What was your favourite Steam sale?

The monster clicker was my first and so far the better for me.

Flash sales were great.

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Definitely the 2011 Steam Summer Sale. It was fun grabbing achievements to get additional content for other games especially with the ticket system.

Winter 2011 (it was pretty fun) > Winter 2014 (it wasn't actually that hard to win when entering auctions for lesser-known, not-AAA games) > Most of the other ones (though I didn't like Summer 2014 / 2015, since reddit was cheating all over the place) >>>>>>>>>> Winter 2015 (they could have done nothing at all and it still would have been better than their half-assed "ARG")

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I'm tied between the summers of 2014 and 2015. They were both really fun experiences that brought the community together. Plus they had fun mini games :)

I'm gonna go with winter 2014 just because I got some games for free thanks to the whole gems craze that went on during the first few hours, also because I actually managed to win a couple of auctions.

the one with the coal. that was the best. back when valve was still pretending to be cool and fun to get people to like them. now that we like them, theyve gotten all grinch and scrooge-like.

man.. i really miss that coal :(

I'm sad that I wasn't around when the legendary coal sale happened! I kind of liked both sales in 2014 though.

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Winter 2014 was probably the last with decent prizes, plus the gem auction netted me some decent and some not decent games.
And I pray to all known gods that the clicker minigame will never, ever return.

I just miss old sales with flash and daily deals. It's boring to see all deals in 1 day now. Most of them don't even change until the end of the sale.

So for me, any sale with these were awesome.

Now that inventory gifting is gone, what are the chances of flash sales coming back? Wasn't the idea that they were removed to prevent "refund abuse"? If refunds aren't instant, any flash sale that is shorter than the refund period couldn't be abused like that, right?

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That winter 2011 one was the best one, especially because of the cheevos to get and all, even if I guess I'm biased because I had free time when it happened. I'm not sure we'll ever get something as good but I'm curious about that upcoming sticker thing ;)

I loved the Winter sale of 2011, I just had 6 months on Steam and got Portal 2 with the coals. Best christmas event ever!

Summer 2011, certainly. Sure the Winter 2011 one got you cooler stuff (and it was during that sale that I discovered this website, so there's that), but the summer one didnt have as much drama. You just played your games, you traded in your stuff for cute little prizes, and you couldnt really manipulate the system with the tickets like you could with the coal. It was great!

Got a soft spot for the team-based thing from 2014, too. Blue team rules.

The one that me me use steam ... some 7 years ago after valve gave portal away.

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Personally I'll go against the grain and say Trading Cards, simply because during Beta people went wild paying £5/£10 for just bog standard cards worth pence now. I made so much money in and around that sale, so I personally cashed in. Other than that 2011 was the best of course.

Despite having registered my account in 2010 I didn't start to "fully" use it until 2013 I think..
Having to choose one I'd say that ARG winter sale. It gave more the feeling of "community" and "working toward a common goal" than clicker game (which I liked but it was too hard to beat) and teams one (where I luckily got into the winning team, also the time where I've crafted the most of my badges).

Also, hasn't always been a "spring sale" in the recent past years? why not this time?

about HB, you cannot even get DRM-free version for 0.01$ anymore.
Tried recently 'cause I had got T1's steam keys from Tremor and was curious to see if I could get DRM-free version at "no expenses".. turns out minimum now is 0.20$ :\