Steam Discounting Over 1000 Games
It's a holiday blowout for PC gamers.
The holidays are upon us and many Tom's readers are looking to find ways to keep occupied during some well-earned time off. Valve Software's Steam service has just the remedy with the just-launched Steam Holiday Sale, its traditional end-of-the-year blowout that offers gamers up to 80-percent off on select titles. Why not get caught up on some classic games for just a few bucks?
According to Valve, the sale offers daily and week-long saving on featured titles, publisher game packs and compilations. "In addition to the usual savings specials, each day of the sale will feature a special Holiday Bonus on one select title," Valve said. "The twist: Players must qualify for the Holiday Bonus by owning another Steam game. For example, the first Holiday Bonus is Portal--save an extra 10-percent if you own Half-Life 2. If you already own the title, Steam will automatically detect this and offer you the 10-percent savings during check out."
Monday's initial one-day-only deals include the FEAR Complete Pack for $9.97, Titan Quest Gold for $4.99, the Deus Ex Collection for $2.99, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition for $20.09, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for $6.79 and a few more. As of this writing, just over three hours remain on this particular selection of PC games, so expect a different batch by 1pm EST on Tuesday.
As for the Mega Packs, The Epic Unreal Deal costs $14.99 and consists of Unreal Gold, Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Unreal 2: The Awakening, and Unreal Tournament 3 Black. Other mega packs are provided from 2K Games ($79.99), THQ ($49.99), Bethesda ($69.99), Rockstar ($39.99), Valve ($49.99) and a few others.
For those who can't purchase the mega packs, each publisher is offering a discount including 50-percent off all Valve titles, 50-percent off all Square-Enix and Eidos games, 50-percent off most LucasArts games, 25-percent off Sega games and so on.
Valve's Steam Holiday Sale ends on January 2, 2011. To see the full 31-page spread without the Steam client, head here.
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Whoopee!
Yeah there goes all my money, happens every year. Gotta love Steam, one of the most positive things that has ever happened to PC gaming.
Yeah there goes all my money, happens every year. Gotta love Steam, one of the most positive things that has ever happened to PC gaming.
Actually happends twice a year!
Last summer was just as costly! Well over 100 games on my account by now. Horrible how money finds a way of leaving my bank account.
When i read the title i thought it said:
"Steam Discontinuing Over 1000 Games"
And why don't ratings work for most of us anymore?
That is what the title sais - and what the steam client sais - and what seems to be correct.
A quick search on indie specials alone came back with well over 180 results ... and that's just the indie genre..
No the title says "Discounting" not "Discontinuing"
I'm dyslexic too I guess, I thought it said Valve was discontinuing over 1000 Games.
No the title says "Discounting" not "Discontinuing"
Oh my bad - I read your discontinuing as as discounting - so I guess we're all shit at reading today. My eyes are probably just frozen solid like the rest of europe!
Saw the Battlefield Bad Company 2 for $6.97. It blew my mind.
damn the rockstar and valve deals are SOLID. Only problem for me is I own too many of the games separately, but seriously I have considered buying the GTA4 complete just so that i could fit both games on my SSD (I own both, but since i bought them separately it's over 30 gigs).
Anybody know of a way to combine the regular games to have only half the space taken up, as in the complete pack?
Maybe you could obtain a copy of the complete package from a steam user who has it and use your own serials or whatever copy protection it has?
I'm still waiting for the linux support
Saw the Battlefield Bad Company 2 for $6.97. It blew my mind.
Same, how a game such as Bad Company 2 can go for $7 while Activision still sells Modern Warfare 2/Black Ops for $60, that's what really blows my mind.
Especially since BF > CoD
Whatever, the money hungry bastards at Activision can die for all I care.
Same, how a game such as Bad Company 2 can go for $7 while Activision still sells Modern Warfare 2/Black Ops for $60, that's what really blows my mind.Especially since BF > CoDWhatever, the money hungry bastards at Activision can die for all I care.
It was funny to see the top list of games being bought, nearly every single one was under 20$, but you see BO's for 60$.
Still, deals like this slightly angers me when I bought a game, and then a Christmas deal makes it less than half of what it originally was.
the full abe's oddesey set is on sale also!!
I'm still waiting for the linux support
Its not like the games would work anyway...
Over 1000 games? Quality > Quantity man
tell your friends that are not pc gamers, perfect time for them to get in. we need to save our platform from just stupid console ports.
thy lord Steam demands tribute! and gives away joy and happiness!
all praise the lord Steam!
Over 1000 games? Quality > Quantity man
Riiiiight.... not one good one in their eh?
I just wish I could get a discount on a game pack if I already own some of the games in it. Sure I get an extra copy that I can give to a friend, but I'd rather get a few $ off.
It was funny to see the top list of games being bought, nearly every single one was under 20$, but you see BO's for 60$.Still, deals like this slightly angers me when I bought a game, and then a Christmas deal makes it less than half of what it originally was.
How evil a company must be to want to make money.
wtf i bought BFBC2 for $60..
curses.
but its cool, I got L4D2 on steam for $5
Saw the Battlefield Bad Company 2 for $6.97. It blew my mind.
Mine too, so I bought it. Now I can't find anyone online either.
Over 1000 games? Quality > Quantity man
seems to me like you didn't look through the games especially since Steam only has just over 1,400 games there's a damn good chance a ton are good
Mine too, so I bought it. Now I can't find anyone online either.
oh well I prefer single player anyway but would have been nice to play online with my brother.
Strange, Ive bought it back when it went from 60 to 30$, found a number of servers.
You have to go through the list, trying to find a quick match is near impossible.
Over 1000 games? Quality > Quantity man
Except a lot of the quality games are also on sale.
I've already blown ~150 on the monday and tuesday sales. Picked up a lot of indie games I've been eyeballin' (super meat boy is great) and a few other mainstream games that I didn't feel were worth the full retail price but have no issue with when they're 50 or 75% off. I'm also eyeing that rockstar pack but I'm not 100% sure yet.
Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box yesterday. I am in for one. $5 is the sweet spot for that game. Multi player goodness in all of its glory.
Mine too, so I bought it. Now I can't find anyone online either. oh well I prefer single player anyway but would have been nice to play online with my brother.
Single player blows on ANY battlefield game. Its probably because everyone is playing the Vietnam DLC that came out over the weekend. I never have a problem finding 32 player servers. STEAM rulz!
or...i could go to my local EBgames or kmart and buy these games for the same or a tiny bit more but actually get the discs..... Steam is good but only for games i cant find in a shop.
Seriously Tom's? It took you this long to post this? The deals went live at least 36 hours before you originally posted this article.