75% off Batman games at Greenmangaming right now. They’ll have something different on sale for the next 12 days.
Thanks, and I strongly recommend every Batman game in the Arkham series. At those prices, insane steals.
Batman Complete Bundle for $10 from Bundlestars if you don’t own any yet.
Is the Steam sale starting today or Thursday? It’s blocked from work, but I plan to hop on immediately to check out deals.
Starts on the 18th, so Thursday.
What starts today is the “Holiday Auction.” I’m not really sure what that is.
I kind of read about it, but it did not sound all that interesting, so I skipped it.
It strikes me as a weird “rich get richer” scheme, because basically, you break down “Steam inventory” items (aka trading cards and crap) to get “gems” that you then bid on games with. And who has lots of inventory crap? People who have lots of games. Great.
Anybody can buy gems from the community market though … but the price has been going up rapidly, so I’m not sure how good idea it is any more. In any case, it’s one of those things where if you have wasted endless hours fiddling with Steam cards and bought a ton of games you can now get a few games for free. Doesn’t seem like a big deal to me - all businesses reward the repeat customers, right?
I also get angry when a company rewards its best customers most with a promotional offer.
People complaining that the free stuff isn’t exactly what they wanted is why steam doesn’t give away as much shit anymore. The big sales used to come with huge giveaways where you’d accomplish some minor objectives and have a chance of winning games on your wishlist, all for free. And the more steam gave people, the more they bitched. It was paradoxical and extremely stupid. But now steam doesn’t give stuff away for free anymore (except this) and people are a lot happier apparently because they aren’t bitching about how they’ve been wronged by the particular way free stuff is given to them.
I demand a refund on my free stuff.
Most of the Steam free stuff bitching came from how incompetently Steam ran the promotions. Such as the coal thing destroyed by penny-key Humble Bundle alt accounts or last summer’s “race” being easily rigged. Or the fiasco when this thing went live a few nights ago. It’s as though Steam has no idea who participates in these things and ignores all the loopholes.
I say this as someone who isn’t participating in this anyway so I’m not bitter about not bidding $45 in gems for a copy of CS:GO or whatever. Personally, I have something like $140 in Steam wallet right now so I don’t really care about some ‘free’ indie games. And about $100 of that is from selling cards so I’ve got my “money for nothing” already. At this point, I’m hurting more for stuff I want to buy than stuff to buy it with.
No, I participated on the steam forums during some of these promotions. The bitching was almost all from some bizarre sense of entitlement. For instance, steam would usually give you a free way to qualify for a raffle. There’d be objectives like join a steam group, add someone to your friends list, explore the trading system. It wasn’t clear at first if steam was going to provide enough free objectives that you’d qualify from just free stuff - you might actually have to buy a $1 indie game or something to be eligible for the promotion. And that made people furious. The idea that steam might actually require you to be a paying customer for them to give you free stuff inspired countless threads of bitching.
Other stupid lines of argument were that steam was “forcing you” to buy lots of games if you wanted the top tier of a promotion. Like when steam gave away a silly TF2 hat based on tiers of how many of the objectives you accomplished. To get the top tier hat, you’d have to have a whole lot of objectives, which meant owning a lot of games. People would spend days bitching about steam was “forcing them” to spend dozens or hundreds of dollars to get the top tier hat, as if their family would die if they didn’t get it.
If you want proof, I could dig around in old steam forum threads if you want. Every time they’d offer something for free, it would kick up an enormous storm of hatred towards them. It was utterly stupid.
So now they don’t give people free stuff (this auction thing excepted) and apparently everyone is a lot happier, because they aren’t victimized by getting free stuff not precisely the way they wanted.
Steam is having an auction thing where you can convert your trading cards and all that stuff into gems, and then bid those on games.
I decided to start a fresh thread for the winter sales which should start today on steam and are already running elsewhere.