Rumor is the steam winter sale is going to start later today. If not, it’ll be within a week. In the meantime, you’ve got a few hours left on their big auction thing. So if you have steam trading cards sitting in your inventory, you can sell them and get a game for them.
Nuuvem started their christmas sale. It’s a Brazillian site, so you’ll want google translate. Conver to USD by multiplying by .40. It’s legit - except for games specifically labelled as region locks, they give global steam keys that can be redeemed anywhere. And they take paypal. They’ve had some of the biggest discounts I’ve ever seen on games.
The steam sale will be the biggie, obviously. Amazon used to actually come up with some great deals, but hasn’t had a great track record lately. GMG often has discount codes for 25-35% off everything in their store, including preorders, which is unique as far as I know. Nuuvem sometimes has the lowest prices on particular games. Will update when/if the steam sale starts today.
Nuuvem has Shadow of Mordor for $17 after Paypal conversion. That’s about 66% off which is cheaper than Steam had it during the fall/Thanksgiving sale. Last year, Steam’s winter sale discounts matched their fall sale discounts so this might be the best price you’ll see it this season.
It seems like it’s the same set-up as the last few times. There’s the flash sales every twelve hours and the featured sale once a day. As always, it’s best to wait until the last day of the sale to pick it up. You don’t want to by something and then it becomes a featured sale the next day.
Can I order something as a gift for myself? I want to get something for my girlfriend but she uses my Steam account so I don’t want to show up in my library until I give it to her.
You can’t give “yourself” a gift, but if you buy something as gift and then say “I will send this later” then it ends up in your Steam Inventory (not the same as your Steam Library) and you can then either gift it to someone else or “open” it and give it to yourself.
Edit: And yes, Rand, no one should ever preorder games. I have this conversation pretty much every time someone mentions the idea.
I’ve missed it. Does your reasoning have something to do with the fact that not only are games often buggy on release, but they don’t even bother to tempt you with actual physical tschoch, but virtual tschoch you probably won’t even use because it’s not that powerful, will be inferior to content later added by the mod community, and will probably be available as a cheap add-on later anyway? Because I have nearly stopped falling for that crap. But I do still sometimes pre-order to take advantage of a ‘couple of bucks off’ special or because my assumption is that for smaller studios, good pre-order numbers put them at less of a disadvantage when dealing with MBA-tards who run the industry.
A) You don’t even know if you’re going to like the game until you know more about it than you do at preorder.
B) Even if it’s a game you “should” like, you should wait to find out if it’s buggy as crap (Assassin’s Creed: Unity) or poorly implemented (MOO3).
C) The game is only going to get cheaper over time
D) There’s not really that much ‘advantage’ to getting the game early unless it’s a multiplayer release of some sort.
Of course, there CAN be mitigating factors, and I, oddly, don’t really count Kickstarter as a “pre-order” if for the simple reason that I think of pre-orders as “This game is going to come out whether you like it or not, but give us your money early, sucker!” whereas stuff on Kickstarter feels more like “Well, we’re gonna do our best to make this game, and having some money is going to make it way more likely.”
Or to put it another way - preorders are from big companies, and Kickstarters are from small ones. This is not to say that points A-D are irrelevant for small studios or Kickstarters, but rather that sometimes, a chance that someone will make the game right is worth some money over the likelihood that otherwise, no one will make it at all.
Not as excited about this sale as I usually am. I’ve got pretty much all the games I want that are out, and in the meantime I’ve still got at least a dozen games that are nearly or completely untouched that I bought in previous sales.
Preorder games should come with a hefty discount, something like 30%. You’re getting rewarded on gambling on a potential game, and they’re rewarding your interest/support/loyalty. Otherwise fuck it. This almost never happens with any major publisher, because they have contracts about release price and various other factors. Otherwise the bonuses are usually trivial and there’s not much upside to the risk.
Standard advice: don’t buy anything that’s not a daily/flash sale until the last day. If you buy something because it’s 50% off, and then it’s 75% off tomorrow, and you whine about it, we all have to sit on you until you’re smothered to death. You can always buy them at the current discount on the last day, when you know it won’t get any cheaper.
The featured deals seem to last 48 hours. I assume there will be a new set every day, and the previous set will still be available for the first 24 hours of that. That’s how they did it last year. The actual number of deals is somewhat underwhelming.
Anyone play damned? It’s a co-op 4 player horror game where a fifth player plays the monster hunting them. It’s a fun premise, so I’m probably going to encourage some people to buy it to try it out. Reviews say it’s buggy, but a lot were from early access.
But, but… 6207 games for sale! Those 253 pages aren’t going to be incentivized to slog through themselves just so they can screw me later with a better price on a flash deal.
GameAgent.com has Civilization V and its major expansions for 80% off. That’s $10 for Civilization V: Complete or $6 for the base game, Brave New World or God & Kings. Civilization V is “Steamworks” so it works on PC or Mac no matter which supposed version you buy.
To get the discount, you need to have an account (free) and access the sale through the Dashboard. Just searching for the games only shows 50% off.
Just out of random curiosity, does anyone know what the story is behind steam.com? Everytime there’s a sale, I go there to check it out (I don’t have a steam client on my desktop). And everytime I surprised by the fact that Valve doesn’t own the site. Instead its just an empty page, saying the page is owned by “Steam Tunnel Operations”.
Surely Valve would pay decent money for the domain name, and the person who owns it hasn’t done anything with it for years. I always wonder why he doesn’t sell.
