# Steam having gigantic summer sale **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 24, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406 "2010-06-24T21:04:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/41 "2010-06-27T17:32:45Z")
> [@](#): > > All Civilization games 75% off, including expansions Not Civ V though! ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/42 "2010-06-27T17:41:57Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > So Eve Online: Tyrannis is not an expansion pack but the full game, right? You get 30 days of subscription time bundled with it, so you can try the game out for a month for $2. I think I’ll hop on that and give it a go. If it’s not an expansion pack, what’s the Tyrannis part? I haven’t played for over a year so they might have changed things, but ordinarily the full game client is a free download. Almost always you’ve been able to get a free two week trial account (which is limited in-game in numerous respects, but not so much that you can’t do a lot of stuff). So essentially they’re selling a month subscription for $2, which is a significant discount even if you figure you could get a limited version of half of it for free. Don’t think about the expansion packs in Eve as expansion packs. They’re mandatory to connect to the game, and completely free. You can’t play the game without the latest version of the client - which makes sense when you think about it being a single server for all players. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/43 "2010-06-27T18:07:24Z")
Looks like a bunch of people got the [introversion complete pack](http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4603/). I have 8 people on my friends list with defcon, so I’m going to try to start hosting SDMB defcon games soonish. If you want to play with us familiarize yourself with the game (it’s not complicated) and we can get some SDMB-only games going sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/44 "2010-06-27T19:52:49Z")
The Max Payne bundle for $3.74 is a steal. Third-person shooter with noir-ish flair, strong story, and Bullet Time ™! So far, I’ve picked up Bioshock 2 (finally), Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the Commandos pack, and the Freedom Force pack. Steam is evil, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/45 "2010-06-28T04:12:44Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > The Max Payne bundle for $3.74 is a steal. Third-person shooter with noir-ish flair, strong story, and Bullet Time ™! Force a widescreen resolution and it’ll make you throw up inside of 90 minutes. :o A lot of fun otherwise, tho. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/46 "2010-06-28T14:32:44Z")
Ugh! Of the games I bought two of them don’t work. M.U.D. TV won’t even load and City of Heroes says I don’t have the right game version and I need to reconnect with the server. Sometimes I hate computer games. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/47 "2010-06-28T14:58:30Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > M.U.D. TV won’t even load I bought that a while back. Didn’t want to load for me at first, either. > [@](#): > > City of Heroes says I don’t have the right game version and I need to reconnect with the server. Can you download the client directly from NCsoft and install it to your Steam folder? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/48 "2010-06-28T15:02:09Z")
Max Payne bundle meets my criteria. Got! ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/49 "2010-06-28T17:35:09Z")
Joint Operations: Combined Arms Gold $5.00 Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising $4.50 Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack $11.90 Oddworld Pack $2.50 Dogfighter $8.49 Order of War $10.20 King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame $13.60 I guess I’m not buying anything today. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/50 "2010-06-28T17:41:48Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I bought that a while back. Didn’t want to load for me at first, either. What’d you do to fix it? > [@](#): > > Can you download the client directly from NCsoft and install it to your Steam folder? Maybe, I don’t know. I have no idea how’d I do that. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/51 "2010-06-28T18:16:35Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > What’d you do to fix it? Not sure I did anything. Might have updated my video driver. > [@](#): > > Maybe, I don’t know. I have no idea how’d I do that. [Here’s the client download page](http://www.cityofheroes.com/account/download_game_client/download_city_of_heroes.html); it would go in something like steam/apps/common/city of heroes/ if you’re on Windows. Check your steam folder for the exact path. It should work; I’ve done similar with Mount & Blade: Warband when Steam was late with their release. Just use the code Steam gave you when you purchased. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/52 "2010-06-28T19:45:14Z")
