Steam Summer Sale 2016: Oh My Sweet Summer Deal

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Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

((( My Steam ID in case you have suggestions bro:http://steamcommunity.com/id/Palpek/ )))
((( Use IsThereAnyDeal to track your Steam wishlist on all the sites everywhere forever champ. )))

:gaben:

Welcome to the Steam (and other distribution platforms) Summer Sale of 2016 Thread. The "leaks" *wink wink* tell us it should start tomorrow so on June 23rd and you are a good person.

Pro-click: http://store.steampowered.com/ or better use http://gabegaming.com/, handsome.

:siren:

Join our #steamgoons IRC channel!. gorgeous :siren:

Other distribution services. Anyway, gently caress Steam Sale brother because there are better deals on:

Amazon.com used to have a fantastic Digital PC Downloads section with great deals (rip Tony), maybe it'll happen again?
Direct2Drive has a summer sale going right now.
Greenman Gaming sometimes just has the best deals and often offers a discount code that additionally shaves off 15-25% from the sale price.
Nuuvem is a Brazilian site but has already made a splash. Recently they started to lock up the regions so some titles may be available but many not.
Gamers Gate offers some cool daily deals but nothing too epic UNTIL they gently caress up the prices. $20 Bethesda's Catalogue anyone? Haha, just kidding, Bethesda sucks.
Humble Bundle has a store. Always remember to check their regular and weekly bundles while you're there. You are doing great.
Bundle Stars also has a store. They have some good deals on often obscure titles that aren't a highlight anywhere else.
Gamefly offers standard deals but then there's this ONE game that is absolutely cheaper than anywhere else.
Groupees always has 2-3 bundles going on at the same time. Better check them before you drop money on an obscure indie game. Be nice to strangers.
Indie Gala has a store. It sucks. But hey, sometimes it doesn't!

Actually Steam sucks so much that I don't even need Steam keys:

Good Old Games - GOG owns. Stay hydrated.
Origin is a good platform for cool people. It even does sales now, wow. It offers EA's big popular games that are not available on Steam: Battlefront, Battlefield, Fifa, NFS, SimCity, SimAnts, Sims, AntSims, SimSims, AntAnts.
Ubisoft Store offers Ubisoft games. Buying from them doesn't grant you a Steam key. AC:Syndicate is good. Be sure to use the same Uplay account on Steam games that require it. Otherwise you'll end up with 2 stupid accounts that can't be merged. Eat a vegetable every day.

Just kidding, I still love Steam! Rules of sale:

This sale will have no daily deals. Only flesh deals this time where you buy a ton of games on the first day and you have nothing left for food like flesh. The super important classic advice "not to buy games if it's not a daily deal" is actually dumb and bad now. But you're actually good.
Put a set amount of money to your Steam wallet AND NO MORE*. For self-control, don't be an animal. *Unless you are from an area that gets screwed by regional pricing a lot (eg. Australia). Put that sweet cash in your paypal, and you'll be sending off cash to one of our many regional gifters in no time, with no fuss!
Consider buying games as gifts into your inventory instead of your library and only open them when you intend to play them pussy destroyer OR
Get refunds - Valve's VR technology put the advancement of the science into 5th gear and Steam has refunds now, wow. Remember not to play a game longer than 2 hours because that's the dumb requirement but other than that you can safely try out a game and then give the trash back. Goons will try scaring you that Steam will put you on an FBI list and you will have to wait 2 hours for card drops and blah blah blah and hey, they might be right! You are strong though and you'll get through this.
Organize 2 or 4 packs where possible my brother. It can often save you and your gamer brothers a good sum of cash.
There are usually tons of games discounted 75%+ that aren't mentioned on the main page. Go hunting you gaming hero.

This year's metagame is ENTER GENERIC ADJECTIVE BEFORE STEAM CARDS which shockingly is the same metagame as last time.

