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How To Buy During The Steam Holiday Sale - Saving Content

There’s a very simple methodology when it comes to buying during any of the Steam sales that you should know. You should pass it on to your friends and anyone you know who uses Steam so you can save yourself money this holiday season and overall.

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BiggCMan4543d ago

Well the current holiday sale going on now has different deals everyday, so you can't wait to buy the things from today or tomorrow, you have to buy them on that day.

dougr4543d ago

That's not what it means. Most games are on sale right now for a certain small percentage, but a lot of the games will also eventually be part of the daily deal and they will have an even bigger percentage off, IE say you bought Portal 2 today for $15, which is half off or so, well it could be a daily deal tomorrow at $7.

BiggCMan4543d ago (Edited 4543d ago )

Right, but what are the chances of it being a daily deal? And then you miss the half off deal if it isn't?

dougr4543d ago

No because the normal deals last until the end of the sale (not sure what date), while the daily deals only last for the day, but Portal 2 would still be on sale at $15 until lets say December 31 when the sale ends.

snakebite364543d ago

The normal deals last until January 2nd.

Scribe814543d ago

Very good article for new buyers off Steam. Only buy Daily Deals stuff during sale. On last day of sale, if the game you want hasn't appeared on Daily Deal, then you buy it for whatever the sale price is. For instance, was gifted Half-Life 2 yesterday, considered buying Ep 1 & 2, price was $4.99 each one. Today, Half-Life 2 is Daily Deal, and they each cost $1.99. So wait to buy what you want until last day in case it appears on Daily Deal so you don't get shafted.

dougr4543d ago

exactly what I did, also got Metro and Portal 2 for cheap. Not to shabby when you can get Half life Episode 1 and 2, Metro 2033, and Portal 2 for $16.

Scribe814542d ago

Nice. I passed on picking up the Stalker series a month or two ago, maybe during Thanksgiving sale since it was only 50% off. Today, 75% off, so I picked up the two games I was missing for like $6.29.

Patience is a virtue when it comes to Steam holiday sales.

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Ghost of Tsushima PC has 84% positive reviews and a peak online audience of 72 thousand people

On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.

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PrinceOfAnger11d ago

69,477
all-time peak 3 minutes ago.

thorstein11d ago

Nice. It's really cool that PC players get to play this masterpiece.

PrinceOfAnger11d ago

It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.

itsmebryan10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.

RNTody11d ago

Great, I loved this game. Definitely think it's Sucker Punch's best work to date!

rippermcrip11d ago

Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.

Christopher10d ago

Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.

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shinoff218310d ago

I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5

GamerzElite11d ago

This is good game and Ghost eliminate all fake outrage.

CrimsonWing6910d ago (Edited 10d ago )

I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?

Fishy Fingers10d ago

Im not sure how its confusing :\

72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.

A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.

But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.

shinoff218310d ago

Lmao. How many swords swung. I was hoping for how many steps

wesnytsfs10d ago

And its how many years old from initial release.

Crows9010d ago

72k is concurrent
...that is not the sold figure.

Michiel198910d ago

for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.

Plague-Doctor2710d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI

elazz10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.

According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.

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VR MOBA 'Mecha Party' Is Now Available On Steam & PSVR 2

Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.

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Babadook79d ago

This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).

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Helldivers 2: How to Link Steam and PlayStation Network Accounts

This article explains how to link your Steam and PlayStation Networks accounts, which is becoming a must for Helldivers 2.

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