Steam Summer Sale 2016 - Speculation and Chat

Skerries

bought a load of cheap bundles and cheap games so got around ~80 games for ~€30

WarZoneBrother

The Escapists with the Walking Dead version also purchased... Kind of annoyed with no controller support considering it is on the PS4 now also...

Last purchase shall be that BF BC2 Vietnam DLC will get stuck into it when my Steam Controller arrives sometime next year :rolleyes:

Falthyron

Not a big splurge for me this time round. I went with:

RYSE: Son of Rome - In the mood for a combo, beat-em-up, type game with gorgeous graphics and, hopefully, a decent story.
Grow Home - A great looking puzzle game from the looks of things.
Dead Rising 3 - Enjoyed the previous ones and I was looking for something with coop to play with my brother; looking forward to this!
This War of Mine: The Little Ones DLC - Looks very good and a portion of the proceeds goes to charity.
Endless Legend - Shifters DLC - Should keep me entertained until Civ VI.

I also picked up INSIDE because I really enjoyed LIMBO and it is receiving stellar reviews. Not a sale item though.

PopePalpatine

I just picked up some cheap bundles for trading cards, there's no way I can even hope to run Dirt Rally or GTA V on my laptop. :pac:

Links234

Just managed to grab Life is Strange Episodes 2-5, Steamworld Dig, and Aerannis.

Thinking of leaving SOMA 'till next sale, but still very tempted indeed.

Andrew76

Got a few more before the sale ends.

Life is Strange (1-5)
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Creeper World 3
Aquaria

And nabbed a Civ V Complete Edition key for cheaper elsewhere.

VinLieger

Was good this year, only grabbed door kickers and american truck simulator

Links234

Banner Saga nabbed now too

Links234

**** it, SOMA was the main thing I wanted, I grabbed it.

kevovek

Did my last few purchases today
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition | INSIDE | The Golf Club Collector's Edition Bundle | Pony Island | Oxenfree | NBA 2K16 | 12 is Better Than 6

Three of them are just specifically to play with two of my friends weren't even on my wishlist. And inside is a pre-order not a sale item.

Star Lord

My own list was started and finished quite near the start of the sale:

Dust: An Elysian Tale
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
Ghost 1.0
Axiom Verge

Links234

Alrighty! Final haul is a whopping 20 items:

Steamworld Heist: The Outsider DLC
Party Hard
Shrouded In Sanity
Darkmaus
Whispering Willows
Papers Please
Alien Isolation
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
The Swindle
Dex
Momodora III
The Swapper
Momodora: Reverie Under Moonlight
Convoy
Life Is Strange Season Pass
Crypt of the Necrodancer (From Steamgifts)
Steamworld Dig
Aerannis
The Banner Saga
SOMA

This is the most I've gotten ever, my wishlist is well and truly decimated. But here's the cool thing, anything I haven't managed to trade is going to the boards Steamgifts group.

cruizer101

Ah bollocks it anyway, I thought the sale was ending at 6 US time, I'd been putting stuff on my wishlist rather than doing any impulse buying with plans to review it at the end and make more sensible purchases than 'Oh look 50% off, take my money'. Ah well you win some lose some, I did at least pick up Offworld trading few days ago which is great fun, was few others I might of picked up too.

pablomakaveli

My final haul

Firewatch
Fran Bow
Armello
Invisible Inc
Cossacks DLC for EU4
ETS2 DLC
Total War Warhammer Blood DLC

and picked up Mare Nostrum for EU4 on GMG.

Thats the least i've ever bought in a Steam sale. Most of the stuff I was interested in I thought were still too expensive for me to buy this time. Felt like the discounts this year were poor on a lot of games. I think in the run up to Christmas this year I'll be paying more attention to the sales on other sites. Saw some good deals on other sites but unfortunately held out for the Steam sale.

Overall I'm happy with what I got. Already finished Firewatch and Fran Bow which I both enjoyed. Might give Armello a try soon.

sweetie

Just Soma and Undertale for me. Plus I won Ass Creed, syndicate in the gifts thread.

Robert ninja

• Thief: Gold Edition
• Thief 2: The Metal Age
• Arx Fatalis

All the mods should mount up to lots of playtime, too. A friendly chap sent me Tabletop Sim and a boardsie gave me the classic Bioshock which I've always played on other people's computers and got a lend of on PS3. Seems I've never bought it myself but am always a returning fan. At least now it's on my own steam library

chrislad

I got Transformers Devastation and Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns, but I returned the former. It was decent, but I don't really have the love for G1 Transformers that would make me finish the game.

Pretty quiet sale, any of the bigger titles I've had my eye on were available for cheaper elsewhere so just grabbed a few small things
Punch Club
Depth
Party Hard
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Door Kickers
35mm
The Long Dark
Rambo
Primal Carnage
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Learn Japanese to Survive
Dinosaur Hunt
Men of Valor

ShaneU

Just DOOM and Rise of the Tomb Raider. GTX 1080 arriving in two days!