I’m kind of borderline on buying all the games available today. Anyone want to sell me or dissaude me? Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was a massive dissapointment considering the original was great (and arma/arma 2 are its true successors) but if there’s a lot of user made content there’s some stuff to like about the game, so at $4.50… I hear about Europa Universalis being good. Just got hearts of iron 3 plus expansion though, not sure I have an interest for 2 mega detailed games like that. Tales of Monkey Island Complete pack. I haven’t done the scripted interactive adventure game type of thing (that’s what it looks like) in quite a while - is this a good example of the genre? The other stuff I need to look into. The dogfighter game looks like it might be fun - I don’t normally like non-sim flying games but the video looks fun. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/53 "2010-06-28T21:59:33Z")
For those who got or are considering the Introversion complete pack for $5, I’m going to try to organize SDMB games of Defcon and I started a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12628713) about it ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/54 "2010-06-28T23:39:22Z")
I picked up the abes oddworld/exodus games. Just a puzzle platformer that was on the ps1, but they have a rather dark sense of humor(Abe, the titular main character, is a floor waxing slave with his mouth stitched shut). Dogfight has my curiosity piqued. what makes OF: DR so bad? ---
**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:** [June 28, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/55 "2010-06-28T23:43:40Z")
Well it’s the sequel to one of the greatest games of all time and the developers said the right stuff so expectations were high. It’s just… not very good. A console game that got ported over. The multiplayer was DOA because it didn’t work right, no dedi servers, no key checking even, just useless. It does have coop and that’s kind of fun, but the default amount of content it comes with is very short. They stopped supporting the game very quickly after release. I don’t know if fan made content ever became popular and added content or what. The command interface kind of sucks. It’s an alright game. It has stuff going for it like the wide open spaces and huge view distances, some decent missions, a variety of vehicle models that aren’t really used well since the campaign is so short it doesn’t have that much variety. Some of it is likable and really for $4.50 it’d be hard to go wrong, most of my anger is over the massive dissapointment about what it could’ve been. Better to play the true successor to OFP, which is arma 2 - although you can’t get that at $4.50. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/56 "2010-06-29T00:15:14Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Tales of Monkey Island Complete pack. I haven’t done the scripted interactive adventure game type of thing (that’s what it looks like) in quite a while - is this a good example of the genre? The problem is, the Monkey Island series has behind it a considerable history and rather devoted fans (of which i’m one), so a lot of the reviews are going to be rather biased towards the negative. Bearing that in mind, I would say that they’re reasonable games, they probably demand of you at least some knowledge of the general backstory, but if you like adventure games it’s really not as though there’s lots of them around at the moment. Honestly, I would buy the upcoming redone version of Monkey Island 2 over it (I believe it’s out next week, however, so it very well won’t be included in the sale). But as I say, i’m very much a biased fanboy. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/57 "2010-06-29T05:04:12Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Here’s the client download page](http://www.cityofheroes.com/account/download_game_client/download_city_of_heroes.html); it would go in something like steam/apps/common/city of heroes/ if you’re on Windows. Check your steam folder for the exact path. > > It should work; I’ve done similar with Mount & Blade: Warband when Steam was late with their release. Just use the code Steam gave you when you purchased. Sweet, it worked. I am now a villain on the Infinity server. ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/58 "2010-06-29T05:46:11Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > I’m kind of borderline on buying all the games available today. Anyone want to sell me or dissaude me? Joint Ops is like a budget version of Battlefield 2. I only played the demo, but there’s plenty to like. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/59 "2010-06-29T08:51:28Z")
I’m kind of absurdly picky since even when games come this cheap I don’t want to put time into something that’s just gonna bore me. Tonight I went with King’s Bounty: The Legend for a paltry $3.49. It got a decent review on IGN (8.1, and 8.8 from users) so hopefully it’ll at least be worth the price of a Starbucks latte. I missed the L4D2 sale unfortunately, or I would have picked it up in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-having-gigantic-summer-sale/544406/60 "2010-06-29T16:01:26Z")
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