Looking forward/enjoying the event?
I wonder if those who suggested themes and were picked got any sort of rewards for that
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No, these suggested ones are used by a lot, it's why they have been added.
Even the Steam stave does not have time to check over 15 million entries.
They just look at the most used ones.
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Would have been nice! Maybe a badge or something, but guess not indeed due the amount of votes (they even decided to make four "custom" awards instead of one due the many responses). Anyway my "Serious game"-award did not make it.. :( :P
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last summer and winter sale all games i wanted were cheaper on legit key stores...
i hope that a few games are really cheap this year... have some steamwallet left... :P
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I'm hoping so too! Otherwise I'll just keep it to crafting some badges and voting on some awards ;)
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i stoped activ leveling over a year ago, but i think i can't refuse to make the winter sale badge if any artwork between lvl 1-10 looks really nice...^^
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I'm going for level 100+ and have 140 badges ready and waiting for me to craft :P So with a bit of luck I'll be able to get to level 10 orso :)
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waited for exact this time to sell my 2000+ cards on market... :D
not leveling became profit for me at winter and summer sale... :P
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Yeah, good thing I've stocked before hand xD Although I've been hearing that the prices are not that high comparing to previous events and sales..
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It seems another stores always beat Steam's price. You think they would match the best prices out there to keep all sales.
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RIP wallet then :D
Ty 4 the info and have a good holiday.
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RIP my wallet too probably :P I only hope I'll have the discipline to not add new funds to it when it does xD
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Meh. Key sites, even the legit ones, are usually a lot cheaper anyways.
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Legit ones like greenmangaming for instance, is often cheaper.
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Does this pages have currency modifications ? I live in Mexico, and the steam store gives me modified prices, and they are even cheaper than if I buy them from the USA store
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I have no idea or way to test this. I live in the EU, so I get the ROW/WW editions. Not sure if Mexico get those, or if they are region locked. You could look at the prices on the site? If they are more expensive than steam, then use steam :)
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Yeah, I tried to find anything related to changing currency on gmg, without luck. If they sell in dollars, is more expensive than steam for me. Thanks for the reply!
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For those of us with regional steam stores, 3rd party sites tend to be more expensive than Steam sales. Most only sell in USD/EUR with a few including GBP and CAD. Only Nuuvem provides Latam prices since they are in Brazil.
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Absolutely nothing to vote on. \o/
I'm hoping the sale at least offers some excitement...
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That's why I've included links so you can choose the least worst one based on the trailer? :P
(Like what to nominate for Best use of a farm animal? Goat Simulator? xD)
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The Farm animal category seems the least 'hard to vote for' out of them all, so thanks Goat Simulator for that at least! :D But really bad candidates overall, just another AAA popularity contest again like Adelion mentioned. Test of time category is painfully, ridiculously bad in itself. -.- Couldn't be less interested in the awards event now. okay, there's still the miniscule hope the event will let you browse other nominees as well, maybe in addition to some other event activity, which could be slightly more interesting
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Well bummer. It was to be expected that the final list would look this boring. Most people just nominated some bad AAA games or previously hyped games. It is a popularity contest after all -_-
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Yeah, well I'm happy to see some indie games like This War of Mine :)
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I'm sad that the "Game in most need of a sequel" category isn't up there :(
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im sad south park didn't get nominated for best use of a farm animal. Nazi cows were hilarious.
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I have my eyes on certain bundles too ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
(sadly most of the times when I get to them it is already fixed and only the stories of price glitches remain)
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Or the price glitch is for a different region so even if you see it, you can't use it :/
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+1. I'm sad that I missed LiS for 1$ at Autumn Sale and don't want to miss more deals like that!
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Can't believe "Game in most need of a sequel - for HL2" didnt make it, I saw that EVERYWHERE ^^
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Nice post with good info! I enjoy the sale and the events that take place within them too!
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Also, this sale "event" is boring. I miss when they used to give away stuff or have that monster game, etc.
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Wow, don't be negative before hand please! Keep on dreaming until reality might kick in tomorrow xD
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Is there any news of companies like best buy or PayPal doing the deals they've done before where you can get like $100 steam wallet for $85 for the approaching sale?
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Only some France referral program from PayPal, besides that I've not yet found any..
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It definitely seems interesting and different enough, I suppose. I hope the event is a little more involved than merely voting for one choice each day. I'm also hoping for another sale event to go along with this one, but I won't hold my breath.
I still miss the days of voting for flash sales. ;_;
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I hope so too; my guess is because they want you to vote on only one award at the time, that they will do some good daily sales :)
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I'm blissfully hoping for another event alongside the voting, like the ARG event they did or the clicker game, something of that sort.
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Yep, same here. I completely understand why they won't do anything like the coal event but those other ones were still more interactive at least, here's hoping!
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+1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even Terraria is pretty ridiculous. Four-five years is nothing especially with games that get important DLCs and other facelifts years later...
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+2 WTFF?
I nominated Master of Orion 2 Now THAT is test of time.
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Yeah and so are TF2 and Terarria. I wouldn't consider those old at all... I personally voted for Rome Total War
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Yup, can't help but facepalm to that category... I mean... there's not even BEEN time since their releases to test them... Ugh.
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The games I voted for awards that are available as nominees now are
Borderlands 2 for Villain Most in Need Of A hug
Fallout 4 for the Just 5 More Minutes
Bioshock Infinite for Whoooaaaaaa, dude!
