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2013 Steam Holiday Sale! SALE IS OVER

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Anyone want to bet that Titan Quest wins the vote? It's been on sale every sale for a very low price for years, so anyone that wants it should have it now, but somehow it will win. it's some sort of weird steam sale logic/rule that makes this so...
 
pontifex said:
Anyone want to bet that Titan Quest wins the vote? It's been on sale every sale for a very low price for years, so anyone that wants it should have it now, but somehow it will win. it's some sort of weird steam sale logic/rule that makes this so...
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It's probably a good thing no one took that bet.😛
 
pontifex said:
Anyone want to bet that Titan Quest wins the vote? It's been on sale every sale for a very low price for years, so anyone that wants it should have it now, but somehow it will win. it's some sort of weird steam sale logic/rule that makes this so...
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I thought the same thing about Left 4 Dead 2 (who in the world doesn't already own L4D2?), but then they gave it away for free, and look at what happened to Steam's servers... 😛
 
The Steam sale sucks major ***** this holiday season! Boooo! It may even be the worst sale yet. Prices are just horrendous. $10 for Sins: Rebellion? It should be $5 already, and it was several times before. $20 for Saints Row? It should be $10. Torchlight II for $5? I bought it for $2.50 a while ago. Rome II for $30? I was it for $20 two times already. Skyrim Legendary for $21? It was $20 several times already. They still want $30.. or was it $40 for that Call of Duty game. Ghosts I think. It really should be $20, at least just for the holiday sale. I know it's EA and all, but I am not paying a ridiculous price for this POS.

Are they trying to rip off an honest, knowledgeable, informed individual? Seriously Steam? Really?! This should be lowest prices of the year, and instead they are charging more for games that they themselves have discounted more in the past.
 
pontifex said:
me too.

and yep, Titan Quest f-ing won. WTF people????? It just boggles my mind how these games keep winning the votes.
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Rather disappointed at the latest win as well. The other two had better discounts dollar-wise and seemed like possibly interesting twin-stick shooters.

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Hmm I'm trying to find out what those other two games were called so I can keep an eye on them, but I can't seem to find any listing of the previous community choice contenders.

Really Big Sky was one of them... now to comb through the rest of the 1000 indie games to find the others. Apparently, someone needs to tell Valve that Indie games do in fact have actual categories.

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The other one was Soundodger+. ...and one thing that I really need to start doing is checking my Humble Bundle list to see if I already own these games but I just haven't added them to Steam yet.
 
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ibex333 said:
The Steam sale sucks major ***** this holiday season! Boooo! It may even be the worst sale yet. Prices are just horrendous. $10 for Sins: Rebellion? It should be $5 already, and it was several times before. $20 for Saints Row? It should be $10. Torchlight II for $5? I bought it for $2.50 a while ago. Rome II for $30? I was it for $20 two times already. Skyrim Legendary for $21? It was $20 several times already. They still want $30.. or was it $40 for that Call of Duty game. Ghosts I think. It really should be $20, at least just for the holiday sale. I know it's EA and all, but I am not paying a ridiculous price for this POS.

Are they trying to rip off an honest, knowledgeable, informed individual? Seriously Steam? Really?! This should be lowest prices of the year, and instead they are charging more for games that they themselves have discounted more in the past.
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The sale has been a mixed bag but all your complaints you have listed are just lol for a lot of those prices, just because you feel the games should be cheaper, remember the publishers set the prices. Also, to break it down by your game list, Sins Rebellion is 75% off already, only way you are going to see $5 is when Stardock lowers the MSRP to $20. Saints Row 4 is only a few months old and has been selling well, again even if it was 75% off it would be $12.49. $5 is the cheapest Torchlight 2 has gone outside of 4 packs I'm pretty sure. Rome 2 hasn't been below 50% off/$30 anywhere expect maybe GMG using a coupon. Skyrim in general has been slow on moving down on price and Legendary is the same price it has been on sale previously, it didn't go up in price. For your last complaint of Call of Duty, have you been absence from gaming for the past 5 years or whatever? Activision doesn't lower the price of CoD titles much at all and their "sales" for them are 50% off, it is a joke, but it isn't anything new to bitch over.

I think you need to not rely on your spotty memory or became more informed before making a rant. Also, blame the right people/place. Not happy with the prices? Go bitch to the publisher, they set the prices, not Steam.



All that being said. The sale is a mixed bag. On one hand we hand games on sale that aren't as cheap as they have been many times before in previous sales (great example is todays Fallout New Vegas Ultimate, it has been $4.99 75% off many times before). But on the other hand, we have had a ton of games at their lowest prices ever at 80-90% off (another example is Pixeljunk Eden at $0.99 at 90% off with its previous lowest price being $1.99 80% off almost 2 years ago).

A lot of the sale ho hum also is because probably 95% of us in this thread have been through a few of these holiday/summer sales now and have a ton of the stuff and most the stuff that would appeal or we want is newer and just want receive much of, if any discount at all so close to release.

