Another Steam Sale

Happy Halloween! Who needs to go out for tricks and treats when all these scary yet super fun games are up to 75% off!

Typing that out made me feel dirty. None the less, there seems to be some decent stuff there.

Here's something I will never understand.

Why are prices on Steam games so low?

Like, why is Overlord priced at $5 before counting the 75% off from the sale?

Anyway, maybe I'll get Bioshock. It's only $5 after all, and it's been a very long time since I've played an FPS, and freeware single-player FPSs are nearly non existent, so $5 is probably the next best thing.

edited 28th Oct '10 4:54:44 PM by DYRE

I suppose they can afford to charge so low.

I guess. It helps that it's digital, so they have an unlimited stock and it costs them next to nothing to sell a copy.

"Why are prices on Steam games so low?"

Most games not expected bring much revenue after first few months. Anything after considered extra revenue, so price not too important. At a point, decreasing price = much higher revenue, so price low.

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Also, it is not like you can re-sell the games. You can't even let other people borrow them. That, and needing LOW overhead per sale, drives the price of anything download-able down.

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Damn it. Why the hell is Valve so good at persuading me to part with my money? Every time they have one of these sales, I wind up spending around AUD$35 and ending up with another three or four games in my account. Most of the ones I already have I haven't finished and getting more makes that even more unlikely.

Accidental mistakes are forgivable, intentional ones are not.

They actually sold out on Prey last year during the Christmas sale.

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now that I have a more stable computer, I decided to (FINALLY) get Steam. Although I may have to wait till I get my laptop before Im able to play some games.

Taking a break from FE1, for the FE8 draft instead

I'm right now debating on whether or not to buy the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. pack...I'm not much of a horror person but I've looked it up from time to time and it looks interesting...unfortunately doing so will probably clog up the computer, and I don't want that to happen because this is my family's, not just mine.

I bought Amnesia, DMC 4 and the Overlord pack. Jesus Christ Amnesia is unnerving. Everything pulses, like a bad flash game. Only scary. And after I stop playing everything is still pulsing.

Is it just Valve policy at this point to put Team Fortress 2 on salle whenever there's a special going on?

At the very least it's thematically appropriate this time, as Team Fortress 2 has been treating Halloween as an event, unlike every other holiday.

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I bought Amnesia, the STALKER pack, and Plants vs Zombies.

I just bought Plants Vs Zombies. It took me, like, 20 hours to do so.

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...Damnit. I JUST bought Plants vs Zombies a week ago.

And my curretn computer can't play anything more impressive.

Oh well.

Well, I'm disappointed. Fifty games on sale. Looked through all of them, and given that I already have Bioshock and Overlord and I'd probably suck at Plants vs. Zombies, Alter Ego looks like the only one I'd want. I could easily go a couple years before playing it, and I'm guessing that by that time its price will have dropped below $10, so I'm skipping this one.

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Not going to waste my money on another sale, too many games on my backlog right now. Still, I'd recommend S.T.A.L.K.E.R. .. personally I don't consider it really horror, and it's certainly buggy, but it has an incredibly strong atmosphere, some good gameplay mechanics and an awesome modding community. It's certainly a rewarding purchase.

I got Overlord and Dead Space. They added DMC 4 on a cover disc to one of local gaming magazines a while back, so that one's off the list.

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