The Massive and Entertaining Steam Summer Sale Thread- 2014!
 

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'Nuff said. No excuses left, I got well over 2/3rds of my steam account untouched still but I know I will still bend over again :'(

http://store.steampowered.com/summersale

Day 11 (June 29, 2014)

Big ol' encore sale, plus yesterday's main deals. Too big to list out so here are some images instead:

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If any game is part of a franchise or has DLC, they are pretty much always discounted too. As always, be sure to check this: http://steamdb.info/sales/

To be honest I think I've bought everything I could possibly ever need from past sales. But we'll see.

looks like I am taking more piss breaks at work to update and expand my library. Hoping patience paid off for the Skyrim DLC

there's only a handful of games i'd fancy tbh, but that's what I always say.

That's what you always say, Baird :'(

Unless there are RTS style games, I wont be interested. Was thinking of buying FFVII but not sure what the controls will be like. That's pretty much the make it or break it factor for me with PC games.

FFVII on PC was originally done entirely with the Numpad, and was totally decent. Not sure if they added support for other controls.

In the meantime, use code "GOONCAVE" on Amazon for any video game sales for an additional 15% off. I got AOE 2:HD for $3.50.

Day 1 up, sales from July 11-22.

Current Daily Deals

Bioshock Infinite @ $29.99 USD (50% off)
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger @ $10.04 USD (33% off)
Endless Space: Emporer Edition @ $10.19 USD (66% off)
Mars: War Logs @ $13.39 USD (33% off)
Left 4 Dead 2 @ $4.99 USD (75% off)
Don't Starve @ $8.99 USD (40% off)
Defiance @ $13.59 USD (66% off)
Scribblenauts Unlimited @ $4.99 USD (75% off)
Hotline Miami @ $2.49 USD (75% off)
Toki Tori 2 @ $9.89 USD (34% off)

Current Flash Sales

GRID 2 @ $29.99 USD (??% off)
CS: GO @ $5.09 USD (66% off)
Skyrim @ $20.99 USD (30% off)
Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition @ $8.99 USD (70% off)

thx for the update man, phone is weak signal in office and steam is blocked at work. Is that every 10 hours price slashing going on and voting between 3 games to determine the next sale?

damn my wallet to hell this summer

I would recommend Antichamber to anyone who likes puzzle games. One of my favorite recent games.

Ya, updated info on flash sales (every 8 hours). Voting also going on, very likely to be Dishonored at this rate.

good stuff man, appreciate it. been fiending for the sale to begin real bad. Enjoyed last year's plundering

http://steamdb.info/sales/

Oh god I knew it- here are the "lesser" games on as much as 90% discount, I have spent over 20 bucks already.

skyrim dlc is going to be mine today

I would wait, as I am currently doing so too. A flash deal is not usually their best.

yeah I see some others waiting. I've waited this long. I can stand a few more days

:y:

Is Ridge Racer: Unbounded any good? At that price I'm kinda tempted. It was supposed to have a lot in common with the Burnout series, IIRC.

I haven't tried Ridge Racer, but if it's anything like Burnout, it'd be worth a try.

I'm waiting for Saints Row The Third: Total Package to hit a flash spot. It is at 50% with a price of 14.99 USD at the moment and felt I should finally play one of those, holding out for 75%.

$1.24 for Dungeons of Dredmor
$4.99 for Avernum: Escape form the Pit

Some pretty good deals right there.

It took 6 mins of the quick look for me to say, "Yes, I'm in."

Dishonored was destroyed by Borderlands 2...I was looking forward to trying Dishonored, perhaps another round

Ya, I need the season pass for Borderlands 2 but I will wait for an inevitable 75% off.

If I didn't get Avernum from a Humble sale, I'd probably be all over that.

I little late in the day, but if anyone hasn't gotten Miami Hotline then GET IT!

Oh, right, forgot about that.

Now that the season is over Defiance the game is 66% off. Not sure if the game will have a 2nd season or if the game will just update for the next one.

I was looking at it but decided "Nah, it's probably pretty dull. Standard ultra-violence."

You say that like it's a bad thing :shifty:

It looks like the kind of game were the ultra-violence is all it has. All and any promotion or discussion I've seen about it has been about nothing other than that. No mention of great humour or creative levels or features.

