2016 Steam Summer Sale .....ITS HERE!!

[$iljanus]

Sniper Elite 3 is finally at that nice $9.99 price point so now it is mine. (well buying the season pass bundle brought it above 9.99 but one can't pass up the opportunity to kill Hitler)

[Blackhawk]

Maybe, but they dragged thousands of people back to their site every day to look at queues and sales. Even if they spent $2000 for the $2000 they made, that's a free carrot on every stick.

[GreenGoo]

By far worst steam sale. I bought exactly one game, "its a wipe" and everything else were just too high priced to rationalize with my backlog. Certainly one of the worst summer sales in memory.

Interesting, as I've had that game on my wishlist for years, but never pulled the trigger. I was thinking about grabbing it this time around since it was so cheap, but I never got around to it.

If you play it and feel so inclined, I'd love to hear your opinion on it (in the PC Gaming section). I realize it's just a small time waster sort of game, but I am curious how it plays.

[YellowKing]

I wound up returning Age of Wonders 3 because I booted it up and had a save game from last year. WTF? Turns out I apparently owned it outside of Steam, or bought it at one time and returned it. Either way, I didn't get the warm fuzzies about keeping it so I refunded to my Steam wallet.

Wound up picking up Sword Coast Legends. I was really tempted to pick up one of the enhanced editions of Baldur's Gate, BG2, or Icewind Dale at those prices, but I wasn't sure how well they would keep my interest since I had played them so much in the past. Figured Sword Coast Legends would scratch my itch for an isometric RPG. I don't really care that it's light-weight which seems to be the common complaint about it. Something mindless and linear that I can just sink 20-30 hours in is just what I want right now.

That'll probably do it for me for this sale. Not a total wash, and I only spent $14 which is a good thing given the size of my backlog.

[Edit] And....I'm weak and picked up Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition as well. Only a $1 or so off of its historic low and I love the hell out of that game.

[Blackhawk]

The sale is over, and temptation is gone. That's kind of a relief.

[JetFred]

This total haul is really low for me, in money and in big name titles. I mean like zero big name titles. If you look closely, everything was el cheapo, I'll probably end up getting second copies in bundles anyway (already have for one), and I bought as much <$0.99 DLC as anything else.

Card credit spent $8.10

BloodGate
Relic Alone
Word Wonders: The Tower of Babel
Raiden 4: OverKill
This Starry Midnight We Make

Real money spent $70.21

Lakeview Cabin Collection
Press X to Not Die
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Laserlife
Guest, The
Bosch's Damnation
Shades of Black
Splendor
The Huntsman: Winter's Curse Season Pass
Heaven's Hope
Winged Sakura: Mindy's Arc
Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal-
Six Sides of the World
House of Hell
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Rememoried
Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon
Traverser
Duke Nukem Forever: The Doctor Who Cloned Me DLC
Duke Nukem Forever: Hail to the Icons Parody Pack DLC
Shadowrun Chronicles: Deluxe Upgrade DLC
Beyond Earth: Exoplanets Map Pack DLC
Din's Curse: Demon War DLC
Ferrum's Secrets: Vintage Vision Cinematograph Pack DLC
Gratuitous Tank Battles: The Western Front DLC
Hacker Evolution: Hardcore Music Pack DLC
Hacker Evolution Untold: Hardcore Music Pack DLC
Hacker Evolution Duality: Hardcore Music Pack DLC
Hacker Evolution: Hardcore Package Part 2 DLC
Hacker Evolution Untold: Hardcore Package Part 2 DLC
Shadowrun Chronicles: Missions DLC
South Park The Stick of Truth: Super Samurai Spaceman Pack DLC
Oddworld New 'n' Tasty: Alf's Escape DLC
South Park The Stick of Truth: Ultimate Fellowship Pack DLC

[Pyperkub]

XCOM 2 digital deluxe and Offworld Trading Company

[Freyland]

Bought nothing. That's new.

[Matrix]

By far worst steam sale. I bought exactly one game, "its a wipe" and everything else were just too high priced to rationalize with my backlog. Certainly one of the worst summer sales in memory.

Interesting, as I've had that game on my wishlist for years, but never pulled the trigger. I was thinking about grabbing it this time around since it was so cheap, but I never got around to it.

If you play it and feel so inclined, I'd love to hear your opinion on it (in the PC Gaming section). I realize it's just a small time waster sort of game, but I am curious how it plays.

Its pretty fun game, was a good couple of evenings. Basically its like running your mini raid guilde, pretty basic but requires certain strategies and planing (who get which items, how to plan the raid) . Well worth few bucks it cost. Not crazy replayable, and at higher level can get pretty grind but first 5-10 hours its really good. And at full price its 5$, certainly worth it in my opinion.

[killbot737]

I still don't grok cards.

Yay, I can sell a card for 8 cents! I'm a centillionaire, minus the -illion part.

[JetFred]

I have netted >$860 off of cards, and spent all of it on games that were on sale. That's a lot of games. Suit yourself, though.

[killbot737]

I have netted >$860 off of cards, and spent all of it on games that were on sale. That's a lot of games. Suit yourself, though.

How?

[JetFred]

I have a lot of games. I often buy games for less than the cards are worth. I've dropped cards from ~1000 games and sold them. Thousands of cards. Millions of clicks.

You know the old joke...how can he afford to sell (fill in the blank) below cost? Because he sells a lot of them. Ha ha.

[Smoove_B]

How?

See this thread here. The prices aren't as good per card as they were during the trading card beta days, but they absolutely add up. I understand not being interested in collecting the cards and crafting badges - it's total nonsense. But if you're not interested, why wouldn't you sell all the cards sitting in your inventory? It's literally free money. Pennies, nickels and dimes mostly - but free nonetheless.

[killbot737]

Yeah I read that thread and I think I made a total of $25 from the hundreds of cards I put up before Steam went all asshole and forced you to do 2-factor auth to sell anything. At one point I was selling so many cards Steam made me fill out a tax document. It still was cents-per-card.

It still makes no sense to me. I guess I value my time (in general, and to figure out "the card game") more than whatever Steam and/or "random internet weirdo" is offering.

Whatever I was doing, I clearly was doing it wrong if I wanted to make money. Someday you Steam card millionaires can piss on my grave.

I still don't grok the system and probably never will.

[JetFred]

I still don't grok the system and probably never will.

I understand. I don't play multiplayer, so you could argue I don't get full value out of my games, or even my PC. Whatever. No problem, your choice.

However, once the cards are in your inventory, seriously, either take the money or give them to me.

[Daehawk]

I make badges. Had someone even ask once how I got so many badges hehehe.

[Isgrimnur]

I made level 40. More levels means more pack drops, means more free money.

[JetFred]

I haven't found it to speed up like they say. I think many people who drop cards are up to 40, 50 or higher, and it all evens out.

[gilraen]

I tried selling some cards early in the sale - it wouldn't let me do it without mobile authenticator (without putting a 15-day waiting period on each sale). So I installed the mobile app and then realized that I can't remember my Steam password. Guess what - resetting the password automatically put a 7-day freeze on all community market activity. It was going to "unfreeze" on 7/3, that Sunday night I forgot about it, and by Monday the cards have expired. I don't need all that hassle for a few cents, and I don't play enough of anything to earn more than a few random cards here and there.