Help! How do you resist Steam sales?

Start a contest with friends to see who can get the highest Avg. Game Completion Rate. The more games you own the lower the completion rate will likely be because you will have less time on each game. I know the more games I buy The lower my rate is.

If you can't resist your build is not viable.

1-Buy TF2 keys with all your Steam Wallet.

2-Open Steam Client -> Steam -> Settings -> Disable Steam Guard

3-Enable Steam Guard

4-You can't trade or use Steam Market for 15 days.

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I can resist by having an empty wallet

My rules:

• Do not buy if it's over 5€
• Do not buy it it's under 75% discount.
• When in doubt: count games owned. Count games played. Profit.

Ask a friend to nail both your hands to the table?!

When you're poor.

I can't resist, the only way to avoid it when I have no money lol

I don't have credit card, and if I'd have one, it would take 1 month for Steam to register it as a legal card, so it would be ready AFTER the Christmas sale. And of course I have no money :D

you can't just stay still as steam rapes your wallet or else..

Simple; I don't.

i'll teach you how to stop.

be poor like me.

@OP, no clue but if you figure out a sure fire method for resisting the game sales let me know (without being broke).

I've got the same disease. Heck, not only do I buy games because I might want to play, buy them sometimes even though I've got them on other services (and vice-verse) just to complete the collections on those services. My GOG and Steam accounts have quite a number of cross duplicated titles.

Enhanced Steam does not help either. "OMG, lowest price in price history, must buy now!" I've had a hard time reminding myself some titles have no advantage being 'on' Steam that I already own DRM free. Then again in some ways it has helped as I can say "Oooh, that's been lower, pass."

I can resist by watching on "very high" prices for russians.

its easy to resist sales when your bank account balance is 0.0$

I just look at my backlog and remember that there are going to be other sales.

Wait for those games to be in bundles, you wont regret it :3

I have most of the "must haves" by now from bundles and/or sales from Amazon or other sites. I only picked up Spelunky and the Payday 2 DLC from Steam and Sanctum 2 from Amazon this time around. Also, remember that nearly all games on sale will pop up on the coming sale and it will most likely pop up on Amazon as well for a few dollars so don't stress with buying all them games in one go. ;)

i resist trying buy the same games on steamtrades, amazon deal or Greenmangaming, spending less money..or trying to win here (but it's very difficult=(

I resist by having no money to spend on games

Easy. I'll share my secret....

I usually buy a $50 steam card from a store before the sales to limit my spending. I usually do this for only the summer and winter sales since they usually have the best deals.

Thanks to the new consoles, I'm not sure if i'll be doing that for this sale.

Set yourself a limit. And buy only what you need, even if it breaks your heart. The next sale will come. Maybe you could limit yourself as someone here said by buying a steam card and only using that money or you could limit yourself to 2 games you've got on your wishlist.

I don't resist.