They're Steam Cards� (by the way, here's a cool Steam card site that will help you sell cards) - there are 11 regular and 11 foil types. You can buy them and sell them on the market if you want. Whatever, do one nice thing every day.[/list]

:gaben:

Tips & Tricks:

Did you know we have an official Steam Goons IRC channel? If you want to talk about games, deals, find gifters, give out games or just chill out - come on over. We're active throughout the year. Just don't be a dickhead and don't beg for games and be yourself champion.
IsThereAnyDeal will e-mail you about deals on games from your wishlist when they hit prices you specifically set. It scans ALL distribution sites for those. This is an amazing service that will also make you spend all your money. Make friends.
Use Cheap Shark to find good deals and Steam Prices to find out where it's the cheapest!
Augment your Steam! Install Enhanced Steam: for Chrome, for Mozilla. Lmao Mozilla, you're a pretty cool guy so you're not using that crap.
"This might be a stupid question, but how do you get to the regular store screen?" -You can't. Big sales traditionally take over regular Steam until they're over.

Recommendations:

Here's my big list of cheap games written over the years of Steam Sales in the form of a handy google doc. Notice that it's a bit outdated now so ask for newer games in this thread.
We have SA goon curators you can follow. Thumbs up, bro!
Freak Futanari aka Waifu Hunter has solid recommendations for the best titties on Steam. This guy is a winner and so are you.

A goon - Too Lazy To Stop made this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKiMYH9bHcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU3Iovc1Mes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpqBh5Y2MyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBgdnNoJE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-giY_ewM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DEB0OIwBC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlgZZd-Yxro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr2GdRBDOmU

http://gaben.tv/

https://gaben.amigocraft.net/

Palpek fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jun 23, 2016

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:13

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:46

Pewdiepie: Oct 31, 2010

Palpek posted:

((( My Steam ID in case you have suggestions bro:http://steamcommunity.com/id/Palpek/ )))
((( Use IsThereAnyDeal to track your Steam wishlist on all the sites everywhere forever champ. )))

Welcome to the Steam (and other distribution platforms) Summer Sale of 2016 Thread. The "leaks" *wink wink* tell us it should start tomorrow so on June 23rd and you are a good person.

Pro-click: http://store.steampowered.com/ or better use http://gabegaming.com/, handsome.

Join our #steamgoons IRC channel!. gorgeous

Other distribution services. Anyway, gently caress Steam Sale brother because there are better deals on:

Amazon.com used to have a fantastic Digital PC Downloads section with great deals (rip Tony), maybe it'll happen again?

Greenman Gaming sometimes just has the best deals and often offers a discount code that additionally shaves off 15-25% from the sale price.

Nuuvem is a Brazilian site but has already made a splash. Recently they started to lock up the regions so some titles may be available but many not.

Gamers Gate offers some cool daily deals but nothing too epic UNTIL they gently caress up the prices. $20 Bethesda's Catalogue anyone? Haha, just kidding, Bethesda sucks.

Humble Bundle has a store. Always remember to check their regular and weekly bundles while you're there. You are doing great.

Bundle Stars also has a store. They have some good deals on often obscure titles that aren't a highlight anywhere else.

Gamefly offers standard deals but then there's this ONE game that is absolutely cheaper than anywhere else.

Groupees always has 2-3 bundles going on at the same time. Better check them before you drop money on an obscure indie game. Be nice to strangers.

Indie Gala has a store. It sucks. But hey, sometimes it doesn't!

Actually Steam sucks so much that I don't even need Steam keys:

Good Old Games - GOG owns. Stay hydrated.

Origin is a good platform for cool people. It even does sales now, wow. It offers EA's big popular games that are not available on Steam: Battlefront, Battlefield, Fifa, NFS, SimCity, SimAnts, Sims, AntSims, SimSims, AntAnts.

Ubisoft Store offers Ubisoft games. Buying from them doesn't grant you a Steam key. AC:Syndicate is good. Be sure to use the same Uplay account on Steam games that require it. Otherwise you'll end up with 2 stupid accounts that can't be merged. Eat a vegetable every day.

