# Steam black friday sale - now through 11/26 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 21, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750 "2012-11-21T18:59:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/1 "2012-11-21T18:59:26Z")
The black friday sales aren’t nearly as big as the Christmas sales, but they generate enough traffic to be worth their own thread. Looks like they’re keeping the daily sale/flash sale mechanics from last Christmas. 6 (+/-?) games on daily sale, 6 +/- on staggered sales that only last a few hours. As per usual, even though most everything is discounted, don’t buy anything that’s not a daily or flash sale until the last day. It’s stupid to buy something 50% off today and it ends up being a 75% off daily sale tomorrow. Daily sales for 11/21 Xcom Enemy Unknown $33.50 33% Terraria $3.39 66% Darksiders II $17 66% The Walking Dead $12.50 50% Magic The Gathering 2013 $5 50% Age of Empire 3 Complete $10 75% Flash sales expiring in 9-15 hours Limbo $2.50 75% Star Wars KOTOR 2 $2.50 75% Payday The Heist $5 75% Operation Flashpoint franchise 75% - Dragon Rising $3.75, Red River $11.25, $13.75 for both Amazing Spider Man $25 50% Intrusion 2 $3.40 66% Feel free to point out great non-daily sales you see on here, but as I said, give them a chance to become daily/flash sales before you buy them. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/2 "2012-11-21T19:08:17Z")
We might as well have competing DD services black friday sales in the same thread. D2D/gamefly has a [simulation game sale](http://www.gamefly.com/download-games/browse/?ids=5004592,5000883,5000940,5000543,5000723,152520,5000962,5004326,5000024,5004993,5004780,5004997&cid=simgd112112). Did they ever fix IL2: COD signficantly? $7.50 is tempting. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/3 "2012-11-21T19:27:22Z")
[Crocodile Dundee] That’s not a simulation sale, [THAT’S a simulation sale!](http://www.indiegala.com/) [/CD] Other sales of note include [Gamersgate](http://www.gamersgate.com/offers) which is doing four dailies per day (note: enter coupon code G2PO for 5% extra off anything) and Amazon which has a huge list of sale stuff. I won’t copy the entire spammy list but here’s some highlights: [spoiler]11/21: Dead Island GOTY - $6.79 Walking Dead - $12.49 1. Medal Of Honor Warfighter - $29.99 - 11/23-11/26 2. Need for Speed Most Wanted - $19.99 - 11/23 and 11/26 3. Battlefield 3 Premium Edition - $29.99 - 11/23 and 11/26 4. Sleeping Dogs - $19.99 11/23-11/26 5. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition - $14.99 - 11/23 6. Pint Sized Paradox Package - $5.99 - 11/23-11/25 7 . Plentiful Paradox Package - $9.99 - 11/23-11/25 7. Payday: The Heist 4 Pack - $14.99 - 11/18-11/26 8. Kingdoms of Amalur + both DLCs - $11.99 - 11/26 9. M E 1 + ME 2 + Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate + Dragon Age 2 - $14.99 - 11/23 10. Syndicate - $4.99 - 11/26 11. WB Combat Bundle - $9.99 - 11/23-11/26 contains: 12. Batman Arkham Action Pack - $9.99 11/23-11/23 contains: 13. F.E.A.R. Collection - $8.99 - 11/24-11/25 contains: 14. The Harry Batman Pack - $13.99 - 11/26 contains: 15. Inversion - $7.49 - 11/26[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/4 "2012-11-21T19:51:53Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > …D2D/gamefly has a [simulation game sale](http://www.gamefly.com/download-games/browse/?ids=5004592,5000883,5000940,5000543,5000723,152520,5000962,5004326,5000024,5004993,5004780,5004997&cid=simgd112112). Did they ever fix IL2: COD significantly? $7.50 is tempting. Is IL2 COD included within IL-2 1946? If not, is it worth getting/do you need a mongo graphics card to run it? I see COD in the clearance bin for ~5 bucks at the local half-price books, but no point in getting it if it’s duplicative or if I can’t play it. I’ve a GT 220, and an upgrade isn’t in the cards right now. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/5 "2012-11-21T19:53:13Z")
No, it was a sequel on a totally new engine released last year. Was reviewed as being half-finished at release, but I figured maybe they’ve made a decent game out of it by now. It wouldn’t run on a GT 220. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/6 "2012-11-21T21:10:35Z")
[A heads up from GreenmanGaming:](http://blog.greenmangaming.com/) > [@](#): > > We’re kicking off a Winter Wonderland sale pretty soon guys - keep calm though, it’s not there yet! It was important to us that you get an advance look at some of our starting deals. > > These brilliant titles will be available from 0001 GMT Friday November 23rd (and expire at 2359 GMT Monday November 26th) - we’re wasting NO time: > > ``` > **Dishonored at 50% off > The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim at 50% off > Doom 3 BFG Edition at 50% off** > > ``` > > From 1200 GMT Friday November 23rd a whole lot more will open up! Here’s just a few games that will be on offer: > > \*\* XCOM Enemy Unknown at 25% off > Borderlands 2 at 25% off > The Book of Unwritten Tales at 50% off for 24 hours > The Journey Down: Chapter One at 75% off > The Darkness II at 50% off\*\* > There’s a ton more stuff that’ll be coming - I could try to list it all but there’s gonna be hundreds of games on sale. Literally hundreds. > > On top of all those things too, we have vouchers: > > GMG35-FGR37-COY0B will get you 35% off Hitman: Absolution right now! > > GMG25-G4VDR-0ZL4Q will get you 25% off hundreds of digital titles on Green Man Gaming from 0001 GMT Friday November 23rd! Note that those aren’t all great deals (Darkness II has been as low as $5 recently) but you may want to keep some in mind going forward. If they let you stack the 25% voucher on top of the sale prices (no promises, sometimes they do, sometimes not), there could be a good savings in there. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/7 "2012-11-21T22:02:02Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > As per usual, even though most everything is discounted, don’t buy anything that’s not a daily or flash sale until the last day. It’s stupid to buy something 50% off today and it ends up being a 75% off daily sale tomorrow. Hmm. I’m tempted to buy Borderlands 2 at 25%, but if you think it’ll drop more, I’ll wait. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/8 "2012-11-21T22:03:07Z")
