Steam Summer Sale

[Jonny]

*sigh* £41. Forty-One-Pounds. Willpower, why dost thou desert me so?

Not a single game over £7 though. Anno 2070 tempted me at £14.99, but I stuck to my guns on that one at least.

Unless some ridiculous flash sale crops up my haul this time stands at:

Evochron: Mercenary
Red Orchestra 2
Deus Ex HR: Missing Link
X: Albion Prelude
Just Cause 2
Batman: Arkham City
Spess Mehreen
Portal 2
Saint's Row 3

I hate you Steam, but I love you as well.

[Integrity]

I'm considering it over, which brings my total to:

2x Trine 2 (one for a buddy)
Sanctum (from that same buddy)
Crusader Kings II (kirjava <3)
Ys Origins and Oath in Felghana

And, unrelated to the sales, Orcs Must Die! 2. I'm happy.

[Kirjava]

I'm very pleased with the amount of Dolts who've picked up Crusader Kings 2! Be sure to pop in to the CK2 thread or the Let's Play, Int

My final tally...

Europa Universalis 3 Complete (played a bit, intimidatingly complicated)
LIMBO (beautiful but frustrating)
Magicka (hilarious but buggy and frustrating)
Orcs Must Die! (genius, possibly my favourite)
Plants vs Zombies (for the missus to play)
Portal 2 (delightful)
Sins of a Solar Empire (not touched yet, already know it's good though)
Supreme Commander (played briefly, need to learn)
Wargame: European Escalation (not played yet)
The Witcher (disappointing so far but assured it gets better)
X-COM (not played yet)

Also got my Pillar of the Community badge

Steam, I hate you and I love you.

[Croaxleigh]

I didn't pick up anything else except for the two things I mentioned previously; most of the things that I would've been interested in I'd either already gotten through daily specials/Midweek Madness/Weekend Deals/various indie bundles or they were more than I wanted to pay and I'll just wait until the Christmas sale or something when the core price has dropped.

Also, unrelated to the sale: If anybody would like Half-Life 2: Episode 1 or Nuclear Dawn, let me know; I've still got HL2E1 from the 2011 holiday sale and randomly got a giftable copy of Nuclear Dawn a month or so ago for owning it. Figured that as people were tallying their loot/losses, anybody who was interested could add a free game or two to their tally.

[Inquisitor Lok]

Lets see... $56 spent.. and got...
- Blood Bowl LE Edition
- Binding of Isaac
- E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy
- Greed Corp (thought it would be closer to an Advanced Wars style of RTS than it was : / )
- Ys The Oath in Felghana
- Stalker: Call of Pripyat
- Alan Wake and its DLC
- Far Cry 2
- Magicka and its DLC
- Arkham City

So im happy. For less than the cost of a single new console game i got 10

[Akranadas]

Lol, http://store.steampowered.com/app/55230/?snr=1_4_4__sfs

It cost you more to buy Saints Row The Third separately (75% of at $14.99USD) then it is to buy the Saints Row: The Third Franchise Pack at (91% $9.79USD)

[A7K]

Spent $39.37 USD and picked up 12 Games

Grand Theft Auto III
The Stellar Impact Bundle (Game +DLC)
Civ III Complete
Civ V
Max Payne Bundle
-Max Payne
-Max Payne II: The Fall of Max Payne
Space Pirates And Zombies
Gratuitous Space Battles - Complete Pack (Game + All but one DLC)
Medieval II Gold
-Medieval II Total War
-Medieval II Kingdoms Expac
Plants Vs Zombies GOTY Edition
Sim City 4

Also bought Machinarium for my mom, as she only has the use of one hand and can actually play it.

Pretty pleased with myself

[Cortlendt]

I did not buy a single game, pity about Endless Space anyways.

[Rotlung]

I got:
Portal 2 (US$4.99)
Legend of Grimrock (US$5.99)
Crusader Kings 2 Collection (sans Sword of Islam) (US$12.49)
Total: US$23.47

Good enough to keep me occupied (on top of my older games) until the next sale I guess!

[ph03nIXx]

Okay, in the end:

Deus Ex - Human Revolution - Missing Link DLC
Jedi Knight Package
Legend of Grimrock
Penumbra Collection
Amnesia the Dark Descent

Alltogether for 30 Euros... just adding to the pile of games I have sitting around on my shelfes and don't get to play with work and all that...

