Steam Discounting Over 1000 Games
It's a holiday blowout for PC gamers.
The holidays are upon us and many Tom's readers are looking to find ways to keep occupied during some well-earned time off. Valve Software's Steam service has just the remedy with the just-launched Steam Holiday Sale, its traditional end-of-the-year blowout that offers gamers up to 80-percent off on select titles. Why not get caught up on some classic games for just a few bucks?
According to Valve, the sale offers daily and week-long saving on featured titles, publisher game packs and compilations. "In addition to the usual savings specials, each day of the sale will feature a special Holiday Bonus on one select title," Valve said. "The twist: Players must qualify for the Holiday Bonus by owning another Steam game. For example, the first Holiday Bonus is Portal--save an extra 10-percent if you own Half-Life 2. If you already own the title, Steam will automatically detect this and offer you the 10-percent savings during check out."
Monday's initial one-day-only deals include the FEAR Complete Pack for $9.97, Titan Quest Gold for $4.99, the Deus Ex Collection for $2.99, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition for $20.09, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for $6.79 and a few more. As of this writing, just over three hours remain on this particular selection of PC games, so expect a different batch by 1pm EST on Tuesday.
As for the Mega Packs, The Epic Unreal Deal costs $14.99 and consists of Unreal Gold, Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Unreal 2: The Awakening, and Unreal Tournament 3 Black. Other mega packs are provided from 2K Games ($79.99), THQ ($49.99), Bethesda ($69.99), Rockstar ($39.99), Valve ($49.99) and a few others.
For those who can't purchase the mega packs, each publisher is offering a discount including 50-percent off all Valve titles, 50-percent off all Square-Enix and Eidos games, 50-percent off most LucasArts games, 25-percent off Sega games and so on.
Valve's Steam Holiday Sale ends on January 2, 2011. To see the full 31-page spread without the Steam client, head here.
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It would be so easy to buy every game on Steam...
And this is why I love steam...
picked up bfbc2 for a fiver, bioshock2 for a fiver, the witcher for £3 Bargain!!!!
Ive already got 48 titles from steam, all bought at substantial discounts, hate to think what the total is going to be by the end of the sale.
Great prices on their offers, No disc scratch \ media swapping worries, very limited intrusive DRM, Fast access, convenience and wide selection. No wonder the local game shop with a solitary rack of overpriced PC games no longer sees my money.
This is why steam is #1. More interesting offers can be found at gog.com (about 290). But what about competitors ... gamesforwindows ... discounting 6 games, seriously? Shame on you M$!
More interesting offers can be found at gog.com (about 290).
Yup. I picked up Cannon Fodder for $2.99. That's £1.93!
always loved steam. I dont know why retail stores havent done deals in the past... they are "sort of" catching on now. Gamestop has $10 dollar off deals and stuff every now and then for newer games but never any blowout sales like this.
i've had a handful of games this year so far and it's only day 3 of those sales, i still like shopping in game stores for games, but hey, if the price is right....
Thumbs up to Steam!