[Presto]

http://steamunpowered.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/steamsale.jpg


It's a bit over a week away, if rumors are to believed (http://ca.ign.com/articles/2015/05/29/steam-summer-sale-2015-dates-leak). I see that there's a new set of Mysterious trading cards for crafting the Summer sale badge. I've been saving up trading card sets for this. I don't feel I have enough yet!

Steam recently announced refunds of games (http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds) provided it's less than 2 weeks since purchased and less than 2 hours play time. They'll deny abusers of this system. However, it's also okay to refund a game to re-purchase it at a sale price.

I'm hoping for deals on Killing Floor 2, Lego Worlds, and Project Cars.

[SkinnyPupp]

Hoping for cheap Far Cry 4

[Spoon]

Must resist. Always end up buying games then not playing them. FailFish

[underscore]

I've got my eye on a few games, but as usual I'll probably end up buying a bunch of stuff I'll never play like I do every year.

[EndLeSS8]

Hopefully Hotline Miami 2, This War of Mine, and Shovel Knight go on massive sale

[lilaznviper]

time for impulse buys and only playing for 30 minutes

[Inaii]

Hoping for battleblock to go on sale :( I miss it every time!

[6o4__boi]

dammit why'd i have to see this
y u do dis steam
am broke

[willystyle]

Any must-have games?

Looking to pick up Counter-strike Source. Anyone know how much it usually go on sale for?

[Presto]

Source is usually $5 USD during sales.

[Vansterdam]

new steam refund system

Steam Refunds (http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/)

[twitchyzero]

assetto corsa 80% off pretty please :whistle:

[Presto]

It has arrived, and fallen on it's face (heavy server load)

I did see GTA5 for $30CAD, though!

[SkinnyPupp]

GTA V is $60. Discounted from $80? wtf

[Presto]

GTA V is $60. Discounted from $80? wtf

That comes with 1.25mill in online cash. Woohoo.

Damn.. the $30 GTA is gone. I should have tried to buy it while I could click on it.

Things are kinda wonky on Steam at the moment. I crafted some badges but didn't get a summer trading card for some combines :P

[willystyle]

For the discounted top sellers, are they only only on sale for a limited time or for the full duration of the summer sale?

[Razor Ramon HG]

Someone on reddit said some companies jack up their regular prices for Steam Summer Sale to make it look like the price is cheaper

[gars]

Depends on which one. The Daily Sales will change everyday, but some of those ones will come back again near the end of the sale. The flash sales as well change every 12 hours.

If the item you want isn't in any of the daily sales/flash sales - I would wait to see if the price will drop any further.

[Spoon]

Do games get more discounts over time during these sales? Only game I'm interested in is Divinity Original Sin. But it's only 25% off.

[willystyle]

Tempted to pick up the XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Pack (Daily Deal). It's $9.99 USD for 80% off. Pull the trigger?

[Gh0stRider]

damn, missed out on gta5

[SkinnyPupp]

Tempted to pick up the XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Pack (Daily Deal). It's $9.99 USD for 80% off. Pull the trigger?
YES!

[gars]

This is a pretty good read on the steam sale. Explains some things if you've never really paid attention to it.

How to Get the Best Deals During This Week's Steam Sale (http://lifehacker.com/how-to-get-the-best-deals-during-this-weeks-steam-sale-735529736)

Steam’s annual Summer Sale is on now, but before you go and empty your wallet, here are some helpful tips to make sure you get the most for your money and catch the titles you really want.

If you’re not familiar with Steam’s regular sales, the summer sale is usually around mid July and can net gamers huge discounts on popular titles released during the first half of the year, as well as slightly older games you might have missed. Even popular, best-selling, and newly released titles can see huge discounts, on the order of 75% to 90% off in some cases. Those discounts are hard to resist, but there’s a method to Steam’s madness. Here’s how to get the games you want for as little as possible.

