Winter Game Sale 2012: Final Thoughts

Sleeping Dogs 91% off? when and were? what price was it then? just curious :)

I think they faild not to put on sale Fallout NV, Flatout, Prototype 2, Game of thrones and some other...

Disappointed that fallout 3 wasn't on sale for the $5 it usually has been. Other than that I managed to snag borderlands 2 season pass for $7.5 and Batman Arkham City for $4.8 among others. These were my favourite bargains of the sale.

I bought some Games, that i really was looking forwawrd to. E.G Giana Sisters at Steam, and Serious Sam 3 with a few Expansions. My favourite is/are the two Monkey Islands that are available in Steam. All in all i spent about 25€ and got some really nice Games.

It was quite a disappoint, not necessarily because the sales were bad, but because they were all repeats. With relatively few exceptions, they were all sales we saw in the Thanksgiving Weekend sale. On top of that, some of Steam's prices were absolutely crushed by Amazon and even GreenManGaming.

I picked up a few great games in the sale, but it's still not up to par with Steam's previous history.

Galactic Civ Franchise for $6.24...always had these wishlisted and finally got em.
Most of my other purchases were Amazon and got Gods and Kings for $3 something on GG.

I didn't buy anything :)

I bought like 30 euros. For me it was good, the first "big" promotion, since I'm here since August. But there were some things that really disapointed me, like they putted games like Borderlands 2 like 5 times in the promotions, in the Flash, Daily, Vote, etc.

Total War Battles for 1€, what a crap, micro transactions in a game you pay for, geeesh...
R.U.S.E. for 2.5€, didn't try yet, can't be that bad
NFS:Hot Pursuit for 5€, great stuff, PC is cheating but it's still very enjoyable, could use AA though...
I also got RO2 on GMG for cheap and HiB, all in all that's bound to be enough for a month or three.

I was expecting to see AvP and Supreme Commander 2 on sale and I hoped to see The Walking Dead a bit more discounted but I can't have it all right?

idk waht with u guys but i bought 3 games on sale and waht im really enjoying from now its dungeon defenders...cheap n good

It was okay, spend a handful of money, not too much. Bought Saints Row The Third full package, Hotline Miami, All Zombies Must Die bundle pack and some more. Fly'n, Krater CE, Payday, Scoregasm. And a few more.

I missed the HL2+HL2.1+HL2.2 sale :((

I bought Universe Sandbox.

Sleeping Dogs redeemed it. Otherwise the amount of repeats really put a hamper on the sale entirely. It was the first sale ever when I wasn't excited to check the store each day.

Most of my money went to Amazon.

Still hating myself for missing the Sleeping Dogs price glitch. At least I got myself some Arma X :P

Bought a lot of games, and I'm pretty sure they'll keep me busy for a while.

Bought games for like 45€
Sleepings Dogs
COD:MW2
Bastion
Assassins Creed 2
Hotline Miami
Awesomenauts
and a few low price games like Monkey Island and Rainbow Six Vegas
wanted to keep it around 20€, but couldn't stand some deals :/

Amazon's got the best deals, but for some reason I'm in love with GoG. Maybe its because they're an underdog, or maybe its because they have all the classics I grew up on. Funny enough, I didn't buy anything from GoG, but I was extremely tempted to get their Dungeons & Dragons compilation.

Bought: I Am Alive, Saints Row The Third - The Full Package, Tantalizing THQ Medley, Hotline Miami, 2K Strategy Super Pack, Desert to Sea Bundle, Crazy Machines Bundle, Humble Bundle 7 BTA.
Total spent: ~$43 USD

I bought Far Cry and Audiosurf. I'm still trying to trade a copy of KF Bundle for me and my friend, cause I missed it...
Too bad I missed Sleeping Dogs glitch... :/

the good... welll... i helped a few people get around steams regional pricing, so that made me feel good. also managed to get assassins creed.

the meh... kinda failed on everything else i set out to get. missed out on trading for darksiders 2, missed out on assassins creed brotherhood deluxe, missed out on cod world at war and skyrim dawnguard.

the bad... gamersgate. my first and last experience with them. even people NOT caught up in their bethesda/borderlands 2 thing, have been effected by gamersgates lack of professionalism or customer care by selling games they dont have keys for...

Kinda poor sale, especially on Steam side. I don't think any Winter Sale prices were better then Novermber Sale. Other stores put much nicer pricing then Valve (Amazon, GMG, even GamersGate without it's mistakes made some nice deals, especially for EU, since sometimes co.uk was cheaper then .com).

Right now only reason to buy something from Steam would be Russian store or TF2 items. If it's region locked, you can easily find better deals elsewhere (especially when you're from Poland - muve.pl made some really nice deals, but they know how much we earn, unlike Steam... as example - retail CoD is for around 30euro and that's deluxe/nuketown version...).

Really, I hope Valve will pay those indie guys to make some DLCs (or maybe even get some DLCs for AAA games?) that can be won for Summer Sale along some achievements, bringing back fun and disallowing abuse in same time.

• Bioshock 1
• Bioshock 2
• Duke Nukem Forever
• Borderlands GOTY
• Borderlands 2
• Hotline Miami
• Serious Sam 2
• Serious Sam HD Gold Pack
• The Longest Journey
• Far Cry
• Dawn of War Franchise (26 items)
• Oblivion: GOTY
• Stronghold Complete Pack
• Ghost Recon + Island Thunder + Desert Siege
• Space Channel 5 Part 2
• Sonic Adventures DX
• Crazy Taxi
• SEGA Bass Fishing
• Jet Set Radio
• Rainbow Six: Lockdown
• Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Total: $47.49

Yeah, so fucking cheap. Congratz me (???) lol.

And win some giveaways:
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
IndieGame: The Movie
Sniper Elite V2
Shank 2

Went a bit mad on the sales, caught the Sleeping Dogs glitch. See here for my activations.

Bought Darksiders Franchise on Amazon with $5 off, and then Hotline Miami in 2013 with their credit again. Should have bought Scribblenauts from Amazon as well, but I chose not to...

Stupid thing I did, accidentally pasted my DMC4 key in the Trader's Guild, having bought it cheap with my trade-ins on GMG. Bought another copy for myself.

Sales were full of repeats, but the big surprise was the software was discounted, which rarely happens in the real world. Still sad I missed the RPG Maker flash deal.

I only bought RAGE and Just Cause 2 DLCs from the Steam sale. I bought Hitman: Absolution for $20 on Amazon though and I'm loving the game.

So I'm not disappointed one bit.

Final thoughts: it sucked. It is also the first Steam Sale I didn't buy any game from.

felt dumb not getting sleeping dogs when it was £2.67