I can't remember except the time L4D2 was free.

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I didn't even know that was a thing, huh.

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Payday was free, but i cant remember if it was winter or else.

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"else"

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It had nothing to do with Valve, they were those evil developers everybody hates.

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Valve is a developer aswel. ;p

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It's funny, because I honestly almost forgot...

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I think it was in October or in the beginning of November. Anyway, pretty sure it wasn't during the winter sale.

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It was free during Crimefest on October 2014.

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That was two years ago. Thats the only time I know of that steam has given away a game for Christmas.

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i know they also gave away portal

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I dunno when that was, but they gave away sniper elite V2

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damn i missed that one !

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Last year June

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Noone told me... >_<

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That was to promote the release of Sniper Elite 3.

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l4d2 was free when steam os was announced

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+28,7

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maybe they ran out of games :v

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Damn coal farmers >:(

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Sure, grab a copy of Dota 2 and TF2 for free. Enjoy!

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Actually it somehow never got to be big news so I suppose steam hasn't really gained much bad publicity for it. Therefore apart from a few consumers valve don't really have many people to aplogize to.
Pretty crap really cause i was hoping for a free game too.

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back on christmas 2011 when there was the coal event, you had a chance to get a free game each time you crafted gifts.
http://steamtreasurehunt.wikia.com/wiki/The_Great_Gift_Pile
the final prices were also huge.

btw, i'm not talking about $0.99 games. you could get very expensive stuff like valve complete and dota 2 (it was very valuable when the beta started), and more games from other devs but i can't remember now.

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i remember non-valve prizes were limited, so after people exploited multiaccounts to farm coal and craft endless gifts, the event was left only with valve games. :|

iot was probably the funniest event, but exploiters killed it.

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i also remember the first bundles. some "friends" buying the super meat boy bundle for $0.01 and selling it. -.-

stupid people everywhere.

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also

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For me, this event was even better (although summer, not winter).
You could buy things with your crafted tickets, and you got tickets for achievements, too.

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oh, that one. i was barely on steam so i missed a lot of stuff there. ;_;

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There were at least two massive free Steam giveaways, but for some reason I want to say there were more. Only because I seem to recall two times where Twitch chats were spammed with "guys, you can get GAME X for free on Steam now!", and neither for L4D2.

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Depends on your definition of massive. They were giving away Oddworld, Vertiginous Golf and Amnesia in recent memory.

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Massive as in anyone who added the game to their account could have it permanently.

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That's true of all three games I listed.

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To my knowledge, It's not Valve who gave those away. Amnesia was given away by developers for example.

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You're not wrong, but since they were Steam copies and Steam promoted and facilitated the giveaways, I'm sure Valve had a hand in it.

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Huh? Is there something free right now? I got payday 2 for free from them before. But don't remember if it was winter.

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I have a feeling the mystery cards are more important than expected. Just my hunch. That's why I made this thread: to know if Steam gave free games in the past during the winter event. I know gams were freely given out, bit I don't know when.

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I sell my mystery cards too so I'm in the same boat as you.

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what mystery cards ?

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The current Christmas cards for the winter sale.

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Did you notice that they changed the design of card#2?

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I really doubt that they're going to have some secret even that will only be revealed at the end of the sale, that'd be just poor business practice.

And the thing about the mystery cards is that they're revealed to reflect events and characters from the "Northpole Noir" comic, that otherwise would be spoilers.

You know, the comic nobody is reading and most people, including myself, forgot that is there? Yeah, that one.

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Payday 2? I remember them only giving Payday : The Heist

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This is what i'm thinking right now.

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I know I got Portal free from them at some point. No idea of it had anything to do with the winter sale though.

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Don't know why they were giving it for free, I can only tell you it was back in 2010 (I joined Steam for this reason)

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Same :)

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I think it was something about promoting science or some such. I think I saw it on some uni page? And it was of course for a limited time.

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There was also a separate event where if you got all the achievements in specific games you got portal for free.

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Nope, that was "do achievements and well release Portal 2 earlier".
Turned out to be few hours earlier, and console players already won it by the time it was released on Steam :P

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Ahh, ok. From what I can tell, this was added later and wasn't part of promotion.

Could be because they saw people who took part didn't actually get anything real, as so-promised early Portal 2 release didn't turn out to be early...

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Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks :)

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Valve gave free Portal game back in 2011 , http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Learn_With_Portals

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L4D2 ? free what?

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L4D2 was free in a year 2013 XD

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Race the sun was free too, but not on any sale, it was free because devs wanted to make it free for 24 hours

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csgo was giving for free coz market mess. at first time steam introduce gems.
not for all tho, only for people who buy BG/emot and trade it.
if im not mistake

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I remember L4D2 and Payday the Heist, but I don't remember anything else. I'm sure they were giving a free game every winter though. They probably decided to stop it.

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Sniper elite 2 was free i think.

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During winter sale only L4D2 was free and available to everyone. And there was also coal event with a change of getting a random game.

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2 games were given this year for free by Steam,
Some golf game, not sure exact name and Oddworld: Abe's Oddysse

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there's several games that given away this year; Race The Sun, Abe's Oddysse, Amnesia : The Dark Descent. perhaps i forgot the other free stuff or i missed it, but there's no free games this winter i guess

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You miss,there was GTA 5 for free :d

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They usually had events that gave away free games and then they'd usually give away a token Valve game or Valve skin/hat nonsense or substantial discounts like 90-99% off. The last major one was three years ago with their holiday coal event and you could get some pretty good games from it and quite a few publishers participated. After that they were in full-blown incompetent mode and tried doing gems but implemented it extremely stupidly.

There were summer events as well that were more than just discounts. Basically, once Valve got over the hump with Steam and proved that Origin, uPlay, GoG and such were not a threat, didn't convert a lot of users and basically didn't sell nearly as well on their own platform as they did on Steam, they stopped caring and only count their money in between ill-conceived ventures like everything they've done, basically.

The joke is on them because more and more are switching to GoG for obvious reasons. If they're not going to cater to the community (this does not mean free games, just worthwhile community events they used to do VERY well) then we might as well get games that for all intents and purposes we OWN and don't have to worry about a flaky company unlocking should they ever shut down or get hacked/compromised. Which seems increasingly possible every time they try to update their backend.

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To my knowledge GOG doesnt hold any events though

Maybe sales and thats about it

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GOG does hold events, where they give away paid games for free. I got 20+ games for free from them, and neither of them was in the "Create an account, and you'll get these for free" promotion.

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I just remember L4D2 being free on Halloween one year. Everything else that's been given away I already had, so they don't stick out in my memory, I guess.

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