Fill Up Your Wishlist Now

One of Steam’s best features is that they’ll send you an email alert when a game on your wishlist goes on sale. It’s both a blessing and a curse—you’ll be able to jump right on that sale, but you also may jump on a sale that’s a little premature. We’ll get to how to tell when your favorite game is discounted as deep as it’s going to get in a second, but for the time being, go ahead and load up your wishlist with titles you’ve been meaning to check out. That way you’ll at least be notified, and you won’t miss them.

Know Your Steam Sale Types

Each steam sale has four different types of discounts going on at the same time:

- The broad, store-wide discount that any game not released in the past six months gets. This discount is usually anywhere between 25% to 75%.
- Daily deals, where selected games are on sale for 24-48 hours. These discounts are generally a bit steeper, but still in the 50-75% range. These are the deals you get to sleep on if you want to.
- Flash sales, where selected games are on sale for 12-14 hours. These are the ones you may have thought were daily deals and wound up missing. Sucks, doesn’t it? Discount levels are the same, but the clock runs out faster.
- Community deals, where Steam users vote for one of three games to get a discount. These deals last about a day, and you can weigh in on which one you want. The result is up to the community, but it’s usually the biggest title or the steepest discount that wins.

When to Buy, and When to Skip

Don’t buy a game unless it’s a daily deal or a flash sale. You may be tempted by one of the general store discounts, but don’t do it. Those titles will likely go further on sale somewhere before the end of the week, and you’ll miss out on a deeper discount. If your favorite game doesn’t go on a daily deal or a flash sale before the end of the sale, you can pick it up on the last day at the same discount that it got on the first day—you’ll just know that’s as good as it’s going to get.

If you miss your favorite game as a daily deal or flash sale, do not buy it anyway. The last day of the Steam Sale is almost always an Encore Sale, where the most popular daily deals and flash sales come back at the same discounts. That’s when you get to buy whatever you missed—or whatever else you may want.

This thread at GameFAQs sums up these rules pretty clearly, and some of the other posters there offer a few more points to consider when shopping Steam sales, but these are the big two takeaways.

Reader ksurl offered up this flowchart that does a great job of summing this up:

The Exception: Buy Bundles Any Time You Want

Publisher bundles are almost always ridiculously deep discounts. If you’re looking at an Activision bundle or a Eidos bundle and wondering if those prices will get any better, stop wondering and just buy it. The side effect is that you wind up with a bunch of games you may not want to play, but if everything in the bundle interests you, it can be a fantastic discount for a ton of games.

Before you buy any game on sale, make sure to check a publisher bundle to see if the game is discounted in the bundle as well. You never know, it may be a steeper discount in the bundle than it is on its own. It’s not terribly likely, but you should always check first. While you’re at it, check DLC (Downloadable Content) prices. Sometimes a title you want has a ton of DLC that’s also on sale too for as little as $1, and it’s worth buying them all together.

How to Know When You’re Getting the Biggest Discount

Daily deals and flash sales offer the deepest discounts Steam will offer. That means if you see Bioshock Infinite for sale for 60% off as a flash sale, even if it comes back, you won’t get it any cheaper than that. You probably won’t see that though—as the Scientific Gamer notes, new games that have been recently released will usually only get a 25%-40% cut. Grab it if you really really want it, but deeper discounts will come in the next few months. 50%-66% off are modest discounts, worth jumping on if you want the title or have been meaning to pick it up, and if the title is an Indie or a cheap game anyway, go for it. You run the risk of seeing a steeper discount after the sale is over, but probably not. Anything discounted 75% or more is the cheapest you’ll ever see it on Steam. Go for it.

Use Technology to Help You

If you don’t want to be bothered with emails from Steam, check out the Steam mobile apps for Android and iOS. You can keep track on the sales anywhere you go, and if there’s a flash sale, you’ll be able to check the prices from your smartphone.

