Tips to Survive Major Steam Sales

Rule #1:
From now until the LAST DAY of the sale, if a game is on sale as a daily deal or flash deal, you can buy it. If it is only "on sale" through the entire sale, pass. Do not buy. Save your money (you may need it).

Rule #2:
Check each day for the daily deals, and monitor flash deals. As games come up that you want, you can get them. Just continue to exercise self control for games that are not a daily/flash deal.

Rule #3:
You can purchase the large packs, such as the THQ pack or Square-Enix/Eidos pack at any time if you wish. It is extremely unlikely that those bundles will be discounted any further, even though individual games in those packs may become daily deals. If you want a bundle, go for it. Lots of games, excellent price.

Rule #4:
On the LAST DAY of the sale, Steam traditionally makes its daily deals an encore of the most popular daily deals from the previous days. Go nuts. Buy everything you wanted. Other games are almost never on the daily deals during the last day, at this point, it is safe to buy anything else you've been waiting on.


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That should be a big red flag as it seemed like a rushed product. If the game runs well at 60fps with up to 4k, i think thats ok with that but they did not assure it. It might be another poor port.

All based on some metacritic score that is mostly garbage?

Van Helsing isnt a bad game as it has some unique mechanics. The story and the characters are quite decent with some stunning environments. Pretty much a play once and throw away game.

It can be quite repetitive after a while despite it is a decent ARPG.

It looks like card prices will be lower for the next few days.

I'll probably hold the gems for now first.

Its a good time to sell now, IMO. Or at least list it at higher price if you have the time now.

The reason some of us do all these gem bidding yesterday because it can easily net you are few free games. And its doesnt need much effort.

The amount I got yesterday can get me 1-2 free games on sale next week.

I meant cheap games though, like heavily discounted indie games.

Cant even preorder an AAA game yet

Steam is the same as Origin. You just need to backup everything in the Steamapps folder then copy it to an external hard disk. You also need to backup the .acf files in the Steamapps folder. Do not delete them as you might need to redownload the games

Once you reinstall the PC, you need to point your newly installed Steam client to your new Steamapps folder. Then, if im not wrong, you need to click Install for each game in order for Steam to locate the files back. Some games might be automatically being detected by Steam.

EDIT: May I know where did you install your library folder? Is it in a different partition from your OS that will be formatted?

The backup feature is teribble, avoid it. Just copy and paste your Steamapps Folder out to an external, then copy and paste back into your new installation of Steam.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Dec 16 2014, 03:45 PM

You can literally leave the files, ie: your Steamapps in F:\, then format your C:\ only and relink to Steam library after you reinstall windows.

It happened to me once where my windows partition is corrupted and I have to reinstall Windows. Then, I just reinstall Steam to relink Steam client to my game libraries in my other partition.

If you ever gonna transfer your game files from one PC to another PC, like your new PC or laptop, use a LAN cable. It is much much much faster than using external HDD.

Thats why i choose to be forever alone. Easier and less stress.

If you have to choose one, Grid Autosport all the way. Better driving physics, better AI, much more content as the game launch with 20 unique locations and 70+ cars on launch and also visually looked better than Grid 2. The Season Pass is also much more worth it than Grid 2 as it adds about 2 dozens of new cars, a handful of new game modes including drag and point to point racing and 6 tracks that adds more to the game.

This game is playable with a keyboard as the keyboard controls have tweaked. Get a 360 controller as it is a pretty useful device to own.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Dec 23 2014, 10:49 AM

Not worth it. Skyrim has to be bought with all DLCs cause mods needs all DLCs. And if you buy base game now, its gonna be expensive to buy the DLCs later on.

Saints Row 4, better get the complete edition. There are some fun DLCs in there. Its just a few RM more.

Saints Row 4. Better port, runs better, no triple layer drm and its a lot more fun than GTA.

It has both Rockstar Social Club and GFWL. GFWL can be disabled by a dll hack.

I don't think its worth getting cause the port is awful.

GFWL is garbage same as Rockstar Social Club.

No online coop for PC version.

The port is generally pretty terrible. You need controller to play this game.

Yes, the Golden Realms expansion is necessary as it adds an interesting race to play with, the Halflings and also Naga neutral faction, along with some new mechanics.

I do recommend the game but take it more like a SRPG with some 4X elements as the empire building is very weak but the combat and AI is exceptional.

That is exactly why you shouldnt name a game with the same name as the original game who was a completely different genre. People are used to XCOM as a TBS all these while, despite there are a lot of crappy spinoffs.

At the same time, the original version of the shooter barely resembles what XCOM was.