Good stealth gameplay and amazing soundtrack

I'm wary of the humour label anyway, because people are quick to label any game like this "ironic" when there's nothing to differentiate such a game from the standard fare.

I have the game from a bundle (I think a Humble Bundle), so I'ma check it out at some point. Not actually losing anything for trying it since I already have it. Hopefully Roxer is correct and it has some positives.

Looking at the Rocksmith DLC list, I wish Steam better organised this shit.

Bought Universe Sandbox for £2 because it sounded like you could do stuff like see what happens if a comet hit Earth. Turns out NOTHING happens. No sound, either.

Agreed.

It has a cooky kind of humor. The levels are based on killing people but you have to kill them strategically. You have to plan each kill one by one so as to not be seen because if you are you almost always die. The game is very challenging once you get past the first few levels and very enjoyable for that. I'd say it's very much a puzzle game.

Current Daily Deals

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare @ $6.24 USD (75% off)
The Walking Dead @ $6.24 USD (75% off)
FEZ @ $4.99 USD (50% off)
Faster Than Light @ $2.49 USD (75% off)
Darksiders 2: Death Lives @ $9.99 USD (80% off)
Surgeon Simulator 2013: Team Fortress 2 @ $3.39 USD (66% off)
Sniper 2: Ghost Warrior @ $4.49 USD (85% off)
Anno 2070 @ $14.99 USD (50% off)
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 @ $29.99 USD (50% off)
Just Cause 2 @ $2.99 USD (80% off)

Current Flash Sales

Far Cry 3 @ $23.99 USD (40% off)
Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien @ $7.49 USD (50% off)
Legend of Grimrock @ $3.74 USD (75% off)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown @ $9.99 USD (75% off)

fuck. Steam wiped out my cart while I was going through that big list of discounts.

Just Cause 2 for $2.99 is a steal.

Yeah, been meaning to get it for ages. Now I have no excuse.

Sleeping Dogs and Super Meat Boy on sale right now, both are great games.

Magicka is two-fiddy, too.

Added some of TPWW on steam, what's your id KK?

Bought Soul Reaver and Another World. Had to agree to some EULA for Soul Reaver and had a funny half ticking noise in my headphones since installing it. Dunno if it's a coincidence or if the EULA installed something other than the game. It would help if the EULA wasn't the length of a tv script, then I could actually read them.

What's your SteamID, Drakul?

I've still not bought a lot, few smaller titles but limited spending so far.

And for some reason a gift of Civilization IV has appeared in my Steam inventory. No clue where it came from or how it got there, especially as it's a game I already own.

Drakulbites

I sort of want Civ Iv but don't know if it's TOO tactical. I imagine it being like 80% Risk and 20% Simcity. Also no idea if Sid Miers Civ and just Civ are the same thing or if there is some subtle difference.

Oh, that explains it.

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You gotta give it to them... Valve are pretty amazing...

They're the same thing generally. The only game that isn't really a "true" Civ game is Civilization - Call To Power which wasn't made by Firaxis.

Also I guess this means I have a copy of Civ 4 to give away. Takers?

Right here. What do I give you for it?

Drakul, who is that in your avatar anyway?

Absolutely nothing, I've got no need for it.

Can't seem to find you on Steam though, since I can't gift it without adding you as a friend first.

Poison from Street Fighter and Final Fight.

Thanks. It's drakulbites, no capital letters.

Still doesn't find you for some reason.

I can look for you. Whats your steam name?

Extreme Angle found me.

Added The Destroyer.

Yeah that seemed to work. Gifted.

Woohoo just sold my first "trading card" on the marketplace. I can't believe people buy this shit.

I'm waiting for the summer thing to be over so people can't get the Summer card. Then, someone who NEEDS all the cards will buy it for £1 or something instead of the 25p I'd get for it now.

I've gotten Borderlands 2, Counter Strike Complete, Bit.Rip Runner 2, FTL, and Fez so far. :D

Is there any practical reason to buy them? Or are people just literally buying digital trading cards?

Nope, no practical reason to buy them. I just trade for mine.

Just curious.

The rate at which you get booster packs increases with your level. So, theoretically, you could buy cards to increase your level, planning to then get more cards in the future to sell.

