I managed to get 5, and traded for 1 game. Good sale for me.
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On that note, charcoal ingestion helps digestion.
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While I did manage to get around 15 or so I worked really hard for those and was generously given a few by friends.
As such im actually a bit insulted at the generalization that everyone cheated!
But I do agree with your overall thought that people shouldn't just expect free stuff from steam.
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It's worth it for them to put things on sale as it temporarily increases the amount of purchases, but giving away free stuff is just what they do because they want to make people happy (They don't need the publicity at this point, that's for sure). You see EA giving away free games on Origin?
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I don't believe that's entirely true. I think, in addition to just wanting to be nice, giving away free stuff offers several benefits to Steam: customer loyalty ("I could buy this on Origin/Desura/etc instead, but then I won't get Steam achievements and contest entries!"), people buying daily deals because they want to get the achievement items, etc.
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They should do it again but be more careful. Only people with 30+ games and if the account is a few months old or something.
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completely agree t at or have 50 bucks worth of value on the account or something
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Okay @ threadstarter.
Fact 1: Steam, is not doing anyone here a favor!? They still take advantage because they make a lot of profit from those sales. Do you believe they would give a shit about the communitys opinion about this sale? They will do it how they can make the best profit with.
Fact 2: This is no fucking kindergarden, its obvious that people always are looking for ways to abuse the system and leech as much as they can, if steam isnt able to avoid this due to cleverer multiaccount protections its their own fault.
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They would make more fucking profit if they DIDN'T have a sale.
They didn't need to have a summer sale. Ever. In any year, they never needed to have ANY FUCKING SALES.
You're acting like an entitled, spoiled brat who should get exactly what he wants, which is free fucking games, which, SURPRISE, Steam makes no goddamn profit off of.
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You don't know how sales work at all if you think they'd make more profit by not having them. Many devs including Valve have stated multiple times profits skyrocket during sales.
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You should probably go back to school...I guess when the supermarket of your choice has a big big SUPER EVERYTHING ON SALE week you are the one who tells the people that they can be happy that this market gives such a GREAT service to their customers.
Guess next story you wanna tell me is that when Blizzard offers their race change in wow for 10 euro instead of 20 euro its FU CKING INSANE cheap aswell. They dont earn a SINGLE €!
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Fact 1: My first post was poorly worded but I was mostly referring to the giving free stuff as the favor bit. Yes I know they make bank every time they have a sale.
Fact 2: So it's the victims fault they didn't protect them self. I'm curious if you are of the opinion that this extends to other things: identity theft, credit card fraud, murder, rape? Or just things you want to take advantage of?
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If you call Steam a victim. Your government who keeps the rich, rich and the poor, poor are victims aswell. The banks are victims coz everbody only wants to put his money on the bank to get the best out of it. Poor banks...such victims..
Do you believe steam wouldnt have aborted this "legendary leecher" winter sale if they would have been so hardly abused like you try to tell us?
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People gaming the system took advantage of the stuff steam was giving away, so yes I would call them the victim to some extent. I don't live in EagleLand so my government doesn't specialize in fucking over as may people as it can get it's hands on, sorry to disappoint you. Either way I don't see where the gvn't and banks are being taken advantage of by anyone.
To the other bit about the "legendary leecher" sale, I have no idea what you are trying to say. Try not to let your anger get the better of your English skills.
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Sorry, but everyone who trys to tell me that a billion dollar company can be a victim in any form is a full mindfucked person.
Edit: Holy shit, you are so ignorant your comments burn in my eyes.
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Actually, whoever is complaining is forgetting about the great new F2P games that recently got released (Tribes Ascend, Super Monday Night Combat, TF2, etc.).
Besides, It's waaaaay too early to be sure what Steam is planning to do in the following 10 days of Summer Sales.
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Don't get lost in the details.
Epic cop-out.
The general picture of what I'm talking about is that there are plenty of Free to Play games.
Sure, plenty of free-to-play games... that are free-to-play outside of Steam. Aside from TF2, valve doesn't really have a say in what is F2P or not.