[Waterbizkit]

Picked up Crusader Kings II with dlc, Orcs Must Die 2, and Frozen Synapse for myself. Got two copies of Frozen Synapse for friends and also grabbed OMD 2 for one of them. I spent $15 in real money that came out of an actual bank account. Everything else was on Blizzards tab.

Oh and I got Dead Island gifted to me.

All in all not a bad haul.

[Maktaka]

Hmm, I'm assuming at the head of this post that I showed good restraint. I wonder if that's actually the case...

Assassin's Creed: Revelations - $13.59
Batman: Arkham City and Harley Quinn's Revenge - $13.58
Indie Bundle Seven - $9.99 (I owned three of the titles in here, but it was the cheapest way to get QUBE and Vessel)
E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy - $2.50 (At less money than my morning energy drink, I'll give this Dues-Ex-alike a try even though I hear it's a bit buggy)
Galactic Civilizations II - $4.99 (I've always wanted to try out Twilight of the Arnor, never got around to it)
Quantum Conundrum Season Pass - $11.99 (It features clever puzzles and the voicework of John de Lancie, a man no stranger to playing characters involved with discord and chaos like this, for an excellent experience)

Total of $56.63. Yeah, that's not bad, and should easily keep me occupied until Borderlands 2 comes out.

[Afoxi]

ITEM
Steam Store
Double Fine Bundle

Steam Store
Hydrophobia: Prophecy

Steam Store
Waveform

Steam Store
Legends of Pegasus Pre-Order

Steam Store
The Witcher 2 (AU)

Steam Store
Dungeon Siege I, II, III with Treasures of the Sun DLC

Steam Store
Fallout New Vegas Ultimate

Steam Store
Vessel

Steam Store
Trine 2 Collector's Edition

Steam Store
Batman 1 and 2 and Gotham City Impostors Bundle

Steam Store
Anno 2070 Pack

Steam Store
Guardians Armor Pack

Steam Store
Lone Survivor

Steam Store
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai - Tsu Faction Pack DLC

Steam Store
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai - Obama Faction Pack DLC

Steam Store
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai - Saga Faction Pack DLC

Steam Store
Total War Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai

Steam Store
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai - Sendai Faction Pack

Steam Store
Total War: Shogun 2 - Blood Pack DLC

Steam Store
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Dragon War Battle Pack

Steam Store
Total War: Shogun 2 - Limited Edition DLC (Hattori Clan)

Steam Store
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Rise of the Samurai DLC

[Cortlendt]

Legends of Pegasus seems interesting. Though I will hold my judgement till the first reviews.

[Gorb]

Okay folks, here goes. Please don't laugh at me.

• Arx Fatalis
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
• Trine Bundle
• Activision Hits Collection
• Bioshock Franchise Pack
• Alice: Madness Returns
• Achron + Soundtrack (a Gift for a friend)
• The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
• Frozen Synapse: Complete Pack
• Civilisation III Complete
• Batman Arkham Asylum DLC (all of it)
• Magicka Complete Pack
• Killing Floor DLC (all of it)
• Hitman Collection
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
• Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
• Assassin's Creed
• Assassin's Creed II: Deluxe Edition
• Rome: Total War Complete Pack
• Company of Heroes Gold
• Medieval II: Total War Complete Pack
• Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
• Crysis - Maximum Edition
• Fable The Lost Chapters

Which comes out at a grand total of oh God I don't want to know £124.86. For 41 games (including expansion packs, excluding DLC).

Dayum.

[Busby]

I bought two copies of Anno 2070, one for myself and one for my brother. And that's it. There really wasn't anything that appealing during the sale that I didn't already own, so meh.

[DeafMute]

ONly thing I brought during the sale was the latest dlc skin pack for killing floor.
nothing else appealed to me when I either already completed it or am simply not interested. Hope something decent comes along during the christmas sales. Borderlands 2 perhaps.

[FriendlyFire]

My final list is:

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Driver: San Francisco
Stacking
Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands
L.A. Noire
Renegade Ops
Bejeweled 3
Sonic Generations
Trine 2

I have to say, I'm not quite as bad as some people.

