Steam Winter Sale 2016 & GOG Goodbye 2016 Sale

BFG10K · Dec 21, 2016

It looks like it’ll start on 22 December if the rumors are to be believed. I’ll be checking to see if Dishonored and Legend of Grimrock 2 are cheap enough for me to buy.

How about you?

Edit: GOG's sale is rumored to start 23 December. More choice is always a good thing.

Ancalagon44 · Dec 21, 2016

I'll be ordering a new GPU early in January next year, so I might buy something like Doom so that I can make full use of the card. I don't really have any other new games.

ronbo613 · Dec 21, 2016

I'll probably check it every day for a few days and wind up buying $10 worth of games and won't play half of them.

shortylickens · Dec 21, 2016

i cant do this anymore. my wallet is still crying from last month.

maevinj · Dec 21, 2016

I hope they bring back daily deals or community choice. Make it more exciting!

Aikouka · Dec 21, 2016

Ancalagon44 said:
I'll be ordering a new GPU early in January next year, so I might buy something like Doom so that I can make full use of the card. I don't really have any other new games.

Isn't Doom coming with new GPUs at the moment? I'm not sure how long the promotion goes on for, but I wouldn't want you to buy a game and then get it for free.

Fanatical Meat · Dec 21, 2016

maevinj said:
I hope they bring back daily deals or community choice. Make it more exciting!

Me too however the return policy kind of killed that. However I don't know why they don't issue steam credits automatically for something recently purchased and marked down.
I'd be fine with flash sales being exempt from returns.

SunnyD · Dec 21, 2016

I just want Planet Explorers to go on sale. But it won't.

Larochepiano · Dec 21, 2016

Like every year I will buy a couple of games and never play them, let's go!

Zorander · Dec 21, 2016

Here's hoping I can finally get xcom2 and gta v for really cheap.

wanderer27 · Dec 21, 2016

SunnyD said:
I just want Planet Explorers to go on sale. But it won't.

How big of sale are you looking for on it?

It's been on sale several times the past year, would expect it to be again this sale.

Newbian · Dec 21, 2016

Fanatical Meat said:
Me too however the return policy kind of killed that. However I don't know why they don't issue steam credits automatically for something recently purchased and marked down.
I'd be fine with flash sales being exempt from returns.

The problem is the devs of the games would have to agree as they are the ones that get most of the money and it would be a hassle.

In either case the return policy killed this off and most people are happy because of the issues those flash sales caused at times and prefer one set price during a sale.

shortylickens · Dec 21, 2016

Zorander said:
Here's hoping I can finally get xcom2 and gta v for really cheap.

xcom 2 is damn good fun, if its 29.99 or less, I suggest you buy it. WAY better than xcom.

balloonshark · Dec 21, 2016

Ancalagon44 said:
I'll be ordering a new GPU early in January next year, so I might buy something like Doom so that I can make full use of the card. I don't really have any other new games.

Doom download is around $20 at gamestop. http://www.gamesdeal.com/doom-pc.html

You can also get it for around $17 here. http://www.gamesdeal.com/doom-pc.html

Stg-Flame · Dec 21, 2016

Eh, downgraded in the job market (not by choice) and now I actually have to watch what I buy. No more buying en mass just because it's 66% off - although, there are a few games on my wishlist that have seen 66% off already and I had them sitting in my cart, but I knew better than to purchase them at the time.

I'll definitely be looking in every day and I will probably pick up some of the games on my list that were under $10 during the Thanksgiving sale, but I can't guarantee I'll be grabbing the big names on my list this year.

Craig234 · Dec 22, 2016

maevinj said:
I hope they bring back daily deals or community choice. Make it more exciting!

It doesn't make sense though.

Option one: You can buy three games each discounted from $20 to $5 for a week.

Option two: You can buy each of those three games for $5 only for one 12 hour flash sale! Don't miss it!

And there will be one community flash sale where you will vote for one of the three to have another flash sale! Yay!

Exciting! Not better.

Ancalagon44 · Dec 22, 2016

Aikouka said:
Isn't Doom coming with new GPUs at the moment? I'm not sure how long the promotion goes on for, but I wouldn't want you to buy a game and then get it for free.

Not with GPUs, motherboards I think. I can get Civilisation 6 with a new 480, or Hitman something or other with a 470.

you2 · Dec 22, 2016

xcom2 delux was 26 on gmg a few days ago.

shortylickens said:
xcom 2 is damn good fun, if its 29.99 or less, I suggest you buy it. WAY better than xcom.

rivethead · Dec 22, 2016

BFG10K said:
It looks like it’ll start on 22 December if the rumors are to be believed. I’ll be checking to see if Dishonored and Legend of Grimrock 2 are cheap enough for me to buy.

How about you?

Edit: GOG's sale is rumored to start 23 December. More choice is always a good thing.

LoGII was part of a Humble Bundle a few weeks ago. It was in the beginning tier meaning you could have nabbed it for $1 for a Steam copy. I know that doesn't help you now, but you might search around a bit....I bet lots of people have extra copies. If I recall correctly, the beat the average tier included Pillars of Eternity and I think that's the game most people were after.

maevinj · Dec 22, 2016

Craig234 said:
It doesn't make sense though.

Option one: You can buy three games each discounted from $20 to $5 for a week.

Option two: You can buy each of those three games for $5 only for one 12 hour flash sale! Don't miss it!

And there will be one community flash sale where you will vote for one of the three to have another flash sale! Yay!

Exciting! Not better.

Like I said. Make it more exciting. It's never going to be better...

local · Dec 22, 2016

Craig234 said:
It doesn't make sense though.

Option one: You can buy three games each discounted from $20 to $5 for a week.

Option two: You can buy each of those three games for $5 only for one 12 hour flash sale! Don't miss it!

And there will be one community flash sale where you will vote for one of the three to have another flash sale! Yay!

Exciting! Not better.

I know we have had this disagreement before but I still believe I saw better deals in the flash sales and I confirmed it with historical pricing on a few games. Also was is it really that hard to look at your phone once every 8 hours? It gave me something to look forward to three times a day instead of check it once and forget it.

cbrunny · Dec 22, 2016

my wish list is pretty long... I'm actually really hoping Dragon Quest Heroes drops a fair bit. and/or Ashes of the Singularity. And Endless Space 2. But I'm not optimistic. Steam sales lately have been pretty crap.

balloonshark · Dec 22, 2016

Steam sale is live. The site is pretty swamped right now.

thestrangebrew1 · Dec 22, 2016

I'm debating picking up Ark, Doom and BF1. Trying to decide if I should upgrade my rig first before getting anything else though. It's been months since I've played a video game. Oh, thinking about getting Overwatch too.

Aikouka · Dec 22, 2016

Ancalagon44 said:
Not with GPUs, motherboards I think. I can get Civilisation 6 with a new 480, or Hitman something or other with a 470.

I took a look at the Anandtech article, and it looks like you have to buy an RX 480 and an i5-6600k from Newegg to get one.

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