Steam Summer Sale 2019 Spend-All

Jonman wrote:

Eh, this is gonna be the first steam sale in years that I'm not buying anything. Not for want of trying, I've spent a half hour browsing around but can't find anything compelling. It's as much of a function of massive library size and backlog as it is about the lack of compelling offers.

It doesn't help (Steam) that PS Plus, Xbox Game Pass, Epic, Twitch, etc. have been systematically reducing my Wishlist by giving away nearly every >2 yr old game I'm interested in for free.

kuddles wrote:

Am I not understanding something, or is there no easy way to just look at a list of all games on sale?

Anyways, I might end up biting on Mutant: Year Zero and Phantom Doctrine because I have an affinity for somewhat clunky attempts at turn-based strategy games and it's easier to justify it at the current prices.

Mutant Year Zero is very very very Long way from being ‘clunky’. My game of the year last year, absolutely worth $20-30.

I’m just looking at my wish list mostly. I’m not really in to the triple A console port titles so it’s mosrly quirky stuff like Druidstone or the stuff from a couple of years back I’ve not got round too yet - Total Warhammer: War II for example.

It’s just the steam sale. The race thing they have clearly spent ages on that probably only 2-3% of their user base will really engage with.

Steam’s major issue for me is that all the new games I’m interested in this year - Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw, The Outer Worlds and Phoenix Point - are all Epic exclusives. I’m still not decided if I’ll wait or not.

vypre wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Eh, this is gonna be the first steam sale in years that I'm not buying anything. Not for want of trying, I've spent a half hour browsing around but can't find anything compelling. It's as much of a function of massive library size and backlog as it is about the lack of compelling offers.

It doesn't help (Steam) that PS Plus, Xbox Game Pass, Epic, Twitch, etc. have been systematically reducing my Wishlist by giving away nearly every >2 yr old game I'm interested in for free.

Add in that Humble, Fanatical, Indiegala, and several others do really good bundles and giveaways, and you have stiff year-around competition that normally beats Steam in value.

Like Monster Hunter World. In the last three months that's been on sale 53 times through various sites, many of which were on par with the current pricing. I know, because I bought it at 50% about a month ago through... I think Chrono.gg. Might have been Fanatical. But overall the sale cuts aren't any better than you see year around, it's just the volume of games on sale that changes.

At least tortoise got 2nd.

Suck it, hares. You lost to a cockatiel.

The Steam Summer sale mini games always seems like a pointless time waster. Little benefit and they're certainly never fun. Spent a few minutes doing this race thing and was left baffled to why I was doing it in the first place.

So are Far Cry 5 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey worth the sale price or should I wait? Raft is also kind of on sale so may bite on that too.

Bit the Bullet.

No Man's Sky for 27 euro (never played it, never believed the hype, and I think it is just my kind of game)
BG Enhanced edition for 3 euro - can't go wrong there. Imoen for dual class mage and in the forest again!

I ended up going with Kenshi. I'll mess around with that when I'm done with Battletech I think.

Sydhart wrote:

So are Far Cry 5 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey worth the sale price or should I wait? Raft is also kind of on sale so may bite on that too.

Not a huge fan of Far Cry games, but it seemed pretty decent from a few streams I saw of it.

Odyssey on the other hand I absolutely adore - and I dont even like Assassins Creed games. It's more of an RPG, but tearing sh*t up as Kassandra is my 'stress day get-out'.

I'm also tempted by Raft, but i have so little gaming time with the new baby that it'll probably be on sale/closer to leaving Early Access by the time I'd get around to playing it.

Far Cry 5 is well worth full price, so the sale price is a no brainer. A lot of people didn’t like it because they were expecting a different story, but I enjoyed it enough to finish it, which I almost never do with open world games.

The ending kinda sucked, but I wrote a better one.

JeremyK wrote:

The Steam Summer sale mini games always seems like a pointless time waster. Little benefit and they're certainly never fun. Spent a few minutes doing this race thing and was left baffled to why I was doing it in the first place.

I still haven't figured out how that works. I feel so clueless!!

Eleima wrote:
JeremyK wrote:

The Steam Summer sale mini games always seems like a pointless time waster. Little benefit and they're certainly never fun. Spent a few minutes doing this race thing and was left baffled to why I was doing it in the first place.

I still haven't figured out how that works. I feel so clueless!!

Or, are you really enlightened because you don't waste time on it?

I got a $5 off coupon by playing around with the mini game. So it's immediately less irrelevant on that account. I'm guessing the discounts don't "stack", but it's still a pretty nice benefit.

The five dollar off coupon does stack with other sale discounts. It is repeatable, so I'm not sure if the coupons themselves stack, though I didn't see anything saying they would not.

Godzilla Blitz wrote:
absurddoctor wrote:
Peoj Snamreh wrote:
absurddoctor wrote:

I got the front page to load for a minute.

Football Manger 2019 is listed under 'casual games'.

Wut?

It's evolved into that. They sell big time every year, so I can't fault the direction they took. But I loved the old meddling in a glorified excel-sheet... while now it is about babysitting tamagochi's in a sportsuit.

Oh well.. back to HOMM III

Ahh, that makes me sad to hear. I’ve never actually picked it up but always thought it was the leader of sports simulation for its crunchiness, and intended to someday learn more about the real game by diving in.

