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Title: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 26 Nov 2009, 06:33
Going on now... there are some hella good deals on games at the moment.

I'm considering picking up Arkham Asylum for 25 bucks today.   Dragon Age is on sale too...
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: evilbobthebob on 26 Nov 2009, 07:01
Yeah. THQ Complete Pack...which would be great...but see my comments in the vitriolic letters thread :x

However I may pick up one of the other games. Maybe.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 26 Nov 2009, 07:12
You know, I was planning on picking up Dragon Age when it went on sale, but as it turns out, even with 25% off I can still get it cheaper at Direct2Drive UK's regular price. Speaking of which, They also have a Holiday Sale (http://www.direct2drive.co.uk/holiday/) as of now.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Yayniall on 26 Nov 2009, 08:32
Tell me more of this 'direct2drive'
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: McTaggart on 26 Nov 2009, 09:58
A whole thread and no link? http://store.steampowered.com/early-holiday

Some good deals and they change every day. Great discounts on Dragon Age and Grid for the next 20 odd hours.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 26 Nov 2009, 11:26
Yeah, I suppose a link wouldn't have been a horrible idea.   I guess I just figured that anyone who uses steam knows how to find the store.

Whoops.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 26 Nov 2009, 11:27
Tell me more of this 'direct2drive'

They sell games you can download and charge you either pounds or dollars, depending on if you are shopping from this site (http://www.direct2drive.co.uk/) or this site (http://www.direct2drive.com/), although there are some regional restrictions. I buy from them because it's a lot cheaper than Steam, that charges me euros.

Your avatar is hypnotising. What is it?
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Yayniall on 26 Nov 2009, 11:38
(It's from this music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukfFLCbI9tI))

Cheers for the info, I was having a look and some games are expensive and some are cheap, I'll add it to my list for "shopping around"
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: David_Dovey on 27 Nov 2009, 00:10
Distinctive Charm Amazing Talent!
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: est on 27 Nov 2009, 01:27
Oh man awesome, I was already gonna buy Dragon Age this weekend.  Thanks for the heads-up!


also, re: that video, so basically they are like the Spice Girls, only from Korea and actually attractive?
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: est on 27 Nov 2009, 01:37
also also: someone sell me on Arkham Asylum.  Should I get it on sale here, or wait until the price comes down on the 360?  It looks like a 3rd-person melee-combat heavy game, which I'd probs prefer to play on the 360.  Is this assessment close to the truth?
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Nodaisho on 27 Nov 2009, 01:55
I think I'm getting Far Cry 2 while it is on sale. Best Buy is advertising it for $5, but that is without the DLC, with it it will probably be as much if not more, and I would rather have it on steam than on disc unless I plan on doing something that requires me using an older version of the game.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 27 Nov 2009, 10:17
also also: someone sell me on Arkham Asylum.  Should I get it on sale here, or wait until the price comes down on the 360?  It looks like a 3rd-person melee-combat heavy game, which I'd probs prefer to play on the 360.  Is this assessment close to the truth?

To find that out you could play the demo. Personally I wasn't too thrilled by it.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 27 Nov 2009, 10:39
Today... Left 4 Dead 2 on sale, and KOTOR for only $2.49
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: ackblom12 on 27 Nov 2009, 10:45
Your assessment is right on the dot for Arkham Asylum. Get it for the 360 unless you happen to have a wired 360 controller that you can use for the PC.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Storm Rider on 27 Nov 2009, 14:15
Yeah, Arkham Asylum was pretty clearly designed for a controller rather than a keyboard and mouse. Unless you've got a huge boner for the PhysX stuff and a card that can handle it (which I assume you don't, because like nobody does), I'd wait for the 360 version.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 27 Nov 2009, 15:34
also also: someone sell me on Arkham Asylum.  Should I get it on sale here, or wait until the price comes down on the 360?  It looks like a 3rd-person melee-combat heavy game, which I'd probs prefer to play on the 360.  Is this assessment close to the truth?

Yes.

