2014 Steam Winter Sale casualty report

[Poetic Nova]

Ignoring it outside one game I bought for a friend of me for christmas, dispite over half of the games on my wishlist being on sale.

I have to blame Far Cry 4 and me getting sucked into its world.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Uhm... Since it for some reason is set up to tell me prices in US dollars, I'd say... Quite badly.

I thought I was being careful, but if I actually look at it... Probably something like $90... All up...

euch, steam sales are dangerous... XD

 

[RedDeadFred]

Nothing. None of the games I really cared to get had more than a 25% discount. Not enough to get me to fork over any money. Especially since I'm about to be spending a bunch of money on a gaming PC (my laptop isn't good enough anymore).

 

[Haerthan]

In total 50 CAD for
Saints Row IV
Remember Me
Age of Empires III collection
Rise of Nations
Age of Mythology
Halo Spartan Assault

I am a weak weak weak man. However considering I only managed to break 50 I am quite happy. Should have saved it though.

 

[Elfgore]

I'm guessing about a hundred or so. Expendable cash + games I kinda want to play = big spending.

I've bought:

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Call of Juarez
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Caribbean!
Deus Ex: Human Revolution -Director's Cut
Goat Simulator
The Last Remnant
Lichdom: Battlemage
Psychonauts
R.U.S.E.
Sherlock Holmes: Crime and Punishments
SiN Episodes: Emergence
X Super Box (Every game in the X series, minus Rebirth)
Valkyria Chronicles

I did spend more on the Humble Store sale though. I bought games like Alan Wake, Sleeping Dogs: Definitve Edition, and a few others.

 

[DementedSheep]

I only bought DS2 and Dragonfall from steam, I bought nothing from GOG and I bought DAI at 30% off on origin. I actually spent more than I usually do. I usually get a ton of games for less than $10 each but I already have most the cheap stuff I want.

 

[Bat Vader]

I was going good for the first week but during the second I faltered and let Steam forcefully take money from my wallet. I feel so ashamed for giving into such temptation.

The games I purchased are Napoleon: Total War
Hector: Badge of Courage
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Bound By Flame
Choice of Robots
Choice of the Deathless
Nekopara
Cinders
Cognition
Date Warp
Dreamfall Chapters
Endless Legend
Gabriel Knight
Lone Wolf HD
MGSV: GZ
The Old City: Leviathan
Randal's Monday
Roommates
Ryse: Son of Rome
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

I like to think I came out of this sale relatively unscathed and lost a few major battles but ultimately won the war.

 

[Corven]

It went very well I was able to pick up some great games after heming and hawing over the differen tdeals but this is what I picked up in the end:

Assassins Creed Black Flag (personally for me its more of pirate simulator 2013)

CS:GO (I was initially worried about picking this up since I heard the community was moba levels of toxic, but I stick to arms race so i avoid most of the "git gud noob" comments.)

Dungeon of the Endless (I needed to pick up at least on rogue-lite during the sale and so far I gotta say this game is pretty fun, hard to wrap my head around the tower defense mechanics but I'll get there eventually.)

The Fall (I heard about this one on a podcast, where it's a kin-of metroid-vania where the ai aboard a combat suit needs to think of clever ways around its hard coded protocols to save the person inside the suit who is critically injured and unconscious)

The Long Dark (I've been waiting for a sale to pick up this one, it's not so bad but I hope they add alternative objectives besides "survive" in sandbox mode, and also figure out some other ai enemies beside the wolves)

A Story About My Uncle (Not many expectations for this one, picked it up since it was cheap, pretty fun so far.)

This War of Mine ( This one I as interested in due to all the podcasts I listen to were singing its praises, it is an interesting game)

Wasteland 2 ( pretty much the game I was waiting the entire steam sale to go up on the daily deal, I snatched it up first thing, so far it's what I expected and then some)

Wings of Vi (I picked this one up day one even though it wasn't a daily deal, if you have ever seen a I Wanna Be the Boshy stream, this is made by the guy who made that game and it is wonderfully difficult)

Wolfenstien: The New Order ( I was mainly swayed into picking this up due to totalbiscuits top ten list, and I'm glad i did as soon as I started playing and later took a break I realized it had already been four hours, well spent in my opinion)

Outside of steam I picked up Dragon Age: Inquisition, Wildstar, and Call of Juarez: Gunslinger all at considerable discounts from gamestops digital pc section with a gift card from some relatives.

All in all I gotta say it was probably the best steam deal for me personally in years, and i should have my hands occupied for a long while so i won't get to antsy about the game releases in January and February.

 

[Inglorious891]

Seeing as I bought a bunch of shit for friends, most of this list isn't actually for me:

Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre
Railroad Tycoon II: Platinum
Audiosurf
Lords Of The Fallen Digital Deluxe Edition
*Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 4-Pack
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
Iron Brigade
*Spec Ops: The Line
*Some game I got for a friend off of G2A for $12 (I completely forgot the name)
*Prison Architect
*Shadow Warrior x2
*Medival II: Total War
Nova Prime Prime Access for Warframe (I gifted two of my friends a new Warframe each with my excess Plat)
*Castlevania 2: Lords of Shadow

*Bought for a friend


This Winter sale and the Autumn sale earlier got me all of the big name games I wanted, so I'm quite happy (especially with Shadow of Mordor, god damn I love that game).

