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Today, at 945AM PDT, the Steam Summer Sale begins! Find out more here

What games are you buying? I think I'll buy Dawn of War 2 and Terraria, and if there's any money left, possibly Space Marine.

SALE ENDED 7/04/2016

I don't think there's a game that I'd really want to get at the moment. Maybe Hard West and Bioshock. I usually buy few rouge like games that catch my eye.

I love the Steam summer sale. I buy more games I still don't have time to play but lie to myself that I will eventually get around to.

I just got Life is Feudal from Humble Bundle, and ARMA 3 is already half off. Not sure what I would get. Maybe DayZ if the price drops low enough.

Well its up, its seems pretty underwhelming though.

Dawn of War II is only $4.99! WOOOHOOO!!!!

Big old pile of "meh" from what I can see.

I'm about to add Dawn of War II to my cart.

Steam is running slowly, though.


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Steam's server just went offline. And I was trying to add Dawn of War II to my cart.


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And I just loaded Dawn of War II's store page. Seems when I try to add to cart, it gives me Error 503


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Good! Dawn of War II has been added to cart after attempting to refresh.


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Attempting to click "Purchase for myself", but Steam is fething slow right now.


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Appears to be frozen right where I'm about to make the payment from my Steam wallet.


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Keep getting unexpected errors. Will have to wait until the load lightens up.


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Just got to the payment page.


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Purchase just completed.


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Will now attempt to buy Space Marine.


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Space Marine added to my cart much more quickly than Dawn of War II did.


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Hopefully about to make Transaction. Keep getting errors.

I would buy dow 2 , online is dead and the game is only used for last stand. The story mode is lacking aswell, you are a commader of pick army you and 3 other character beat up and conquor whole planet.

OgreChubbs wrote:
I would buy dow 2 , online is dead and the game is only used for last stand. The story mode is lacking aswell, you are a commader of pick army you and 3 other character beat up and conquor whole planet.

I just bought Dawn of War II. Took a while, but it's in my library.

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:

OgreChubbs wrote:
I would buy dow 2 , online is dead and the game is only used for last stand. The story mode is lacking aswell, you are a commader of pick army you and 3 other character beat up and conquor whole planet.

I just bought Dawn of War II. Took a while, but it's in my library.

sprry I tried to save ya. Good luck I guess at 5$ it would be ok. You can only play 2 races you need the 2 expansions aswell chaos is one and imperal guard is the other. Then you can buy skins for 5$ each, then you can play online lol.

OgreChubbs wrote:

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:

OgreChubbs wrote:
I would buy dow 2 , online is dead and the game is only used for last stand. The story mode is lacking aswell, you are a commader of pick army you and 3 other character beat up and conquor whole planet.

I just bought Dawn of War II. Took a while, but it's in my library.

sprry I tried to save ya. Good luck I guess at 5$ it would be ok.

Yep. Originally, I had $23.02 in my Steam Wallet, but now I have $17.72.

Still trying to buy Space Marine. And I still keep getting errors.


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FINALLY!!! I am at the payment page for Space Marine!!!


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And yet another error at the payment page.


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I'll wait a while before trying again. Keep getting errors.

It's surprising that Steam still isn't up to snuff for this sort of traffic.

 BrookM wrote:
It's surprising that Steam still isn't up to snuff for this sort of traffic.

Agreed.

Why not beef up the servers to account for heavier traffic?


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Purchase taking a long time to complete.


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Space Marine is in my library, though Steam is telling me I have no connection.

Steam melts on the first day of every sale.

I don't think that I will be getting much, maybe Halcyon 6 and Payday 2. Maybe.

I restarted my computer, and have a valid connection to Steam.

Will now try to purchase Space Hulk.


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And Space Hulk has been purchased. Have $7.11 left in my Steam Wallet. Will download games later.

Some games I've been looking at:
Kerbal Space Program
The Culling
Sims 3 (Yes, even though it's a DLC gateway, mods still make the base game fun)
Golf With Your Friends
Dead Island
Stranded Deep

I probably won't get all of them, but it's nice go see the majority of those games are already on sale. I'll wait before I do any buying though, because I don't want to throw my money away off the bat, and because I might get a better deal later on in the sale.

It looks like they're trying something different this year. Usually they have nearly everything marked down somewhat, and then each day they'll have several games that are more deeply discounted - but only on that day (and again on the last day). But based on what I can see, it looks like they're not doing the usual daily discounts. Instead, it's one price throughout.

There are some good discounts for certain games... except that people have probably already purchased those games. For instance, Fallout 4 is 50% off. Battlefleet Gothic is 33% off. And Doom is 40% off. But with the possible exception of Doom (which was released just over a month ago), people who are interested in those games probably already have them.

I got 17 cents. Any games on sale out there for 17 cents?

I was kind of joking but then I remembered that there sometimes are games for similar prices on steam. Terrible, terrible games.

Just to check: Assassin's Creed Syndicate still doesn't work properly on PC, does it?

They have Over 9000 titles on sale

To be more precise, 12,995 titles. Wow.

A very lackluster Steam Sale, not getting anything.

Downloading Space Hulk right now.


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Also downloaded Space Marine and now currently downloading Surgeon Simulator.


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All games have been downloaded.

Eumerin wrote:
It looks like they're trying something different this year. Usually they have nearly everything marked down somewhat, and then each day they'll have several games that are more deeply discounted - but only on that day (and again on the last day). But based on what I can see, it looks like they're not doing the usual daily discounts. Instead, it's one price throughout.

There are some good discounts for certain games... except that people have probably already purchased those games. For instance, Fallout 4 is 50% off. Battlefleet Gothic is 33% off. And Doom is 40% off. But with the possible exception of Doom (which was released just over a month ago), people who are interested in those games probably already have them.

I know I have both Fallout 4 and BFG:A on my wishlist, waiting for the sale. The question I had was if I should grab them now, or wait for deeper sales. If they are not doing the daily deals, makes it an easier call.

Of course, I still need to decide where I want to spent my entertainment budget. Video games or mins?

Tested all the games. They all work.

I'm thinking about Stardew Valley (since it is 40% off), but its not like I need more electronic crack to keep me from painting my plastic crack. I'm also considering Elite: Dangerous and Kerbal Space Program. Plenty of cool games out there. I would also consider Stellaris except they have hardly marked it down at all.

I haven't been interested in the steam summer sale in a long time, but this one around, I got quite a few. Doom (like 40% off for an almost new game), BFG, mordheim, this war of mine, kerbal space program, soma, and shadow warrior.

Even a couple more I'm potentially interested in, but I have to say, pretty good sales (40-50% off mostly) on decent games I've had an eye on. I can't complain.

I ended up getting the first Dawn of War and its expansions, Doorkickers, NOT A HERO and Shadwen, alongside DOOM I got a few days ago this should keep me occupied for some time to come.

Eumerin wrote:
It looks like they're trying something different this year. Usually they have nearly everything marked down somewhat, and then each day they'll have several games that are more deeply discounted - but only on that day (and again on the last day). But based on what I can see, it looks like they're not doing the usual daily discounts. Instead, it's one price throughout.

Pretty sure it's been that way since they introduced the refund policy. Saves people buying something, then asking for a refund when the sale price becomes better during the sale. Now everything has 1 sale price and that's it.

I picked up Age of Empires 2 HD, and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R bundle. Might go back for more if the dailies re worth while