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Steam Summer sale 2017

Post by burger1 » Thu, 22. Jun 17, 19:29

Sale runs from June 22nd - July 5th. This year's deals will remain at the same price for the entire sale. You should be safe to buy a game at any discount as it'll be that price for the entire sale. - according to reddit

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Post by Morkonan » Thu, 22. Jun 17, 21:16

And, so it begins...

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Post by pjknibbs » Thu, 22. Jun 17, 21:27

Yeah, the Steam site was completely dead when I tried to get on it an hour ago. Seems to be back up now, but you'd think Valve would consider that their website is likely to be hit hard in the first few hours of a sale!

[EDIT] Actually, I tell a lie--it's still not working properly. You can't search for anything (always get either an error or no results), and the selection of games on the front page is absolute garbage. I'll probably have to check it out tomorrow to go through my wishlist and see what's cheap.

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Post by Skism » Thu, 22. Jun 17, 22:37

pjknibbs wrote:Yeah, the Steam site was completely dead when I tried to get on it an hour ago. Seems to be back up now, but you'd think Valve would consider that their website is likely to be hit hard in the first few hours of a sale!

[EDIT] Actually, I tell a lie--it's still not working properly. You can't search for anything (always get either an error or no results), and the selection of games on the front page is absolute garbage. I'll probably have to check it out tomorrow to go through my wishlist and see what's cheap.
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Post by Morkonan » Thu, 22. Jun 17, 23:00

I haven't tried yet. This laptop is "clean", with nothing at all on it. (Travel laptop) I'll try later on a personal pc/laptop to see how things are going, but I imagine it'll be pretty spotty over this weekend, freeing up a bit afterwards.

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Post by red assassin » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 00:22

Picked up Dishonored 2 for 50% off, which I've been meaning to play since it came out. Website's still misbehaving, so I haven't been through the deals beyond that.
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Post by Masterbagger » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 04:17

I foresee less beer and steaks in my future until my bank account recovers.
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Post by muppetts » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 08:16

Some current decent offers:

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - $4 (80% off)
Dishonored 2 - $20 (50% off)
Hollow Knight - $10 (34% off)
Abzu - $6 (70% off)
Transistor - $3 (85% off)
Torment: Tides of Numenera - $22.50 (50% off)
Darkest Dungeon - $10 (60% off)
Hitman: The Complete First Season - $24 (66% off)
Fallout: New Vegas - $2.50 (75% off)
Serious Sam 3: BFE - $4 (90% off)
Wolfenstein: The New Order - $10 (50% off)
The Final Fantasy series - all 50% off (except FFXIV)
Tales of Berseria - $30 (40% off)
South Park: The Stick of Truth - $7.50 (75% off)
Doom - $15 (50% off)
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Post by pjknibbs » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 08:43

OK, I managed to log on (by doing it at 6am this morning) and purchased:

Shadow of Mordor GOTY edition for £3.19--I already have the base game, but I want to play through again with all the DLC before I get to the sequel, and it was cheaper to buy the GOTY on sale than to buy the GOTY upgrade.

Total War: Warhammer (£13.60)--never played a Total War game before but been watching some Youtube videos of it and want to give it a try. Knew it would be quite cheap because the second game is due soon.

Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe Edition (£32-odd)--this has been on my list since it came out, and since I can get the game with all the DLC for less money than the game alone cost before the sale, I thought it was time to get it. Installing it now, will play tonight.

That will be all I get in this year's sales--there were some other items on my wishlist that were on sale, but I already have plenty of games to get through and I don't want to go overboard.

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Post by Jericho » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 09:37

pjknibbs wrote: Total War: Warhammer (£13.60)--never played a Total War game before but been watching some Youtube videos of it and want to give it a try. Knew it would be quite cheap because the second game is due soon.
Ooooh, I want that!

Don't know when I will ever get a chance to play it, but I want it.


Found this email in my inbox last night:

42 items from your Steam wishlist are on sale!

Sheesh!
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Post by CBJ » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 10:29

There were "only" 18 items from my wishlist. I've now bought a few of the cheapest ones; 6 games for an average of less than £5 each isn't bad going. As with Jericho, however, I've no idea when I'll get a chance to play any of them.

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Post by pjknibbs » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 10:50

CBJ wrote:There were "only" 18 items from my wishlist. I've now bought a few of the cheapest ones; 6 games for an average of less than £5 each isn't bad going. As with Jericho, however, I've no idea when I'll get a chance to play any of them.
Hell, I'm pretty sure there are games in my Steam library that I bought on impulse in sales years ago and still haven't played. This is why I'm being more discerning and only buying stuff that I've already done some research into--I have a piece of paper with a list of "titles of interest" on it, and I'm only buying stuff that's on that list.

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Post by Golden_Gonads » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 11:01

I'm holding off on buying anything till nearer the end of the sale (assuming I do buy anything), as all the other (legitimate) websites tend to schedule their sales for the same time as Steam, so there are fairly decent odds of getting some games at better prices.

... That and like most people it seems, I have far too many games I've yet to play anyway so if I miss out, well it's no great loss.

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Post by Sorkvild » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 11:17

Golden_Gonads wrote:I'm holding off on buying anything till nearer the end of the sale (assuming I do buy anything), as all the other (legitimate) websites tend to schedule their sales for the same time as Steam, so there are fairly decent odds of getting some games at better prices.

... That and like most people it seems, I have far too many games I've yet to play anyway so if I miss out, well it's no great loss.
I second that. Deals aren't that good, meh actually and there are no flash sales :/

What kind of deal is -50% at 9.99E on new Wolfenstein if two weeks ago Wolfie was for 7.45E with -75% price drop...

Speaking about purchases on Steam I plan to buy these... GTA V, XCOM2, Doom, Mad Max and that is it, still have some titles to play from winter sale and last year summer sale ;)
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Post by birdtable » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 11:30

Anyone having trouble downloading from Steam try changing region to Venezuela....

Edit...It appears that the world has moved to Venezuela ... back to crap.

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Post by pjknibbs » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 13:36

Sorkvild wrote: I second that. Deals aren't that good, meh actually and there are no flash sales :/
There never will be any flash sales since they introduced refunds, because all that would happen is that anyone who bought the game at the higher price will refund it and buy the cheaper version (and yes, this is a legitimate usage of the refund system according to Valve themselves).

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Post by berth » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 13:48

38 wishlist items for me, which is pretty much all of my wishlist.
I expect I'll buy a few over the weekend but I know I will (probably) hardly play any of them that much so I shall endeavour to exercise restraint :lol:

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Post by Skism » Fri, 23. Jun 17, 15:45

steam OS STILL refuses to log in

at this point I don't know if its server side or my Machine....
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Post by burger1 » Wed, 5. Jul 17, 04:55

Last day of the sale. It was quite uninteresting without the daily deals etc...

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Post by linolafett » Wed, 5. Jul 17, 09:49

I bought a single game "reassembly" and managed to kind of beat it. Other than this, there werent any interesting deals on my wishlist items. Boring sale. The thrill from the early days is sadly gone.
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