I've played Football Manager off and on every few years or so since it was Championship Manager (CM), and I love the improvements they've made to the series.

All the depth is still there (and more), but they've added mechanics to the game that make it more like managing a team of human beings. In the CM days, you could churn players almost like a stock trader. That doesn't work in current versions. So yeah, it's different, but as a sports simulation I think it's improved. My most recent dive with the game was FM17, and that was the most fun I've had with the series.

We have a Football Manager thread here for more long term discussion. A number of people are playing FM19 and can offer thoughts as well.

My wallet would like you to go back in time and remove this post before I stole from it again.

I also picked up Space Engine last night. It wasn't on sale, but I thought our six year old, who has a bit of a fascination with space, might enjoy it. If he had had his way, he would have never left my computer today, though some of the zooming and time dilation seemed to be too much for him at times, and he would hide his face for those.

How do you get enough 'boost meter' capacity or whatever to get the coupon. Seems like you need to spend a bunch of money to get the coupon.

Eleima wrote:
JeremyK wrote:

The Steam Summer sale mini games always seems like a pointless time waster. Little benefit and they're certainly never fun. Spent a few minutes doing this race thing and was left baffled to why I was doing it in the first place.

I still haven't figured out how that works. I feel so clueless!!

Right there with you. I can advance by using "points" I earned by gaining achievements, but I can only really use them if I buy other games?

And no cards. This may be the sale that finally breaks me from Steam Sales.

kuddles wrote:

Am I not understanding something, or is there no easy way to just look at a list of all games on sale?

Anyways, I might end up biting on Mutant: Year Zero and Phantom Doctrine because I have an affinity for somewhat clunky attempts at turn-based strategy games and it's easier to justify it at the current prices

Mutant: Year Zero is part of Microsoft's PC Game Pass. Just saying.

My minigame is cleaning out my wishlist. Game A is now $3.99 - buy it? Yes: buy it. No: gone from wishlist. Got a lot of Nos and very few Yeses.

For anyone looking to gain points for the minigame, if you have any game with a bunch of achievements cleared, just load into the game (don't have to play) and let it run for 10-15 minutes. It should pick up as a "recently played" game and you can redeem the points from it.

PurEvil wrote:

For anyone looking to gain points for the minigame, if you have any game with a bunch of achievements cleared, just load into the game (don't have to play) and let it run for 10-15 minutes. It should pick up as a "recently played" game and you can redeem the points from it.

Cool, thanks. Any idea how recent is recent? I'd be up for that $5 coupon if it's easy to get.

Dunno. I ran TF2 for about 30 minutes while I was doing dinner, came back and that one showed up under recents. I played a bit of WarThunder and that popped up almost immediately. However I just ran Conan Exiles for about 15 minutes and it's not.

Then again, I still haven't gotten any credit for the $30 or so of games I bought, not a single point, so it'll probably work better for someone that's not hitting the same glitches I am.

PurEvil wrote:

Dunno. I ran TF2 for about 30 minutes while I was doing dinner, came back and that one showed up under recents. I played a bit of WarThunder and that popped up almost immediately. However I just ran Conan Exiles for about 15 minutes and it's not.

Then again, I still haven't gotten any credit for the $30 or so of games I bought, not a single point, so it'll probably work better for someone that's not hitting the same glitches I am.

Thanks! I might load a recent game that I want to play anyway and see what happens.

Picked up Sniper Elite 4 and am playing it co-op with Zenke. Mostly it is us screwing up and then panic firing SMGs into hordes of advancing Nazis.

Every once in a while we manage to shoot one in the dick and/or balls.

Godzilla Blitz wrote:
PurEvil wrote:

For anyone looking to gain points for the minigame, if you have any game with a bunch of achievements cleared, just load into the game (don't have to play) and let it run for 10-15 minutes. It should pick up as a "recently played" game and you can redeem the points from it.

Cool, thanks. Any idea how recent is recent? I'd be up for that $5 coupon if it's easy to get.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't matter when the last time you played was, as long as you have it running for 30 minutes now during the sale.

absurddoctor wrote:
Godzilla Blitz wrote:
PurEvil wrote:

For anyone looking to gain points for the minigame, if you have any game with a bunch of achievements cleared, just load into the game (don't have to play) and let it run for 10-15 minutes. It should pick up as a "recently played" game and you can redeem the points from it.

Cool, thanks. Any idea how recent is recent? I'd be up for that $5 coupon if it's easy to get.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't matter when the last time you played was, as long as you have it running for 30 minutes now during the sale.

Ah, nice!

Yeah the text below that section on the Grand Prix page says "Play any game for 30 minutes or more".

Makes me wonder how many games I can have running in the background of this PC...

PurEvil wrote:

Makes me wonder how many games I can have running in the background of this PC...

Got a laptop? Can't you be logged in to both at once?

I have a Macbook but it's a work machine so I try to limit what I install on it (not that anyone cares). So far I've got Conan Exiles, Dead Rising 4, Endless Space, Holy Potatoes in Space, Homeworld Remastered, Plague Inc, Planet Coaster, XCOM2, and Portal Knights running at their title screens. I can feel my PC attempting to blow it's hatred in my direction.

Bought What Remains of Edith Finch

Really haven't seen anything appealing. May pull the trigger on space engineers since I was going to buy it anyway...