I know I fall into that lot, I look at the daily/flash/vote deals and I own like 12 out of the 15 things or whatever that are on sale. Doesn't mean that they are bad deals, in fact they are in most cases very good deals, but they aren't for me. I've spent like $25 or so on this sale, probably will spend not much more (only other things I want is any discount on Starbound and Remember Me for 75% off). It will be the least amount I have spent so far on a big Steam sale I participated, but hell I'm not complaining, all that money was from selling cards mostly.
 
KaOTiK said:
For your last complaint of Call of Duty, have you been absence from gaming for the past 5 years or whatever? Activision doesn't lower the price of CoD titles much at all and their "sales" for them are 50% off, it is a joke, but it isn't anything new to bitch over.
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I was surprised to see Ghosts on sale.
 
Aikouka said:
I was surprised to see Ghosts on sale.
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They have always put up the new for sale during the holiday sale for like 25-33% off. Then in a few months when some season pass stuff comes out they will do a free multiplayer weekend and have it around 33-50% off then as well. Activision with CoD is too predictable lol
 
Barfo said:
I got Remember Me for $10 with a coupon from GMG
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I saw that, but GMG doesn't take Steam wallet 😛
Between card money and some steam wallet codes I received for christmas, I don't want to put any cash out of pocket, that money is going towards new Vita stuff 😀
 
KaOTiK said:
I saw that, but GMG doesn't take Steam wallet 😛
Between card money and some steam wallet codes I received for christmas, I don't want to put any cash out of pocket, that money is going towards new Vita stuff 😀
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lol, this is probably the first sale where I actually buy more games from stores other than steam, competition is good.
 
KaOTiK said:
The sale has been a mixed bag but all your complaints you have listed are just lol for a lot of those prices, just because you feel the games should be cheaper, remember the publishers set the prices. Also, to break it down by your game list, Sins Rebellion is 75% off already, only way you are going to see $5 is when Stardock lowers the MSRP to $20. Saints Row 4 is only a few months old and has been selling well, again even if it was 75% off it would be $12.49. $5 is the cheapest Torchlight 2 has gone outside of 4 packs I'm pretty sure. Rome 2 hasn't been below 50% off/$30 anywhere expect maybe GMG using a coupon. Skyrim in general has been slow on moving down on price and Legendary is the same price it has been on sale previously, it didn't go up in price. For your last complaint of Call of Duty, have you been absence from gaming for the past 5 years or whatever? Activision doesn't lower the price of CoD titles much at all and their "sales" for them are 50% off, it is a joke, but it isn't anything new to bitch over.

I think you need to not rely on your spotty memory or became more informed before making a rant. Also, blame the right people/place. Not happy with the prices? Go bitch to the publisher, they set the prices, not Steam.



All that being said. The sale is a mixed bag. On one hand we hand games on sale that aren't as cheap as they have been many times before in previous sales (great example is todays Fallout New Vegas Ultimate, it has been $4.99 75% off many times before). But on the other hand, we have had a ton of games at their lowest prices ever at 80-90% off (another example is Pixeljunk Eden at $0.99 at 90% off with its previous lowest price being $1.99 80% off almost 2 years ago).

A lot of the sale ho hum also is because probably 95% of us in this thread have been through a few of these holiday/summer sales now and have a ton of the stuff and most the stuff that would appeal or we want is newer and just want receive much of, if any discount at all so close to release.

I know I fall into that lot, I look at the daily/flash/vote deals and I own like 12 out of the 15 things or whatever that are on sale. Doesn't mean that they are bad deals, in fact they are in most cases very good deals, but they aren't for me. I've spent like $25 or so on this sale, probably will spend not much more (only other things I want is any discount on Starbound and Remember Me for 75% off). It will be the least amount I have spent so far on a big Steam sale I participated, but hell I'm not complaining, all that money was from selling cards mostly.
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Actually, Steam had Modern Warfare II and III for around $20 when they were mostly $30-40 everywhere else. I think it was previous years Christmas sale. My prices could be off, but I am pretty sure I am near what they were. This year, it doesn't feel like EA discounted their flagship games at all.

Also, I am not just saying "I think" certain games should be less than they are based purely on my desire for them to be less. I DID see them for less before. Maybe not on Steam but I did. That is why I say "this or that game should be less". Rome II was $20 on GoG already, and that is why I was expecting Steam to have it for as little. Torchlight II was $2.50 on Steam some time ago. I could have sworn I was it. Sins was $5 somewhere already. I cant remember where though.
 
pontifex said:
yeah, 7 years ago.

I'm not hating on the game, I'm hating on people voting for a game that has been on sale a gazillion times already.
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When games like titan quest go on sale I buy and store them to gift out later.

A buddy of mine recently created a steam account. when he created his account I was able to gift him several games, including titan quest, to get him started.

~ EDIT ~

How to survive is up for community vote.

anyone have it?
 
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Pheran said:
OK, this is bizarro. Wizardry 8 is on sale for $2.49. A pack containing Wizardry 6+7+8 is $2.24.
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Wiz 7 is my favorite out of all of them. Wiz 8 is the first in 3D, but I don't think much thought went into it, other than 3D!!!111!!! The gameplay is basically back yourself into a corner to mobs can't flank you. Still fun, I put a ton of hours into it, but 7 is far better.
 
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