Headline With A ? – Is This The Steam Summer Sale?

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Headline With A ? – Is This The Steam Summer Sale?

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Started 11 years ago by Anonymous
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What a bloody funny world it is to live in these days. Not content with leaking the existence of most every major game before it’s even announced, the internet lately feels it’s necessary to also spread advance, unofficial word about big discount events. A dedicated explore of Steam’s database files has allegedly thrown up alleged details on what allegedly might allegedly be the alleged Steam Summer alleged Sale, which allegedly includes the following games and packs allegedly discounted enormously. There are dozens of the blighters. Allegedly.

We don’t have prices yet, but here’s what we might possibly potentially maybe perhaps you never know be in for across the first 11 days of the sale, in terms of bundled packs:

Day 1: Anomaly Warzone Earth, The Baconing, Cave Story+, EDGE, Lone Survivor.
Day 2: Botanicula, E.Y.E, Oil Rush, Splice, Universe Sandbox,
Day 3: Bit Trip Beat, Braid, Bunch of Heroes, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Runespell Overture,
Day 4: A Valley Without Wind, Atom Zombie Smasher, Blocks that Matter, Sanctum, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP,
Day 5: Audio Surf, Gemini Rue, Greed Corp, Tiny Bang Story, Ys: The Oath in Felghana
Day 6: Awesome, Defcon, Space Chem, Ticket to Ride, Trauma
Day 7: Avadon, Dungeons of Dredmor, Qube, Vessel, Zombie Driver
Day 8: Demolition Inc, Hoard, Sol Exodus, Swords and Soldiers HD, Wings of Prey,
Day 9: Capsized, Jamestown, Revenge of the Titans, VVVVVV, Zeno Clash
Day 10: All Zombies Must Die, Beat Hazard, Bit trip Runner, Eufloria, Machinarium
Day 11: Hydrophobia, Orion: Dino Beatdown, Star Ruler, Waveform, World of Goo

Day 4 would be my major pick there. Then ALLEGEDLY ALRIGHT ALLEGEDLY we’ll also be seeing this stuff go through the atom price-smasher:

1C Collection Pack
Adam’s Venture Complete Bundle Retail
Anno 2070 Pack
Batman Arkham Asylum, Batman Arkham City and Batman Gotham City Imposters Bundle
Bethesda Collection (BRINK, Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, Hunted)
Bioshock Franchise Pack
BIT.TRIP.BEAT Bundle
BIT.TRIP.RUNNER Bundle
Carpe Fulger Bundle (Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, Chantelise, Fortune Summoners)
Civilization Collection
Command and Conquer Franchise
Dawn of War Franchise Pack
Dead Island Complete
Duke Nukem Bundle
Foreign Legion Bundle
Kalypso Collection (Tropico, Jagged Alliance, Airline Tycoon, etc)
Majesty Franchise
Paradox Collection (Magicka + dlcs, Mount and Blade, etc)
Pendulo Adventure Pack
Railworks 3 – Summer Sale Collection
Red Orchestra Franchise Pack (ROW)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bundle
Saints Row: The Third Franchise Pack
Sniper Elite Franchise Pack
Square Hit Collection (Hitman, Tomb Raider, Just Cause 2, Deus Ex, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Quantum Conundrum, Thief)
Stardock Collection Pack
Strategy First Complete Pack
Sword of the Stars Franchise
THQ Collection (Dawn of War, Warhammer, Stalker, Nexuiz, Darksiders, Metro 2033, etc)
Total War: Shogun 2 Pack
Victoria Franchise
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Pack
Wings of Prey

Blimey. Poverty never looked quite so entertaining, eh?

This comes via the Bronasium’s (what a name!) rifle through Steam’s content description files, though I first saw it on the Reddits.
By Alec Meer on July 9th, 2012 at 3:00 pm.
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Posted 11 years ago #
Campy
Member

If this is true, I would consider it a major disappointment. Better than nothing, but still not what we have become accustomed to getting. I am really getting tired of package sales where I already bought several of the games and have to pay the full package price to get one of two I still want. That isn't a way to encourage early buying. It is a way to rip off your existing customers. STEAM needs a process like GOG. When GOG discounts a bundle of games, they provide a discount on the remaining games.

Posted 11 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Thanks TX for the heads up

Got to agree with you there Campy, every Inde game bundle I've seen I've already got 80 to 100% of the titles and apart from the Indie Royale Alpha Bundle and the Bake Sale Bundle.

