Steam Summer Sale

[Franka]

Oh snap! The Steam Summer Sale is on! Once the traffic dies down a little (seriously, it takes minutes for each screen to load for me right now), I'm going to spend so much money on games I'll never play!

I should set a budget, or I'll end up going overboard, half of my wishlist is discounted 40+%... (Ok, slightly exaggerated, but still.)

[jack1974]

I usually set aside 100 eur on a temporary CC (I can generate one with my bank) so that I have a hard limit that I cannot exceed. Last time though I didn't even reach half. I don't have time anymore, and honestly there isn't much that interest me nowadays, as player.

[Franka]

Well, so far 100€ went down the drain just for games on my wishlist. Oops?

[jack1974]

Haha, well as long as the games spent are worth it or you play them sooner or later is fine!

I mostly buy games for 2 reasons:
1) because I want to play them (obviously)
2) to do "research". Since I make games too, sometimes I hear stuff like "the combat on game XYZ is well done" and so on. So, sometimes I just watch youtube videos, other times I buy the game to see for myself.

In case of 2, many times I even play for 3-4h the game and then no more but it's still worth it for me personally since I can get ideas for my own games/stories

[Franka]

Most of them will be filed under "later", but yeah, my work doesn't involve games so everything is something I want to play eventually!





Except maybe the nostalgia purchases...

[Franka]

The most expensive game I bought this month is still a Winter Wolves game though!

[jack1974]

Pfuit obviously!!!!!!!!!! quality is expensive!!!

[Troyen]

Well, so far 100€ went down the drain just for games on my wishlist. Oops?

I switched to the strategy of only buying games when my uncompleted game list drops to a handful and that's helped my wallet survive the summer sale. After all, there are so many deep discount sales on Steam it's not like you miss out forever.

[Franka]

Here we go again, Steam completely unresponsive.

[jack1974]

Haha yes I gave up looking at it in the first 2-3 hours, since it never works anyway. Also with the new system the discount last the whole sale, so there's really no hurry