Similarly, check out Enhanced Steam for Chrome and Firefox. The extension gives you full price histories for the games you browse, helps you avoid buying DLC you already own, notifies you when a game you’re looking at has third-party DRM (worthwhile for finding out if a game requires Games for Windows Live or Ubisoft’s UPlay before you buy it and find out), and shows you how much you’re really saving on a bundle purchase. If you haven’t tried it, it’s worth installing.

Finally, if you use Steam Wallet to make your purchases, load it up ahead of time. You don’t want to get stuck in the last moments of a sale trying to add funds and then process a sale only to be denied because the transactions are taking too long. For more suggestions, check out this post over at GHacks.

Remember: Steam Doesn’t Always Have the Best Deals

Lastly, while Steam Sales are indeed awesome, keep in mind that it may not have the lowest prices—even during the week the sale is on. (Last year, for example, BioShock was cheaper on Amazon during the Summer Sale than it was on Steam!) So be sure to check out other stores using a tool like IsThereAnyDeal.com to make sure you’re not missing out on a better price. And if you’re going to buy 20 games, keep your Steam library organized to make your life easier.

With these tips, you won’t buy a game only to find it’s a daily deal and thus a steeper discount later in the week, and you won’t miss a sale hoping it’ll come back at some point later on only to find out it never does. Keep an eye out for your favorite titles, make your wishlist in advance, set a budget for yourself (seriously, otherwise you will empty your wallet), and have fun. Then spend some time actually playing through your backlog so you can get to the games you just bought.

[Vansterdam]

sooo if I buy something and theres a price drop couldnt I just refund it and rebuy it?

been waiting for left 4 dead series + dragonball xenoverse to go on sale :fullofwin:

[domco]

sooo if I buy something and theres a price drop couldnt I just refund it and rebuy it?

been waiting for left 4 dead series + dragonball xenoverse to go on sale :fullofwin:

Yup steam just added a new option for refunding a game. Just make sure you refund it within 14 days and have played less than 2 hours.

http://puu.sh/ikMHM/887883acd4.png

[jerche]

Only game I am interested in is CS:GO
It's going for $8.50 right now. I should probably wait since it's not a daily/flash deal eh?

[Spoon]

^
It's already 50% off. Save 50% on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/)

Worth every penny. Pretty sure I spent several hundred hours on it just playing Dust2. :ahwow:

[gars]

oh right, I forgot that there's refunds on steam now!!

[Razor Ramon HG]

inb4 smurf and hackers galore in ranked matches

[ForbiddenX]

Gotta be rank 3 to get into competitive now at least... Hopefully it helps a little.

[Vansterdam]

hmm I wonder if dragonball will drop more then the current 33%

could always buy now, and refund if it drops even more lol

Gotta be rank 3 to get into competitive now at least... Hopefully it helps a little.

when did this happen? was it from the new update today?

[ForbiddenX]

^ Yea they added it in the patch a few days ago.

Ended up getting Valkyria Chronicles seemed like a good deal for $5.

[Recon604]

sigh GTA not even on sale...

[SkinnyPupp]

Bought Banner Saga for $5. Hear nothing but good things about it

[Vansterdam]

anything worth grabbing guys?

h1z1 was 50% off the other day that was awesome

[SoNaRWaVe]

bought cs go for my wife and she bought civ 5 complete for herself and i also picked it up for myself.

[IMASA]

Bought Game Dev Typcoon a few days ago for $6. Quite enjoy the game.

[jerche]

Torchlight II is a flash sale for 80% off. Tempting. I hear good that it's a better game than Diablo 3?

[axxess]

I'm gonna buy torchlight 2 right now, 4.39 which isn't bad

[6o4__boi]

so much for not buying anything in this sale. :fuckthatshit:
yeah i'm picking up torchlight 2...it looks pretty fun.


lol civ...i bought it during last summer's steam's sale.
Needless to say, it sucks hours out of your life...but its such a good game.
Read the steam reviews for epic lulz


i wanted to get RA3...it's at 50% off right now but i'm pretty sure its gone to 75 before, i just forgot to buy it.