[A7K]

I dunno Gorb when you average it out you only payed £3.00 per game. It may seem like a lot of money but that's a disgustingly good deal. Especially when you consider that a good number of those games are under 2-3 years old, and would usually run in the 20 dollar range. (Don't know the exact game prices for relatively recent titles bought new in £'s but here in the states they are usually $19.99.) You can pick up recent console games for steam like prices but they're generally pre-owned.

[Codex]

Sure he got them cheap but at the same time, where is going to get all the time to play them all?!

Not having internet at my house was the thing stopping me from going crazier on spending. Got LA. Noire to keep me going in the meantime... their motion capture is so realistic, it looks a bit creepy.

[Bowkers]

I didn't buy a thing. :smug:

[Rotlung]

You have only yourself to blame on that one

I'm a little ambivalent on the flash sales. I felt quite a bit of pressure to keep checking on Steam (even on my phone when I'm not at the computer) just to see if there's some interesting flash sale. While we only needed to check at least once a day for new offers, now we need to check several times a day to make sure we didn't miss anything interesting.

[Gorb]

I have to say, I'm not quite as bad as some people.

Oh shush, Mr. "OH BUY THE WITCHER BUY IT NOW NOW NOW NOW BUY NOW"

@A7K: £3.05 (3.0454) per game, yeah

That's what I used to rationalise my purchases, especially since the number picked up dramatically in the second half of the sale!

@Codex: A few of them I have played/owned before (War for Cybertron, CoH, Bioshock, Medieval II/Kingdoms and Rome: Total War to name a few) - just repopulating my gaming collection. I was annoyed that I lost the ones I just mentioned there!

Did I mention how amazing it is for my spelling OCD that you no longer have a . after your name?

I didn't buy a thing. :smug:

That's because you only play EVE and don't get special Private Messages

[Quak0r]

My wallet didn't suffer thaaaaaaaaaaaat much this time:

-Deus Ex: Human Revolution + All DLC
-Portal 2 ( don't you fucking judge me )
-From Dust

for a subtotal of 21,22 Euro.

(Holy crap that's 0,78 Euro less they I payed for 2 BATMAN tickets. Balls :/ )

[scoiatollo]

Space Pirates and Zombies(SPAZ)
Magicka Lonely Cruise DLC
Magicka: The Stars Are Left
Magicka: Holiday Spirit Item Pack
Magicka: Robe Bundle
Magicka: Frozen Lake
Magicka: Watchtower
Magicka: Final Frontier
Magicka: Nippon DLC
Magicka: Marshland
Magicka Gamer Bundle
Magicka: Horror Props Item Pack
Galactic Civilizations II
Alan Wake American Nightmare
The Final Hours of Portal 2
Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road DLC
Fallout New Vegas: Courier's Stash
Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues DLC
Fallout New Vegas: Gun Runners' Arsenal
Fallout New Vegas Honest Hearts DLC
Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident

€31,94, DLC can be expensive

Also I LOVE SPAZ, this game will be a time sink...

[Tregelen]

I managed to restrain myself and only ended up getting The Walking Dead and SPAZ, I say restrain, flat broke's more accurate.

And yes SPAZ is gloriously time-sinky.

[Akranadas]

My final tally:

Nuclear Dawn
Monkey Island Complete Pack
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
Wargame: European Escalation
Crysis Maximum Edition Bundle
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
Bastion
Assassin's Creed Revelations - Gold Edition
Might and Magic Heroes VI - Deluxe

[SpitfireMK461]

I held back this time around.

Assassin's Creed Pack (what a deal)
Payday: The Heist
Orks Must Die!

[Wrapper]

Here's the total for a little more than 200 USD (multiple cave-ins but no shame whatsoever and thanks for some nice suggestions). Looking forward to Orcs Must Die 2 co-op soon!