I was going good for the first week but during the second I faltered and let Steam forcefully take money from my wallet. I feel so ashamed for giving into such temptation.

The games I purchased are Napoleon: Total War

Aw man, you'd better get Darthmod Napleon for that. Makes the game 10x better.

 

[Sight Unseen]

The only things I got for myself were Kerbal Space Program and Hardland, both of which are early access games. Bought a bunch of games as gifts for various friends/girlfriend.

Didn't end up spending any of my own money though because my girlfriend managed to get her hands on a Dota 2 badger courier which had extremely rare gems in it worth $180 that we were able to sell on the community market... So that was awesome

 

[Ieyke]

I think I got to about $114 for 15 games?

The Legend Of Korra - (Looks great and mechanically FANTASTIC, lacking in story. Decent for $15.)
Age Of Mythology - (fantastic, classic)
Freedom Planet
Transistor
The Banner Saga
The Yawhg - (Awesome little game.)
Block 'N' Load - (Minecraft + Team Fortress 2 done CORRECTLY. Awesome.)
Contrast
Evoland
Kingdom Rush - (Still the best Tower Defense game ever made.)
Papers, Please
Teslagrad
Deadly Premonition
Nosgoth

 

[LookingGlass]

I picked up the two Metal Gear games (Revengeance and Ground Zeroes) and have been really impressed playing through both of them.

I also picked up Shovel Knight (finished, also quite good) and This War of Mine (yet to play).

Not a bad sale. Pretty much cleaned out my wishlist except for The Talos Principle (too new) and the Dark Souls 2 DLC (didn't go on sale). I'd have like to pick up Wolfenstien: The New Order and Shadow of Mordor, but the download sizes are absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I got Transistor for ?6,59, Transformers: War for Cybertron for ?4,99, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for ?3,99 and Dark Messiah of Might & Magic for ?0,79.

Total of ?16,36. I set my budget for this sale at ?20, so mission accomplished.

 

[404notfound]

For just purchases from Steam; I spent almost £100, including purchases from other places I spent around £130. However this year I decided to be a good guy and buy some stuff to gift to friends etc. Ended up buying a 4 pack of Depth then an extra copy on top of that, so that was like £45 of the steam purchases. Also bought my brother a copy of Gauntlet so we could play it; we used to play Gauntlet Legends on original PS growing up, so I thought it'd be a nice pick up.

All in All, I got myself 14 games; if including gifts then I bought 20-25 copies of games in total.

 

[an874]

As for myself (I'm not gonna' bother with the total) I got: Final Fantasy 7, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Max Payne, Max Payne 2, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Prince of Persia: Two Thrones, Bioshock Infinite, Batman Arkham Asylum, and Spec Ops: The Line.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Let's see:
[ul]
[li]Psychonauts - £2.37[/li]
[li]Need for Speed: Undercover - £3.99[/li]
[li]Quantum Conundrum - £1.74[/li]
[li]Super Hexagon - £0.65[/li]
[li]Skyrim - £2.49[/li]
[li]Borderlands 2 - £4.99[/li]
[li]Child of Light - £4.79[/li]
[li]Half-Life 2 - £3.49*[/li]
[li]BattleBlock Theatre - £2.74*[/li]
[/ul]

*These were gifts.

Total expenditure: £27.25
Average price paid per game: ~£3.03

 

[FirstNameLastName]

I think I read that wrong. I believe you meant the summer sale, for all of us living in Australia. Yes, we have a boiling Christmas down here, and no, I have never once seen snow in person.

As for the sale, well ... I'm a shrewd and stingy man, so I mostly went for super bargains or stuff that looked interesting enough that I'm willing to settle for 50% off.

Machinarium: $4.99
The Witcher 2: $2.99
Half-Life 1: Source: $2.49
Half-Life 2: $2.49
Thief Gold: $1.74
Thief 2: $3.49
Shadowrun Returns: $1.49
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: $3.39
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: $3.39
Antichamber: $4.99
Super Meat Boy: $0.74

Total: $32.19

I don't think I did too badly, I will probably buy more in the last minutes of the sale.

I honestly can't even remember why I used to let myself get caught up in the hype of new games, new hardware, new everything! If you play a lot of multiplayer then there is the obvious reasons to do with servers becoming deserted down the line, but other than that I just don't see any reasons for a mostly single player oriented gamer to buy new games rather than jog along several paces behind the cutting edge. The fact that I have managed to wrangle in 11 games that are mostly reasonably well established as decent to great for about half the price of a single new game really makes me question the merits of buy new at all. The cutting edge is so much more expensive, unproven and buggy (with the exception of games so old they have trouble running on current hardware).
And with hype trains and dishonest marketing, current gaming is an absolute minefield. And if I have to cross a minefield I would rather do so by stepping around the corpses of people who have already had their legs blown off than being the first to brave it.

But I'm glad there are all these absolute chumps who pre-order the exclusive-ultimate-definative-collector's edition along with the season pass based on nothing but dishonest; funding the industry so that I don't have to. No I don't expect that last line to not piss people off.

 

[Here Comes Tomorrow]

Not too bad as I didn't buy anything more than ?7, even then, it was only Endless Space and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory because they didn't get a flash/daily.

I just caught up on indie title and old(ish) classics. At the same time I ended up activiting a bunch of Humble Bundle codes I never got around to using, so if I really wanted I have enough games to see me through to next year now.