Happy 4th of July to everybody!
Not exactly MMO related, but I forgot to mention that the Steam Summer Sale is in full swing. If you’ve never checked it out before, get your butts over there. Basically, every day they have daily sales on their digital download games. Some of the deals are INSANE! If there’s any game you planned on buying, I’d hold off and wait and see if it shows up during the summer sale. Nothing worse than realizing you could have saved 20 dollars if you waited another day.
In fact, on that note, I’ve gotten burned twice now on the Dragon Age franchise. It’s like I’m cursed at buying them games. I bought the Dragon Age: Origins a few months ago on a digital download sale for 15 bucks. Pretty good I thought to myself! WRONG! Just a day later another site had the Ultimate edition on sale for the same price. Ouch.
Fast forward to yesterday. Dragon Age 2 was 40% off on Steam so I bought it. Been itching to play it, despite the controversial reviews. Not the best deal in the world, but pretty decent. I figure the game is only a few months old and Steam usually pulls off some of the best deals here, how much cheaper could it go? 50% maybe, but I’m not worried about that. WRONG!! Not even a day manged to pass before it went up on another site for 60% off. Seriously? *Sigh* Granted, it’s not like I got bad deals on either of them, but it drives me nuts that it couldn’t wait until a week or two after I bought it for it to go on sale elsewhere, so I don’t have to feel so stupid. I’m pretty sure everybody can relate to that scenario.
With that derail over, back to the Steam Summer Sale. There’s also one other neat feature going on over there. Everyday they post new “camp” achievements to get in various games. They spread it out pretty good, so you should be able to find some you own if you use Steam with any regularity. You can use the points you earn doing those achievements to use on various DLC stuff as well as a contest to win 10 games of your choosing. Pretty nice. Steam does a darn good job I must say, despite the fact that I somewhat despise the idea of having my games “on the cloud.”
