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Steam’s Holiday Sale is stealing our money!

Steam’s Holiday Sale is stealing our money!

Every year, holiday sales begins on Black Friday—no problem, because that normally ends on the 24th of December. Well lucky for us, Steam does not go by those rules. They started their annual holiday deal on December 20th and it goes until January 2nd. During this time, incredible deals show up each and every day.

People say PC gaming is dying, but judging by the number of people complaining and lauding the Steam sales, it’s doing just fine.

Here are some of the games that have been purchased by some of the Icrontic staffers. This is such a tiny sample of the IC community, and yet there are dozens of games here:

primesuspect:

For himself:

  • Recettear: An Item Shop Tale
  • Flight Control HD
  • All the DLC for Defense Grid
  • Deus EX: GotY Edition
  • Chime
  • Swords and Soldiers HD
  • Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
  • Indie 2D pack
  • Supreme Commander 2
  • Shatter
  • Indie Flight Pack
  • Command & Conquer 4

For gifts to others:

  • Recettear: An Item Shop Tale
  • Flat Out: Ultimate Carnage
  • Deathspank
  • Flight Control HD
  • Plants vs. Zombies GotY Edition
  • Shank

Gifts received:

  • DeathSpank
  • Super Meat Boy

shwaip :

For himself:

  • Modern Warfare 2
  • Deus EX Pack
  • Mass Effect 2
  • FEAR Complete Pack

For gifts to others:

  • Fallout 3

Thrax :

For himself:

  • Aliens vs. Predator
  • Borderlands
  • Crysis Maximum Edition
  • Deus EX: GotY Edition
  • Deus EX: Invisible War
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  • Europa Universalis III Complete
  • Fallout 3: GotY
  • Just Cause 2
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Metro 2033
  • Mirror’s Edge
  • Neverwinter Nights 2: Platinum
  • Serious Sam HD: Gold Edition
  • SimCity 4 Deluxe
  • Star Wars – Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
  • The Witcher: Enhance Edition
  • Indie Flight Pack
  • Unreal Pack

mertesn:

For himself:

  • Boardlands GotY
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Greed Corp
  • Gyromancer
  • Neverwinter Nights 2: Platinum
  • Mirror’s Edge
  • Machinarium
  • Lost Planet 2
  • Far Cry Complete

fatcat:

For himself:

  • Mass Effect
  • Mass Effect 2
  • The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum GotY Edition

Gifts received:

  • Boarderlands
  • Cities XL

Church4252 :

For himself:

  • Neverwinter Nights 2: Platium
  • Sid Meier’s Civilzation V
  • Shank
  • Flight Control HD

What did you get for yourself? For others?

Comments

  1. UPSLynx
    UPSLynx Man, I can't stop buying cheap video games. So far:

    Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
    IL2 Sturmovik: 1946
    Crysis Warhead
    Greed Corp
    Just Cause 2
    Metro 2033
    STALKER Call of Pripyat
    Super Meat Boy
    The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
    Kane and Lynch 2

    More to come, too. Probably picking up the Indie Flight Pack.

    It's funny. When I see a game going for $15, I scoff. What a joke! I would buy a game at a price like that in a heartbeat in any store.
  2. Gate28
    Gate28 I got Shank from Prime and STALKER from someone else as a gift.
  3. GnomeWizardd
    GnomeWizardd Batman Arkham asylum
    Mass Effect
    Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
    rainbow Six Vegas 2
    Shattered Horizon

    Gifted

    Lego Star wars trilogy
  4. GnomeWizardd
    GnomeWizardd Wait add I bought myself the Jedi Knight pack and also gifted one
  5. BlackHawk
    BlackHawk So far I've bought Knights of the Old Republic, Empire: Total War and Napoleon: Total War.
  6. fatcat
    fatcat add gifted to me:

    The Hitman Collection for $7.47

    <3 Alidra
  7. GnomeWizardd
    GnomeWizardd Add Gifted Unreal tournament and Bought for myself Unreal tournament ( me and my dad have some unfinished business with that game!
  8. NullenVoyd
    NullenVoyd Gawd, too many to list.
    Funny thing, a number of them are games I already owned the box version.

    Just wish GFWL wasn't involved for some of these titles.
  9. primesuspect
    primesuspect Yeah I had an issue with Flat Out that I bought for my son. It wouldn't run at all until I installed GFWL. Nice undocumented bug. They could, you know, install it for you, or at least TELL you that GFWL is required. Fail.
  10. Thrax
    Thrax I've already bought more. STALKER, STALKER: CoP, C&C4 and Sup Com 2 for $13 total! WTFFFF. I also bought the Indie Flight Pack! (omg Gratuitous Space Battles).
  11. Cliff_Forster
    Cliff_Forster I'm at a point where I have so many unfinished games, but yet, more cheap games tempt me!
  12. pigflipper
    pigflipper So far I've gotten:

    Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Box
    Borderlands: GotY edition
    Bad Company 2: Vietnam
    Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
    Monkey Island 2 Special Edition

    Most expensive was BC2: Vietnam @ $10. I love the holiday sale.
  13. Jingalls
    Jingalls I've picked up these so far:
    Amnesia
    ARMA 2
    DiRT 2
    Half-Life Complete (6 bucks!)
    Section 8
    Tom Clancy Pack
    Unreal Pack
  14. Koreish
    Koreish I am disappoint. No Grim Fandango.
  15. pigflipper
    pigflipper
    Koreish wrote:
    I am disappoint. No Grim Fandango.

