Holiday Sales at Steam Store

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If you haven't noticed yet, Valve has dropped prices on all games that are available on Steam. Discounts are from -10% to -75%. Sale ends January 2nd, see a few examples below:
  • Left 4 Dead - ?20.24
  • Team Fortress 2 - ?6.99
  • Portal - ?3.49
  • Bioshock - ?3.49
  • Valve Completepack - ?39.74
  • Opposing Force - 99p
You can find The Steam Holiday Sale page here.
 
Should've reduced prices on merch as well. Then we Mancunians should'v waited till after Christmas to order our stuff. As it is, it makes no difference anyways. We still haven't got our stuff, let alone paid for it. (And yes, I am going to be moaning about this at every opportunity I get!)
 
Added some of the best sales to the OP, Portal is ridiculously cheap, can't believe it D:
 
Finally Valve! I love you guys (not in gay way).

Edit: Damn, Bioshock is not available.
 
I got $45 on PayPal (Left 4 Dead's $37), but damn thing's not letting me to buy it. :(
 
AciD said:
>Left 4 Dead - ?20.24
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WAT

Shit I wish. Not ready to pay even 37 for it right now ffs.

EDIT: Are you smarter than a 5th grader is 8.99 now lol..no amount of price drop is gonna help that piece of shit.
 
Hopefully gonna pick up the Company of Heroes Gold pack for ?12.74! Is this valves idea of sorting out the prices then? :)
 
Barnz said:
Finally Valve! I love you guys (not in gay way).

Edit: Damn, Bioshock is not available.
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For me it says Bioshock is $5, check again?

I'm convincing my friend pick up TF2 and CS:S for $10 each during this sale. He just started playing PC FPS with L4D.
 
Ennui said:
For me it says Bioshock is $5, check again?

I'm convincing my friend pick up TF2 and CS:S for $10 each during this sale. He just started playing PC FPS with L4D.
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It's because you live in USA. Some games aren't available in Eastern parts of Europe. :p
 
Jesus. Bioshock for $5. I can't imagine more a more bang for the buck deal. For ****s sake, it's almost cheaper to buy it than to pirate it.
 
apart from the old titles that are around or under $10 most of the newer games can still be bought for far less from eBay.
ie Prince of Persia is now $37.49 which translates into around $55 Australian. Quick check on eBay and it's AU$24.95 + $15 p/h making it AU$40 total.
I really don't understand why people blindly pay more on Steam. Apart from Valve games all the new releases are usually the same price as retail and they stay that way for a long time whereas retail discount titles pretty quickly.

And it's great to see Valve screwing over early adopters, we buy L4D and then they go and heavily discount it to everyone who wasn't really interested in getting it day one. I guess that's business for you.
 
I'll be picking up Bioshock, $US 5 = $AU 8. In shops it is still $AU 60-70 :|

Just a note that the sale page doesn't list every game on sale (of course since it's a Steam wide sale). I had to reload it a few times before Bioshock came up.

octavio said:
Probably not the best idea considering their current bugs.
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What bugs? Last time I played them (which admittedly was a while ago) they were fine.
 
**** year



lol they locked down by bank account cuz I made so many small purchases off steam
 
Retail versions have less bugs. Valve changed quite a lot of stuff for Steam version of Half-Life, which makes things work weird.
 
Barnz said:
Retail versions have less bugs. Valve changed quite a lot of stuff for Steam version of Half-Life, which makes things work weird.
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I dispute that, I've never had a problem with my Steamed Half-Life whereas with my retail version I'd routinely get the "stuck in elevator" bug. Aside from my anecdotal evidence there are years worth of updates made to the Steam version that aren't, obviously, in the retail version.

BTW a lot of bugs in Blue Shift can be solved with this (it makes Blue Shift into a HL mod allowing it to take advantage of the updates Valve have given the GldSource engine over the years)
 
I have also never had an issue with steam half-life.
 
Foolish Steam, I already have every game I want from you.

Yes Valve, thats right, I was using you all along, you gave me what I wanted and when I got it I went into the arms of other game developers to get what I wanted from them.



I'm a player, baby, its what I do, I play your shit.

Word.

Don't be hatin.
 
Barnz said:
Retail versions have less bugs. Valve changed quite a lot of stuff for Steam version of Half-Life, which makes things work weird.
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This is complete and utter hokum. In fact the opposite is true, I have no idea where you got that idea from.
 
Top Secret said:
Jesus. Bioshock for $5. I can't imagine more a more bang for the buck deal. For ****s sake, it's almost cheaper to buy it than to pirate it.
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Have to be honest and say I was gonna download it, but what's the point? $5 is basically a large cup of coffee..

Picked up Bioshock and two late x-mas gifts for friends (Tf2 L4d).

And add me to the never had a single problem with any Steam game (other than my own issues with hardware).
 
Hectic Glenn said:
This is complete and utter hokum. In fact the opposite is true, I have no idea where you got that idea from.
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Never had a problem with my retail version of Blue Shift. I couldn't get past the elevator scene in the Steam version because the scientists kept exploding.
 
Hectic Glenn said:
This is complete and utter hokum. In fact the opposite is true, I have no idea where you got that idea from.
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You sir, are clueless. Like Decay (for PS2), retail Blue Shift is based on earlier versions of the SDK. Valve later replaced lots of old code (left from Quake) with theirs. They fixed bugs, but also borked the game's (physics, path finding and so on) code.

Blue Shift on Steam (ported by Valve) is using Half-Life's version of the engine, instead of Gearbox's. It just makes things worse. There's lot to tell, but please don't come here and say you don't know any shit.
 
These are some awesome deals.

Picked up Stalker SOC last weekend and Bioshock yesterday.

Woop woop!
 
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