Steam Christmas Sale Dec 22 - Jan 4

Links234

Gbear wrote: »

Anyone have any RTS recommendations that aren't Grey Goo, Age of Empires, Dawn of War or Homeworld (I own them already)?

There's not much in the way of base building, but I highly recommend Infested Planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCqTXR-EhNw

Calhoun wrote: »

Ori is a brilliant game just playing it on the xboxone and love it.

It's one I definitely want to pick up at some stage myself, looks amazing.

Glebee

Only game im interested in that seems cheaper on Steam is Ryse:Son of Rome. As far as I can see all other games can be got much cheaper in other stores.

Andrew76

Picked up Insurgency for just over €2 on Kinguin, be rude not to at that price. Haven't pulled the trigger on Ori just yet. Think it was Links1234 or someone else here said they have a rule of not buying something unless they are going to play it now - does playing it even for a few minutes count?

So tempted to get Squad also, not sure there are many folks on here playing it though?

Links234

Andrew76 wrote: »

Think it was Links1234 or someone else here said they have a rule of not buying something unless they are going to play it now - does playing it even for a few minutes count?

Links234, like the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfu21-8IRu8

And sure, playing it for a few minutes counts. At least you've dipped your toes in then. The idea was to cut down on stuff just going into the backlog, not getting played.

FAILSAFE 00

Squad seems expensive for an early access game.

I don't think they are even discounting it for the sale.

Manach

Succumb.


Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2
Victoria II
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Shadowrun Returns
Apotheon
Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse
Pillars of Eternity - Hero Edition

Gonzovision

Gbear wrote: »

Anyone have any RTS recommendations that aren't Grey Goo, Age of Empires, Dawn of War or Homeworld (I own them already)?

Act of Agression

weisses

Gbear wrote: »

Anyone have any RTS recommendations that aren't Grey Goo, Age of Empires, Dawn of War or Homeworld (I own them already)?

I enjoyed playing the supreme commander series

degrassinoel

Gbear wrote: »

Anyone have any RTS recommendations that aren't Grey Goo, Age of Empires, Dawn of War or Homeworld (I own them already)?

Company of heroes 2

fairly average single player campaign unless you get Ardennes Assault with it, the multiplayer is brilliant, especially co-op.

There's a pile of DLC for it - but do yourself a favour if you get it, and buy the british forces multiplayer dlc, great craic altogether

I've 1269 hours played so it's possible you'll get you're moneysworth out it..

bpb101

Lads, is it me , or is this sale the most boring ? No flash sales. No clear daily deals , no timers of when the sales change(that if it even does, not sure) , No clear thing to say this is for the day only?

Shíte really ?

jaxdasher

bpb101 wrote: »

Lads, is it me , or is this sale the most boring ? No flash sales. No clear daily deals , no timers of when the sales change(that if it even does, not sure) , No clear thing to say this is for the day only?

Shíte really ?

I prefer it this way. No chance of missing a sale or buying something that gets discounted deeper the next day. Its straightforward. I can take my time on choosing and not be pressured as much.

pablomakaveli

My favourite sale was the coal one they did a few years ago. You got pieces of coal for completing special achievements in some of the discounted games. I think then you could craft them to win a prize and an entry into a draw where you could win the whole catalogue of games on steam. They also really pushed a lot of indie games that year when the whole indie scene was just taking off.

degrassinoel

bpb101 wrote: »

Lads, is it me , or is this sale the most boring ? No flash sales. No clear daily deals , no timers of when the sales change(that if it even does, not sure) , No clear thing to say this is for the day only?

Shíte really ?

It's fairly lowkey alright isnt it?

Links234

I do miss the daily deals, and the community events. Clicking through a queue to get cards is just dull.

Drexel

I picked up endless space. It was a choice between that or galactic civ 3.

Havent given it a go yet but from what I've been told the combat is like a card game? Anyone confirm this?? Might return and get the other one if so.

LFC CONNAUGHTON

The deals don't stack up against the flash deals of sales gone by either. Some okay deals but very few that interest me anyway.

Stormhawk88

Gbear wrote: »

Anyone have any RTS recommendations that aren't Grey Goo, Age of Empires, Dawn of War or Homeworld (I own them already)?

Supreme commander 1 and 2. Theres also a mod for 1 called forged alliance that is suppose to be brilliant.

Also Sins of a Solar Empire rebellion is kind of 4x crossed with rts it has no campaign you just set up a match against A.i. but it is really good and has a lot of mods available aswel.

titan18

Gbear wrote: »

Anyone have any RTS recommendations that aren't Grey Goo, Age of Empires, Dawn of War or Homeworld (I own them already)?

Rise of Nations or Age of Mythology?

Turtwig

Swords and Soldiers is a grand little rts game imo. Cannot +1 Sins of a Solar Empire enough. Its scale is massive and yet somehow it's completely manageable. Just remember to set an alarm to go to bed.

Cravez

Not as exciting but unfortunately the way the sales are now are going to be the norm I would say since the introduction of Steam refunds. Doing daily/flash/community deals would be an administration nightmare I would imagine if a lot of people bought during sale only for it to go cheaper on a flash/daily/community deal and ask for a refund.

