Steam summer sale and remortgaging thread 2013 - The Bear and Badger

Bollockoff

A place to confess how much your Steam library swells on a day by day basis. Starting from tonight (tomorrow) depending on Valve time (US time).

Sasukekun

I'm on holiday, so I miss this. FUCKING YAS!!!!

hunk

I just bought the halflife bundle which expands my library with about 10 games.
Also bought portal 2 and the witcher 1+2 for a fiver.

I'm a sucker for sales.....

Chief

This is the first sale where I'll have a fast enough internet connection to take advantage.

It's also a sale that's happening when my income is about to drop dramatically.

regmcfly

Just back and ready to roll

RetroGam3r

Im ready but with over 250 games in my library, Im not looking at getting much. That said I am getting a new PC so I can now look at AAA titles. Im hoping for Dishonoured,the outside of season pass BL2 DLC to go cheap. Hopefully Origin try and compete again and I can nab BF3 and Sim City cheap

Bollockoff

I'm still jobless. So sub £3 titles here I come.

RetroGam3r

get selling trading cards! I just bought a game for a quid, got the cards and made 3 quid....score

Bollockoff

I haven't got the will to keep my game running in alt-tab for that long. Might start doing that when I go out places. I bet the prices plummet from tomorrow anyway.

WorKid

There's a WHAT???

three1ne

I almost bought Hotline Miami for £1.74 but then I didn't because I realised I probably wouldn't ever play it.

I win.

Mod74

Mod74 wrote:

http://steamdb.info/sales/

The Steam Summer Getaway sale was kicked off this morning, with frugal fun-time seekers already sifting through every bargain available. That's life before the Steam Sales Tracker, which curates all of the Steam deals into one handy list, breaking down each game's regular price versus its sale price. The Steam Sales Tracker also allows you to parse the list in different ways, either by currency, level of discount, current price or even by what type of item it is – an application, DLC or a proper game. As of now, 1,597 items are on sale, so feel free to grab your favorite spending jacket (it's a thing!) and start perusing.

RetroGam3r

Mod74 wrote:

Mod74 wrote:

http://steamdb.info/sales/

The Steam Summer Getaway sale was kicked off this morning, with frugal fun-time seekers already sifting through every bargain available. That's life before the Steam Sales Tracker, which curates all of the Steam deals into one handy list, breaking down each game's regular price versus its sale price. The Steam Sales Tracker also allows you to parse the list in different ways, either by currency, level of discount, current price or even by what type of item it is – an application, DLC or a proper game. As of now, 1,597 items are on sale, so feel free to grab your favorite spending jacket (it's a thing!) and start perusing.

awesome! cheers

Kow

How do I sell trading cards? What twat would pay money for them?

superflyninja

Thomas was alone any use?

acemuzzy

It's ace. The kind of thing you should have written yourself ;-)

Roujin

Huzzah! Bioshock Infinite half price and Scribblenauts is like £3.74.

GET.

RetroGam3r

Kow wrote:

How do I sell trading cards? What twat would pay money for them?

basically earn cards from selected games. Cards go into inventory, select card then you will see sell, click that and a graph will come up with average price, set your price and hit ok, then they take the card from ur inventory. When card sells you get the money instantly into your wallet.

You dont even need to play the games, just boot them up then alt tab out and leave it going.

Mod74

So the drops are simply based on time played?

I've got three cards from FTL and don't know where to go now. I suppose I have to buy/trade to get the other two I will be missing?

Bollockoff

The only reason to collect them is bragging rights/becoming a flamboyant queen with a profile background.

Kow

I have a few from a couple of games. Will be selling them immediately.

GooberTheHat

Is there a purpose to these cards other than to sell/collect them? Can they be combined and traded for games etc?

Kow

I don't get it either. If you get the cards from playing the game then surely just play the game until you have them. You'd hardly want cards from games you don't have, would you?

Mod74

There's 6 cards in a set and a game will only ever drop 4, afaict.

To get the others you need to buy/trade them, I think. When you have 6 you can turn that into something else people might buy.

TBH, when Valve set they had big ideas for revolutionising digital purchasing I hoped for more than a poxy collect em up to rinse players for more micro transaction pennies.

Turns out Gabe got his business plan from Richard Pryor in Superman 3.

Tempy

It'll be of no interest to most people really, but you can use cards to craft badges and stuff for your profile, so people will buy cards from games they don't have if they're needed for crafting. They also add XP to your Steam profile which let you add more stuff to your profile like game items you have for sale, games you've greenlighted etc

Utterly pointless for a lot of people, but you can just stick your cards on to sell if you don't care. It's just a reason to get people to embrace the social side of Steam I guess.

Edit: oh yeah what Mod said I guess. Except without the "rinse players for more microtransactions" bit because it's entirely optional, like keys for item chests in DOTA and TF2.

Mod74

But they do make money from it.

GooberTheHat

I stuck a card on for £30. Hopefully someone will be daft enough to buy it.

Tempy

Mod74 wrote:

But they do make money from it.

I have no issue with this, it doesn't seem to be having any effect on my wallet.

acemuzzy

I don't have any cards yet, I feel so sad and lonely

Bollockoff

U buy one from me 10 dorrah.

RetroGam3r

each game has a set number of cards, So say FTL has 6 needed for the full set, you can earn 3 from the drop sequence. Then you will need to buy/trade for the rest.

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