GOG doesnt price match. The DLC is fairly recent.
Everyone knows Steam *kinda* rigs the voting process at times...or so the rumours abound...

Gah, apparently you have to be level 8 on Steam to get trading cards for voting for Community Choice thing. And of course I'm 22 XP away from level 8. The only way I'm going to get to level 8 is to get the level 2 Pillar of Community badge and the only way I'm going to be able to do that is by doing the task to make a trade with someone.

Edit: Taken care of! Thanks for helping me out! :)

I gotta say the gog sale looks way better than the Steam sale as Steam has less games on discount at a time than gog, and gog's discounts are usually $1.99 while Steam's are mostly $4.99 at least (and a good deal of them want to be more expensive than that even)

Additional info regarding cards.

Steam only cares about the filename of the executable, so if you are going to idle, you can safely replace the game's exe with notepad (remember to rename it first) so when Steam launches the game, notepad opens instead. You are still considered in game, but much less resources used.

Well Steam has more interesting and newer games and a ton of games below $1 that aren't on the frontpage.
And although I haven't seen that many games I'd be interested in on the frontpage, that's mostly because A) there haven't been many interesting releases in the past years and B) we've become very jaded due to massive discounts and bundles.

Anybody recommend State of Decay?
I kind of like the sound of it, but it sounds like there might be a lot of boring survivor management and time-based missions in it.

LOL.

Already posted this in the Gaming deals thread but it belongs here too:

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition - 4.99€ at Steam.

They lowered the base price to 9.99€ so now SimCity 4 is much cheaper on Steam than on GOG.

EDIT:

I just got a heads up that the base price in the US is apparently still $19.99 while here in germany it's 9.99€ now. Regional Pricing at work as it seems...

I have State of Decay and the Breakdown DLC. You can check out the gameplay videos on YouTube. I recommend them with a condition: the game has to be played with the Zombie Standard Time (or Masterclock) mod.

State of Decay is a single-player open-world RPG. However, the game has TWO big problems that turn off many players:

1. It has a "persistent world". That means time passes in the game world even when you are NOT playing the game. Your characters continue to consume resources and lose morale even when you are NOT playing the game.

2. The game also uses "roguelike save". You cannot manually save game. It has only one save game. The game automatically saves at intervals and when you quit the game. Which means if you screw up or if one of your characters die, you cannot backtrack to an early point. Roguelike save is fine... for a short casual game. For a RPG that can take an upward of dozens of hours or close to a hundred hours to complete, Roguelike save is simply an inconsiderate implementation that disrespect the customers' time.

The development studio has refused to removed those two what they called "features". As far as I know, the overwhelming majority of players hated those two problematic "features". Everyone has been complaining, but the studio has simply refused to do anything about it. (It's kinda like how Blizzard has refused to add an offline single-player mode to Diablo 3 even though most players wanted it.)

So, there are two major mods that solve both problems: Masterclock and Zombie Standard Time. Both allow you to "stop time" when you are not playing the game. Both allow you to create multiple save games. However, the two mods are not compatible, but you really need only one. Most people seem to prefer Zombie Standard Time over Masterclock.

I would NOT recommend the game without playing it with one of the two "time/save mods".

I just realised why I didn't get my card thingy for voting three times like what happened last sale. This time around you have to be Steam Level 5. Pretty much killed most of the interest I had in the sale. I really like these silly little meta-games, but this time it seems like I can't play this one because I haven't played them enough before this one? Either way, I am disappoint.

Also kicking myself I missed Dead Island pack day one. I meant to see if I could talk some mates into getting it so we could co-op, but got distracted.

Are you sure it is level 5? It says level 8 is required on my 2 Steam accounts just as a datapoint. Not too interested in the stuff personally though. Perhaps they set the required level dependent on one's existing level like a carrot on a stick? If so.... nicely played Valve, nicely played.

I think I'll stop voting entirely if you can confirm that.


Oh um... Which Dead Island pack did you miss on day 1 BTW?

This is a very underwhelming Steam Summer Sale. Last year, everything on my Wishlist was discounted, and almost all of them were discounted at 50% or more most of the time.

This time around, about 1/3 do not have any discount, another 1/3 have less than 50% discount.

So, it seems that most of (older) Assassin's Creed are on -75% next 7h (the main page is somehow do not show it for me but whatever) and I'm wondering with one is best to pickup, Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood or Revelations.

Discovered this the same way you did. :/ The only good thing is that if you reach level 8 during the sale you'll retroactively get the cards that you would have gotten (I received two cards right after hitting level 8, one that I was supposed to get for joining a team).

If you're close you could try getting the Pillar of Community badge, which should give you about two levels if you complete 22 of the 26 tasks (a lot of them involve comments or screenshots or reviews, but you can just delete them right after posting and it still counts). Or you could just buy some trading cards off of the marketplace and craft badges. I'm not a Steam Marketplace expert, but it seems that many of the normal trading cards go for $0.10 - $0.15 while many of the summer cards are currently going for $0.50, so it may still be worth it.

But yeah, it is a stupid restriction. I understand not wanting people to be able to sign up extra accounts and farm cards, but when you have an account that's been around for years and has bought plenty of games it's kind of silly.

Ass Creed Brotherhood deluxe is still 7.49 euro while Revelations Gold is 4.99 euro while it's the newer game ubilol.

Assassin's Creed 2 Deluxe if you are interested in the overarching story - because that's the first part of the Ezio trilogy. Brotherhood has the best gameplay (imo) though.

There are like only 3.5 pages of games <$1 on sale. Most of them have either had been bundled the crap out of or most of them or are pretty ordinary games.