But also gliding and climbing and puzzle solving and crime detective stuff with GOOD voice acting and a sweet Batman story. BATMAN


I played it on PS3 and it was awesome, and I assume that it's jst as awesome as on 360.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: KvP on 27 Nov 2009, 16:53
If you haven't played either, Saints Row 2 and Titan Quest make the THQ deal worth it on their own. I think the rest of the stuff is some negligible war shooters and a boatload of RTSes. I haven't been into RTSes since Starcraft, personally.

KOTOR for $2.50 is pretty worth it too.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Nodaisho on 27 Nov 2009, 18:41
If you haven't played either, Saints Row 2 and Titan Quest make the THQ deal worth it on their own. I think the rest of the stuff is some negligible war shooters and a boatload of RTSes. I haven't been into RTSes since Starcraft, personally.
And S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and all of the Red Faction games. I would have gotten that package if A) I had the money, and B) I didn't want to get my backup copy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on disc, so I don't have to worry about auto-patching.

Far Cry 2 is installing now, looking forward to that. Mmmm, FAL. Yesterday I got three new games for $20 thanks to Steam and Black Friday sales, I'm not going to run out of games to play for a while.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: JD on 27 Nov 2009, 19:10
I should get KOTOR
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Yayniall on 27 Nov 2009, 19:21
Do it mother fucker.
It's so sweet.
So sweet.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 29 Nov 2009, 10:11
Now they're offering World of Goo at 75% off. Did anyone bother to tell Valve that 2D Boy just had an extended pay-what-you-want sale for World of Goo?
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: David_Dovey on 29 Nov 2009, 10:19
Man I would've but I thought you were gonna
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Beren on 29 Nov 2009, 21:00
Man, I missed the first day of this. I would have bought Dragon Age, too. Oh well.

Picked up Majesty 2 and Dead Space on the second day. M2 is obnoxiously difficult in some places.

Today's deals are eh, I think.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 30 Nov 2009, 04:31
Yeah, you're right. None of those games have I previously considered buying, except World of Goo which I already have.

If you wanted Dragon Age you can still get it at Direct2drive.com at $10 off. D2D UK has got Arkham Asylum for 50% off as a one-day sale, too. Still four hours until we can see what D2D US has got.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: est on 01 Dec 2009, 01:50
I just bought Mirror's Edge, Evil Genius and Monkey Island Special Edition for under $10 all up.  Nice.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 01 Dec 2009, 09:22
And because I feel like advertising more discounts other than Steam's: You've got thirty-nine minutes left to get Mass Effect (http://www.direct2drive.com/holiday/) for five dollars.

Thirty-eight.

Zero. Time for 24-day-long one-day-only sales at D2D. Today, for the US there is Mirror's Edge, for the UK there is Trine.

But enough about D2D. What's more important is that you should buy Zeno Clash for 66% off on Steam. Like, right now.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Nodaisho on 01 Dec 2009, 14:43
So mirror's edge is a one day only? I'm going to have to get that then, unless it is cheaper than $5 somewhere else. Christ, I'm spending so much on games, but so much less than I would be otherwise.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 01 Dec 2009, 14:56
So mirror's edge is a one day only? I'm going to have to get that then, unless it is cheaper than $5 somewhere else. Christ, I'm spending so much on games, but so much less than I would be otherwise.
Yeah, that's just what they want you to believe.  :evil:

Really, though, after getting stuck on a lot of games I wasn't even remotely interested in with a 20-pack game deal that was just too good to pass up, I always remember to ask myself the question: Was I planning on buying this game in the first place? If the answer is yes, then you should get it at a discount. If the answer is no, then you should leave it, because what you're spending for the discounted game is still more than what you were thinking of spending in the first place, which is zero in this case. It helps to think about that when the holidays sales get you in a spending mood.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: McTaggart on 01 Dec 2009, 17:11
Man Mirror's Edge is pretty excellent. I love the style of the game, visually and gameplay-wise. I love that there's no hud telling you things you don't need to know. I love that you can take a gun off a dude and just throw it away and keep running.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: JD on 01 Dec 2009, 17:14
Zeno Clash is on sale, awesome.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Nodaisho on 01 Dec 2009, 17:39
So mirror's edge is a one day only? I'm going to have to get that then, unless it is cheaper than $5 somewhere else. Christ, I'm spending so much on games, but so much less than I would be otherwise.
Yeah, that's just what they want you to believe.  :evil:

Really, though, after getting stuck on a lot of games I wasn't even remotely interested in with a 20-pack game deal that was just too good to pass up, I always remember to ask myself the question: Was I planning on buying this game in the first place? If the answer is yes, then you should get it at a discount. If the answer is no, then you should leave it, because what you're spending for the discounted game is still more than what you were thinking of spending in the first place, which is zero in this case. It helps to think about that when the holidays sales get you in a spending mood.
Bioshock: $5, wanted to play it, wasn't high on my list of things to buy (I tend to buy maybe 2 games a year normally, if that, no job means little money).
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Already had, but wanted to get a new DVD version since I don't have any working backup if my install goes bad, and I screw around with the game a lot modding it (which is why I don't go for it on steam, they update it automatically and that screws up patches). I might even do a clean install now.
Far Cry 2: Heard good things about it, wanted to get it, got it and the DLC for $10 rather than just the game for $5. Not happy with that purchase, not being able to go 20 feet in a vehicle without getting shot at is tiring, as is the tendency of enemies to take 6 or 7 7.62x51 bullets to the chest without flinching, and their ability to see through completely opaque foliage. That said, it is a lot of fun to bomb a convoy, or just blow the hell out of a vehicle with explosive crossbow bolts.
Mirror's Edge: $5, wanted it since before it came out, was planning on paying $20, but keeping an eye on Steam and the sale flyers in case it was cheaper.

$25 for four games I wanted, I know I'm happy with 2 purchases, probably 3. Good deal.

It's probably good I really can't spend any more, otherwise I would probably buy the new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game from amazon.de, since Germany got it november 2 or so, and we don't get it elsewhere in the world until Q1 2010.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: KvP on 01 Dec 2009, 18:00
Christ, I'm spending so much on games, but so much less than I would be otherwise.
Yes, welcome to consumer psychology.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Nodaisho on 01 Dec 2009, 18:01
Protip: read the full topic before replying.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 10 Dec 2009, 11:01
The five-day sales are over now, but there are still plenty of discounts available at lots of sites. A heads-up:
Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/240/) has Counter-Strike for 75% off.
D2D still has the 24 days of Christmas sale: The US (http://www.direct2drive.com/holiday/) gets the Battlefield 2 collection today and Dragon Age tomorrow.
The UK (http://www.direct2drive.co.uk/holiday/) gets Champions Online today and Rome: Total War tomorrow.
Impulse (http://www.impulsedriven.com/) has twelve games on sale, among them Bioshock, East India Company, and Elven Legacy.
Play.com (http://www.play.com/HOME/HOME/6-/Campaign.html?campaign=8022&cid=4545401) gives you two of these games for 25 pounds, and delivers them free.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 23 Dec 2009, 01:32
Looks like they're doing a few more pre-holiday sales.   

Time sensitive  click  (http://store.steampowered.com/)
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: JD on 23 Dec 2009, 01:59
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for 2 dollars, awesome
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Nodaisho on 23 Dec 2009, 02:10
Yeah, if anyone doesn't have it yet, you now have no excuse. You can barely get a small cup of plain coffee for $2 anymore.

They also have Braid for $2.50, which is pretty damn sweet because I was planning on getting it anyway, and now it is less than $3, rather than the $15 it was when I first looked last month.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 23 Dec 2009, 16:41
I was about to say that, even though Steam's regular prices are too high in euros compared to what they charge in pounds and dollars, their sales are virtually unbeatable. I mean, can you even count the number of games they've got discounted right now?

