Games on SALE!
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At least until the Christmas sale or next year, when it'll likely be better.
GasBandit
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Well, if there's any holdouts out there who STILL haven't got Left 4 Dead 2 yet, it's once again 4 bucks. It'd be a great game for Halforums gaming nights if not enough people show up to play CAH.
Hmm...
Fair warning, at least one developer (the War Thunder devs, I think) has been caught raising prices before the sale began. Keep an eye on what you're paying.
GasBandit
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Those shifty fuckin' russians.
I'm at a cafe right now, writing, but before I left, I swear I saw X-Com Enemy Within priced at something like $59.99 before the discount. Pretty sure it's never been that high before. Might've been an early bug when the sale first went live, though. I saw things tweaked every time I refresh or went back to the home page.
It was a bug. It's 30 before discount right now, 15 with it.
There's a lot of stuff on my wishlist on sale, but I'm going to wait a day or two and see if they get better deals (most are only like 10-20% off right now).
Personally nothing appealed to me.
I want to get Enemy Within but own Enemy Unknown. If I buy everything, it's $10... but if I just want the DLC it's $15.
Morons.
figmentPez
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I can't even join a game.
All you actively do once in a game is click as fast as possible to attack monsters and earn gold. You use this gold to buy upgrades to your click damage, health and a passive damage over time that ticks away whether you're in the game or not. The total defeated of regular monsters, bosses and the total of members that log into the game that day unlock more deals for the next day. As you level up through the game, every 10 levels you get a bonus or something to use the next day, when everything resets back to start. I'm sure there are other aspects I'm not getting right or leaving out but it's basically Cookie Clicker, Click Heroes or Tap Titans.
I just downloaded an auto clicker and have been letting it sit as I play other things on consoles. It freezes up constantly though, to the point of having to exit and re-open steam.
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There are daily challenges that unlock more deals, community wide. Right now all we need are boss kills, but we also had total members killing monsters and total clicks today.
As for personal contributions... every time your game kills a boss, you get a small chance for a loot drop (cards and maybe other stuff).
figmentPez
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So, those of us that can't even join a game are shit out of luck?
Click join a friend's game, and that should open up a list of games to join. Choose any of them that are close to your level (level 1 if this is your first)
And yeah, the game is basically Hero Clicker, which seems strangely appropriate as it was THE MOST PLAYED GAME ON STEAM.
figmentPez
Staff member
Tried that, all of my friends in games were more than 10 levels above me, so I couldn't join any of those.
Eventually Steam let me join a random game, though.
Rockstar added a GTA Online cash card to the game's price so the sale would bring it down to the normal $60 price. The game by itself is not on sale.
That's really fucking shitty and what little interest I had in picking it up during this sale is now gone.
That's really fucking shitty and what little interest I had in picking it up during this sale is now gone.
GasBandit
Staff member
There's all kinds of funny business going on in this steam sale. How much it will undermine the enterprise is anybody's guess.
Steam itself doesn't control the prices though, right? It's all up to the individual publisher?
GasBandit
Staff member
From what I understand, yes. However, the actions of these publishers could undermine the until-now orgasmic enthusiasm that the PC gamer market has for the Steam Sales as an institution if they come to expect that there will be slick (and not so slick) attempts to fuck them over or defraud them.
One also has to assume Valve has veto power over what is sold on their platform, so somebody looked at those ridiculous GTA "bundles" and clicked "approve."
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Lego games are on a pretty big sale too, I'm probably going to pull the trigger on at least one of those games. Debating between Marvel Heroes and Beyond Gotham, as I heard both are a lot of fun.
I'm tempted to get The Witcher 1 & 2. Never played them at all before. And they're only $1.64 and $3.24 (Canadian) respectively. Worth it?
Keep in mind that I find I don't have much patience for RPGs like I used to. Even though I've played a bit of Skyrim, it didn't really hold my interest for an extended period.
Keep in mind that I find I don't have much patience for RPGs like I used to. Even though I've played a bit of Skyrim, it didn't really hold my interest for an extended period.