Picked up a few games from my Wishlist so far:
- Squad
- The Quest
- One More Dungeon

Was gifted:
- System Shock: Enhanced Edition
- Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

J Mysterio

Steam is bollixed

Agricola

Did they ever do a post on why the old sale format was scrapped? It's not nearly the event it was now without checking in every evening!

gazzamc

J Mysterio wrote: »

Steam is bollixed

Apparently it's being DDOS'd, thought they might had changed their mind on the new layout and were reverting it back, :P but we wouldn't be that lucky.

dreamers75

noooooooo one of the boys xmas present was a few steam games.

gazzamc

dreamers75 wrote: »

noooooooo one of the boys xmas present was a few steam games.

It's up again

Mal-Adjusted

it's very dodgy today alright. still not great.

degrassinoel

was just gonna say that too, it's up and down a lot, and even when it's up i'm apparently not logged in either

pablomakaveli

Im sure there was some "hacker" group making threats a couple of weeks before the sales. Probably them behind it

gazzamc

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Im sure there was some "hacker" group making threats a couple of weeks before the sales. Probably them behind it

Maybe they're upset about the new layout also :P

bpb101

It's probably just traffic

murphyebass

Servers taking a right hammering at the minute.

Managed to buy and download one game there but it took me ages.

Not bothering again tonight that's for sure.

sirboby

I bought a good couple of games from the sale, im pretty new to the pc gaming scene so i have alot of catching up to do.

These are the games i had previously when i gamed on my laptop

-Civ 5
-Prison architect
-Kerbal space program
-Don't starve
-Garry's mod

I got pretty much all the total war games from the humble bundle last week.

Games i got in the sale so far.

-invisible inc.
-Skyrim(legendary edition)
-Portal 1 & 2
-Cities Skylines
-The witcher 2
-CS:GO


Any games you suggest i should try, theres so many good options.

J Mysterio

sirboby wrote: »

Any games you suggest i should try, theres so many good options.

The Banner Saga, X-Com and Expeditions Conquistador.

ondafly

skidp hacking group are attacking steam - reports of people logging in but seeing other accounts. When I try to get to the store, it appears in Russian or Portuguese. I have 2 factor authentication activated so should be fine, but to others who don't now would be a good time to turn it on.

Mal-Adjusted

I don't think Steam is 100% yet, as mine suddenly changed language to german

kevovek

Ha yeah mines French at the moment

pogcica

mine is in russian or something

titan18

ondafly wrote: »

skidp hacking group are attacking steam - reports of people logging in but seeing other accounts. When I try to get to the store, it appears in Russian or Portuguese. I have 2 factor authentication activated so should be fine, but to others who don't now would be a good time to turn it on.

I'd advise doing nothing to your accounts now. Atm, when I go to account details it shows me someone else's account information. This is not good.

bpb101

dusting off gta iv to play over the Christmas(well reinstalling)

You know , upc may have ****e customer service , But when you pull down at 225Mbs , You can never complain


Lads. To get GTA V or not, That is my question ?

titan18 wrote: »

I'd advise doing nothing to your accounts now. Atm, when I go to account details it shows me someone else's account information. This is not good.

****, Mines in Russian and USD

Edit, **** , tried to get gta iv at $29 just missed it

Steam is going crazy

degrassinoel

Sales in Russian and Polish, and the prices were in USD for a while there too

titan18

bpb101 wrote: »

dusting off gta iv to play over the Christmas(well reinstalling)

You know , upc may have ****e customer service , But when you pull down at 225Mbs , You can never complain


Lads. To get GTA V or not, That is my question ?




****, Mines in Russian and USD

Edit, **** , tried to get gta iv at $29 just missed it

Ya, I wouldn't worry about missing a game. Chances are someone can see your account details, that's much worse

flyingsnail

titan18 wrote: »

I'd advise doing nothing to your accounts now. Atm, when I go to account details it shows me someone else's account information. This is not good.

Same here, my library tab shows my stuff but the account details show me somebody else stuff. I suggest keeping a very close eye on your paypal or credit card accounts.

Shiminay

Something's *VERY* fucky with Steam ATM - looks like a major security hole. Trying to unlink my PayPal account now.

bpb101

**** lads, Somthings up here
clicked on my account and was able to see somebody else master card clicked , inc names and address and phone number of somebody (in ireland)

titan18

I'm amazed the servers haven't been shut down. This is a pretty big security breach. WTF are Valve doing

flyingsnail

Shiminay wrote: »

Something's *VERY* fucky with Steam ATM - looks like a major security hole. Trying to unlink my PayPal account now.

Is it possible to do on the paypal side of things?

bpb101

flyingsnail wrote: »

Is it possible to do on the paypal side of things?

remove cards from paypal, Thats what ive done

Frightened the **** out of me....went to the site and everything was in Russian or Polish or some ****. In order to pay with PayPal they'd need your PayPal password too wouldn't they?

aphex™

I wouldn't log in. I went to the site and got to somebody's account from wicklow named graham. Didn't log in or anything. Shows games and wishlist. 2 items in shopping cart but empty when I get there.

.G.

Can't login into my own account but have seen 4 different peoples account. My debit card is linked to my account and I can't get in to erase it.