Mal-Adjusted

Final haul is in...
Freedom Planet
Skullgirls
Dust: an Elysian tale
Mars: War Logs
Republique
Strike Suit Zero: Directors Cut
Batman: Arkham Asylum*
Batman: Arkham City*
Bioshock*
Bioshock 2*
Crysis: maximum Edition (Crysis, Crysis: Warhead & something called Crysis Wars?)
Crysis 2: Maximum Edition
GTA IV
GTA: Episodes from Liberty City
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky
The Long Dark
Interstellar Marines
Hyper Light Drifter
Mount & Blade
I am Bread
Simple Planes
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
...And the Waste Of Space DLC for Goat Simulator (Don't judge me!)

* These four are games i had on DVD but through one thing or another lost & wanted to rebut them.

Links234

A haul to rival my own! :eek:

Nice one though, and Hyper Light Drifter is amazing

Justwinginit

I have so much to finish still but I got Alien colonial marines(so did 3 others) to play coop with the Templargfx mod. Torchlight 2 and HELLDIVERS. Damn that's one fun game.

B_Sharp

With a sizeable backlog to sift through, was happy enough that, with a few days to go, I had only bought The Stanley Parable and had finished it in about 2.5 hours. Was nearly free but then bought OlliOlli 2, Age of Empires 2 HD, Batman Arkham City and, worst of all, Civ V: The Complete Edition the day before the sale ended. I'm weak

Links234

Say what you want about the old sales model being more fun, this is definitely more successful:

https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/750650356724539392

https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/750650663357546496

ahnowbrowncow

Links234 wrote: »

Say what you want about the old sales model being more fun, this is definitely more successful:

https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/750650356724539392

https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/750650663357546496

Successful for who? Steam? Yeah, most certainly. Consumers, no. There's been a 12% increase in game sales but a 47.5% increase in revenue. I.e higher prices being paid than before.

It was never in doubt anyway, the winter sale with the new sale format was their most succesful sale too.

Monotype

I think that those new bundles helped a lot. There were a lot of times in previous sales DLCs/expansions had a crappy discount and the complete editions were not worth it for the sake of one item.

If you own a base game or a few expansions, the bundles to complete were much more favourable this time.

Mr E

Limbo tops the sales charts (but it was free for a while so I don't think that counts).

Some serious money was made in the last 2 weeks.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/6/12107700/steam-summer-sale-2016-best-selling-games

Links234

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

Consumers, no.

Well, this is in part a consequence of something that was very good for the consumers; refunds. This is the trade-off that was made. It's also worth stating that Steam themselves don't set the prices, publishers do, so in the past they might have been happy with a 33% off discount for 12 days, with a drop to 50% for a day, but not with 50% for the full duration of the sale, so now it's 40% off.

This Fat Girl Runs

After buying my games I never got a chance to play them! My laptop broke and is in the shop for repairs. It will be at least another 4 weeks before I get it back.

They will try and give me a spare laptop to use in the meantime. The question is...do I play my games on the spare laptop? Can I move my save game files to my own laptop once I get it back? I don't want to play for a month then have all that time wasted if I can't!

Monotype

The bulk of the games will save to the cloud. So you can log onto another computer and it will sync your saves.
You can usually confirm this by right-clicking on the game in steam, hitting properties and clicking on the updates tab (although one or two games I've come across don't actually save saves to the cloud but only settings).

In a case where the saves aren't 'clouded' by steam, they're usually stored nowadays in the documents folder, so if you back up that, you should be good to go. Other times it may be hidden away in the local data folder, which is a bit trickier.

A handful of games, usually flash based ones, are pretty much only available on the computer itself, but there's only a few of these that I've come across.

If you're unsure, do a quick internet search to see if steam stores the game on the cloud or ask somebody here who's played it and might know.

TL;DR - most are saved by steam.


Edit: Mind you, I don't trust steam entirely as it's lost my saves before with bad syncs, so I see where the saves are and back them up, usually before uninstalling.

PopePalpatine

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

After buying my games I never got a chance to play them! My laptop broke and is in the shop for repairs. It will be at least another 4 weeks before I get it back.

They will try and give me a spare laptop to use in the meantime. The question is...do I play my games on the spare laptop? Can I move my save game files to my own laptop once I get it back? I don't want to play for a month then have all that time wasted if I can't!

By any chance, do you know what the specs (CPU speed/number of cores, GPU, RAM) of your laptop and the replacement laptop are?

This Fat Girl Runs

PopePalpatine wrote: »

By any chance, do you know what the specs (CPU speed/number of cores, GPU, RAM) of your laptop and the replacement laptop are?

I know my laptop specs but not sure about the replacement as I don't know what they'll give me. I have a Dell Inspiron 17r:

8GB 2 DIMM (2x4GB) DDR3L 1600Mhz
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-4200U Processor (3M Cache, up to 2.6 GHz)

I'll know Saturday what I'll have for a replacement.