    The lack of love shown to older Lucas Arts titles (exception: Monkey Island and Sam and Max to a certain degree) makes me a very sad panda. Do want Loom, Grim Fandango and TIE Fighter/X-Wing.
  16. Snarkasm
    Snarkasm Picked up the Hitman bundle, Zeno Clash, Medal of Honor and The Witcher. I still cannot, for the life of me, really get into The Witcher, though. Bummer.
  17. fatcat
    fatcat Snarkasm gifted me Medal of Honor. Thank you!
  18. TurboPenguin
    TurboPenguin I created an additional steam account... With all the good deals I was able to get a second account for n00b friends when they came over.

    Here is what I got...

    Team Fortress 2
    Supreme Commander 2 + DLC
    Mafia II + all DLC
    Left 4 Dead 1 & 2
    F1 2010
    Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (x2)
    Half-Life 2
    Counter-Strike Source
    Hit Man
    Medal of Honor

    Holy crap! Uhh gtg! Must hide bank statement from wife!
  19. Canti
    Canti
    pigflipper wrote:
    The lack of love shown to older Lucas Arts titles (exception: Monkey Island and Sam and Max to a certain degree) makes me a very sad panda. Do want Loom, Grim Fandango and TIE Fighter/X-Wing.

    Full Throttle :rockon:
  20. Thrax
    Thrax $86 later, I walked away with 38 games that I really, really wanted. The retail price for them is way over $500.
  21. Cliff_Forster
    Cliff_Forster I re purchased Crysis and Warhead for Steam integration (silly, I know), Plants vs. Zombies, Sonic the Hedgehog for Genesis Classics, the Indie Flight Pack, and for $6.80 I picked up Dead Space, I'll get around to it eventually.
  22. erichblas2005
    erichblas2005 Well they raped me this season.
    Bioshock 2
    dark sector
    deus ex: invisible war
    dirt 2
    fi 2010
    flatout: ultimate carnage
    prince of persa: the two trones
    tom clancy's ghost recon: advanced warfighter
    tom clancy's HAWX
  23. ardichoke
    ardichoke If it weren't for the fact that I was pretty much broke all last month, I would have bought a hell of a lot of more games. I ended up only buying these two

    Fallout 3 GOTY
    Assassin's Creed II
  24. MiracleManS
    MiracleManS I escaped the entire sale without buying a single game. That's right. Not a single one.
  25. CrazyJoe
    CrazyJoe I only purchased Borderlands for Fatcat and Batman: Arkham Asylum for myself...
  26. Bandrik
    Bandrik I went into the holiday season knowing full well that Steam would be sappin' mah wallet. Too many games for me to be comfortable with listing. I tried to have a mix of big-name and indie games, as I have been greatly enjoying both Super Meat Boy and VVVVVV.

    I just tried to limit myself to games I knew I would play, with the exception of a few impulse buys that were under $3. I figured that if a game was less than the price of a McDonalds burger, then it was still much less of a risk to try. At the very least, it can't give me food poisoning.
  27. AlexDeGruven
    AlexDeGruven My wallet managed to survive with only taking the $5 for Burnout: Paradise.
  28. Annes
    Annes I did amazingly well compared to last year. Although it should be noted that I bought almost every single Indie Pack during the Black Friday Steam Sale. That being said, I only bought Machinarium. I desperately wanted CivV but assumed it would go on super sale at the end. I was wrong, and I'm ok without it...for now.
  29. Garg
    Garg I held myself back and only got the Indie Flight Pack and Braid.

    Still, Gratuitous Space Battles will be the end of me.
  30. pigflipper
    pigflipper I ended up adding the Indie Flight Pack to my purchases as well.
  31. TiberiusLazarus
    TiberiusLazarus Came out with Just Cause 2, the Crysis set, indie flight pack, Flight Control HD, Mass Effect 2 (which I just remembered I even bought), and Sim City 4. All in all I'm pretty happy with everything.
  32. DogSoldier
    DogSoldier I picked up Borderlands and all 4 DLC paks for it. I also got Serious Sam HD - The Second Encounter.. All for less than $50.
  33. ardichoke
    ardichoke
    ardichoke wrote:
    If it weren't for the fact that I was pretty much broke all last month, I would have bought a hell of a lot of more games. I ended up only buying these two

    Fallout 3 GOTY
    Assassin's Creed II

    Heh... I JUST started playing ACII last night... because I finally beat ACI last night. Where has all my precious gaming time gone these past couple years?

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