Ryan Archer from The Nerd Cabinet summarizes the Steam Christmas Sale deals for the 29th December.
"We’re midway through the Steam Christmas sale now, and whilst some have been disappointed with Valves discounted offerings, another 6 games have been given the limelight with huge savings to be had."
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
the steam sales are great and all, only if they let me buy these games without giving me an error all the time -_-
I just wish Steam had more JRPGs!
While I loved the Steam, GreenManGaming, and Amazon sales this year, and I definitely ended up with quite a lot more games, I was admittedly a bit disappointed with the prices on some things, such as the best discounted price for Skyrim was at $30, given that the game is now over a year old and Borderlands 2, a game released just a few months ago is also at $30 on sale (even cheaper a few days back on GMG). Its not a huge deal, but there were enough situations where I didn't buy a game because it was $5 or $10 more expensive than I felt it should be, or looked to Amazon/GreenManGaming for a better deal.
I was also disappointed that Valve/Steam didn't hold the "presents" promotion that drew so much attention and many additional users like they did last year. The presents were a very cool promotion to get people trying, buying, and playing a lot more games. I don't know why it wasn't continued, but I hope it returns next year.
They've been a bit lackluster this year. Same old stuff that's always on sale and everyone owns. Some 'sales' can hardly be called sales anyway when they've been at that price or lower for some months from other retailers. It's starting to look like stores like Amazon and GMG are finally bringing the fight to Steam, and in a lot of cases coming out with the better deals.
The only thing I've bought is Bastion so far, which is pretty shocking.