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Epic cop-out
I'm being serious. There's no point wasting time finding the incongruency of one word ("new"). That won't change my point one bit, also because I did take responsibility for what I said and will tell you again:
a few months, to me, is not old
Sure, plenty of free-to-play games... that are free-to-play outside of Steam. Aside from TF2, valve doesn't really have a say in what is F2P or not.
About your other (more valid) point. Yes, those games were free to play outside of Steam, but Steam adds the "social network" aspect to it: You can trade your in-game items for something else and chat with one another while playing different games (and other things for sure).
The fact that Steam included these F2P games in its library makes them available to all those users who want to play games without leaving Steam.
Are they F2P outside of steam (except for TF2)? Yes. Does that change my argument about not complaining about the lack of new gifted games to play because you already have a wide selection of F2P games at your disposal already? No.
Now, seriously, enough with this pointless debate. If you're riding the "disappointed about Summer Sales" bandwagon then, go ahead, I won't stop you. I find nothing to complain about, since... gasp... there were some great discounts on Day 1 already, and who knows what other goodies the following days will bring.
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They started giving out free stuff and everyone decided to abuse the system and take advantage to get more free stuff than they should have.
Sounds like someone abused the system and got jack shit so now they don't want anyone else to get anything.
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Don't worry, it really doesn't sound like that at all. Not sure how he made that connection. I was pretty cheesed off as well seeing accounts with 50+ mule accounts on their friends list. It was pretty easy to spot.
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You could win stuff in last summer's event. It was mostly just DLC but hey, it was free.
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If you do something consistently enough, it becomes a pattern and people start expecting it.
The last several major Steam sales had big events alongside them in which you could win free stuff. It's not "entitlement" to be disappointed if that trend ends. I'm not entitled to free stuff from Steam, but that doesn't mean I'm not disappointed when it was formerly available and now isn't.
Also, a sale is a win-win for both sides. Yeah, Valve doesn't have to have sales, but i's not like their profits don't massively increase when they do.
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Quite honestly, I haven't seen anyone carrying on like that. That doesn't mean they don't exist, I'm quite sure they do, but let's not paint an entire group of people with such a broad brush. They're an extreme minority. The majority of people complaining are just commenting that the generosity of previous sales seems to have been removed, at least from the first day.
Last summer sale had story posts, events, challenges, giveaways, and winning prizes. So did the Christmas sale. So when this sale turned out to just be a...sale, people are disappointed. When someone says "Steam seasonal sale," they're quite honestly just picturing more of an event.
I'm still excited to buy a lot of games I've been putting off for a low price, and bought some gifts for friends too, but I was quite looking forward to an event like the last few seasonal sales where we were challenged to actually play the games, not just buy them and get lost.
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Not to mention that the extra achievements and stuff were actually fun... you're right, it felt more like an event than a sale.
...and getting said achievements made me buy a crapton more games, some of which I never played again, just to horde tickets and coal that in the end got me nothing. It was the fun that was the point for me. And hey, if I won a promotional contest (promotional because I just dumped my entire wallet into the Steam money pit to enter it as many times as I could, hence good for them) that was basically a 1/5M chance... cool.
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I'm not calling people out, but this is just one such thread.
I'm sure Valve has more tricks up their sleeves.
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Free stuff? Who cares, I'll be playing the original Half Life to no end thanks for this sale. Joining a multiplayer server with the crossfire map and seeing that it had 30+ people on it yesterday felt a little bit... orgasmic.
I don't need anything else now. Dunno why I bought Wrath of the Lamb either, now there's no point to it for weeks.
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Stop being so entitled(I hate using this word but it applies here.) Valve is doing you a favor just by having this sale (and every sale they do) and yet the first thing you complain about is no free games. Do you forget what happened for Christmas? They started giving out free stuff and everyone decided to abuse the system and take advantage to get more free stuff than they should have. Which ended up basically ending the event a while earlier than planned.
Also entitled or not, it's just the first day, wait and see what happens.
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