Yesterday, the Steam Summer Sale launched after much anticipation. Head on over to the Steam Store before it ends on the 22nd if you want your bank account to suddenly become desolate.
If you’re somehow unaware of the significance, Steam’s sales have a habit of being obscenely good and, ironically, costing a lot of people a lot of money. It’s difficult not to impulse buy when you have sales like Legend of Grimrock at £4.79, Portal 2 for £3.74 and Terraria for £1.49. Not to mention the Valve Complete Pack down to £24.99 from £49.99, the Paradox Collection down to £39.99 from £203.82 and the THQ Collection down to £34.99 from £221.35.
There are a couple of new mechanics to the sale this time around. The Community Choice offer is voted for by Steam users from one of three games and changes every eight hours. Currently, Trine 2 is on sale for £2.99, with the vote being between Brink, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and Stronghold 3 Gold.
The second addition to this sale are Flash Sales, which are sales on four games that seem to change every 8 hours. Currently, Darksiders (£4.99), Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 (£3.74), Spellforce 2: Faith in Destiny (£6.12) and Sanctum (£1.74) are the flash deals (all of which are difficult to resist).
A tip when it comes to taking advantage of the sale; do not buy anything that isn’t a daily deal, Community Choice or Flash Deal until the last day of the sale. Anything could be up for sale until it finishes on the 22nd, including those that are already discounted but not part of one of these deal types. You don’t want to buy something only to have it drop another 25% the day afterwards.
All the regular discounts (ie, not daily deal, Community Choice or Flash Deals) will still be there at the end, so you don’t lose anything except possibly time played. Though if you’re like me, you’ll be staring unblinkingly at the Steam Store for the next 10 days. You know, just in case.
brillerment
When you have a hundred games in your backlog, what’s a few more, right?
DJ Judas
I’ve only fallen victim to Saints Row 3 for £7.49 so far…..but there will me more for certain.
Hoping for some Dead Island discount-love.
The Lone Steven
Steam, i megaloath and love you at the same time. SW:KOTR is very cheap and is worth it. It is one of the classics. Also, tis a Bioware game back when they were free from EA. Oh and tis a RPG. Very tempted to get it.
Also, Half Life 1 is £3, so get it! Yes, including you Kris. EA, this is how you do a sale not something like 87.5% off on a few games. ;)
bunimomike
Ah, the Steam sales. Quite the most wonderful sales to grace a digital platform. XBLA and PSN could learn a think or two.
bunimomike
…and so it begins…. Modern Warfare 3 purchased at 50% off. So many other titles to salivate over but I’ll wait for the daily deals.
Legend of Grimrock was a lovely game. Great value for money and such a great update on oldskool dungeon crawling. :) (think: Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Master ,etc).
Gamoc? Can you start a counselling session for people who can’t resist Steam games but might never get around to them all even though they sit there, burning a whole into your soul with their cocky “look at me, I’m installed and you can click me any time you fancy” attitude.
*stands up* Hi. I’m Mike and I have a problem.
Gamoc
I would love to, but I’m afraid my vast library of Steam games is populated mostly with things I’ve got from a sale or bundle and am yet to play. I’m just as much a sufferer as you are ;-)
KeRaSh
It really is a Steam phenomenon, isn’t it? Everyone I know has the same problem. Too many Steam games and not enough time to play them. Hey, at least they were cheap, right?
Gamoc
It’s not exactly a Steam thing, it’s just that Steam has the best sales. If I go into Game and there’s a shit load of games I’d like to try for £2, it’ll happen there too. And it has, many times. I’ve got plenty of disk-based console games that I’m yet to play for that reason.
I’m not complaining, of course. It’s a good thing ^^
FigmentedReality
So far i’ve purchased Monkey Island collection, Binding of Issac and empire:total war
Tanzil
Total war: shogun 2, Deus ex. was planning on getting The Witcher 2 but I really dont wanna spend the £20. great sale so far.
KeRaSh
Binding of Isaac + DLC, Super Meat Boy and vvvvvvv for me… 13€
Can’t really argue with that!
gazzagb
As I’m going away, I’m getting a mate to buy me stuff! This is going to be very expensive haha!
The Lone Steven
Are you sure that you can trust me with your card and account? *buys Gazzagb a lot of shovelware* :op
MayContainEvil
Spent $90 just on today’s deals. I love Steam.
minerwilly
just picked up the amazing Company of Heroes for £1.73p from Greenman Gaming , perhaps the greatest RTS ever made , can wait for the sequel.