Steam Summer Sale 2015 after action report

[PointlessKnowledge]

I was very cheap this summer:

Life is Strange: Episode 1
Cook, Serve, Delicious
Killer is Dead
DreadOut
Guacamelee!

Spent less than $20 CAD in total, so I consider this some sort of victory.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I'm finding that, thanks to previous sales, there's not really a whole lot left on Steam that I actually want.

All I bought this past sale were...
1. FTL
2. The Wolf Among Us
3. Infested Planet

Not sure how much I spent. Maybe $10 USD?

EDIT:

Overspender reporting for duty! I bought 103 games.
...
...
Oh GOD. WHAT DID I DO?

When I was at college one of my roommates was the youngest child of a doctor and a lawyer (he was also the only child who was actually born to them, the others were from previous marriages - so they tended to spoil him). They entrusted him with their credit cards.

During our senior year, when the Steam Christmas sale hit, I asked him if he bought anything. He told me he bought everything. I asked a follow-up, "everything that you were looking to get on sale?" His response?

"No no no, I mean I bought everything."

He bought every damn game that was available at that time on Steam.

 

[Weresquirrel]

Legend of Korra - £1.94 (£11.99)
Revengeance - £4.62 (£19.99)
Ori - £8.78 (£14.99)
Xenoverse - £19.99 (£39.99)
One Finger Death Punch - £0.79 (£3.99)


Total - £36.12
Value - £90.95
Saved - £54.83

I spent more this year than I did in the last couple of years.

 

[Mahorfeus]

It was... worse than I hoped it would be. My console and PC backlog are already terrible enough.

DreadOut
Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Valkyria Chronicles
Talisman: Digital Edition - Gold Pack
SUNLESS SEA
Sonic Adventure DX
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle

On a plus side, I was able to sell a few of my trading cards and use the funds to buy myself the Captain Bamboo courier for Dota 2.

 

[Metalmacher]

Bought only Borderlands 2 GOTYE lol But in my defence I have other hobbies which demand my wallet, so...

 

[EXos]

Too many... again. T_T 470 Games and counting. When I retire I'll be set for the next fifty years if I keep this up. XD

 

[C_sector]

Escape Machines 0.14 cents
Caster 0.20 cents

oh no's thats 4 cents over budget!!

hehehehehe

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I just got FF13 and 13-2 and the Legend of Korra. Lack of funds for anything else, otherwise I'd have gotten a couple more titles.

 

[OpticalJunction]

Dark souls prepare to die edition. I'm pretty happy, I've wanted this game for a while!

 

[kris40k]

Valkyria Chronicles
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
Legend of Korra
Miasmata
GameMaker: Studio Android

Games were pretty cheap, $15
GM Android compiler was $75 + tax, and I usually get it straight from the developer as opposed to going through Steam but it was a good deal over the usual $300 price tag. GameMaker 2 is slated for the end of the year so I was considering holding off on it, but I have a few projects in mind I'd like to get out on Android earlier than the end of the year, plus without knowledge of what features, pricing, etc. the new GM is going to have, not sure if it was worth waiting 6 more months just to go "Meh."

 

[Evonisia]

Only got The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion at half price. Would have gotten XCOM: Enemy Unknown at the £5 price it was at in the sale, but it was reduced to £3.75 the day XCOM 2 was announced shortly before the sale began.

 

[crono738]

-Sniper Elite 3
-Brothers
-6ish Payday 2 dlc packs
-Shovel Knight
-Ori and the Blind Forest

About $42 USD by the end.

 

[Patathatapon]

All these money measurements in CAD:

- Quake 4 $10.99
- I am bread $6.99 I think? I forgot
- The Talos principle I forgot again.


Total: spent money < $25... I think.


You could say I suffered pretty badly simply by the fact I can't remember any of what I spent.

 

[happyninja42]

Let's see if I can recall all of it:

Metro 2033 and Last Light Redux
Warhammer 40K Dawn of War 1&2, and a few of the expansions
Mark of the Ninja
Warhammer 40K Space Marine
.......
.......
Hmm, I think that's it? Pretty sure I'm missing one or two, but I'm not at my home computer so I can't check it.

 

[Xeros]

Darkest Dungeon
Sunless Sea
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel DLC
Audiosurf 2
Heavy Bullets
Transistor

Not sure what the damage was on those purchases; they all seemed so minuscule at the time.

 

[Christian Neihart]

Only things I got were Ark: Survival Evolved, Zigurat, Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery, all the Dark Souls 2 DLC, and Titan Souls. Overall, it was pretty tame.

 

[ultrabiome]

just two games this year:

Endless Legend
Geometry Wars 3

for a total of about $24.

between previous sales, humble bundles, and a backlog, this sale was pretty underwhelming to me. i would have considered Wolfenstein: TNO for $10 or Borderlands: Pre-sequel + season pass for $20, but they didn't get that low yet.

 

[Frankster]

-Payday 2 DLC
-Freedom Planet
-Eu4 DLC

Total costs: something 15£, a modest spending spree.

And well worth it, Freedom Planet might be my GOTY 2016, I'm dead serious.
I actually feel bad about buying it 75% off :/

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

Casualties this year have been mercifully few.

Endless Legend and Shadowrun: Dragonfall are the only two who fell through. Funeral costs estimated at $25

 

[Darks63]

Not sure if it counts but I got all of my stuff from GoG this summer.

Games that were free due to money spent or part of a promotion
Xenonauts
Stalker Clear sky
Battle Realms
Simcity 2000

Games I bought
Banner saga
Legend of Grimrock 2
Star Wars Empire at War
Witcher 1
Wasteland 2
Avernum 2
Afterlife
Red Baron collection
Apotheon
It cost me around 60 bucks all together.