Not sure of US pricing but here in EU Skyrim was 29.99e before this sale and it is supposedly on sale for -33% out of 49.99e now which makes it 33.49e. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/9 "2012-11-21T22:09:33Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Hmm. I’m tempted to buy Borderlands 2 at 25%, but if you think it’ll drop more, I’ll wait. It may or may not get cheaper, but you won’t lose the chance to buy it at 25% if you wait, but you will get annoyed if you buy it today and it gets cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/10 "2012-11-21T22:09:36Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > D2D/gamefly has a [simulation game sale](http://www.gamefly.com/download-games/browse/?ids=5004592,5000883,5000940,5000543,5000723,152520,5000962,5004326,5000024,5004993,5004780,5004997&cid=simgd112112). Did they ever fix IL2: COD signficantly? $7.50 is tempting. Yeah, they released a humongous patch about a year after release that made the game what it was supposed to be. The main fix was performance - the original release ran like ass, even on beefy hardware. I downloaded the new build about a month ago and saw marked improvement on my machine. It’s still an Oleg game, which means occasional weirdness. But the flight model is top-notch, and now it is no longer a performance dog. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/11 "2012-11-21T23:10:27Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Hmm. I’m tempted to buy Borderlands 2 at 25%, but if you think it’ll drop more, I’ll wait. I’d hold off and see if it gets a deeper discount on Steam. If it’s not discounted by Sunday, I’d see if the GMG 25% voucher will stack with their 25% off deal for a little extra savings. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/12 "2012-11-21T23:16:42Z")
Note that Amazon is price matching most of Steam’s sale prices AND offers a $5 coupon each time you buy a game. Coupons maybe be used on “Editors Choice” games in January. Last year they had a really nice selection of stuff you could use the coupons on. Especially if the game is Steam activated anyway (and Amazon makes a good effort to provide Steam versions), you might be better off buying from Amazon if you’re in the US. You’ll be activating it on Steam anyway and getting the coupon. You might have to wait a little bit for Amazon to get the price match up so if a deal is fading fast, obviously grab it from who you can while you can. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/13 "2012-11-21T23:23:14Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Hmm. I’m tempted to buy Borderlands 2 at 25%, but if you think it’ll drop more, I’ll wait. Yeah, that was my thought as well…but I think I’ll also wait to see if it drops more. This is one of those games that I will probably buy on Steam, play for a couple of hours, then go back to playing X-COM or Total War Shogun II. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/14 "2012-11-22T03:08:25Z")
Is SW:KOTOR II buggy? I enjoyed what little I could play of the first one. The sequel is certainly cheap enough to take a risk on, but I’ve already wasted money on “bargain” games I barely played or couldn’t get to run at all. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/15 "2012-11-22T03:11:46Z")
I don’t recall it being buggy, but you can tell by the last third that the company was being rushed to get it out the door, so the plot is less satisfying than the original, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/16 "2012-11-22T03:29:10Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Is SW:KOTOR II buggy? I enjoyed what little I could play of the first one. The sequel is certainly cheap enough to take a risk on, but I’ve already wasted money on “bargain” games I barely played or couldn’t get to run at all. There’s a fan patch for it that fixes bugs and restores some of the content that was cut out. I’d imagine it is quite buggy without the patch. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/17 "2012-11-22T03:41:57Z")
All Obsidian games are buggy. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/18 "2012-11-22T04:30:40Z")
> [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](#): > > There’s a fan patch for it that fixes bugs and restores some of the content that was cut out. I’d imagine it is quite buggy without the patch. Looking for a patch for KOTOR 2 led me to one I haven’t tried for KOTOR 1, so I guess if it works I’ll finally get to play it. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/19 "2012-11-22T05:14:13Z")
Not showing on the main page but [Fallout 3: GOTY](http://store.steampowered.com/app/22370/) is currently $5 on Steam for the next 12 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750/20 "2012-11-22T05:24:40Z")
Kind of a shame how the Mothership Zeta is the only content I don’t already have for Fallout 3. But, I guess I’d pay $5 just for that. FTL is being listed with all the other on-sale items, but is not on sale. Bastages! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-black-friday-sale-now-through-11-26/641750.md?page=2)