I seriously doubt how feasible that is, but it's something, I guess.

Overall though, I think the cards are a great idea. They're getting me to try games that have been sitting unplayed in my Steam library for years. And, whenever a card is sold in the community market, 10% of the sale goes to the game developer, so it's another way to support indie developers.

So the cards are basically what you get for doing the achievments? What if you already did the achievements before cards existed? Do they retro? Or do you have to play it again?

Makes sense.

Most of the ones in my library are ones I've already played. Some quite a bit, like super Meat Boy.

It will probably prod me into a few more games played, since a couple of the listed games are ones I got as part of a bundle and never tried.

Right now, I've been too busy playing Magic to get my cards back after the cloud fucked me and playing with my new Rocksmith tracks.

No, they're separate from achievements.

Basically, each game that supports cards has a set of cards, and the number depends on the game (I think it's up to the game developer). 8 is the most common size, but some games like Super Meat Boy and Dungeons of Dredmor have 5, while Brutal Legend has 15. Regardless, when you buy a game, you're granted a number of "card drops" equal to half the size of the card set, rounded up (so, you'd get 3 card drops for Super Meat Boy and 8 for Brutal Legend).

When you play a game, you periodically get a card (I think it's every 20-30 minutes, or something like that), until you're out of card drops. Once you're out of card drops, you become eligible to receive booster packs for that game. Steam will occasionally randomly give out booster packs of cards to people who are eligible, and who have "used Steam" within the past week.

When you have all the cards in a set, you can expend them to craft a badge, which you can display on your Steam profile. This also gets you 100 XP. Each badge can be upgraded by expending the same set of cards again, and doing so will change the name and image of the badge, as well as get you another 100 XP, to a maximum of 500 XP per badge.

What it means to "use Steam", and the drop rate of the booster packs are both unknown right now. However, we do know (because Steam told us) is that every 10 levels you gain, the rate at which you get booster packs increases by 20%.

tl;dr: No, it's based on playtime, but it's also not retroactive.

Sold 3 cards so far, netted a buck. Not too much, but it got me a DLC for free so I am not complaining. I am also only selling duplicate cards I got, so once I get that Summer badge I will sell it later on.

Current Daily Deals
Tomb Raider @ $12.49 USD (75% off)
Resident Evil 6 @ $19.99 USD (50% off)
Age of Empires 2: HD Edition @ $9.99 USD (50% off)
Borderlands 2 @ $10.19 USD (66% off)
Stardrive @ $10.19 USD (66% off)
The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition @ $4.99 USD (75% off)
Heroes VI @ $10.19 USD (66% off)
RPG Maker XV @ $23.79 USD (66% off)
MARS: War Logs @ $9.99 USD (50% off)
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army @ $5.09 USD (66% off)

Current Flash Sales
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 @ $5.99 USD (70% off)
LA Noire @ $9.99 USD (75% off)
Kinetic Void @ $6.79 USD (66% off)
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition @ $7.49 USD (75% off)

Current Community Choice Sale
Hitman: Absolution @ $6.24 USD (75% off)

Jumped on Tomb Raider and The Walking Dead and Batman: Arkham City

Feel like I could make some pretty riveting fuckin' RPGs with that RPG Maker game...might wait for 75% chance though

Bought Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum but the actual game files refer to it as gold rather than platinum.

Gotten 3 cards from the sale so far, and already I have a duplicate one.

System Shock 2 is the current community choice deal. Meant to be a great game, so could be worth getting at the dirt cheap price it's up for.

Finally picked up System Shock 2

think i'm going to stock up on some of the big sales to trade for other stuff in a few weeks using http://www.steamtrades.com/

Nothing really jumping out at me and saying "buy me".

Although I've had my eye on that Stardrive game.....

System Shock 2 is one of the best games I've ever played, and I only got to it a few years ago. I think it has aged fairly well. I enjoyed System Shock 1 as well, but I wouldn't recommend it, as the control scheme is pretty bad (pretty impressive game for 1994 though).

Looked interesting but way too convoluted. Don't really like games that turn out to be more like work than fun.

Ya, that's usually why I steer clear from pure sandbox games like RPG maker.