[SoNaRWaVe]

personally i feel torchlight 2 to be a more arcade-ish d3. for 4.39, its definitely worth it. its got that same grindy feeling as d3

[neggo]

I never buy games on Steam but I picked up Sleeping Dogs and Torchlight 2.

2 games for, like, $13? Pretty damn good deal.

[Vansterdam]

^sleeping dogs is sick man. pretty much GTA asian triad styles and it was made in Vancouver too lol

[ForbiddenX]

I really enjoyed Sleeping Dogs. It's a shame Triad Wars is structured like one of those build your base and raid other people's mobile games.

Is Arma3 worth getting for $23? Been eying it but not really sure if I'll enjoy it.

[6o4__boi]

postal 2 for $1.09 because why the fuck not lol.

[Vansterdam]

I really enjoyed Sleeping Dogs. It's a shame Triad Wars is structured like one of those build your base and raid other people's mobile games.

Is Arma3 worth getting for $23? Been eying it but not really sure if I'll enjoy it.

eyeing arma3 myself lol totally worth it! the mods alone are FTW

[ForbiddenX]

Yea I think i'm going to pick it up haha. Also thinking of getting Arkham Origins for $5. I still have to play through the 2 other games though :(

[Tr1ll]

Picked up Rainbow Six 3 Gold because it's a classic and for $2.49 why not.

[Presto]

Battleblock Theater is 1.69 on Flash sale for next 8 hours.

it looks like the Flash sales are where it's at for the deep discounts. Battleblock was on yesterday's daily deal for 4.69.

[Klondike]

Project CARS on flash sale $35.99 CAD.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/234630/

I don't think it'll go any lower.

[sam0m0]

got battle block theatre last night for 1.69 pretty fun

Grim Dawn is for 50% off right now tempting...

[Vansterdam]

dragonball xenoverse at 27.50 for 50% off !

also grabbed goat simulator with goatz for like 5$ lolol


might pick up project carz as well. looks dope with a steering wheel setup

[JayEch]

Awesomenauts for 1.09.
Seems like a decent game to break away from League for awhile

[roastpuff]

Picked up Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition... so far it's a ton of fun to play.

Like being in a HK cop drama - the swearing is funny, so are the Cantonese dialog portions.

[Peturbo]

Just picked up project cars.

[Porschedog]

For anyone interested in survival games, I recommend getting "the long dark" when it's on sale again. Bought it during the steam sale when it was 50% off.

[ScizzMoney]

surprisingly tame results on google when i googled 'the long dark'.

Looks like a good game to mess around with.

[Vansterdam]

car mechanic simulator 2014 for $4.24 looks decent lol learn a thing or two

[6o4__boi]

The witcher - $1.69
And the witcher 2 - $3.69

I thought about car simulator...anyone have it?

[willystyle]

Finally got my CSGO. Haha

[willystyle]

Mass Effect Collection (Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2), worthy buy?

[ScizzMoney]

If you have an Origin account you can get the trilogy for $15.

But if you don't care about part 3. Mass Effect 1 & 2 are both good games. Highly recommend the series.

[twitchyzero]

it was a decent sale...my 10 games only did a damage of $17.76 :lol
mostly indies...so many RPGs i want but don't have time to sink my teeth in them and if I ever find time they'll probably be cheaper by then

Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Mark of the Ninja
Gone Home
Dino D-Day
Shadow Warrior
Super Meat Boy
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
How to Survive - Storm Warning Edition
Wolfenstein 3D
FEZ

[Vansterdam]

ended up with 10 games and a few DLCS lol


Left 4 dead1+2
Battleblock Theatre
Contagion
Car mechanic simulator 2014
Chilvary Midievil warfare
Dragonball Xenoverse
Goat Simulator+GOATZ
Typing dead overkill

there goes my summer :joy:
gotta love that refund option.. bought ARK SURVIVAL but man is that shit glitchy.not optimized lol can barely run it on medium

