Steam Holiday Auction and Steam Winter Sale

I bit on Lords of the Fallen at $24.99, Im off starting today until January 5th. I needed something to play until I can get Mordor and a Few others.
 
Gabriel said:
Divinity: Original Sin's 33% off DAILY DEAL was a joke last month. I hope this time it will be 50-66% off.
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It got PC Game of the Year from Gamespot ...also you can find it cheaper from some of the key selling sites. ;)

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/divinity-original-sin-pc-game-of-the-year/1100-6423910/

Also: Buyer Beware: Steams Begins Region Locking Games

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/17/steams-region-locks-games-to-fight-currency-exploits

Quoted from one of the commenters there:

I love Steam as much as the next person who has a gaming PC. But this is ridiculous. This is the exact kind of shit that if Origin did something similar there would be a shit storm of hate. But since it's Steam people are making excuses for it. Sick of the hypocrisy of gamers. Origin works perfectly well and actually does some pretty cool things. I've been using Origin for quite a while and while at the beginning it was shitty, but now it's completely functional without issue and people still bitch and talk down on it. I'm not a fan of a lot of EAs business practices either but they do publish some good games.

Steam could introduce the most intrusive DRM possible and people would find excuses to justify it for Steam but if it were Origin there would be an angry mob with torches and pitchforks when said angry mob are people that refuse to use Origin no matter what. Fanboyism will never make sense to me....
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Steam must have really beefed up their servers' capacity/performance. It used to be that you couldn't download shit during a sale because of the load.
 
TheMadHatterXxX said:
That has nothing to do with Steam region locking? I'd recommend you have your reading comprehension level or thinking ability skills evaluated. :)
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It seemed like a rant then anything specific about region locking. Region locking effects almost no one who is using the service as it's intended and mostly only effecting those who are exploiting prices given to those of a lower quality of life.

If you think origin handles region based pricing any different you would be wrong. Many times they even offer the wrong currency for the region and they tend to lock the languages it's been sold to as well.
 
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polydiol said:
How is Total Rome 2 now that it has had sufficient time to be patched?
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From the 7 hours I played yesterday, it was pretty fun. I was playing coop with my clan mate on normal, so it wasn't crazy hard. But the AI seems a little less "retarded" than in other Total War games. (They don't want you to be their vassal when they have one territory and you own the world ;)). I did notice 1 bug during a battle. I was defending, and the third enemy reinforcing army did not budge, so I just let the battle time run out and won.
 
I think I've finally hit cheap-ass mode; I don't feel compelled to buy anything unless it's like $5.
 
Megalith said:
Steam must have really beefed up their servers' capacity/performance. It used to be that you couldn't download shit during a sale because of the load.
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Either that or they're not doing as well.
 
Tudz said:
Either that or they're not doing as well.
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I think that they are doing well. I'm going with the beefed up server answer as they have added in the ability for us to stream games launched from our client to anyone else on Steam. That says a ton about how much more server capacity that they have as the response time on their streaming servers is less than 7 seconds whereas Twitch can easily be 30 seconds or a lot more.
 
I bought the The Golf Club. I wish I could change the announcer's voice. I glanced at the files, but it seems that everything is encrypted.
 
Megalith said:
I think I've finally hit cheap-ass mode; I don't feel compelled to buy anything unless it's like $5.
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I picked up Hotline Miami for free with my steam credits for selling some bullshit collectible cards :p
 
I picked up the "How To Survive" and all DLC for about $2.25. Looks like fun!
 
Nothing so far interesting. And those games I might consider I already own. I'm kinda grateful for this situation. Can blow money reserved for Steam sale on filling gaps in my Dark Horse Star Wars comics collection, as none of those will be sold after 31st Dec :)
 
Thuleman said:
Sure, if you want to reward people for "working so hard" on a game that it's still in Early Access after two years, then yes, $6 is them stealing money from you.
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Meh, for the amount of entertainment you get for $6, it's worth it. But go ahead and feel salty about another Early Access title if you must
 
Thuleman said:
Sure, if you want to reward people for "working so hard" on a game that it's still in Early Access after two years, then yes, $6 is them stealing money from you.
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I'm sorry that you think that Early Access is automatically the devil and immediately discount some of the gems that can be found within it (Kerbal Space Program, Prison Architect, Project Zomboid, etc).

For the rest of us, $6 for Prison Architect is an absolute steal.
 
I never really got into Metro 2033 so bit on the redux version and am going to play it.
 
Thuleman said:
Sure, if you want to reward people for "working so hard" on a game that it's still in Early Access after two years, then yes, $6 is them stealing money from you.
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I agree with Pringle on this one. A lot of early access games are crap but prison architect is a diamond in the landfill. I've had about 250 hours of fun with it.
 
Bought Shadow Warrior for $4.

God damn the first-person melee combat is miles ahead of Skyrim.
 
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