2011 Steam Holiday Sale DEAD!

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

omg that bastard has cs:go beta! jelly

 

[Aikouka]

The person who won the grand prize....ugh. Looks like it will go to waste imo.

How can you say that when he has such eloquent and straightforward reviews!

:sneaky:

 

[stahlhart]

I got sidetracked on work and home projects yesterday, and missed LA Noire and UT3. :'( But overall picked up

Fallout: New Vegas
Defense Grid: The Awakening w/ DLC
ARMA: Cold War Assault
All JC2 DLC
Aliens vs Predator w/ Map Packs
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - Deluxe Edition w/ Insurgency Pack
Fallout 3 - Game of the Year
Red Faction: Armageddon
Deus Ex: Human Revolution

...so it's all good.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

For those who were curious, this is the kid who won the grand prize of every game available on Steam.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/iminrightnow

Yeah... will most likely go to waste.

Fun fact: Looking at my Steam library, I have ~115 Steam games installed, which take up a total of about ~400GB. If you want to do some really rough math, there's 2,203 games available on Steam; 2,203 divided by 115 is about 20, and 20 multiplied by 400GB is 8000GB.

So, a ballpark estimate of space required would be around 8 terabytes. I don't even want to think about how much time that would take to download.

LOL, I don't think the average person would play more than 20% of those games. They aren't really giving away as much as it looks like, unless they are giving away a time dilation device to give you more time to play, lol.

 

[rivethead]

LOL, I don't think the average person would play more than 20% of those games. They aren't really giving away as much as it looks like, unless they are giving away a time dilation device to give you more time to play, lol.

I was wondering if they'd actually give you the games in your library or in your inventory (tradeable/giftable).

I guess I have my answer.

That's not as good of a grand prize as I had thought. I wouldn't WANT every Steam game in my library. It would be more fun to keep what I want (and could reasonably have time to play) and gift what I didn't.

 

[Daverino]

The final damage was:

1. Orcs Must Die! - totally worth it
2. AI War - Fun but really can hurt your brain. Haven't finished a campaign yet because it requires a big commitment.
3. Limbo - Heard great things. Haven't played it yet though.
4. Dawn of War II - Retribution - I know this will be awesome, but haven't played it yet.
5. SpaceChem - Wooowoowooo, this game is awesome. Just when I think I'm getting good, a challenge comes along that makes me lean back and go, 'whoa.' Then you can go look at the leaderboard solutions and feel really humble.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

I was wondering if they'd actually give you the games in your library or in your inventory (tradeable/giftable).

I guess I have my answer.

That's not as good of a grand prize as I had thought. I wouldn't WANT every Steam game in my library. It would be more fun to keep what I want (and could reasonably have time to play) and gift what I didn't.

Well, I didn't actually know that they gave you every game, I just assumed, but they'd never let you gift them lol, the financial loss from that would be terrible. But giving one person all the games, all they really lose is the games that person would have bought.

And, considering that said person would be overwhelmed by all those old games, it frees them up to buy all the new games at full price that come out after the big win...

 

[s1njin]

Batman: AC
Skyrim

Just two games. Hours upon hours of entertainment to be had. Had to balance out the stuff I'm already sinking time into on my 360 (MW3 and ME2, I'm lookin' at you).

 

[NTAC]

This was my first Steam Sale, so I probably got a little carried away, but lots of good titles that I look forward to playing. Now for my damage report:

A for the Awesome!
Alien Breed 2
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Assasin's Creed II
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bioshock 1 and 2
Borderlands
Elder Scrols IV
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Far Cry
Far Cry 2
Grid
Hearts of Iron III
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Jamestown
Just Cause 2
King's Bounty, all 3
Lara Croft and Guardian of Light
Limbo
Machinarium
Orcs Must Die!
Portal 2
Rochard
Stalker Pripyat and Chernobyl
Space Pirate and Zombies
SpaceChem
Wings of Prey
X3 Albion Prelude
X3 Terran Conflict

Whew! That's a boat load

 

[mindcycle]

Surprisingly most of my DL games weren't from Steam this year.

On Steam I picked up Hard Reset and E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy.

From Amazon I picked up: Dues Ex: HR, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Crysis 2, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and ArcaniA - Fall of Setarrif. All had for $10 or under each, awesome deals this year from them.

On Green Man gaming I picked up Fear 3 for around $7.50, which was a pretty decent deal IMO, and it registers on Steam.

Oh, and I picked up Dead Space 2 CE from bestbuy.com for $5.. That was pretty nice.

 

[zinfamous]

A perfectly acceptable move. It will be even cheaper the next time it's on sale, and it will be less buggy after more patches. More power to you.

