Steam Holiday 2010 sales chatter

I want a good deal on Fallout: New Vegas. I think I've already purchased most of the released games I've wanted at higher prices....

As a tool to see how much enable-ment you've gotten this year and for future sales this holiday season, I bring back the Steam Calculator!

Sure, it may not be accurate in analyzing how much you've spent, but it's still good at giving the oh-god-what-have-I-done feeling!

I need the following games to be $10 or less so that I can buy them and play them when I get around to it in two years:
Amnesia
Singularity
Metro 2033
Just Cause 2
Civ 5 (HA)

I hope I can get the Dragon Age expansion for under $5 and I want TF2 to be under $2.50 for personal, shameful reasons.

Most likely, I will end up being weak-willed and buy everything.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Dead Space for less than $10.

I'm pretty sure it was $10 during the Halloween sale so under for the Holiday sale isn't unlikely.

Kerplunk wrote:

As a tool to see how much enable-ment you've gotten this year and for future sales this holiday season, I bring back the Steam Calculator!

Sure, it may not be accurate in analyzing how much you've spent, but it's still good at giving the oh-god-what-have-I-done feeling!

Oh God, what have I done?!

Kerplunk wrote:

As a tool to see how much enable-ment you've gotten this year and for future sales this holiday season, I bring back the Steam Calculator!

Sure, it may not be accurate in analyzing how much you've spent, but it's still good at giving the oh-god-what-have-I-done feeling!

Yeah, the prices don't look accurate for most of my games. It says I've spent $1901.90 on my 111 games. But most of the games it lists (some are missing by the way) were bought for at least half of what they list if not more.

Oh, and... Oh God, what have I done?!

bighoppa wrote:

ME2 DLC

This isn't sold through steam, although I would imagine there will be some ME2 ultimate edition sometime similar to the PS3 version that includes everything.

On Alpha Protocol, try to use a 360 pad if you have one, it controls much better than mouse/keyboard in terms of feel.

Kerplunk wrote:

As a tool to see how much enable-ment you've gotten this year and for future sales this holiday season, I bring back the Steam Calculator!

Sure, it may not be accurate in analyzing how much you've spent, but it's still good at giving the oh-god-what-have-I-done feeling!

Damn, my 104 games are worth $1235.97. I'm pretty sure I only spent about $40 for the whole lot though...

Scratched wrote:
bighoppa wrote:

ME2 DLC

This isn't sold through steam, although I would imagine there will be some ME2 ultimate edition sometime similar to the PS3 version that includes everything.

On Alpha Protocol, try to use a 360 pad if you have one, it controls much better than mouse/keyboard in terms of feel.

Ah yeah, you'd think I would remember that after buy DA:O DLC piecemeal from Bioware's site. So irritating. And now i just looked at their site and realized I hadn't bought Leiliana's Song, Golems, or Witch Hunt. Frak. Gotta add those to my non-steam list.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

That said, it's only a matter of time before Certis squashes this thread as he has done for the past two years and we will be forced to flood the deals thread and make all the console only people act really angry while we all know they're just jealous that we're paying a fraction of what they paid for a game.

The VG Deals thread is also mostly flooded with US-Only deals. Steam and other DD sales represent the few times where us internationals can really dig into it.

I'd be happy to see a discount on Civ V and Fallout New Vegas, even a small one. By then, I'm hoping New Vegas will be patched to at least a semi-complete state and my girlfriend wants to try Civ 5 but we can't justify the price right now. Beyond that, I may impulse buy a couple of really cheap gems if they come about. I've gotten much better at my impulse control though since I ran the Steam calculator a while back and realised I could buy a decent used car for what I've spent on there.

Seems like I remember the thread that got squashed last year was intended for discussion of Steam deals--the "'Is this a good game?' 'I liked it, and at that price it's a steal.' 'Does it have gamepad support?' 'No, but you can download a patch...'"-type conversations that inevitably clog up the Video Game Deals thread. This one seems like a different animal, though it might not be viewed as any more necessary. I like it, though.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

I need to look at games that are not only cheap, but small downloads. So I'm watching for Recettear at $10 and I may pick up a few small indies and casual games that grab my attention.

See, that's the danger of the Steam Holiday Sale for me...I'll be at my in-laws', able to partake of their high-speed internet with no data cap. During the summer sale, I was working a band camp on a college campus, where the internet was not only free but super fast--dang near spent all of the money I made working the camp!

Mytch wrote:

Seems like I remember the thread that got squashed last year was intended for discussion of Steam deals--the "'Is this a good game?' 'I liked it, and at that price it's a steal.' 'Does it have gamepad support?' 'No, but you can download a patch...'"-type conversations that inevitably clog up the Video Game Deals thread. This one seems like a different animal, though it might not be viewed as any more necessary. I like it, though.

The thing is, a lot of those questions can easily be answered by either google, watching youtube, looking at the product page on steam, playing the demo, or scanning a few pages of the catch-all if one exists. I can understand the odd question, but with a big sale like the one's steam does, a few questions multiplies into taking up most of the thread.

