Steam Summer Sale begins today you guys!!

The annual Steam Summer Sale is kicking off today, in just a few short hours in fact.

Here’s your plan of attack:

http://i.imgur.com/NMTBpfv.jpg

Hoping to pick up some of those great indie games I passed on this year - stuff like Darkest Dungeon also the Game of Thrones Tell Tale Games!

Also hoping for a fun meta game this time around.

Obligatory there goes my wallet gif.

On the upside I just built a new PC so eager to try out some new games on it. On the downside I just built a new PC so my wallet is rather light.

First world problems…

I would normally get really excited, but I really don’t think there’s anything I want, even at deep discounts. I’m sure I’ll end up picking up something, just because, but there’s definitely nothing I’m looking for.

I’m not even sure that Steam has any games I haven’t already bought in previous sales…

What time is it supposed to start?

10 am pdt.

Id recommend Football Manager 2015 if its offered to anyone who is interested in complex soccer management simulations. There are teams from roughly 60 nations to choose from. And Out of the Park Baseball if that is your sport. These arent EA type games so no button crunching required.

Here we go … looks like Darkest Dungeon is one of the daily sales, that’s something I can definitely recommend. :slight_smile:

Aaaand Steam crashes.

It is a lot of fun but I have stopped playing it cuz I want to play and enjoy the finished product once it is out of early access.

That said it is currently on sale (25% off) for $15. A worthy purchase.

FWIW here are my personal recommendations from today’s sale (again, just my personal opinion and what I like, YMMV). In no particular order –

Daily Deals:

  • Darkest Dungeon

  • Homeworld Remastered

  • Hotline Miami 2

  • X-Com Franchise

  • Grand Theft Auto V
    Flash Sales:

  • Papers Please

Unless you have the patience of a saint, probably not a good idea to try to buy anything right now, though. Steam is getting absolutely hammered as usual and nothing works.

Of course. OF COURSE! One day after I buy a Borderlands 2 DLC that’s now 50% off. I WANT MY $1.50 BACK!

:slight_smile:

Well, you could request a refund and then re-buy it if you really want. :smiley:

No. grumble grumble I held out as long as I could, and desperately needed some new BL fodder. I just bought the one Headhunter pack.

Now I have all the rest, and Tales, and TPS. The store was slow and the DL is nothing amazing but I’m halfway through the last DL/install.

Huh. GTA V was Cdn$70 when it came out, I could swear, and now it’s 25% off for Cdn$67.48 with a regular price of Cdn$89.98. Guess I won’t be buying it till Christmas at the earliest if that’s the way they’re going to be.

Instead of decreasing the price of the game, they added in some imaginary money and kept it at the same price.

To me, that is a huge warning sign. I can accept this kind of bullshit in a free to play title, but GTA5 is a $70 game. Rockstar has little incentive to make the rate of progression actually enjoyable when they can instead make it annoying enough that people might be tempted to pay them real money to bypass it.

There has been a few publishers who have raised their prices just prior to the sale.

But yeah, I think what Rockstar is doing is pretty lame.

Keeping my fingers crossed for a Total War:Attila flash sale!! Common baby!

The base game I wasn’t feeling much, but I’d pick it up for cheap, specially now that the Belisarius campaign has been announced! Gonna carve me a new Roman Empire out of Vandal hides :stuck_out_tongue:

I have also heard the added content (for which they raised the price then the sale "lowered"to the original price) counts as a form of DLC and kills Steam’s new refund policy.

Basically when you buy GTA-V it comes with some “DLC” which is enabled instantly whether you want it to or not. That DLC being enabled makes it impossible to return the game.

I am amazed they are being so shitty about it. It is a very popular game. This habit of doing everything possible to squeeze your customers for every last dime is short sighted.

Gaming companies should be more like CDPR (Witcher series).