prefer PC over FC2 though).

TrustedApple

Picked up so far in the sale

Bastion
Metro 2033
Splinter cell Conviction
Red faction guerrilla
all for
€12.48

Might get Far Cry 2 for €2.50 as well

Grumpypants

I resisted buying anything today, might be due to owning 18 of the 21 games on offer

Kiith

Going to get Driver and Splinter Cell today. Not going to bother with New Vegas. It's a great game and all, but i don't fancy another 100+ hour marathon.

nesf

Completionist wrote: »

I highly doubt that day 1 buyers of games are holding off for months/years just to get it at 75% off on a steam sale, Rather the day 1 buyers will buy as normal and everyone else will wait until it drops to a price they find acceptable. There is nothing wrong with that.

Exactly. I bought Civ V and Skyrim on release, as did quite a lot of other people I imagine. The people waiting for the Steam Sales of these were never going to be day 1 buyers in the first place. If you can wait 6-12 months for a game you don't really need it as opposed to a new Civ expansion which I'll probably pick up as soon as it's released etc.

Clover

Just picked up my first game in this sale , The Witcher enhanced edition for €1.99 .

pablomakaveli

Feeling a bit tempted by Civ 5 but not sure if ill like it.

I used to have Civ 4 but just couldnt get into it and ended up selling it to a friend. Probably not worth buying it if i didnt enjoy the previous incarnation.

Harps

Fiver left in my budget, Driver, F3AR, Splinter Cell, Limbo or Far Cry 2...?

Turtwig

75% off Civ V!?:eek: That is so so tempting.

On the topic, of buying these games on sale. A perfect example would be Splinter Cell : Conviction. I loved the classic SC games, but lost interest in the latest iteration when I saw how much the formula had been changed.
I didn't doubt the game was fun but I was never going to buy it. It was only Two weeks ago when I upgraded my rig that I thought Splinter Cell would be nice to try on this and that it'll definitely be on the Steam Sale. Even if it's only €7.49 euro, Ubisoft get something from me. Otherwise they'd have gotten nothing. Nada. Zilch, Ever.
And, the old saying "Nothing is infinitely worse than something."*

Another plus to these sales is that I try franchises that I'd never really had much prior knowledge and wouldn't have been comfortable risking significant money on. For example, thanks to nesf's recommendation I can safely say I'll be following any more games in the Sins of A Solar Empire franchise with interest. It's a blast

*Which isn't technically true.

Burning Eclipse

folan wrote: »

totally worth it. scares me sensless, but its the format of the game that intralls me most.

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Do you enjoy having brown trousers? If so, get it.

Sold

KonFusion

Things are bad when you try to buy 2 games you already own

ixoy

ShadowHearth wrote: »

far cry 2 might too, but you better off getting crysis 1 and warhead if you havent played those 2.

Cheers. I've played "Crysis" (well tried too - there's a glitch that stops me in the final battle) and I've still "Warhead" outstanding so I'll leave it and get Driver:SF instead.

MrSparkle

KonFusion wrote: »

Things are bad when you try to buy 2 games you already own

This has happened a lot during this sale. I should really get around to playing more of my games on Steam.

Kiith

MrSparkle wrote: »

This has happened a lot during this sale. I should really get around to playing more of my games on Steam.

That's just crazy talk. Games you buy in the sale aren't for playing :pac:

ShadowHearth

i am trying to do a list of stuff i bought so far. its not easy..


batman arkham city
tropico 4
trine 1
trine2
sins of solar empire: trinity
The walking dead
Shogun 2
fallout new vegas Dlcs
Red orchestra 2
civ 5 +dlcs
Binding of isaac dlc
bioshock 2 ( wanted it for steam )
Crysis 1 ( as above )
Crysis warhead
dead island
Dues ex human revolution + DLC
Dragon age ultimate edition
Dreamfall
the longest journey
Driver san francisco
fallout 3 goty ( as above )
farcry 2
total war collection
Total war shogon 2 fall of samurai
sanctum



dead island finished.... any tips on what to play next

nesf

Try Sins of a Solar Empire. It's quite fast to get into and a lot of fun.

ShadowHearth

nesf wrote: »

Try Sins of a Solar Empire. It's quite fast to get into and a lot of fun.

its one of the games i got installed.

i was shocked to see only 2gb download! i so got used to 8gb+++

wont have time to play anything tonight thought . work tomorrow.

ill leave steam to download civ 5 and red orchestra. got batman, new vegas, walking dead, tropico 4, trine, shogun 2 all downloaded. With all games that i already had i still got 110gb free on ssd. need to fill that bitch up!

Harps

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory for €2.49, always been meaning to play it so I'll gladly take that

MrSparkle

Kiith wrote: »

That's just crazy talk. Games you buy in the sale aren't for playing :pac:

Judging by what I have done with games I've bought in previous sales I seem to be just collecting games.

I've barely played any of them(just looked through my games list and I actually didn't know I had a lot of those titles) but it's so hard not to buy when there's these crazy bargains.

nesf

Magicka DLC + The Witcher 1, held off on Witcher 2, I won't have time to play it.

RolandIRL

Thoughts on Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet? It having GFWL is a bit of a turn-off.

Turtwig

Did I buy "Splinter Cell : Conviction" or did I buy "24 : Conviction"? Must check the game receipt. Game is a whole load of fun, but is far too easy and far too violent (I was one of those who liked to try to complete maps with zero violence where possible), but lots of fun.

deano546

RolandIRL wrote: »

Thoughts on Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet? It having GFWL is a bit of a turn-off.

I was considering it till I found that out and it turned me off it. The only game that I have that has GFWL is Batman:AC, and even then I'll uninstall it as soon as I'm finished it.

norrie rugger

Driver is now mine. Leave. Me alone Steam