Steam Stealth Sale Underway Until October 16 (Updated)

They need to keep Arma 3 at 50% off permanently. Good game but too buggy for $60.

I remember when I first joined Steam a couple years ago once I finally got a good gaming computer, and I got to buy so many awesome games for so, SO cheap. It was exciting! But now, two years on, I watch the sales every week, and I'm sort of at the point now where I already own all the games I want. All the games on sale are either bad games, or games I already own. So the sales are just kind of disappointing anymore.

But whatever, I've got a backlog longer than my arm at the moment, so I guess I'll just treat that disappointment with any of my 400-some-odd games. :-P

If you already have ~400 games I would hardly blame valve for not not being able to please you. As someone who is very stingy with my game purchases (since people who own hundreds of games they have never played depress the crap out of me), I can say there are plenty of sales I find tempting. I dare say there have been less than 400 good pc games in the past 2 years, and brand new games won't have hella good sales on them like games at least 1 year old. I have friends who have always been collectors. Pokemon cards to them weren't about getting the right cards to build a good deck, but getting as many of the rarest cards as possible. I feel like this attitude translates to steam, if not then it's simply the attractiveness of getting something for much less than normal. I just don't see how people don't hate themselves for basically giving valve money to put another title in their list. I mean I know you say you have school and can't get much time to play, but shouldn't that mean you should spend less money on games? Especially when there are decent free games out. Pointing out that steam sales no longer excite you is more of a criticism of yourself and your buying habits than it is of valve. Some advice: when you are considering purchasing a game ask yourself two questions. 1. Am I in the middle of a game that I would like to spend time finishing? 2. Was I considering buying this game at it's full price? If you answered no to question 1, and yes to question 2, then snag that shit up. Otherwise you risk buying your new game and then regretting it when you have more fun with games you already were enjoying.

I mean seriously though 400 games? Did you ever think you had like 1000 hours to finish all of them? Just a bad consumer, man. Don't mean to like belittle or insult you but I group steam game collectors and people who play slots every day into the same depressing, pitiful collective. Just flushing your money away (and then being mad at the store for not giving you more oppurtunities to waste money lol).

16782166 said:

I remember when I first joined Steam a couple years ago once I finally got a good gaming computer, and I got to buy so many awesome games for so, SO cheap. It was exciting! But now, two years on, I watch the sales every week, and I'm sort of at the point now where I already own all the games I want. All the games on sale are either bad games, or games I already own. So the sales are just kind of disappointing anymore.

But whatever, I've got a backlog longer than my arm at the moment, so I guess I'll just treat that disappointment with any of my 400-some-odd games. :-P

If you already have ~400 games I would hardly blame valve for not not being able to please you. As someone who is very stingy with my game purchases (since people who own hundreds of games they have never played depress the crap out of me), I can say there are plenty of sales I find tempting. I dare say there have been less than 400 good pc games in the past 2 years, and brand new games won't have hella good sales on them like games at least 1 year old. I have friends who have always been collectors. Pokemon cards to them weren't about getting the right cards to build a good deck, but getting as many of the rarest cards as possible. I feel like this attitude translates to steam, if not then it's simply the attractiveness of getting something for much less than normal. I just don't see how people don't hate themselves for basically giving valve money to put another title in their list. I mean I know you say you have school and can't get much time to play, but shouldn't that mean you should spend less money on games? Especially when there are decent free games out. Pointing out that steam sales no longer excite you is more of a criticism of yourself and your buying habits than it is of valve. Some advice: when you are considering purchasing a game ask yourself two questions. 1. Am I in the middle of a game that I would like to spend time finishing? 2. Was I considering buying this game at it's full price? If you answered no to question 1, and yes to question 2, then snag that shit up. Otherwise you risk buying your new game and then regretting it when you have more fun with games you already were enjoying.

I mean seriously though 400 games? Did you ever think you had like 1000 hours to finish all of them? Just a bad consumer, man. Don't mean to like belittle or insult you but I group steam game collectors and people who play slots every day into the same depressing, pitiful collective. Just flushing your money away (and then being mad at the store for not giving you more oppurtunities to waste money lol).

Well, the games I've been buying in the past two years are not only from the past two years. There's plenty of games I own that are twenty-something years old already. And most of those, I've already played long ago, and it's exciting to see them updated to work on modern machines. GOG is great for this. So the ability to play those again if I ever need the nostalgia trip is worth the buck or two each of those games may've costed me.

Also, I didn't buy each of the games on my library individually. A lot of times, I'll buy a Humble Bundle specifically for one or two games, and get seven or eight games along with them that I might enjoy playing one day. At least a quarter of my library is games that I acquired alongside other deliberate purchases. So I don't really consider those investments as much as I consider them freebies.

But more to the point, all of this game collecting I'm doing is still a damn sight cheaper than the other ways I'd be spending my free time. I used to go out to dinner way too frequently, I used to go on road trips way too frequently (which honestly I miss a lot, but gas is just too expensive anymore), etc.

Compared to what I used to do, games are a MUUUUUUUUUUUUCH cheaper way to spend my free time than I used to do, regardless of how many I've played yet vs. how many I've paid for. Y'know, one night out at a restaurant or bar costs as much as five or six games. A single tank of gas is about as much, and I'd go through two a week if I road tripped as much as I used to. What my games library has cost me over the past two years is probably about as much as two or three months of what my previous methods of spending money on free time costed me.

And I have a guarantee now that, even if I had to immediately stop spending money on games, at any moment of boredom in my life, I could pick up any of hundreds of games and fill some time without spending any more money. And I could be quite happy with this library for many years if I never bought another game again. So, that's alright. That's a worthy investment to me.

I have more games on Steam than I will ever play. Some of them are bundled and I am not interested playing. Others are just not interesting enough to keep me playing to the end. I feel so spoiled some times. I wish there is a way to resell them or give them away.