I;d been wondering when the Steam sales may appear. Should be anytime soon, but from the list quoted I'm a little disappointed. I have almost 50 games in my manage gifts and game passes, and am still wondering what to do with them. I've already given away a whole host of them over the last few years. (Great feeling giving them away though).

Despite having plugged Steam on these forums massively over the last three years I do feel that they don't care about their loyal customers; the GOG method is actually a really fair system and does reward loyal customers. I know I've not been overly kind to GOG at times, but I must admit they have resurrected some fabulous oldies over the last three years.

From the list above I can at see least a few games that I've been considering that I don't already have, i.e. Ticket to Ride, Orion: Dino Beatdown, most of the Adam’s Venture Complete Bundle, half of the Foreign Legion Bundle and several Railworks DLC's and hopefully the latest Sins of a Solar Empire (from the Stardock bundle). :)

Posted 11 years ago #
Campy
Member

Sale has started. Seems a little better than I thought. There are package deals for big groups of games, daily deals for individual games or smaller groups of games, and flash sales that must be less than a day (get them while you can). Group 1 above is the daily indie game pack. You can get the entire pack for 75% off ($9.99), but you can also get discounts on 4 of the 5 individual games in the pack ranging from 35% to 50%. So that at least partially addresses the concern that Rabbit & I expressed above. There is also a voting process to vote for which of a few possible sales you want them to offer. The overall sale runs through July 22nd. Discounts are generally 50% to 75% off. One hot one today is Portal 2 @75% off ($4.99).

Posted 11 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

NOOOOO !!!

Posted 11 years ago #
Terri218
Member

This was posted on Facebook today.

"If there was ever a time to get The Clockwork Man series, this is it!

Starting today and just until July 23, both games are bundled on Steam at the amazing price of... Well, have a look! ($9.99)
Save 50% on The Clockwork Man Bundle on Steam"

store.steampowered.com

Posted 11 years ago #
Campy
Member

I have been looking at this a little more. There are tons of things on sale that aren't obvious on the front page. The key will be checking STEAMS front page for special deals and then using Didimatic to see other games on sale. Also, I noticed that the voting leads to a new deal every eight hours. Also, for the flash deals, each deal has a timer that shows how long it will be available. For the four flash deals showing now, the current timers vary from 3 hours to 9 hours remaining.

Posted 11 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Thanks for the heads up guys. been away all day so haven't even booted up steam yet. Now I've got some serious trawling through my wish list (around 140 games) to see if any are on offer. :)

Posted 11 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

It seems Didimatic is overrun by gamers with too much money???
I can only get the first page.

Posted 11 years ago #
Campy
Member

Thanks for the heads up guys. been away all day so haven't even booted up steam yet. Now I've got some serious trawling through my wish list (around 140 games) to see if any are on offer. :)

There are 140 games you still don't own?

Posted 11 years ago #
pavid
gamer extraordinaire & knowledgeable computer nerd who likes to argue, but is still a very nice guy

Not to worry Campy, the rabbit often wishes for games he already has. I think it is something to do with his rabbit ears slipping into analog mode a bit too often.

Posted 11 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Haha pavid. Actually there's around 400 games available on Steam that I don't own, but of those only 140 or so are worth playing (for me at least) lol

Posted 11 years ago #
Campy
Member

My final damage = $71.40. Not bad. Almost everything was 66% or 75% off and in many cases that was a discount from a price that was already substantially reduced from when the game was originally launched. The one time I broke down was on The Walking Dead. I did get it for 40% off, but the first time they offered it at that price I passed on it thinking I would be able to get it for less at Christmas. Besides, I have plenty to play now. However, when it came up again at 40% off I decided I wanted to have it to play to get me in the mood a little before the new season starts in October.

Posted 11 years ago #
pavid
gamer extraordinaire & knowledgeable computer nerd who likes to argue, but is still a very nice guy

OMG Campy, couldn't you have saved the Steam Christmas sale anticipation until next week? I'm still trying to work out how much I spent and exactly what I bought. :)

Posted 11 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

Please don't forget the Thanksgiving Sale and the Halloween Sale :)

Posted 11 years ago #
Campy
Member

Please don't forget the Thanksgiving Sale and the Halloween Sale :)

Both after the start of the new season.

Posted 11 years ago #
pavid
gamer extraordinaire & knowledgeable computer nerd who likes to argue, but is still a very nice guy

<puts tail between legs and walks away whimpering> (OMG when did I get a tail?)

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