SALE: Holiday Games Heavily Discounted on Steam

Forget Steam. If I don't get a key, I'm not buying the software.

Eh picked up a handful of games for a grand total of $30. Torrents are nice and all but I don't mind spending some money for quality games.

@sunflier: agreed. I only buy games that I can play online (vs/coop).

"Forget Steam. If I don't get a key, I'm not buying the software."

Err you do get a key. You dont get a physical disk but you definitly get a serial. At least the one game ive bought through steam i got a key for.

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Good prices, but i dont like any of those games, oh well.

Yeah they really dont have alot of jusr super games..

A few i wanted to try but thats about it, may pick up a few some when i want something almost new

Steam's actually a really good service. I have more than one computer, and I'm usually imaging one of them for some reason, or installing a new partition, or tinkering in some way or another... Steam allows me to just install the lightweight management program they have, and then painlessly download my games again... with updates. I've purchased a few single player games there at good prices, and it makes my life easier.

Of course, I could go to a torrent site, download the install, then try to find a legit cracked exe, then search for patches, and waste all kinds of time, or I could just buy games at a fair price off Steam and be done with it. My time's worth too much to be jacking with fucking torrent sites, and piracy.

Not to mention pirating games you're not just testing out, and play through, and enjoy is pretty freaking unethical.

Steam provides a decent service. I love when I reformat my installs are as simple as logging in and installing. Now... the bad part is if you ever want to "give" that game to anyone you cant transfer the damn thing. I mean WTF.

Oh well, for $5 it simply isnt worth downloading over a torrent and dealing with all the BS that goes along. If you work a job over minimum wage it isnt worth the time IMHO.

Support your game developers people!

pirating only makes them install fun DRM, i'll shell out some $ to support pc gaming

Sweet! I've got a small list of games that been wanting to pick up. Steam has worked out pretty well for me.

Steam makes my life sooo much easier. When upgrading from windows 7 RC to retail ultimate, I just threw my /Program Files(X86)/Steam/ folder on an external drive, formatted and reinstalled. Then I downloaded and installed the steam client to populate registry and took the Steam folder from the external and overwrote the installed one with it, launched steam, performed a quick update on each game and walaa. Didn't even have to take the time to download 100GB of games. Steam is awesome imo, and great for people who:
A: Aren't Communists
B: Value their time and convenience
If you fall into the above categories I recommend not using torrents.

Steam makes my life sooo much easier. When upgrading from windows 7 RC to retail ultimate, I just threw my /Program Files(X86)/Steam/ folder on an external drive, formatted and reinstalled. Then I downloaded and installed the steam client to populate registry and took the Steam folder from the external and overwrote the installed one with it, launched steam, performed a quick update on each game and walaa. Didn't even have to take the time to download 100GB of games. Steam is awesome imo, and great for people who:
A: Aren't Communists
B: Value their time and convenience
If you fall into the above categories I recommend not using torrents.

oops@ double post, where are you delete button?

now, this is more like it Tom's ^^
more posts like this plz

That's quite cheap but I've never used Steam.

BTW, someone commented that if Steam ceases to exist, all games are gone with it. also, do you actually get the serial license key when you get the Steam game ? If you do, then, why not simple buy the game through steam and download the DVD/CD image .ISO version of the game and install it with your own valid license. (Could be the ones in the torrent sites).

Correct me If I'm wrong, but I think that 's pretty valid.

Typo....Should of been

Ima about to blow $100 dollars on this, which is a lot of money on the country I live in. BUT WHAT THE HELL, IMA GETTING LIKE 50 GAMES SO IT SEEMS LIKE A GREAT DEAL TO ME.

Why didn't they offer CoD6 Modern Warfare 2 for $4.99?

They should have put all the new good games (l4d2, mw2, and dirt2) on sale for fair prices.. those are the games people want and they'd sell more. but meh.. is shadow of chernobyl any good? I got it ages ago and never tried it.

Athreex:

Steam gives serial keys for all the games that use them. Serial keys are not used for Valve games because Steam acts as a verification tool. Serial keys are easy to hack and steam verification is not. Steam acts as a DRM. If steam dies so does of the games that require Steam verification (Ex: every Valve game). The chance of that happening is practically impossible. Even if Valve went bankrupt someone else would take over steam.

Downloading the ISO would defeat the purpose of steam. With steam you do not have to insert, and btw keep, a CD around to boot the game. Everything is seamless. Anyone with a broadband connection can have their game anywhere in the world in ~1-5 hours depending on speed and size of game. Yes, this is 100-500x longer then installing with a CD (assuming no patches). However, it would take just as long to download an ISO off the internet as it would to download an ISO. (torrenting may be a little faster. However, torrenting an ISO just for an install would require so much extra work that it would defeat the purpose.)

Another advantage of Steam is it automatically patches the games for you.

With steam all your games are in one place. Steam provides great networking tools that allow you to message and talk to other players in game. You can be playing TF2 and seamlessly talk to someone playing Mass Effect.

Steam is the future. Get used to it because soon all the major titles will be requiring Steam verification (MW2 and FEAR2 are both perfect examples).

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Games will require client verification. If M$ or some other company can acquire enough market share they may eventually give Steam a run for it's money.

Mirror's Edge is easily one of the best game of 2008 with Dead Space.

I plan on getting a copy on this boxing day sale. I will probably pay 10$ more, but I will get a physical copy.

SHAME on EA for shutting down any possibilities of seeing a sequel! Bidding on Sports rehashes years after years is their answer for a good business model. I hate sports game and I will always hate them... there is almost no difference between NHL 2007 and 2010...

Thx Tomshardware for the info, just bought GTA IV, Rome Total War and Stalker (for under 2 bucks!!!) for under 15$.

Made my day.