But then I saw Direct2Drive offering Dragon Age, the Digital Deluxe edition for 25% off, making it the price of the regular edition. Holy shit. I haven't seen a single game on Steam that beats it right now.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: KvP on 23 Dec 2009, 18:05
There's also a bunch of deals on Good Old Games (http://www.gog.com/en/page/xmas09) until January 3rd. All their games are cheap anyway, so you can get some good olds for real real cheap now.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 31 Dec 2009, 10:57
Now, there are some games that look like worth buying. On sale today:

Multiwinia + Darwinia -80%
Street Fighter 4 -75%
Shattered Horizon -75%
Crysis + Warhead -66%
Half-Life: Source -75%
Medieval 2: Total War -75%

Anyone who has not played Half-Life has no excuse to get it now, especially since we can't be sure of when Black Mesa Source is done. Myself, I bought Shattered Horizon. With this sale the player count will probably get a nice boost.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Nodaisho on 31 Dec 2009, 14:33
Honestly, I would rather play the original Half-Life than a source port. The quake-engine floaty physics were a lot of fun, it just wouldn't seem right without them.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: DavidGrohl on 31 Dec 2009, 14:38
I bought Rome: Total War from yesterday.  I love strategy and haven't touched the series, yet.  If it's good, I'll consider buying Empire or Napoleon : TW.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Ikrik on 31 Dec 2009, 17:32
Errrgh.  I hate Steam sales because I now have a laptop that can run Bioshock and I've found out that I have 0 self control. 

Half Life 2
Portal
Ben There, Dan That
Max Payne 1 and 2
Darwinia
Jade Empire
Puzzle Quest
Torchlight
Audiosurf

I like having awesome new games, especially when I probably paid less than 50 bucks to get all of those. 

Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: McTaggart on 31 Dec 2009, 21:03
Street Fighter 4 ten bux aww yeah.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: snalin on 02 Jan 2010, 05:37
Just got Torchlight. It's got everything great from Diablo, and a couple of other worthwhile points, so it's quite epic. Good to take a break from dialogue-driven stuff like Dragon Age and kill stuff continually for an hour.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 02 Jan 2010, 06:34
Good to take a break from dialogue-driven stuff like Dragon Age and kill stuff continually for an hour.

This should probably be in the Dragon Age thread, but since you mentioned it here...

I should *really* be into Dragon Age.  Honestly I should.  I was a HUGE Baldur's Gate fan, and even dropped three grand on a computer in 1998 so that I would have the ultimate gaming rig to play that game (and got a whopping 7 gig hard drive to so I could do a complete install!!)   I played through BG and BG 2 probably 15 times total.    Dragon Age seems to be everything I want from a video game, except... there are SO many damn cut scenes and the dialogue is SO long each time that it bores me out of my skull.   I want to kill more shit.    So I keep turning it off and playing other things.  Despite having started half a dozen different characters, I haven't gotten very far on any of them.

I'm bummed by this,   I really am.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: JD on 03 Jan 2010, 01:49
Audiosurf is a lot of fun you guys.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: evilbobthebob on 03 Jan 2010, 03:00
Audiosurf is a lot of fun you guys.

Yes, yes, and yes again.

Got Portal and Mass Effect for ridiculously low prices. Nearly completed Portal. I should leave Mass Effect until I complete STALKER and Rome: Total War...but I probably won't.

EDIT: looks like I'll have to leave Mass Effect, they've run out of product keys  :-(
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 03 Jan 2010, 07:13
Huh, that's two games they've ran out of keys for. Steam must really be going mad with those discounts. Although Mass Effect is still available for purchase, while Prey wasn't anymore. I wonder why? I never really thought about the role of the middle man in digital distribution. The product itself is not physical, so the rules of supply and demand regarding one game should work differently, since the cost of reproducing one game is essentially zero. So how does that work? Does Steam purchase a license from the developer to sell their game for a cut of the profits, much like we buy a license to play it? Or does Steam buy a limited number of activations equal to the cost of the games, meaning they have to sell them in order to make profit?
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: evilbobthebob on 03 Jan 2010, 07:28
I would imagine it's the former. Steam pays a licence to be able to sell the game, and EA or whoever gives them a pile of activation codes to give out. It might depend on the publisher/developer though, in the case of Prey maybe Steam didn't expect to get any more keys? It's strange to think they'd "run out" of some codes.

Either way, by the time Mass Effect downloads on my awesome 1mbit connection, there will probably be keys available.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: A Wet Helmet on 03 Jan 2010, 07:55
Although I'm not part of our software crew, I work for a company that does, in fact, make software as one of our products, and what y'all have described is basically correct.