I agree. I hope it comes with some patches that offer--please--some interface improvements. That, and I'm waiting on mods until the patching slows down.

Also, waiting until DLC isn't a bad idea, though i now think there is so much to do already, that simply adding more would just be, um...too much all at once.

DLC is almost a 3rd or 4th character sort of thing, after having gone through bits you missed with the first 2 characters.

 

[CuriousMike]

so I probably got a little carried away

You're set until next year.

 

[gorcorps]

These are the reviews the winner of the contest has written

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July 16th, 2011 @ 8:39pm

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July 15th, 2011 @ 12:26am

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July 15th, 2011 @ 12:24am

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July 15th, 2011 @ 12:19am

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July 15th, 2011 @ 12:17am

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June 22nd, 2011 @ 10:21pm

I know it's wrong... but if I were Valve and this is the tool that won my contest I would spin that wheel again. I actually feel a little sick to my stomach.

 

[Dankk]

I know it's wrong... but if I were Valve and this is the tool that won my contest I would spin that wheel again. I actually feel a little sick to my stomach.

Well, actually... I think that's the wrong guy. Someone on Reddit did some snooping and found a Google cache'd version of his Steam profile from November, and he still had over ~2,000 games back 2 months ago.

So either he's really rich, or he's Gabe's nephew or something.

Of course Valve never reveals who the prize winners are, so we may never find out.

 

[SMOGZINN]

For those who were curious, this is the kid who won the grand prize of every game available on Steam.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/iminrightnow

Yeah... will most likely go to waste.

Fun fact: Looking at my Steam library, I have ~115 Steam games installed, which take up a total of about ~400GB. If you want to do some really rough math, there's 2,203 games available on Steam; 2,203 divided by 115 is about 20, and 20 multiplied by 400GB is 8000GB.

So, a ballpark estimate of space required would be around 8 terabytes. I don't even want to think about how much time that would take to download.

The real interesting thing is that he will be required to add the current value of all those games to his income for this years taxes. Assuming that the average cost of the games was $10 he has to claim an extra $22,030 income this year and pay taxes on that amount, and Valve is required to report a prize of that size to the IRS, so he can't just conveniently forget about it like you can with a small prize worth just a few hundred. So, overall that grand prize will end up costing somewhere between 3-4 grand.

 

[Ross Ridge]

The real interesting thing is that he will be required to add the current value of all those games to his income for this years taxes. Assuming that the average cost of the games was $10 he has to claim an extra $22,030 income this year and pay taxes on that amount, and Valve is required to report a prize of that size to the IRS, so he can't just conveniently forget about it like you can with a small prize worth just a few hundred. So, overall that grand prize will end up costing somewhere between 3-4 grand.

The grand prize includes a payment to cover the income taxes, so that isn't a problem.

 

[Imp]

I wish I could say that. My wish list only shrank by about 3 games. Got a lot of games that weren't on the list, added a bunch too.

Wish list gets smaller and smaller as time goes because tech gets better/older, and I can't stand the old tech. Self-solving problem.

 

[Barfo]

I know it's wrong... but if I were Valve and this is the tool that won my contest I would spin that wheel again. I actually feel a little sick to my stomach.

Win all the Steam games...only play MW3.

 

[Aikouka]

Wish list gets smaller and smaller as time goes because tech gets better/older, and I can't stand the old tech. Self-solving problem.

I think about half of my wish list is comprised of upcoming titles. Stuff like Bioshock Infinite, Darksiders II, etc. Hmm it might be less than half, but who's counting?

 

[KaOTiK]

Win all the Steam games...only play MW3.

Or in your case, Geometry Wars

 

[Barfo]

Or in your case, Geometry Wars

 

[obidamnkenobi]

The grand prize includes a payment to cover the income taxes, so that isn't a problem.

But then he has to pay income taxes on that as well? So they need to give him more money. It'll never end!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenos_Paradox#Achilles_and_the_tortoise

 

[Jules]

If anyone missed out on SR3, I have 2 extra copys with the genki pre order pm me

 

[SunnyD]

Only thing I might have bought was Skyrim, but since I got it for the xbox cheaper - looks like I missed out on nothing. I wish they'd quit rehashing the same old titles for each sale.

 

[gorcorps]

Only thing I might have bought was Skyrim, but since I got it for the xbox cheaper - looks like I missed out on nothing. I wish they'd quit rehashing the same old titles for each sale.

Same old titles? What new game DIDN'T go on sale? I saw Batman, Skyrim, MW3 (shocking), BF3, Deux Ex: HR, Saints Row 3 and AC all go on sale. How could you possibly say they're just rehashing old titles?