Yeah, I have two duplicates already.

Sell your duplicates for ~25 cents each on the marketplace. The way I see it is that it is free money.

Current Daily Deals
ARMA 2 Combined Ops $12.49 50% off includes below
ARMA 2 $8.70 33% off
ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead $9.99 50% off

Eador Masters of the Broken World $11.99 40% off

Fallout 3 GOTY $
Fallout New Vegas $

Hitman Absolution $6.24 75% off
Hitman Absolution DLC $0.24 each 75% off

Kerbal Space program $13.79 40% off

Portal Bundle $6.24 75% off includes below
Portal $4.99 75% off
Portal 2 $4.99 75% off

Remember Me $29.99 40% off

Sanctum Complete Bundle $19.99 50% includes below
Sanctum $2.49 75% off
Sanctum DLC $1.24 each 75% off
Sanctum 2 $7.49 50% off
Sanctum 2 Season pass $11.99
Super Sanctum TD $0.99 75% off

The Sims 3 $14.99 50% off
The Sims 3 $9.99-$29.99 each 25-50% off

Total War Grand Master Collection $41.24 75% off includes below
Medieval 2 Total War $7.49 50% off
Rome Total War $4.99 50% off
Empire Total War $7.49 50% off
Empire Total War DLC $1.490-$4.99 50% off
Napoleon Total War $7.49 50% off
Napoleon Total War DLC $1.49-$4.99 50% off
Total War Shogun 2 $7.49 75% off
Total War Shogun 2 DLC $0.71-$7.49 each 75% off
Total War Battles Shogun $2.49 50% off
Viking Battle for Asgard $7.49 50% off

Current Flash Sales
Ace Combat Assault Horizon $8.99 70% off

Doom 3 BFG $4.99 75% off

Impire $4.99 75% off
Impire DLC $0.27-$0.49 75% off

NBA 2K13 $7.49 75% off

Current Community Choice Sale
Deadlight $3.75 75% off

Finally netted KSP :D

<font color=goldenrod>Bought NBA 2k13 yesterday when it was 50% off as I hadn't had a basketball game in ages, and now it's 75% off. :mad:

Ah well, only like $7 extra. A lunch basically.</font>

I have scored some sweet deals :cool: PC gaming for life.

Current Flash Sales
Poker Night 2 $2.49 50% off

ShootMania Storm $11.99 40% off

Spec Ops The Line $7.49 75% off

The Swapper $7.49 50% off

Also, please don't vote for Infestation- it is fucking War Z with a different name.

Since this thread has already addressed the cards thing so thoroughly, is it possible to trade 'em outside of your friends list?

The stuff I've read seems to imply no, but I find a lot of the Steam literature to be counter-intuitive.

I've not actually sold any cards because I only have one but, from what I saw, it looked like I could set a price and put it on some kind of eBay for Steam cards.
So I'm guessing you can sell to whoever is buying. Not sure if trading is different but I'd not imagine so.

You can sell and then buy from the marketplace. I was more curious about a direct system, but that'll do.

Ok. I know nothing about that.

I wonder if I could sell a card for something like £40 and someone will actually buy it. There must be someone who would fall for that, right?

Do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Shiny cards sell for like a buck more...

I collected all of the binding of isaac ones 5 times, crafted the summer badge once, now i'm keeping my spairs. I also bought McPixel for like 80p, played it and got all its cards "9" then sold them for like 17p each, profit!

Oh dear Lord, there's shinies?

I believe you can only trade within your friends list, but you can of course add someone temporarily just for the purposes of trading.

You can buy & sell on the Steam marketplace with anyone. However, keep in mind that when you sell something, you only get 85% of the sale price. 10% goes to the game developer and 5% goes to Steam.

Maybe we should have a thread for trading Steam cards?

Yep. Whenever you get a card (whether from playing a game or opening a booster pack), there's a chance to get a foil card. I don't know what the rate of foil cards is, but I can tell you that of the 72 cards my boyfriend & I have gotten, 2 are foil cards.

I don't know if foil cards have the same drop rate for playing and for booster packs. Also, 28 of our 72 cards are Summer Getaway cards, and none are foil. It's possible that they may have a different drop rate, since they're a limited-time thing.

Would make sense.