Just kidding, I still love Steam! Rules of sale:

This sale will have no daily deals. Only flesh deals this time where you buy a ton of games on the first day and you have nothing left for food like flesh. The super important classic advice "not to buy games if it's not a daily deal" is actually dumb and bad now. But you're actually good.

Put a set amount of money to your Steam wallet AND NO MORE*. For self-control, don't be an animal. *Unless you are from an area that gets screwed by regional pricing a lot (eg. Australia). Put that sweet cash in your paypal, and you'll be sending off cash to one of our many regional gifters in no time, with no fuss!

Consider buying games as gifts into your inventory instead of your library and only open them when you intend to play them pussy destroyer OR

Get refunds - Valve's VR technology put the advancement of the science into 5th gear and Steam has refunds now, wow. Remember not to play a game longer than 2 hours because that's the dumb requirement but other than that you can safely try out a game and then give the trash back. Goons will try scaring you that Steam will put you on an FBI list and you will have to wait 2 hours for card drops and blah blah blah and hey, they might be right! You are strong though and you'll get through this.

Organize 2 or 4 packs where possible my brother. It can often save you and your gamer brothers a good sum of cash.

There are usually tons of games discounted 75%+ that aren't mentioned on the main page. Go hunting you gaming hero.

This year's metagame is ENTER GENERIC ADJECTIVE BEFORE STEAM CARDS which shockingly is the same metagame as last time.

They're Steam Cards� (by the way, here's a cool Steam card site that will help you sell cards) - there are 11 regular and 11 foil types. You can buy them and sell them on the market if you want. Whatever, do one nice thing every day.[/list]

Tips & Tricks:

Did you know we have an official Steam Goons IRC channel? If you want to talk about games, deals, find gifters, give out games or just chill out - come on over. We're active throughout the year. Just don't be a dickhead and don't beg for games and be yourself champion.

IsThereAnyDeal will e-mail you about deals on games from your wishlist when they hit prices you specifically set. It scans ALL distribution sites for those. This is an amazing service that will also make you spend all your money. Make friends.

Use Cheap Shark to find good deals and Steam Prices to find out where it's the cheapest!

Augment your Steam! Install Enhanced Steam: for Chrome, for Mozilla. Lmao Mozilla, you're a pretty cool guy so you're not using that crap.

"This might be a stupid question, but how do you get to the regular store screen?" -You can't. Big sales traditionally take over regular Steam until they're over.

Recommendations:

Here's my big list of cheap games written over the years of Steam Sales in the form of a handy google doc. Notice that it's a bit outdated now so ask for newer games in this thread.

We have SA goon curators you can follow. Thumbs up, bro!

Freak Futanari aka Waifu Hunter has solid recommendations for the best titties on Steam. This guy is a winner and so are you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU3Iovc1Mes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpqBh5Y2MyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBgdnNoJE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-giY_ewM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DEB0OIwBC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlgZZd-Yxro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr2GdRBDOmU

http://gaben.tv/

https://gaben.amigocraft.net/

Epic. Simply epic.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:16

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

The sale can't come soon enough

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:24

Mierenneuker: Apr 28, 2010; We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

I still have 40 bucks sitting in my Steam account from selling that one chest that came with the first Dota 2 compendium (it took a while to find a buyer). I'm ready for you, summer sale.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:26

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Oh yeah remember to get a smartphone to authenticate your sweet card sales.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:29

strategery: Apr 21, 2004; I come to you baring a gift. Its in my diper and its not a toaster.

Palpek posted:

Other distribution services. Anyway, gently caress Steam Sale brother because there are better deals on:

You forgot Direct 2 Drive

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:41

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

strategery posted:

You forgot Direct 2 Drive

Ah, I never used it, I'll add it, it seems to have a summer sale going on now.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:44

Mr E: Sep 18, 2007

That is a good OP. I plan on getting DOOM if it's on sale and probably a whole bunch of smaller games on my wishlist.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:44

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

The sale can't come soon enough

Was this game gifted so much they thought they needed another?

tater_salad fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Jun 22, 2016

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:50

Mordja: Apr 26, 2014; Hell Gem

Palpek posted:

Only flesh deals this time where you buy a ton of games on the first day and you have nothing left for food like flesh. The super important classic advice "not to buy games if it's not a daily deal" is actually dumb and bad now. But you're actually good.

