Steam 2011 Summer Sale

[Temperature]

Is black ops a good deal for 40€??

[Brago]

Got 4 tickets so far.
Saving up to see if the prizes change hopefully some better DLC or a better game gets up there. possible 5 ticket prizes today.

[satman83]

am not going to bother with this prize thing....I mean I
won't win anyway :p also koror for under 3 quid is a bargain
...if you don't have it then buy it.

[woutR]

You'd wonder how game developers can make profits with these kind of prices... JUST KIDDING, fucking ridiculous prices on games nowadays. 60 euros for a new game, what a joke. DLC's and everything too, you used to get that for fucking free with a patch.
I checked the lists and just downloaded everything I want (only got max payne 2, and mind you I actually bought that @ 50 euros like a decade ago).
These deals are good, but 'normal' prices are just too insane.

[Toshiharu]

Is black ops a good deal for 40€??

No, because I could buy it cheaper at retail around where I live.

am not going to bother with this prize thing....I mean I
won't win anyway :p also koror for under 3 quid is a bargain
...if you don't have it then buy it.

You turn in tickets for prizes. It doesn't affect the tickets entered for the 'raffle' for 10 games off your wish list.

I grabbed Alien Breed 2 since it's a game. Then I don't know what I'll grab afterwards.

You'd wonder how game developers can make profits with these kind of prices... JUST KIDDING, fucking ridiculous prices on games nowadays. 60 euros for a new game, what a joke. DLC's and everything too, you used to get that for fucking free with a patch.
I checked the lists and just downloaded everything I want (only got max payne 2, and mind you I actually bought that @ 50 euros like a decade ago).
These deals are good, but 'normal' prices are just too insane.

You'd be surprised when games are on sale on how much they make. Here's an example of Garry's Mod first sale. To make 9% of total sales off a single sale? Yeah that's a lot. It went from 3k copies to 35k copies.

Spoiler!

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/200 ... revealed/1

It's not a surprise when anything is on sale it'll sell a lot more. They'll sell A LOT more copies than a typical week to make up for the sale price.

[Amarisa]

You'd be surprised when games are on sale on how much they make. Here's an example of Garry's Mod first sale. To make 9% of total sales off a single sale? Yeah that's a lot. It went from 3k copies to 35k copies.


http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/200 ... revealed/1

It's not a surprise when anything is on sale it'll sell a lot more. They'll sell A LOT more copies than a typical week to make up for the sale price.

Kinda goes like this. Buy 1 game for $60 not many people are going to buy it. Now put game on sale for $5 and if it's a popular game shit tons of people will buy it. You can easily get 12 people who bought it per 1 who bought it full price.

[KillAndChill]

am not going to bother with this prize thing....I mean I
won't win anyway :p also koror for under 3 quid is a bargain
...if you don't have it then buy it.

Grabbed kotor also. Seemed like too good of a deal to not buy it

[Mark.]

I got the Half Life pack for less than 7 bucks. I'm playing Half Life 1, but I'm stuck already. >_>

[woutR]

I got the Half Life pack for less than 7 bucks. I'm playing Half Life 1, but I'm stuck already. >_>

Yeah Half Life 1 is pretty challenging at times

[Brago]

Put some money in my steam wallet

cant decide to buy:
RE5 or Star wars Force unleashed 2.

Im saving up to see the deals in 5 hours tho.

[Mark.]

I got the Half Life pack for less than 7 bucks. I'm playing Half Life 1, but I'm stuck already. >_>

Yeah Half Life 1 is pretty challenging at times

Sure getting stuck in a room full of skulls and bones and then going into an air duct that leads you nowhere but in the dark is not nice.

[Brago]

So i have a problem.

I only want to spend 30~$ on this summer sale.

War for cybetron is currently 7.50$

IDK If i should buy it or wait.

Any one have any info to push me on the good/bad side of the fence to getting it?

[cpinney]

is it just me or are steams servers being a bitch right now

[Toshiharu]

is it just me or are steams servers being a bitch right now

They're shitty. I'm redownloading L4D2 at random rates that don't even cap at my normal 1.5mb/sec rate. I get around 0(It gets suspended) to around 550 during the day time. At night I was getting little over a meg.

[cpinney]

its not even that i cant even purchase anything or do other random thing cause the site keeps timing out or just not loading at all, every other site works fine tho.

[Amarisa]

its not even that i cant even purchase anything or do other random thing cause the site keeps timing out or just not loading at all, every other site works fine tho.

working fine for me.

[cpinney]

yeah it started working normally shortly after i posted that thankfully.

[vietxboy911]

So I have the BFBC2 package now.
Its been 4 hours, and I havnt been able to completely download it yet. Been downloading around 500 kb/s lately, and sometimes it stops for a few and then starts back up... an hour left for me.

[MrJoey]

I started Just Cause 2 earlier, was also getting shitty rates. My max is 1.2mb, but at the most I was getting 800, and sometimes it would drop to nothing at all. Was annoying as hell because I wanted to play it some before sleeping, now I have to wait til tomorrow.

[Toshiharu]

The servers are being overloaded. I guess this Steam sale is bigger than ever. And the servers crashed when it started.

Download it over night or change your download region. Best suggestion I can offer. Unless wait after the sale ends

[vietxboy911]

I've tried various ones, but Miami has been consistant for me ( closest to where I live )

[satman83]

I got the Half Life pack for less than 7 bucks. I'm playing Half Life 1, but I'm stuck already. >_>

Yeah Half Life 1 is pretty challenging at times

Sure getting stuck in a room full of skulls and bones and then going into an air duct that leads you nowhere but in the dark is not nice.

lol, next time am online ill help you with it...its a tricky game if you havent played before

[Mark.]

Sure getting stuck in a room full of skulls and bones and then going into an air duct that leads you nowhere but in the dark is not nice.

lol, next time am online ill help you with it...its a tricky game if you havent played before

Eh..I got out of there, even though I don't remember how.

What I really don't understand, since there are no subtitles available, is why the SWAT-like men want to kill me.

[MrJoey]

Pretty sure there are subs. o_O

[Mark.]

Pretty sure there are subs. o_O

Not on Half Life 1. Too old of a game to have 'em.

[Temperature]

Just shoot, don't try to understand

[satman83]

Pretty sure there are subs. o_O

Not on Half Life 1. Too old of a game to have 'em.

You can have subs mate, am sure you can....and well....its a complicated reason why they want to
kill you, but just shoot them back

[Mark.]

Pretty sure there are subs. o_O

Not on Half Life 1. Too old of a game to have 'em.

You can have subs mate, am sure you can....and well....its a complicated reason why they want to
kill you, but just shoot them back

Y U NO GET ON?

Jokes aside, I've actually lost them. xD

I loaded my save this morning and I was somewhere else. Now I'm stuck again in a neverending maze of duct conducts.

[Toshiharu]

Today is a good day if you don't own L4D or Killing Floor.

[DinoNuggets]

are the prices gonna stay like that for the whole summer or do they go away after a week or something?