Steam has come for you wallets again.
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Had some steam wallet credit left from selling steam cards, so I got Ion Fury for €8.02. Bit of old school blasting. Should be fun. Also, cuz it's Build Engine, it's tiny. When was the last time you downloaded and installed a game in under 10 seconds?
Anyway, that's probably going to be it. Still got €10 left in my monthly budget, but can't think of anything to use it on.
Anyway, that's probably going to be it. Still got €10 left in my monthly budget, but can't think of anything to use it on.
People actually buy those cards? I got a millions but when I tried to sell them it was such a pita to do that I gave up.
Ruin has come to our family...
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God damn it I may actually go to Epic Store for DD2
Sure they do. Though prices have plummeted ever since Valve put in some measures to curb abuses. But I remember that for a few years I could amass enough credit from selling cards throughout the year to be able to buy a cheap game come the holiday season.
As time has gone on, I've become less and less interested in the steam sales. Mostly because I just get the games I want when I want them which is usually at release. Or damn near.
But also because I've shifted and started becoming more and more of a console gamer. Over this pandemic especially with virtually endless time during lockdown, I barely touched my PC and instead completed game after game on PS4. I dunno, I think I'm starting to value the ease of just firing up a console and playing on a giant TV versus the high power of a PC.
But also because I've shifted and started becoming more and more of a console gamer. Over this pandemic especially with virtually endless time during lockdown, I barely touched my PC and instead completed game after game on PS4. I dunno, I think I'm starting to value the ease of just firing up a console and playing on a giant TV versus the high power of a PC.
I just tried a bit, what an incredibly terrible system. There's plenty of "buy" order for almost every card, but instead of just going to my inventory and click "sell at whatever price is highest now" I have to guess the price people are willing to buy it in a screen with no information about the current buy order. To find the buy order I need to open another window, go to community market place, find the game, find the card in the list, lookup what the highest buy order is and finally enter that amount. All that for maybe 5 cents.
I remember playing trough portal with dev commentary on and valve dev were absolutely obsessed with getting every little details right and making things as seamless as possible. Where was that attitude when it came time to design the steam store? If Valve gets a cut of every transaction between user, why aren't they trying to make this as easy as possible?
You can thank asset flippers for that. They were gaming the system, so Valve changed it, but this also made it a huge pain for legit users. Market crashed, prices bottomed. I still sell mine, but the amount of cred you can still get is not really worth it. It's mostly just to clean house and be rid of them.
The sales don't feel worth it lately, either. Just about everything is still in the ~$20 range or above even discounted, and you know you're gonna get nickel-and-dimed on microtransactions and DLC anyways.
Well, technically I guess Titanfall 2, Maximum Action, and the Colorado expansion to American Truck Simulator, though I bought them before the sale started.
Not sure if im gonna get much.
Probably going to spend a bit for christmas gifts for friends, but other than that, I need to wrestle with whether or not I want to sink a bunch of cash into Total War: Warhammer 2
I've barely touched the game, but im a sucker for getting the full experience - especially if I want to give it another shot.
God, im terrible with money.
Probably going to spend a bit for christmas gifts for friends, but other than that, I need to wrestle with whether or not I want to sink a bunch of cash into Total War: Warhammer 2
I've barely touched the game, but im a sucker for getting the full experience - especially if I want to give it another shot.
God, im terrible with money.
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I'm actually not sure how much I'll get either. I'm pretty tempted by Darksiders Genesis, blaster master 1/2, Ori and the will of the wisps, and Forsaken remastered. But, I'm currently working my way through Control and Blasphemous. On top of playing Warframe and Cyberpunk 2077 comes out in a couple weeks. So, I'm just not sure how much time I would have to play anything new.
I never understood the Steam sale, or more accurately I don't get the anticipation/reaction. Are gamers really waiting all year long to get a 50% discount on The Outer Worlds, or Mafia? I mean if these were new releases like that viking game that would be one thing, but they're not. They're games that are years old. Just feels...I dunno, off.
Its like going to Walmart and seeing a sale on Transformers: The Last Knight toys. I'm pretty sure anyone who was interested already got them a while ago.
Its like going to Walmart and seeing a sale on Transformers: The Last Knight toys. I'm pretty sure anyone who was interested already got them a while ago.
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Did you not even look at the sales? Doom Eternal is 67% off, Ori and the Will of the Wisps is 50% off, Starwars Squadrons is 40% off, Resident Evil 3 is 67% off. Those are all games that came out this year, some only a couple months ago.
There isn't much on sale that interests me this time around. Death Stranding is still ten dollars too expensive for my tastes, and I feel like I'm missing out on something with Control if I can't do ray-tracing. Serious Sam 4 might have interested me if I hadn't seen all the bad reviews.
I mean, if you're willing to wait for a game(possibly because you have like 400 other steam games you also bought on sale), you can get some really nice discounts. You know that game that was full price a year ago? Now it's $20 and it's the GOTY edition. I paid 1/3 of of the launch price for a more complete product.
And then still not play it for a year because you're still working through the backlog from the past 100 games you bought on sale.
The joy of deep discount sales.
I remember getting 1 year old games for $5. That was a sale. They never do such things anymore
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Do you remember what games? Cause the sale price is set by the publisher, not Steam.