Not sure what you're trying to say here but uh :stare:

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:50

Ragequit: Jun 1, 2006; Lipstick Apathy

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:51

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

If Doom went on sale it would be epic but I don't think so.

I'm counting on FC Primal, Firewatch, The Witness, Oxenfree, Beginner's Guide and a few others.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:51

Yakiniku Teishoku: Mar 16, 2011; Peace On Egg

So many games I'd love to get but I'm on a pretty tight budget for this sale and Zero Time Dilemma comes out right in the middle of it, so that's probably where my money's going. Hoping for at least a token launch discount but no signs of one so far

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:54

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Time to blow my Wad, of wallet money.. Friday is PAYDAY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUo1PgKksgw

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:57

Shrecknet: Jan 2, 2005

Booking this thread and unbooking Steam thread for dank sale memes and people posting their hauls like screeching into an uncaring void.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 18:57

Darkhold: Feb 19, 2011; No Heart❤️
No Soul👻
No Service🙅

Primal is pretty much the only big game on my radar.

Pathetically the games I most want on a deep discount are games I already have but on other platforms that I can't be bothered to load up. Looking at you Tomb Raider Rise of Raidering.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:01

Tardcore: Jan 24, 2011; Not cool enough for the Spider-man club.

Hoo boy I can't wait to buy some games I'll ultimately find disappointing and refund the next day

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:04

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Yakiniku Teishoku posted:

So many games I'd love to get but I'm on a pretty tight budget for this sale and Zero Time Dilemma comes out right in the middle of it, so that's probably where my money's going. Hoping for at least a token launch discount but no signs of one so far

budget yourself for a bunch of low end games to take your time, also join on the gift train once or twice sometimes you get lucky.

The only way to save yourself is unbookmark this thread, and the other steam thread, and go play cards for a week.. The sales.. the draw.. it's too much.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:05

Mordja: Apr 26, 2014; Hell Gem

I usually play ARPGs with my brother on Skype while we shoot the poo poo and don't have to focus much; would we be better served buying Grim Dawn or Van Helsing FC? I get that GD is the better game, but it also sounds more hardcore and we've actually played VH #2 so I know it's good for that.

Then again, we also played Titan Quest back in the day and that worked out too. :shrug:

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:09

Quidthulhu: Dec 17, 2003; Stand down, men! It's only smooching!

Palpek posted:

Oh yeah remember to get a smartphone to authenticate your sweet card sales.

Wait, I don't pay attention to cards. What do you mean by this.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:10

put both hands in: Nov 28, 2007; FYFE

I'm in the northern hemisphere for the first time during a steam sale so I'm actually going to be awake when it starts

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:10

deep dish peat moss: Jul 27, 2006

I converted all of the money in my bank account in to cash in anticipation of this sale.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:11

Darkhold: Feb 19, 2011; No Heart❤️
No Soul👻
No Service🙅

Quidnose posted:

Wait, I don't pay attention to cards. What do you mean by this.

Well many people are butthurt they made it so you have to authenticate any steam marketplace posting or you get a two week delay or something. If you're selling cards for penny shavings it's probably more trouble than it's worth

Sadly I still do it. That extra �6 I have in steam bucks is really going to pay off some day for having to hit 'ok' on my phone 100 or so times.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:14

Furnaceface: Oct 21, 2004

Ragequit posted:

Nori Aoki approving my binge purchasing of discounted (probably) lovely anime games during this sale.