For the record, I had no intention of being rebellious, or trying to break any rules. I really just intended this for us to talk about the steam sales, and the kind of thing mentioned above ("is game x a good one?" etc). I know the steam talk is going to be extremely heavy, and last year some people were getting downright hostile in the VG deals thread ... "500 new posts and no deals!!!111!".

Yeah this would be a good thread to redirect to for "should I buy it?" questions. I think that was the main complaint last year. I see nothing wrong with posting the deals in that thread still as they pop up with a link over here to enable/disable purchases.

All you guys asking for Batman though... the GotY version is on sale today at GFWL for $11.99. With the $6 extra of map packs in there, I think that's as good a price as you'd get on Steam. I really doubt GotY will be that cheap next week.

And as we already clogged up the deal thread yesterday... many of us have played it multiple times, bought it for two systems, etc. It's worth playing, much more than worth this sale price.

Jeff-66 wrote:

For the record, I had no intention of being rebellious, or trying to break any rules. I really just intended this for us to talk about the steam sales, and the kind of thing mentioned above ("is game x a good one?" etc). I know the steam talk is going to be extremely heavy, and last year some people were getting downright hostile in the VG deals thread ... "500 new posts and no deals!!!111!".

I've been guilty of clogging up the deals thread lately with questions about what I should buy, but I also don't really have a problem with that kind of post. What does bug me are the twenty or thirty posts in a row of people just saying "I bought X, Y, and Z!" That's nice. Here's an "I Valved!" sticker.

As Dysplastic pointed out, though, the Steam sales make the deals thread relevant for people outside of the US. There's not always going to be a perfect blend of deals that interest you and deals that don't apply. I think the Steam sales are a big enough event to warrant their own thread, but I'm not in charge. If my console gaming self has to suck it up and hear about Steam for a solid month, I can cope.

Also for the record, when there are 500 new posts in the Video Game Deals thread and none of them are an actual deal, then that is objectively bullsh*t.

For $20 or less:

Mafia 2
Singularity (still selling for $50? WTF?!?)
Kane & Lynch 2
Darksiders

And I'm kind of hoping for a cheap Mass Effect 1+2 bundle.

LobsterMobster wrote:

Also for the record, when there are 500 new posts in the Video Game Deals thread and none of them are an actual deal, then that is objectively bullsh*t.

QFT.

I think I'd double dip on ME1 if it dropped 75%. It's odd that ME1 and ME2 are now the same price on Steam. Maybe Zaeed is really worth the $20.00 extra on the Digital Deluxe Edition.

Zaeed comes with all new copies, along with the rest of the Cerberus Network stuff.

Podunk wrote:

Darksiders

This can currently be had for $18 shipped (used condition) on the consoles via Gamefly's used game sales

LobsterMobster wrote:

Also for the record, when there are 500 new posts in the Video Game Deals thread and none of them are an actual deal, then that is objectively bullsh*t.

No argument here.

From looking at the ME2 deluxe steam page you get an extra armour and two weapons in-game, and soundtrack, art book, comic and making of video out-of-game.

The armor is useless. It's a single piece (armor you actually get in-game comes in pieces so you can mix and match as you need) so unless you think it's totally thematic for your character to look like a Predator-bug-thing you might not get much out of it. The Collector rifle looks kind of weird but is useful. The Incisor rifle is probably the best part of that offering.

The thing with ME2 is that one weapon is typically not objectively "better" than another of the same type. They perform differently and are tailored to different play styles. It's less a matter of Rifle VS Rifle+1 and more a matter of full-auto LMG versus burst-fire assault rifle. Given, sometimes the choice is easier than others - most people don't stick with the light pistol after they've unlocked the heavy pistol - but the incisor is not a game-changer.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

That said, it's only a matter of time before Certis squashes this thread as he has done for the past two years and we will be forced to flood the deals thread and make all the console only people act really angry while we all know they're just jealous that we're paying a fraction of what they paid for a game.

The console-anger is the best part too! This thread loses!

mrtomaytohead wrote:

This can currently be had for $18 shipped (used condition) on the consoles via Gamefly's used game sales

Yeah, I was sorely tempted by that, but all things considered I think I'd rather have it on PC, and I'm not in any hurry to pick it up.

My "OMGCANTRESISTMUSTBUYNOW" point is usually $5.

Hopefully I can get something off my wishlist:

NyxQuest
Amnesia
Deus Ex
Darkest of Days
Puzzle Dimension
Singularity
Far Cry 2
Stalker: Call of Pipryat

AndrewA wrote:

My "OMGCANTRESISTMUSTBUYNOW" point is usually $5.

Hopefully I can get something off my wishlist:

...
Far Cry 2
...

Sinner.

I'd like to see a deal on the latest Blood Bowl game. Is $20 too hopeful?

My actual steam wishlist only has NBA 2k11, the newest borderlands dlc, and DAO-Awakening to go with the cheap DAO I got back in June on Steam.

Be hard to buy anything else, with backlog still out there.

garion333 wrote:
AndrewA wrote:

My "OMGCANTRESISTMUSTBUYNOW" point is usually $5.

Hopefully I can get something off my wishlist:

...
Far Cry 2
...

Sinner.

I don't really like open world games, but Chris Remo talked it up so much on Idle Thumbs that I'm curious.