Mass Effect Collection (Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2), worthy buy?

yes! epic story

it was a decent sale...my 10 games only did a damage of $17.76 :lol
mostly indies...so many RPGs i want but don't have time to sink my teeth in them and if I ever find time they'll probably be cheaper by then

Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Mark of the Ninja
Gone Home
Dino D-Day
Shadow Warrior
Super Meat Boy
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
How to Survive - Storm Warning Edition
Wolfenstein 3D
FEZ


how to survive is dope if you have someone to play with

[Ch28]

The witcher - $1.69
And the witcher 2 - $3.69

I thought about car simulator...anyone have it?

You will be very happy that you picked those 2 games up. The Witcher franchise has been one of, if not the best, RPG franchises out there.

[ScizzMoney]

If I were you I'd skip Witcher 1 & 2 and go straight to 3.

The combat in those games is shit awful. And I mean, completely shit awful. The combat would only be decent if the most recent game you played was Zelda 2: The Adventures of Link. The story in the games is good though. But, I would just read a synopsis of the first 2 games and jump right into 3rd.

[Klondike]

My haul:

Project Cars - Haven't installed it. 17GB install :heckno: ?/10 (Still on encore sale btw)

Gunpoint - Fun stealth/puzzle but short campaign. Love the dry humor in it and its self-awareness. Steam workshop maps will keep you busy 9/10

Cities: Skylines - Compared to Sims 4, it's easier and a lot more user friendly. I like demolishing the houses with uneducated or sick people. I tried making the roads in a grid but eventually I made a spaghetti mess of dirt roads everywhere. :lol 10/10

EDIT: Bought Dishonored during the encore sale after many people recommended it to me. Can't wait to play it!

[ScizzMoney]

I picked up:

Fable Anniversary
Super Meat Boy
Shadow of Mordor
Hitman Absolution
The Long Dark

[underscore]

Project Cars - Haven't installed it. 17GB install :heckno: ?/10 (Still on encore sale btw)

How is it only 17GB? I picked up PayDay 2 and 4 DLC missions and it's 19GB.

[Ch28]

If I were you I'd skip Witcher 1 & 2 and go straight to 3.

The combat in those games is shit awful. And I mean, completely shit awful. The combat would only be decent if the most recent game you played was Zelda 2: The Adventures of Link. The story in the games is good though. But, I would just read a synopsis of the first 2 games and jump right into 3rd.

Combat in Witcher 1 wasn't great but the story was good. Witcher 2 combat was a hell of a lot improved.

[Razor Ramon HG]

I thought Witcher 1 combat was way easier than 2. But I used a trainer for infinite health in Witcher 2 anyways :lol

[Akinari]

Finally bought Assetto Corsa with the DLC, $30.49 :fuckyea: but now I need a new wheel :okay:

[Vansterdam]

How is it only 17GB? I picked up PayDay 2 and 4 DLC missions and it's 19GB.

holla if you wanna play! lol do the bank heist cash/gold missions on death wish difficulty just dont shoot and follow everyone elses command and youll get mad xp+cash hella quick. i made it to leve 0-70 in one night lol

[underscore]

We played a couple missions on Friday, I'm still getting the feel for everything. In hindsight I should've grabbed the weapon DLC's as I didn't know you're limited to regular rifles and handguns without them.

[EndLeSS8]

Got

Transistor
This War of Mine
Life is Strange

Got Arkham Knight for 40% off with Green Man sale

[Vansterdam]

We played a couple missions on Friday, I'm still getting the feel for everything. In hindsight I should've grabbed the weapon DLC's as I didn't know you're limited to regular rifles and handguns without them.

those gage shotguns + grenades are FTW

any gage/DLC weapon really is good