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.
Sympozium
Hoping The Sims 3 is discounted soon, really want that and the expansions.
hol
Always tough to resist Steam sales, even when the wallet is near empty
Rocket_345
This is the point where im glad that im glad my PC is shit so i can resist buying these.
jediryan123
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUo1PgKksgw
Gamoc
That video changed my life.
jediryan123
steam will set you free.
hazelam
the sooner they bring out some steam store cards in the uk, the better.
cc_star
Amen to that… Got cash ready to spend (really want the SEGA collection & the Civ collection), can’t put it into my account to buy online as my overdraft will just swallow it up.