Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2014 8:46:32 GMT -6
For those who aren't familiar with it, Steam is a game 'service' or third party that centralizes purchasing, tracking, downloading and playing of games. The downside is, you really have to pay for them. No biggy though, as Steam has thousands of games coming down to some very low prices for good deals. They also have a wide range of independent and small project games in Alpha and Beta development.
The upside is that their servers track your purchases and you can remove them or reinstall them at will on your computer. You can also access them from other computers through a guest login. I have dozens of full retail games through them, but only a few are ever installed and taking space on my computer at any given time. No disks to get scratched and no "cloud service" to actually try and play from. When I want a game I've paid for again? I just tell it to reinstall onto my drive and I get the full retail package again. (Steam does need to connect to it's own servers once every 2 weeks or it won't work in offline mode..and some games require it more often)
Steam Store
I don't usually post commercial things, and I get no benefit from this in any way. There is no place to say you heard it from so and so...it's just GOOD deals!
I just got Hitman: Absolution for $3.99, and for Skyrim last night for under $5. I paid $4.99 for the full version of 3D Mark, and Fusion is on a 66% off sale at $33.99.
Saints Row IV is up for $4.99, and there are plenty more. Not B grade, 2nd tier games like would usually be in the bargain ranges...and not games that had their hay day years ago. These are fairly recent games and some other game related programs that cost serious money today, depending on where you'd grab a copy.
They're also rotating their sales on 12-24 basis with voting on a 3 pack set every so often. (3dMark came up a winner on that, and how I got it for almost nothing).
Anyway.. Have at it! I have a little budget this year, but when I am getting real and quite good games for $5? A little CAN go a long way, if someone doesn't demand games released in the last month or something. :)
The upside is that their servers track your purchases and you can remove them or reinstall them at will on your computer. You can also access them from other computers through a guest login. I have dozens of full retail games through them, but only a few are ever installed and taking space on my computer at any given time. No disks to get scratched and no "cloud service" to actually try and play from. When I want a game I've paid for again? I just tell it to reinstall onto my drive and I get the full retail package again. (Steam does need to connect to it's own servers once every 2 weeks or it won't work in offline mode..and some games require it more often)
Steam Store
I don't usually post commercial things, and I get no benefit from this in any way. There is no place to say you heard it from so and so...it's just GOOD deals!
I just got Hitman: Absolution for $3.99, and for Skyrim last night for under $5. I paid $4.99 for the full version of 3D Mark, and Fusion is on a 66% off sale at $33.99.
Saints Row IV is up for $4.99, and there are plenty more. Not B grade, 2nd tier games like would usually be in the bargain ranges...and not games that had their hay day years ago. These are fairly recent games and some other game related programs that cost serious money today, depending on where you'd grab a copy.
They're also rotating their sales on 12-24 basis with voting on a 3 pack set every so often. (3dMark came up a winner on that, and how I got it for almost nothing).
Anyway.. Have at it! I have a little budget this year, but when I am getting real and quite good games for $5? A little CAN go a long way, if someone doesn't demand games released in the last month or something. :)