Crusader Kings II Songs of the Caliph
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Trine Bundle (Summer 2012)
Magicka Complete Pack (June 2012)
Crusader Kings II African Units Pack
Crusader Kings II Sword of Islam
CKII DLC Combo
Dungeon Defenders Collection (Summer 2012)
Vessel
Binding of Isaac Bundle (Summer 2012)
Trine 2 Collector's Edition Upgrade
Bastion
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Tactical Pack DLC
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Explosion Pack DLC
Deus Ex Human Revolution: The Missing Link DLC
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Augmented Edition
Limbo
Capsized
Divinity II - Dragon Knight Saga
Star Wars: KOTOR
Borderlands GOTY
Super Meat Boy
Braid
Orcs Must Die 2 Pre-Order 2 Pack
Mini Ninjas
AI War Bundle
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (WR)
Napoleon: Total War - Imperial Eagle Pack
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai - Sendai Faction Pack
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai - Tsu Faction Pack DLC
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai - Obama Faction Pack DLC
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai - Saga Faction Pack DLC
Stellar Impact Bundle
Dungeons Gold
Toy Soldiers
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Satazius
From Dust
Flotilla
Legend of Grimrock
Space Rangers 2: Reboot
Total War Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai
Skyrim
Overlord Complete Pack
Space Rangers
Dragon Age: Origins - The Awakening
Plants vs. Zombies
Arx Fatalis
Tribes: Ascend - Steam Starter Pack

[Nurizeko]

I regret buying DoW2.

[Kirjava]

Who doesn't?

[Cortlendt]

I do not. Though I bought everything almost at release.

[Integrity]

TLS is pretty fun.

[Gorb]

@Wrapper: finally, someone who spent more than I! My existence is validated; I am no longer the #1 consumer whore!

[ph03nIXx]

@Kirjava

I don't - spent 1200+ hours in the last years on that sucker... and yes, I am aware that that's nearly two months of my life... sleep not factored in...

[Codex]

Did I mention how amazing it is for my spelling OCD that you no longer have a . after your name?

trolololololol

A few of them I have played/owned before (War for Cybertron, CoH, Bioshock, Medieval II/Kingdoms and Rome: Total War to name a few) - just repopulating my gaming collection. I was annoyed that I lost the ones I just mentioned there!

Sure, I get that. I remember your unfortunate incident. Still, even 10 games new would take a LOT of time up. I would know...

-Portal 2 ( don't you fucking judge me )

I'm judging you! In a very favourable light!

I <3 Portal 2.

I regret buying DoW2.

I don't. Over all three DOW2 games I've easily spent in excess of 2000 hours on it. 500 hours a year? Hmmm... maybe some of that was afk time, but yeah, even 1500 hours wouldn't be an unfair estimate.

Don't judge me.

Or do. Do what you like.

[Kirjava]

I don't regret everything after Chaos Rising, just to clarify, but the original DoW2 was such a massive let-down in comparison to the first DoW that I couldn't not regret it.

[Thorno]

Who doesn't?

Not I. My most played Steam game. Chaos Rising coming in second.

[Lautaro]

I love DoW2. I played the demo without knowing anything about Warhammer 40k in general... a month later, I had DoW1 with all expansions and even some books.

[Croaxleigh]

The original DoW2 was one of the reasons I quit modding DoW. I just lost interest in the original after I got the sequel.

Gorb: He spent more than you, but only barely. After you convert your spending to USD he's only ahead of you by like $8.

[Fenra]

So.... Is it just me or did the steam sale seem somewhat underwhelming this year?

I only got SoaSE: Rebellion and Shogun 2 (normal, I wouldn't waste time in MP, only in it for the campaign). Maybe it's just me, but last year there was so much ... more hype than this year. Maybe it's just me thinking the downfall of the gaming industry? *shrug*

[Gorb]

@Croax: didn't even check for USD conversion, I just saw the number and jumped

Ah well, at least I'm still underneath him! VICTORY IS MINE.

[Jonny]

Space Marine's been worth the money, I've been having a blast knocking the shit out of orks with a thunder hammer and the whole thing oozes 40k. I'm a bit dubious about the plot, however,

Spoiler

Captain Tit finds out the power supply he picked up generates warp energy and doesn't blink, then he agrees with the wholly Codex approved tactic of firing an untested warp weapon called The Psychic Scourge and just as I quit for the eve he was standing in front of the firing button with a giant flarey energy thing above him encased in an eight pointed star of energy coils... I'm guessing everything works perfectly and they all live happily ever after?

[Starblade]

Anyone else having problems playing multiplayer games on Steam? For several different games it states the lobby is unavailable and you can't join.

[Croaxleigh]

Fenra: I imagine that part of it is just a response to the absolute clusterfuck that happened during the holiday sale. They likely wanted to keep this one low key.

Or they've just been busy working on that Linux client Gabe mentioned and threw this together at the last minute.