What was your favourite Steam sale?

Reserved because I might add some extra gibs during the sale!

Your memory seems hell a lot better than mine. Flash sales made me log in constantly and get excited, but those days are gone. It is those damn queues with rarely anything interesting these days.

How about winter sale 2015 - North Pole noire detective

Summer Camp 2011

Coals. Got so many nice games in trade it was ridiculous.

favorite "sale" would be winter 2013
favorite "event" would be winter 2011

That coal sale was 2011? Damn, time really flies by. I remember that sale mostly because people cheated like mad, to get those achievements.

I've only been on Steam for three years, so it's gotta be the clicker game sale for me. I think it was the last one with flash sales :(

Hm, the coals one was nice. I think I scored like 3 free games. The 2011 summer sale was also quite good. Scored some free DLC and stuff there as well.

But I was kinda new to the whole steam sales thingy back then. I don't know how much fun I would find it these days. And the discounts were kinda pants back then, were they not? I mean 66% of seemed like it was actually a good discounts.

Didn't participate that much in the first sales, but the flash deals in general were great.

Summer sale 2011 because they offered actual games and DLC for free, instead of cards. The best thing I received from it was the Resurgence DLC for Defense Grid, which I had previously wanted to play.

Year of the monkey. Last year on april or may (can't recall). Counter Strike Complete was on 75%.

I voted for 2011 but the auctions were great too.

The Clicker Minigame was brutal !

The potato sale up to the release of Portal 2. That was fun. Winter 2011 was nice too. Any sale, where you get stuff for playing games or having achievements is nice.

Personally I voted for Summer Sale 2014 (Team based competition), because it was the least troublesome and was actually a nice addition to the sale and not event itself. There were also pretty good discounts that didn't happen in last two.

Many people will vote for clicker minigame, as it was really unique idea and really well done, but I still consider it userscript chore to get maximum possible score. Valve could stop on some low score, but then people would drop playing it pretty soon, so they kept bumping the badge until it reaches impossible to gain number for 99% of people, if not more. Despite of actually reaching the "top badge", I'm not satisfied with it. It wasn't possible to achieve without cooperation of 1k scripters.

Awards sale was meh, idea was good, but I wasn't that satisfied with the outcome.

i hated gems + auctions one, still looks like a huge jump on cash to me. The idea was decent, but you couldn't really win anything for cheap, so usual sale was still better.

Everything else I still remember more or less, but I wasn't that active back then so I didn't participate enough in those activities.

Winter 2013 was my first Steam sale so I didn't get to experience the coal thing.

I don't know what my favorite would be but my least favorite is whichever one they dropped daily deals and discounts that great forever.

Edit: Just looked at that web archive of the coal sale. Holy shit, there was seriously a grand prize of every game on Steam?

Monster Game 4 Lyfe

My first one was Winter 2014 but I was still using steam very "casually" so I barely even realised there were flash sales, events etc. The first sale I fully "participated" in was the Clicker one so that's gonna be my pick, the last time we had a "side-event", even if it was horrible, and last sale we has Flash Sales :(

The Great Gift Pile was the event where games that had 'Gift' achievements and you had to play them to find the gifts in the game. The Binding of Isaac apparently had the worst RNG to ever find a gift, though. You had to own the games, though, which was the worst part to participate. It was still fun.. if you were okay with playing games (or just using the achievement unlocker tool)

Either one that had flash sales. It gave an edge to things, also had to be there every 8 hours to cast votes, get cards (and me, I had all the time in the world to do this. Good times).

LOL who won the grand prize (EVERY SINGLE GAME ON STEAM) for that contest? xD

Winter 2011 was definitely the best one for the coals, especially since i managed to get a free copy of Mafia that sale :D

Then next might be Summer 2015, with the monster clicker game.