Also probably DOOM.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 19:14

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Doctor Cave posted:

I'm in the northern hemisphere for the first time during a steam sale so I'm actually going to be awake when it starts

Do you mean western? I think if were in teh southwestern hemisphere you'd still be awake.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:00

devtesla: Jan 2, 2012; Grimey Drawer

tater_salad posted:

Do you mean western? I think if were in teh southwestern hemisphere you'd still be awake.

yes, but it would be winter and that would ruin the summer sale feels

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:03

QuarkJets: Sep 8, 2008

Palpek posted:

This sale will have no daily deals. Only flesh deals this time

At last, Steam sales have reached their logical conclusion. Prepare your rituals, Lord Newell's time is at hand

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:19

Dark_Swordmaster: Oct 31, 2011

I'm most excited for whatever this year's weird metagame will be. I guess cheap games are good too but it's always a surprise whatever Steam cooks up for this.

Did last winter's ARG/detective poo poo get solved?

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:23

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

QuarkJets posted:

At last, Steam sales have reached their logical conclusion. Prepare your rituals, Lord Newell's time is at hand

The flesh is weak, the sales are absolute.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:27

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Palpek posted:

This sale will have no daily deals. Only flesh deals this time

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:32

Guy Mann: Mar 28, 2016; by Lowtax

Steam added the ability to customize the discovery queue, including the ability to block Early Access games and blacklist keywords, so even if that's the entirety of the sale metagame again it will still be better than last winter.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:41

deep dish peat moss: Jul 27, 2006

Guy Mann posted:

Steam added the ability to customize the discovery queue, including the ability to block Early Access games and blacklist keywords, so even if that's the entirety of the sale metagame again it will still be better than last winter.

Blocking the "Visual Novel" "RPG Maker" tags made the discovery queue usable for me, I've never bought or played a visual novel game or a game made in RPG Maker but I've looked at over 1,000 games in the discovery queue and about 900 of them were visual novels made in RPG Maker. Thanks for pointing this out :cool:

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:52

put both hands in: Nov 28, 2007; FYFE

tater_salad posted:

Do you mean western? I think if were in teh southwestern hemisphere you'd still be awake.

Normally I'm in Australia where the sale starts at 4am. This time I'm in Spain. First time I get to experience the summer sale in summer

# ? Jun 22, 2016 20:55

owl_pellet: Nov 20, 2005; show your enemy
what you look like

I got money in my Steam wallet and a bad attitude, time to buy some games :clint:

Looking for some combination of these:

Arkham Knight (depends on how well it runs on my machine)
Dark Souls 2: SotFS
Darkest Dungeon
Far Cry 4
Invisible, Inc.
Life is Strange Episodes 2-5
Lightning Returns: FFXIII
MGSV
Pillars of Eternity
Pinball FX2 assorted tables
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Also wondering what they're gonna do for their metagame this time around. The clicker thing last year was weird and dumb but it was kinda neat the way that people broke it over their knee with coordinated groups joining games and everything.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 21:05

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Spend all your money

# ? Jun 22, 2016 21:06

sauer kraut: Oct 2, 2004

I just paid full price for the Witcher 3 season pass, I must attone to gaben for my transgressions :smith:

# ? Jun 22, 2016 21:07

Dark_Swordmaster: Oct 31, 2011

Guy Mann posted:

Steam added the ability to customize the discovery queue, including the ability to block Early Access games and blacklist keywords, so even if that's the entirety of the sale metagame again it will still be better than last winter.

Holy loving poo poo you are a godsend!

# ? Jun 22, 2016 21:08

Furnaceface: Oct 21, 2004

FactsAreUseless posted:

Spend all your money

Waaaaay ahead of you there! Now its time to spend money that isnt mine.

Paradox is usually pretty cool during sales so even though Stellaris and HoI4 are rather new I bet we see 10-20% sales on them. And you should jump all over that because they are both really good games.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 21:09

mbt: Aug 13, 2012

why are the pillars of eternity expacs on sale but
1. not that much off
2. the bundle isn't on sale

paging rope kid who probably has absolutely nothing to do with this

# ? Jun 22, 2016 21:10

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:46

Polio Vax Scene: Apr 5, 2009

If a game I want goes on sale and its something like 10% off do I wait until the last day of the sale to see if it goes down further?

# ? Jun 22, 2016 21:22

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