The Steam Summer Sales are over! What'd you get?

"SonorousSpeedJoe" (SonorousSpeedJoe) 07/04/2016 at 19:00 • Filed to: GTA V

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The Steam Summer Picnic Sale ended earlier today; did you get anything? Also, Happy Independence Day to my fellow American Opponauts!!

I did get a couple of games that I’d been wanting on Steam, but I skipped out on others; I wanted the Complete Edition of DiRT 3 on PC because I liked the PS3 version, and I also wanted Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PC since playing it on mobile is a pain in the ass IMO. However, I bought the Deluxe Edition of NFS 2015 (on Origin for 50% off) in addition to the Steam games that I’d already bought, and I still haven’t gotten around to starting Forza Motorsport 6 on my Xbone or installing FM6 Apex on my PC. Waiting most likely won’t make DiRT 3 or GTA:SA any cheaper since they already had rock-bottom sale prices, but I have enough games in my backlog as it stands. I’m also starting to run low on space on the SSD that I keep games on.

I ended up spending the most money on a couple of Megalodon Shark Cards for GTA Online - while I’ve always been committed to not buying Shark Cards in favor of grinding for GTA$ instead, I finally got fed up with it all and caved. Since Rockstar is running a cash-back promotion that gives you $4 million (50%) in addition to the $8 million that you get with the Megalodon, and the card itself was discounted by 40% as part of the Summer Picnic Sale, I figured that now was probably the best time to buy one.

I’d only intended to buy one Megalodon, but I kept running into a glitch (which I’ve mentioned here once before) where I’d purchase cars that end up having a crew logo applied to them when I exit GTAO and then reenter. I ended up buying and selling Declasse Mambas until I bought a sixth Mamba that ended up not being affected by the glitch. By then, I was tired (since it was late at night) and also pretty pissed off about having wasted a significant amount of the Megalodon Shark Card on that glitch, so I bought a second Megalodon on impulse. In the end, I spent 20% more than what one Megalodon is worth on two Megalodons that are worth 3 times the GTA$ that one Megalodon is worth, so it’s not an entirely bad deal IMO. That said, I’d rather not buy Shark Cards ever again.

Flavien Vidal > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:04

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I only bought “The Long Dark”. Lots of fun!

S65 > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:05

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Nothing.....

SonorousSpeedJoe > S65 07/04/2016 at 19:07

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O RLY?

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:09

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Doom, Mirrors Edge, Portal 2, Garrys Mod, and assorted other games to use up the $50 credit I had.

Funktheduck > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:11

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Nothing. My backlog is massive and I’ve had little time lately.

If anyone wants to add me same username on steam minus the part after the dash

spanfucker retire bitch > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:12

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I bought nothing, because every game I wanted I already own...

Anon > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:12

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Civ 5, transistor, bastion, Witcher 1 and 2, FTL, The Shadowrun Series, and Left 4 Dead 2!

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:14

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The Culling. I think I drunkenly ranted on here about it. Either way it ok for “early access” but it definitely needs more maps , weapons, night culling, etc.

S65 > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:14

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Yes

SonorousSpeedJoe > Funktheduck 07/04/2016 at 19:17

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I hear that - I won’t have any time at all for gaming once classes resume in a couple of months, and I’m not gonna clear through my backlog by then LOL.

No Prius Needed > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 19:31

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Aww man I didn’t know the sale was over. I was planning to pick up Doom while it was still $35. :(

SonorousSpeedJoe > No Prius Needed 07/04/2016 at 19:59

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LOL, yup - it was supposed to end at 1 P.M. Eastern Time today, and it did. On the bright side, DOOM could be offered for less in later sales.

The cash-back promotion for Shark Cards in GTA Online is still running, but the discounts on the Whale and Megalodon Shark Cards went away with the Summer Picnic Sale.

facw > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 20:11

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The Skyrim Hearthfire DLC (already had the others, but wanted to have them all so I get the upgrade to upcoming special edition version).

A few other things caught my eye, but I have such a huge backlog there’s no sense in buying now, when I may never play them, and certainly aren’t going to play them near term.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/04/2016 at 22:39

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I didn’t really get anything, I only get stuff for the Vive VR and I haven’t gotten around to playing everything I already have. I’ve played Hover Junkers for a couple hours so far.

anon-sxmcyecofnu1eocpqsk9iq > SonorousSpeedJoe 07/05/2016 at 01:22

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Absolutely nothing. It’s not self control but just being too lazy to type in credit card numbers (which I don’t want to save because of the sort of recent account glitches)

SonorousSpeedJoe > anon-sxmcyecofnu1eocpqsk9iq 07/05/2016 at 10:22

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True, I remember that snafu from this past winter.