Winter Sale 2019 @ Steam

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BJ on 22/12/2019 - 10:36 store.steampowered.com (266 clicks)
Last edited 22/12/2019 - 16:33 by 1 other user

Steam's winter sale has started (probably their biggest annual sale). I would recommend having a look through your wishlist - 90% of mine is on sale
I believe pricing remains the same throughout the sale.

Here's a link to a post listing the featured deals from day 1 with some discussion about the sale: https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/ecww4i/steam_win…
the r/GameDeals sub will also have a post each day of the sale outlining the daily featured deals and with further discussion

The event for this sale includes some "quests" to earn tokens which can get you a discount of $7.50 if you accumulate enough. These tokens are also gained by adding funds to your steam wallet or buying games (not using wallet funds), and can also be used to buy stickers if that's your thing

• Elite Dangerous: Commander Deluxe Edition - $16.99
• Planet Coaster - $12.99
• Portal Bundle - $2.18
• Left 4 Dead bundle - $3.26
• Orange Box - $4.34
• Faster than light - $3.62
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition - $23.69
• South Park: The Fractured But Whole - $22.48

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  Slogan on 22/12/2019 - 15:39

  +1

  Note: to get anything useful from the token system, you need to part with NZ$75 or more (5,000 tokens) to redeem a $7.50 discount voucher.
  The quests won't even get you 1,000 tokens, and the stuff you can get with that is — as mentioned above — stickers and other decorative crap.

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    BJ on 22/12/2019 - 21:04

    Sorry I didn't bother calculating these things when I made the post but what you're saying is wrong. There are 19 quests during the event worth 100 points each, totalling 1900. Not all of these are available right now - one new one is released each day I believe. 5000-1900=3100. 3100/66=$47 not $75

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      BJ on 22/12/2019 - 21:07

      if you want to see what all the quests are:

      https://i.imgur.com/815pR7z.jpg

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      Slogan on 22/12/2019 - 23:43

      I stand corrected: if you visit Steam every day to complete quests only available on those days, and then after you've done that you also part with NZ$47, at that point you will be eligible to obtain a $7.50 voucher (that expires within days of the quest period ending).

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        Nil Einne on 23/12/2019 - 07:33

        +1

        Fairly sure there's no such thing as a quest only available on one day. They are releasing new quests every day, which is a different point.

        The only thing which is unique daily is the 3 cards for viewing your discovery queue 3 times. But that just gives you 3 cards worth about 8 cents each. (Very occasionally you get a foil one.) You also have to vote in the Steam Awards before they announce the winners, although again that's only for cards.

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        BJ on 23/12/2019 - 18:06

        If you are going to continue to comment on how this event works, please head over to steam and find out for yourself. Like Nil Einne and I said, a new quest is released each day. You do not have to use steam each day to unlock or complete these quests, meaning you could log in on the last day to complete them all. The $7.50 voucher needs to be used by 7am on January 3rd, so during the sale period.
        Lets say you receive and activate a $50 steam gift card at christmas, or add $50 to your steam wallet, and log in on the final day to complete the quests, you will be able to get the voucher and use it in the sale. This seems to be much better than previous events during steam sales

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  Detruire on 22/12/2019 - 19:45

  +1

  FWIW: South Park TFBW was $15 for the gold edition ~2 weeks ago.

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    BJ on 22/12/2019 - 21:23

    sorry, seems like a mod has added a list of games they are interested in. I agree, this doesn't seem like a great deal on TFBW. If you are interested in that game, the cheapest you can probably get it right now is on epic games: the base game is ~$11.33 and gold edition is ~$24.59 (using the $10 off coupons mentioned in one of my posts). Otherwise isthereanydeal.com is a good place to look

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  Vic on 23/12/2019 - 11:22

  Instead of buying from Steam check isthereanydeal.com and it finds prices from many legit key sites which you can redeem on Steam or elsewhere. Steam is usually the most expensive place to buy. Some games are only on Steam but most are on heaps of key sites.

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    BJ on 23/12/2019 - 18:42

    What you said didn't sound right to me so I had a look at the items on my wishlist to see if you are right. 55 out of 61 items are included in the sale. Of these 55, I found 18 cheaper on isthereanydeal.com. Most of the time the difference was below a dollar, so in my case I would rather buy on steam unless I already have an account with the key selling site it's cheaper on. There were 5 cases where there was a big enough difference to bother-2 of these were for just released titles, 2 were uplay keys (so you won't have it on steam), and 1 title was straight up cheaper.

    isthereanydeal.com (set to NZD) also said steam was not the cheapest about 20 more times, when steam is in fact the cheapest and their price listed for steam is wrong. I'm not sure if this is them using USD and converting to NZD rather than fetching data from the NZ steam store, but the site is often not entirely correct.

    steam's full prices are usually more expensive than key resellers, but during their summer and winter sales, steam actually has the best prices in most cases