Those steam coupons will be expiring March 1

Texashiker

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and the games I have coupons for have not gone on sale.

I do not want to use a 25% off coupon, when the game goes on sale from time to time for 50% off.
 

KaOTiK

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A handful of the games I have coupons for have went on sale, they just happened to be games I didn't want or already owned. I used one coupon so far, to save an extra 10% on on sale. Might use 1 or 2 others before they expire since they would bring the sale price down to the lowest sale prices those games have been at before.
 

Texashiker

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The only game I want right now is Dead Island.

Unless DI goes on sale this week, the coupons will be worthless.

This coupon thing valve did was one step from being stupid. Why give me coupons for games I already own? I got a coupon for left 4 dead 2. A lot of good a l4d2 coupon does me, I preordered the day it went live on steam.
 

KaOTiK

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While I agree it would be nice they give you coupons for games you don't own and ideally coupons for games you have on your wishlist, you can't complain when it is all free anyways and it is not uncommon for others to buy a gift copy of a game they already own. Some of the coupons were very good anyways. It is just like a sale, there are always going to be some duds.
 

Dankk

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This coupon thing valve did was one step from being stupid. Why give me coupons for games I already own? I got a coupon for left 4 dead 2. A lot of good a l4d2 coupon does me, I preordered the day it went live on steam.

You can trade them, you can use them to gift a game to someone, or you can gift the coupon itself.
 

Texashiker

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How did you get these coupons? I never got any and could've really used one... :(

Steam holiday sale, you got coupons and even free games for completing certain achievements.

Each day something like 5 new achievements were posted. Complete an achievement, get a coupon.

One achievement was to join the 2011 - 2012 steam holiday group.

Another achievement was to like the Steam facebook page.
 

Red Storm

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Steam holiday sale, you got coupons and even free games for completing certain achievements.

Each day something like 5 new achievements were posted. Complete an achievement, get a coupon.

One achievement was to join the 2011 - 2012 steam holiday group.

Another achievement was to like the Steam facebook page.

Oh that. I was on a damn a holiday when they brought that promotion lol.
 

Craig234

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They may or may not have a big sale about the day they expire.

I have some I don't need:

33% and 50% valve
10% konami
50% psychonauts
50% batman: arkham asylum
50% zombie atom smasher

for trade of giveaway in a couple days
 

pontifex

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Yeah... I was without a PC that whole time too :(

didn't miss much. most of the coupons and free games were garbage.

i got Basketball Manager 2010, 2 copies of The Ship, and a coupon for some lame bargain bin casual games pack.
 

chavo12345

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How do I check if I have any coupons?

There's a little envelope icon on the top right side of Steam on the menu bar (should be right next to "XXXXXXXX Account" where the X's is your account name) ,click on that and "items in your inventory" should show everything you have. Have fun ! :D
 

MikeyLSU

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good point, I have a couple if anyone wants them, they are yours as I won't be using them in the next 2 days.

I have a 50% off any game that is published by Valve
I have a 33% off any game that is published by Valve
I have a 50% off TokiTori
and 50% off Operation Flashpiont: Red River

If anyone wants any of these, PM me and we can set it up in steam. I won't get to it till tomorrow.
 

Dumac

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Coupons are pretty silly.

1. The only way to get coupons was to be active during the winter sale.
1. The actual sales during the winter sale are equal to, if not better, than the coupons.
 

Feneant2

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If anyone has a coupon that would work for Skyrim or Kingdom of Amalur (yeah right), I'd take one off your hands.

I actually was active during the winter sale and bought 5-6 games, wonder why didn't I get any coupons?
 

Texashiker

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1. The actual sales during the winter sale are equal to, if not better, than the coupons.

Yep.

Back in November Dead Island was on sale form something like 33% off. Why should I use a 25% off coupon when I can wait for DI to go back on sale, and hopefully for more then 33%.
 

KaOTiK

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If anyone has a coupon that would work for Skyrim or Kingdom of Amalur (yeah right), I'd take one off your hands.

I actually was active during the winter sale and bought 5-6 games, wonder why didn't I get any coupons?

You had to do the daily achievements to get prizes during the holiday sale, just buying games didn't award you any.

No coupon will work with KoA. All the coupons given out during the holiday sale don't work on games released after Jan 2nd iirc and the dev/studio who developed/published KoA had no games prior to KoA so there aren't even coupons to have been given out in their name.
 

Red Storm

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Well I'd be happy to trade for one of these coupons. I have TF2 items to offer if anyone is interested. :p
 

gbeirn

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I have the following someone can have:

33% Off Any Valve Game
25% Off Any Valve Game
50% Off Fallout 3 (Only Original not New Vegas) -pending to barfo
50% Off Atom Zombie Smasher (Pretty good time waster)
50% Off Greed Corp (Awesome Game)
50% Off Hard Reset

PM if anyone wants any
 
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