The Steam Summer Picnic Sale has begun. I don't see any daily deals at this stage but the best savings usually come by jumping on anything that's daily and holding out until the end of the sale for anything else (in case it's part of a daily deal).
edit: Thanks to commenters I've since learned that daily deals are no longer a thing so have at it!
Keep in mind games already on sale won't drop lower than it already is, so there's no point of waiting till the end of the sale for those.
Valve dropped the Daily/Hourly Deals a few sales back. So whichever price a game is now is what they'll be at during the entire sale.
No point waiting for it to drop further, it won't.
Wow, they dropped daily sales! And I hadn't even noticed… shows how far the big Steam Sales have fallen. Last one that got me excited must have been around 2010/2011. RIP.
Interestingly enough, they actually made a lot more sales after they got rid of flash/daily deals.
I think it was due to the new refund policy or something
Also, you get 3 free trading cards per day buy viewing your Discovery Queue (1 card per queue cycle) which you can sell in the market.
Gee steam, nothing really banging the door down saying "buy me"! Guess that's the way it is now days.
You do realise Valve isn't setting the prices here…. right?
Is your problem like mine though, which is I own majority of titles of I ever wanted on PC now? That for me, makes the sales not as exciting as they used to be.
Yeah I own ever game I ever wanted on PC as well as a bunch more I have zero interest in but were a good deal :( I have like 1200 games on Steam. The only things that are interesting in sales (newer releases) are usually not cheap enough yet to consider buying and all of the old good games I already own and have zero hrs logged.
Without the flash sales and the daily deals which were what offered the real good deals Steam Sales are pretty underwhelming.
Glad I put off buying quite a few games for my HTC Vive the last few months.
Nearly every VR game on Steam is now on sale, and for quite a bit too!
where's the best price to buy the Vive?
:)
The Microsoft au store will be selling it soon. Was showing at around $1100 at one stage.
https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msaus/en_AU/pdp/HTC-Viv…
It's been 'coming soon' for a month with no actual confirmation that it will be sold (to my knowledge).
The comments on whirlpool and reddit make me think that Microsoft will never actually sell it.
I've already brought $100 worth of VR games from this sale, still have some that are on sale in my Wishlist
If you plan on buying The Witcher 3 and own the first two games, you can buy the "bundle" (Which will only have The Witcher 3 as you own the other games) for $22.50 USD, which is cheaper than the $25 the game goes for by itself.
Even if you only owned the first game, you could effectively buy the second game for 50c by taking advantage of the bundling system.
For those who don't own them the Bioshock triple Bundle is 16$ aud great price for great games.
Just a friendly remember to only buy 1 game at a time in case you want to refund something. Otherwise it will refund your entire purchase. Have had this happen to me a couple of times when being burned by terrible games that were broken at release, or straight-up deceptively advertised.
bought couple of games last week, refunded one and they didnt remove the other. maybe that policy is no more. I had that happen to me too previously.
What's up with OZB today? There's a few deals 20+ votes that aren't making it to the front page.
EDIT: Seemed to be fixed as I was writing it.
Well that's a bit embarassing. The Platformer Bundle that I posted earlier in the week is even cheaper now at $1.18 USD.
Worth it if you're into a bit of casual platformer action.
Edit: also, The Big One Bundle for $4.36 USD. It has 21 games with a mix of platformers, indie games and RPGs. It'll be a little bit cheaper if you already own some of the games in the list. For me, it was $3.50 USD.
With the much lower AUD vs USD even at sale price Steamworks games can be bought significantly cheaper elsewhere. Even EBgames has better prices on some games with their current sale - now that's embarrassing.
Agreed, was looking at buying xcom pack for 12$ USD, but cheaper to jump on g2a to get a steam key for the pack for $8AUD
Rainbow Six Siege Standard Edition was better priced at Amazon about a week ago for $15USD
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Steam sale pricing is pretty poor these days, most digital retailers will have undercut them by a significant margin at some point. Between Amazon, Greenmangaming, dlgamer, funstockdigital there's a bunch of other players on the market that sell Steam keys at much better discounts than Steam themselves. Then there's always graymarket sites like cjs keys, g2a, g2play which have questionable practices but offer great deals (although I don't vouch for them for obvious reasons, the keys they acquire could be from anywhere ex: stolen cards/chargebacks)
The one upside to Steam sales is that since they have such a large catalogue they are usually the only ones who stock some really obscure titles that will often be included in the huge sales and can be the only place to get them on a discount :)
Really how did I miss this?! I have been waiting for a cheap time to buy this game for ages, what are the chances amazon bring it back down before EOFY? or I think I will still jump on this one.
Although the cheap prices have been uPlay in the past, I prefer to do everything through steam, can you redeem a uPlay CD Key through Steam then have it link through uPlay when you launch or is this the cheapest Steam version of the game?
As for players of the game, is the season pass worth purchasing?
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that was fast posting, OP