I've read a few reports that the Steam Winter Sale begins December 22 and runs through January 2, 2017.
According to this site (http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/when-next-steam-sale-time-date-summer-christmas-deals):
QuoteValve rarely confirms the timings of its Steam Sales in advance, but the date of the Steam Winter Sale – you could also think of it as the Steam Holiday Sale, if you wanted to be really PC – appears to have leaked.
According to a posting on NeoGAF (which EuroGamer claims to have independently verified), the Steam Winter Sale will kick-off this year on December 22 and run through January 2.
Recently, Valve has broken with previous form and ditched 'Flash deals' during its Steam Sales, so it's worth knowing (or at least educatedly guessing...) that the price drops you see on December 22 are as good as you'll see the rest of the year and into 2017.
That's no bad thing, though, as along with the Steam Summer Sale, the Winter Sale is generally regarded as one of the two 'big ones', with the Halloween and Autumn Sales usually playing third and fourth fiddle.
In 2015, the Steam Winter Sale also got under way on December 22 and ran for a similar period, so this leak looks pretty good to us.
We'll be sure to keep this page updated with all the latest information as it becomes available.
A few other sites confirm these same dates. And if the above is true, that would be nice that there is no 'flash sale' nonsense good for only 24 hours or whatever period of time.
I don't think there's anything I'm really wanting, though I'm hoping the Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 DLC is all on sale. Not that they're not cheap now (something like three to five bucks apiece), but there's eight or nine DLC for that game, and that adds up.
I have 114 games on my Steam wishlist but most of them I look at now and think, "Why did I add that?" or, "I added
that?"
I'm hoping Drywall Simulator 2016 is at least half price. And I will pick up all of the DLC for Watching Paint Dry 2015 when it goes on sale.
I'd call your comment out for being BS, bbmike, but somehow it would NOT surprise me if those two titles actually existed.
;D As far as I know they don't. I'm just amused by all of the 'Simulator' games out there these days.
Can't figure the appeal to those. Knew a guy who, after a full day at Tech School, would rush back to his room so he could do Farming Simulator until the wee hours of the morning.
You should have seen his eyes light up when I showed him the full range of "Simulator," games available, whoo boy.
NICE!
:bd:
Thanks for the smart-ass reply! I obviously missed JD's post. Glad I was able to get your day off to SUCH a great start, Commander.
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his watch is weighing him down today, and the weather is prob sub Hawaiian standard and there's no surf - makes toonces a snarky boy
Quote from: Dammit Carl! on December 14, 2016, 07:13:33 AM
Can't figure the appeal to those. Knew a guy who, after a full day at Tech School, would rush back to his room so he could do Farming Simulator until the wee hours of the morning.
You should have seen his eyes light up when I showed him the full range of "Simulator," games available, whoo boy.
Farming Simulator (as are some of the other simulator games) are really rather engrossing - at least for a time. They're "empire building" in a very basic, repetitive and yet enjoyable way.
I had Farming Simulator 201? (13 I think). Got it for my daughter because there were animals in it. Started to play it myself and it was rather enjoyable. I wouldn't pay full price for one.
I dip into Euro and American Truck Simulator and Train Simulator every now and again. They're installed and have been for quite some time. They're just easy to fire up and progress your empire.
I always enjoyed the "Single-Cell Organism Simulator" games myself.
I actually liked the Flash Sales, because they were deeper and added an element of suspense. There are a few titles I'm looking at this year that had decent discounts during the Fall sale, so those are on the short list for Christmas (Stellaris, DC: Barbarossa, Thea: The Awakening).
I played the "pour the clear liquid into a 1.5 oz glass and watch it disappear" while playing Heroes of the Storm last night.
I definitely plan to flesh out my ck2 collection. I think there might be a couple total war dlc's I'm missing as well.
We need a "Grogheads Simulator". A game where, you know, brilliant, beautiful people come together and argue whether the world will end by the 'Pun- Apocalypse' or by 'Attack of the Clone Boobies'. I would buy it if my character in the simulator did. And it's on sale. 8)
The world will end from a massive strike by a Deep Space Dongle.
Unless we lose it and the airline refuses to refund the money
It's humanity's only hope.
That would be ssnake - the emporer palatine of the dongle forces
Quote from: mirth on December 14, 2016, 11:11:00 AM
The world will end from a massive strike by a Deep Space Dongle.
Wasn't there an *AHEM* adult film named "Deep Dongle"
Quote from: undercovergeek on December 14, 2016, 11:16:44 AM
That would be ssnake - the emporer palatine of the dongle forces
ah, that's the story behind the Japor Snippet... Dongle
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I can see all of the moderators face palming right now.
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Quote from: mirth on December 14, 2016, 12:04:06 PM
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Holy shit that made me laugh out loud!!
Quote from: bbmike on December 14, 2016, 11:57:21 AM
I can see all of the moderators face palming right now.
That's a massive self sea-gulling Jedi mind trick by mirth
:pullhair: :hide: :tickedoff: <:-)
So.... a 'Dongle Simulator' game? :idiot2:
Quote from: Sir Slash on December 14, 2016, 12:42:32 PM
So.... a 'Dongle Simulator' game? :idiot2:
Enjoy the fun and excitement of:
- trying not to lose your dongle
- losing your dongle
- trying to buy a new dongle
- starting an internet flame war about dongles
Dongle Simulator 2016
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Googled 'dongle babes'
was not disappointed
Star in drag was the 4th pic
Quote from: Windigo on December 14, 2016, 01:56:29 PM
Googled 'dongle babes'
was not disappointed
Star in drag was the 4th pic
Only 4th? Star will be disappointed.
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Dongle bells, dongle bells, dongle all the way...oh what fun it is to dongle, for without it you can't play.
THANK YOU
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^hahahaha!
Quote from: Gusington on December 14, 2016, 02:12:46 PM
Dongle bells, dongle bells, dongle all the way...oh what fun it is to dongle, for without it you can't play.
THANK YOU
:clap:
Never let it be said we didn't take it seriously!
(Done in your best Chuck Berry voice)
"When I was
A little bitty boy
Grandma gave me a brand new toy
Silver bells on a string
She told me that
It was my dongle-ongle-ing"
I hear Kermit the Frog's dongle is..... green :o
For the Brits of a certain age......
Underground, overground, Dongling free,
The Dongles of Wimbledon Common are we.
Making good use of the things that we find,
Things that the everyday folks leave behind
Unfortunately I am of that certain age :(
Quote from: Sir Slash on December 14, 2016, 11:37:04 PM
I hear Kermit the Frog's dongle is..... green :o
Why are...there somany
Songs about don-gles
And what's on the oooo-ther siiiiiide
Dongles...are visions...but on-ly ill-uuu-sions
And dongles have nothing...to hiiiiiide
Quote from: JudgeDredd on December 15, 2016, 06:06:43 AM
Unfortunately I am of that certain age :(
Me to. And then some.
conintuing on a theme
'hugh pugh barney mcgrew cuthbert dongle and grub'
...down on Dongle Rock..........
Don't you open that Dongle door.....'cos there's something down there >:D
The Trap Door was just fantastic.............'BERRRRKKKKK'
This is more my age group, mind you i have all on DVD .......
Upon seeing that a thread regarding a sale that won't likely being for another week had already run to four pages, I was of course compelled to find out why...and I have to say that of all the possible answers that had occurred to me, this was not one of them. :idiot2:
(Good show, though! I'll not deny I'm entertained.)
Where, other than Grogheads, can you find such insightful discourse?
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Ministry actually had this all covered 20+ years ago.