What are you waiting for? The Steam holiday sale.

[Sn1P3r M98]

if Penumbra or Amnesia come up, I'll likely gift that to someone.

Well it's not exactly on Steam, but I did find this.

http://www.amazon.com/1C-40294Penumbra-Colle-Penumbra-Collection/dp/B003HKS14W/ref=tpi_title_2?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=1278283162&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=0TR8BN1FKR53ZAPF18V8&pf_rd_i=2445220011

EDIT: I'm really hoping for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky to go on sale. I'd happily buy a copy if it does.

 

[Jodah]

I picked up Grotesque Tactics and Warhammer 40k Dawn of War I when they were half off. Just a couple I had on my wishlist for when they went on sale, figured I would give them a shot (I liked Dawn of War II). Nothing major has really caught my attention yet though.

I'm not really looking for anything either. I check back every day incase something pops up but nothing I am sitting in the corner twitching about atm.

 

[Hithlain]

Just got Dragon Age Deluxe (It's taking forever to download! It's been at leat 3 hours and I'm at 15%!).

Other than that, nothing. If I see something that intrigues me, I'll pick it up, but I'm not waiting for anything.

Yeah steam's been taking a while today. I think it's because their servers are probably having near death experiences from all the downloads. My brother tried to load Civ 5 and it took 3 hours too.

 

[oreopizza47]

I did my waiting, it was waiting for the sales to start. I snatched up three of the Indie packs almost immediately. Said packs being the Fright, Beat, and Heavy Hitters packs. That should contain enough content, along with my summertime purchase of the Valve Complete Pack and my constant downloading of mods, to get me to next Christmas Steam sales.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I logged into Steam a minute ago:

Four out of five of games on your wishlist are on sale!

And the last game is Portal 2, which hasn't come out yet.

Oh, fuck yes.

 

[Cogwheel]

if Penumbra or Amnesia come up, I'll likely gift that to someone.

Well it's not exactly on Steam, but I did find this.

http://www.amazon.com/1C-40294Penumbra-Colle-Penumbra-Collection/dp/B003HKS14W/ref=tpi_title_2?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=1278283162&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=0TR8BN1FKR53ZAPF18V8&pf_rd_i=2445220011

EDIT: I'm really hoping for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky to go on sale. I'd happily buy a copy if it does.

Well, that's just fantastic. Thanks a lot!

'Course, I lack a credit card and have to buy everything through my parents. Steam Wallet lets me get around that, which is why I only gift stuff on Steam. Getting copies of Penumbra for a bunch of people... well, knowing my parents, I'd get questioned quite a bit for that. Not really an option. Ah well, thanks, anyway. Will be sure to recommend that page to people.

Edit: Rated E. What. WHAT.

 

[kebab4you]

Greed Corp to I know have already been on sale, but doesn't one of the indie packs include it? Can't you just buy one of them if that´s the case?

Edit; Uhh not sure, already bought most of what I wanted.

It's not in an indie pack... Yet.

Ah okey, but I'm sure it had like 75% off 1 or 2 days ago. Also fix the quote, it looks screwy

 

[veloper]

Yes it's good to be a PC gamer.
I could upgrade my rig for all the money I discounted since the steam treasure hunt up till now.
I reckon I got about enough titles to last me until the next steam sale.

 

[Jacking]

Really I just want a second crack at buying the orange box for 7.49. I mean I have the xbox version, but I think I want that.

Yeah, I consider it to be better on the PC - specifically with regards to TF2.

Personally, I'm waiting for Global Agenda and Last Remnant to go on sale for more than 50% off, I'm too cheap to pay £9.99!

 

[Cowabungaa]

You would think that being a digital distribution vendor, Steam could bypass a lot of overheads and could afford to sell games at cometitive prices, but of course, Steam being Steam, it's always cheaper to wait 2 weeks after release and buy from an actual store.

Sale or no sale, Steam is and will continue to be overpriced. They do have actual sales where you can get good games for £5, those are pretty rare and usually so oversubscribed any advantage of digital distribution is lost, and then some.

You can buy Amnesia for $7.00 or batman arkham asylum retail for $7.50?
Or just cause 2 for $12.50 in a retail store?
Wow... where the hell do you live? I want to ransack your country...
I call bullshit on your claim, sorry.
-Tabs<3-

I've never heard of those games... Are they indie/casual games? Retail stores reduce prices by significant amounts to shift stock, whereas Steam don't need to, and prefer to continue charging as much as they viably can. £3.45 for Arkham is probably a good deal (never played it myself), but given their past performance, at some point, buying and playing an hour or so later (allowing for download) will become impossible.

Prices just don't fall off as quickly as they do in retail, and the main reason Steam doesn't suffer much for it is because their demographic is too lazy to shop around.

I've bought games in retail for ages, and over here I've never seen prices drop quickly except for really crappy games that don't sell. True, Steam isn't much faster, but not much slower either.

I wouldn't say those sales are rare either. This year alone there was a Christmas sale, Halloween or Thanksgiving sale, the Summer sale and I think we had one during Easter as well, though that's so long ago that I can't remember.

And Steam has games I can never find in brick-and-mortar stores, either because they're too old or are digital only.

 

[XT inc]

Really I just want a second crack at buying the orange box for 7.49. I mean I have the xbox version, but I think I want that.

Yeah, I consider it to be better on the PC - specifically with regards to TF2.

Personally, I'm waiting for Global Agenda and Last Remnant to go on sale for more than 50% off, I'm too cheap to pay £9.99!

Take it from me you should probably buy it, I regret so much that I didnt get the OB for 8 bucks, I mean TF2 the better version is 19.99, on sale for 9.99 so Id rather just wait and try and play with HL2 mods and stuff.

 

[Jacking]

Really I just want a second crack at buying the orange box for 7.49. I mean I have the xbox version, but I think I want that.

Yeah, I consider it to be better on the PC - specifically with regards to TF2.

Personally, I'm waiting for Global Agenda and Last Remnant to go on sale for more than 50% off, I'm too cheap to pay £9.99!

Take it from me you should probably buy it, I regret so much that I didnt get the OB for 8 bucks, I mean TF2 the better version is 19.99, on sale for 9.99 so Id rather just wait and try and play with HL2 mods and stuff.

Well, I'm waiting to see if they put it on sale for more, no sense buying 'em today for £9.99 if they put 'em on sale for less tomorrow, right?
Of course if they don't, I'll buy 'em on the last day of the sales.

 

[NathLines]

You would think that being a digital distribution vendor, Steam could bypass a lot of overheads and could afford to sell games at cometitive prices, but of course, Steam being Steam, it's always cheaper to wait 2 weeks after release and buy from an actual store.

Sale or no sale, Steam is and will continue to be overpriced. They do have actual sales where you can get good games for £5, those are pretty rare and usually so oversubscribed any advantage of digital distribution is lost, and then some.

You can buy Amnesia for $7.00 or batman arkham asylum retail for $7.50?
Or just cause 2 for $12.50 in a retail store?
Wow... where the hell do you live? I want to ransack your country...
I call bullshit on your claim, sorry.
-Tabs<3-

I need to call bullshit too. I have never seen any game EVER that's cheaper in stores. Maybe if they're 5 years old AND used. I don't live in the US though. :/ I have to react when someone says that Steam is overpriced when their prices makes me regret that I have ever bought any game during my entire lifetime.