Winter Game Sale 2012: Final Thoughts

a piece of shit, I'm bummed I missed the hidden frozen synapse sale and I got sleepy dagz for a friend so its aight. I bought most of my shit from gmg or amazon this sale.

Mass Effect!!

/happy dance

I'm already 12 hours in =/

Actually, make that 17 hours... /facepalm

I liked it of course, sales are always great. I bought Serious Sam BFE (for giveaway), Condemned Criminal Origins(for giveaway) and for myself F.E.A.R and Assassins Creed 2.

I have bought Magicka...unfortunately Chuck Norris is not in it....

Seemed most of the better sales were not advertised ones this time around, but I ended up with Awesomenauts, Condemned: CI, Ship Sim Extremes, and Toy Soldiers. I won Grotesque Tactics: EH, Sega Bass Fishing, and Sniper: GW: Second Strike dlc.

I also didn't spend a cent. I trade for everything. XD

Awful sale, still have like 50% of my budget

I paid around $50 for well over $200 worth of games and have enough to last me the year now. I'm happy enough.

Though I got sick of the repeats fast, would have been nice to see some of the indie games get some repeats but most of them got one shot at a flash sale, if that.

I bought way to much to list. Tons for me and tons for gifts. From all sites too. I spent quite a bit of money but it was fun. There were some games that I wish would of got sales or even better discounts but oh well. I also can't complain to much considering I already have a crap load of games.

• Condemned so I already have a game to play next Halloween.
• Jet Set Radio, 'cause I like the style.
• Rocket Knight (bought through a canadian friend of a friend, since the game is not available in France. I thanked him by gifting him Awesomenauts).
• Hero Academy during the -75% flash sale during New Year's Eve.
• Sleeping Dogs, thanks to the -91% (lolz) sale error.

And I received Chivalry from a friend (almost received Secrets of the Magic Crystals too from another friend, I rejected it).
Overall, it was so-so. Mainly because I already had much of the games I've wanted from previous sales. :p

I'm kinda dissapointed expected more...

53,38 spend... Could be worse considering 20 of that is Sleeping Dogs...

Meh
I wasn't really happy with it, but a sale is a sale.

Was able to pick up a few games to add to my backlog of games.

My thoughts? I either own most of games that interest me or they were too expensive.
I was disappointed, there wasn't Fallout New Vegas on sale - I was planning on buying some DLCs. Aside from that - I'm satisfied from buying Awesomenauts (3 pack). But... I regret buying Dead Island... 2 copies actually, since I wanted a friend to play with me. We've got so bored, we started playing Terraria once again.

I kind of wish, I was able to get Sleeping Dogs on glitch sale, but well - I was visiting friend.
There were obviously few more games that I bought - but, hell - I don't like people showing off, how many games they have bought, so why should I do it?

Pretty neat sale, despite the many repeats. The most annoying thing during the sale was the "gamers" who were constantly asking for higher discounts ("It aint on sale, its only -50%" sigh..)

I have bough many things, but cheaper than any other time before:

• Gamersgate: Fallout 3 Goty, Oblivion Goty and Borderlands 2.(7€ in total)
• Amazon: Hotline Miami, Spec Ops The Line, The Darkness 2 and Tomb Raider Anniversary, and a whole pack of Borderlands Goty + Bioshock 1&2 + Duke Nukem Forever (for gifting purposes). (0€ in total, thanks to Amazon gift cards earnt by testing apps on iphone).
• Steam: Splinter Cell 1 (1,24€) and Simcity 4 (2,5€ for gifting).
• Forums: Victoria 2 for gifting (3€).
• Traded for games that I bought for free on Amazon: Assassin's Creed 1 and 2, and Two Worlds 2 VE.

Plus i also have won on steamgifts a copy of Mirror's Edge and another one of Resident Evil 5, during the private groups events.

To sum up: 13,75€ spent, 13 new games. :)

PS: I'm still waiting for my BL2 key from GG... :S; And I missed (cos i have no money) Batman AC Goty, Alan Wake, and Mass Effect 1&2.

Not spectacular in comparison to other years and the many new bundles popping up, but there were certainly some good deals.

I ended up picking up a slew of new games, though not all as cheap as I'd have liked. Still, I now have a library chock full of games I want to finish (but probably never will), so I'm happy enough.

Plus I was not expecting Darksiders and Spec Ops to be as fun as they are, so yay for the sale making me buy them.

Picked up Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition for free on the 1st day of GOG's Holiday Sale. My lack of Internet access prevented me from doing much else over Christmas break. However, I went to my grandma's over break and got Humble Indie Bundle 7 (above average) & the Build a Greenlight Bundle over at Groupees (mostly for La-Mulana).

And then came the Encore Sale today. I ninja'd the HELL out of it! In the last 5 minutes of the sale, I bought The Witcher Extended Cut, Hitman: Codename 47, and Portal (wanted to pick up the Portal Bundle, but I was 20 cents short:(. )

All in all, a pretty good haul for me. Not bad for a rookie Steam user, huh?

Steams Winter Sale really disappointed me with the steam support twitter account posting, that we should brace ourselves for something epic. I didnt see anything epic happening during the steam sale, nothing.

Sad it's over. Might not have been amazing, and there may have been a lot of repeats, and other sites one-upped Steam this time around... but it was so much nicer then just seeing everything at full price all the time. :-[

I'm happy. I got everything from my list :)

Was the worst sale I've seen on Steam. That being said, I still spent a lot of money >.<

I got a lot of games with my dota2 profits (the community market).

Bought Transformers: War for Cybertron
I wouldn't call this sale good one. Barely any games had 75% off (compared to last year's) and only a few games had more than 75% off.
2/10 would not shop again.

I can only say one thing about Winter Steam Sale, It was the crappiest one. Elsewhere, like GMG or GamersGate? AWESOME. On Steam, I've only bought The Witcher 1 and a DLC for Homefront (because, I didn't bought The Witcher as a gift so, It didn't count as a achievement for the badge). On GamersGate, I've bought Fallout 3 GOTY and Fallout New Vegas, a lot of games I've got from trade and also I've got myself a Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed 3, Sleeping Dogs and Hitman: Absolution. If Steam plans its sales just to put some regular daily deals discounts but for more titles at the same time, I think they will have to fight with stores which offers same games but A LOT cheaper. Sorry.