You've only got so many keys sitting around at one time (either in your shop or given to a reseller) and once you run out, you have to run new ones.  Though not a hugely time consuming process, it's not exactly instant.   One of my customers needed a license for more machines than what they already had just the other day, and it involved a few phone calls and a couple of hours to make a valid key and get it out to the production site.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 03 Jan 2010, 08:51
Then I'm still curious as to how they manage the amount of games sold, especially with the way they've been giving discounts. In theory it doesn't matter whether they sell 100 copies of Fallout 3 for $50 or 134 copies for $37.50, as long as Bethesda gets their cut of the $5k. Given that Steam holds a share of 70% in the digital distribution market, it's not surprising that they can pull this off. I'm guessing that they don't enjoy this kind of freedom, though.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: DavidGrohl on 04 Jan 2010, 12:19
Audiosurf is a lot of fun you guys.

Yes, yes, and yes again.

Got Portal and Mass Effect for ridiculously low prices. Nearly completed Portal. I should leave Mass Effect until I complete STALKER and Rome: Total War...but I probably won't.

EDIT: looks like I'll have to leave Mass Effect, they've run out of product keys  :-(

Rome : Total War is the fucking shit.

I gave an illegitimate download a shot without doing the tutorial and hated it.

After buying it and actually playing the campaign tutorial, it's possibly one of my favorites.  I also bought Empire while it was at discount so I could play around with that after I finish conquering.

Anyways, in my campaign game I started out as the Rome faction furthest South.  I took out the Carthaginians occupying the surrounding Italian Islands and invaded all of Africa.  At this point, the Egyptians started flanking my forces on the East side (as all my forces were moving from East to Western Africa).  So I doubled back and started regaining my cities to the East while negotiating peaceful ties with the Spanish faction, which is really the only faction that posed a threat to my already conquered Africa.  Anyways, I stared pushing further into Egyptian territory and discovered something fairly obvious. You shouldn't fuck with Egypt in this time period.  They're huge and merciless.  Playing on easy, I was able to overpower them, taking one city at a time with a group of 5 generals reinforcing each other.  Currently, I just took Alexandria and surrounding cities, leaving the North and the East to Egypt . . for now.  >:D
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Yayniall on 10 Jan 2010, 19:14
eugh, Vanilla RTW?
Madness!
Play Europa Barbaicum. Shit's fresh.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: KvP on 16 Jan 2010, 03:21
Not really a sale per se, but on the heels of the Aliens versus Predator reboot Rebellion has put up the original AvP for $5 on Steam. While the visuals are ancient, the marine section of the game is still tense as shit, due to the random spawning points Rebellion pussed out on for the sequel. Grab it.

Also it's worth noting that this is one of those things that you can't get around if you've got Vista or 7 - the old retail versions of AvP are only compatible with XP.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: snalin on 30 Jan 2010, 11:48
Steam has all the X-com games for 2 Euro. That's like... two snicker bars. A third of a comic magazine. Two minutes of sex with a pre-op transvestite whore.

What I'm saying is OMFG GO BUY.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: KvP on 30 Jan 2010, 13:16
I'm rolling the dice on Irrational announcing a new Xcom very soon.
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: snalin on 01 Feb 2010, 10:33
That would be awesome.


awesome
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: Nodaisho on 12 Feb 2010, 03:59
So if you have either Stalker game on Steam, you get $10 off Call of Pripyat, the new one. If you don't, and you don't have Clear Sky yet, Clear sky is $9.95 right now, buy Clear Sky, activate it, buy Call of Pripyat, have two games for the price of one. I'm getting CoP when I have a bit more cash, I hope the price stays that low that long.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/41700/
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: LTK on 12 Feb 2010, 05:53
Holy shit yes!
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: DavidGrohl on 16 Feb 2010, 10:14
Go buy the THQ pack.  It's a HUGE value for such a small price ($50).

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2539/

Company of Heroes series
Dawn of War I / II series
Full Spectrum Warrior series
Red Faction series
STALKER
Saints Row 2
Titan Quest / expo
Title: Re: Steam's five day long sale
Post by: est on 16 Feb 2010, 22:17
I would, but my problem is that I already have basically everything I want from the pack.