I’m not any kind of economist, and I’m not sure it’s my place to be criticizing a business for making money, especially when said business provides a service I genuinely enjoy, and provides it for less cost than my local brick-and-mortar games store. Buying games, as a game: customers are rewarded with badges.Īlso, I find the metagame surrounding the sales to be… uncomfortable. It seems a bit odd to say, but I’m fairly certain that the years I actively participated in the Summer Sale cost me more money than I would have spent without sales, merely because of the massive deals in play.
First and foremost, I want to save money. I’ve made this decision for a variety of reasons. This year, or to be honest, the last several years, I’ve actively tried to avoid the Steam Summer Sale. I remember the year that Steam was randomly split up into five teams, rewarding teams for completing certain tasks relating to the site, such as voting for games to get discounted, making game wishlists – or by purchasing games during the Summer Sale. The Summer Sale has always been a big deal, but I remember the year they introduced badges: small collectable pictures you could obtain through playing certain games – or by purchasing games during the Summer Sale. However, there is a certain unease I feel about this. The Steam distribution platform makes buying games easier than ever, and with features like the Summer Sale, it makes it a great deal more affordable. Sometimes, I would see a game at such a ludicrously low price that I would buy it just out of curiosity.
Sometimes, I would see a daily deal on a game recommended by friends or reviewers. As my library and backlog of games on Steam may indicate, I’ve spent plenty of time scouring the pages of Steam looking for good deals on games I wanted. This is the cause of the one character from “Attack on Gaben” berating one of his comrades for not ‘waiting “until it’s daily”, meaning they purchased the game at a mere 15% discount. Some especially popular or interesting games are selected as daily deals, reducing their price by 50%, or 66% or 75%, or 90%, or more. Thousands of games on Steam are reduced in price. Steam also has a spring sale, as well as autumn and winter sales, and these sales are almost always decent value, but none have quite the scale or the surrounding fanfare that accompany the Steam Summer Sale. True, Steam usually has sales of some kind, be it for certain game series, or games by a certain developer, or themed sales such as anime, or sports. Steam sales are sort of like Black Friday, but with lower injury rates. Considering that computer gaming isn’t exactly a cheap hobby, the appeal of having a consistent annual sale, especially one which features massive discounts, is greatly appreciated. During the one or two weeks of the sale, Steam becomes a veritable wonderland of vast savings.
Steam 2017 spring sale Pc#
Just as many shoppers have come to enjoy the potential savings of Boxing Day, or the annual human demolition derby that is Black Friday, so too has the Steam Summer Sale become something of an event on the calendars of PC gamers. However, in this version, the colossal titan is none other than Gabe Newell, and the debris from the attack is discount logos. In the original scene, a character muses that in the time since the last major titan attack humanity has made great progress towards protecting itself from the monsters, only to be blindsided by the series’ largest titan. In the series, the last survivors of the human race are trapped behind walls, while mysterious, gigantic monsters, the titular titans, threaten to devour and destroy humanity.
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It features a subtitled and edited version of a seminal moment in the anime series Attack on Titan. The second video is a little more complicated.
The meaning of this video is clear: Gabe Newell and the miraculous Steam Summer Sale are here to make your life better. The first video features Gabe Newell in religious regalia, while the discount logos used during Steam Sales rain down from the heavens all around him. In addition to being the company which owns and operates Steam, Valve and Gabe Newell are also responsible for the some of the most popular and critically acclaimed games in the new millennium. Gabe, sometimes called Gaben, is the president of Valve. The man featured in each video is Gabe Newell. There’s a lot going on in those two videos, so I’ll do my best to explicate them for you. To me, the Steam Summer Sale is more akin to this:
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