To the Moon for I’m Not Crying, There’s Something In My Eye
Goat Simulator for Best Use Of A Farm Animal
So haha, I got quite a few the same XD
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Nice job :) I'm seeing two or three I've voted on if I remember correctly :P (GTA V, Life is Strange, This War of Mine)
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Most games and most choices are ridiculous. Examples:
1) Villain Most In Need Of A Hug: Dead By Daylight. Really? How exactly? The massive amount of storyline that this game includes made people think that the villain is in need of a hug? -_-
2) Test of Time. Most of the games in this category are too recent ffs. xD
3) Best Use Of A Farm Animal. Ok, did, the people that vote, understand what the category was asking about? Best use of a farm animal, not just use of a farm animal. Just because Farming Simulator and Stardew Valley have animals, doesn't mean that there was a special use of those animals.
And many more examples!
Also, most of the games are too recent. Do people forget old (but gold) games so easily?
Additionally, some of the games are so bad that, if they were movies, they could only get a golden raspberry award.
But, what did I expect? This looks even worse than MTV awards. xD
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By the way, the only good thing is that I agree that the Far Cry 4 villain was in need of a hug. :/
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My friend nominated CS:GO for "Best Use of a Farm Animal" cause of all the chickens.
I nominated Portal 2 for "Villain Most in Need of a Hug" so I was happy to see it be a finalist. :)
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My friend nominated CS:GO for "Best Use of a Farm Animal" cause of all the chickens.
Well, at least that's a bit better then Farming Simulator... But yeah, it could have been way more creative (like incendiary pigs in Rome Total War)
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Well, just because chickens exist there, it doesn't mean the game uses them somehow. xD
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Not to agree/disagree with the nomination but they do at least make them themed for the holidays (ex. ugly sweaters right now)
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Yeah, maybe has to do with the name choice of the awards and the explanation of them being long. :P
For best use of a farm animal I've chosen Call of Duty: Ghosts, where you can be the dog and kill enemies in story mode, that's as far as it goes regarding using "farm" animals for me xD
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Then they shouldn't have voted at all, if they couldn't read a damn description. xD
Well, your choice doesn't sound bad, since you can be the dog, although I don't think that dogs are farm animals. xD
For this category, I chose Bone: The Great Cow Race, because it included cow races and you had to make a cow costume in order to secretly participate too. Have you seen many cows participating in races before? Ain't that the best use of a farm animal? xD
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Haha :D Didn't know the game, but indeed a shame it didn't got nominated! As for voting, you got a badge for voting in all categories, so I did - even though I've maybe shouldn't on some categories ;)
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good comparison with MTV awards. It looks like shameful awards.
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Yeah, this just shows again that letting the masses vote without any control is just a bad idea...
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Well, there is a difference between asking for the opinion of a crowd then letting the crowd decide what will happen. It's definitly good to see what the masses want, but if you just use their opinion without any quality control, this happens...
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Hopefully the first Steam Awards will also be the last, cause this is indeed ridicilous.
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Test of time
all but one game are 2007 or later
why
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9-10 years is quite old by modern standards and to a good number of people. I imagine for a notable portion of steam users and people on this site are 20 or less, so 50%+ of their life is pretty old.
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True and also game-wise. I tried playing GTA Vice City a while back, but looking at the graphics and being spoiled by GTA V, not for long (although listening to GTA Radio Emotion 98.3 FM is still nice ^^).
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Yeah, the older GTA's did not get along with time well. San Andreas is still relatively good, but III and Vice City are pretty bad now...
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I always listened to VRock. The first time I played it, it was a pleasant surprise to hear Iron Maiden, Megadeth etc on there. :p
Of all the GTA games, Vice City does have the best sound track in my opinion (although the one in San Andreas wasn't bad either, but GTA V's just sucks).
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Oh yes, Come On Feel The Noize! xD I agree, only GTA V's Self Radio was a nice addition, mixing your own MP3's with DJ's and commercials (in the age of Spotify maybe also a bit old fashioned :P) Loving YouTube auto-play by the way, mixes to I Wanna Rock, and Poison is up after that!
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You can use your MP3s in GTA III, VC and SA already. No need to wait till V for that.
Just not with commercials or DJ's.
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Those test of time award nominations are pretty shit
I voted for DOOM.
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Yep, I voted for RE4 and felt that I was sorta cheating... and now Skyrim makes it into the list XD
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I'll laugh if the mystery badge is the long waited Fallout 4 badge xD
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Yeah, to bad to see some game developers not using all Steam features. Also missed badges for GTA V (luckily enough it does have achievements).
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Skyrim Vanilla has badges, remaster doesn't, so idk crazy stuff \o/
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Yeah, I was kind of sad when I found out that Total War: Warhammer didn't have them (while some previous titles did). There is so much potential for amazing card and background art...
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lovely to see viridi there, though for the same category i would've voted for their previous game, eidolon.
edit: in fact, i did.
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In general nice to see some free games (or free to play) in there :)
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The nominations they went with are even more depressingly uninspired and misplaced than I expected them to be. -.-
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I'm going to guess it was by popular vote so I guess we only have our peers to blame.
Like others i think I'm most offended by "Test of Time"
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The Steam Winter Sale started and also the Steam Awards
arewere up for the final vote! ^^ Below all the information I've gathered about these events until now. Hope there will be many cheap games for us to collect :)Awards
Steam made an announcement with all the information and here you can find the winners! Each day (on 10 AM PST) on one award could be voted on by all Steam users. Below you can find the date (with a link to a topic about it), the name of the award, all nominees, SteamGifts giveaway choice and the final winner.
Winter Sales
Sales have started! They will end on January 2, 10 AM PST.
Visit the Steam Store here
Steam cards / badge: The Steam Awards Badge
The Mysterious Badge changed into The Steam Awards Badge. There are nine cards, corresponding to the nine awards (award no. 9 being Community Choice). You can get cards:
Crafting them can be done until February 2nd. More information here, on the bottom of the page.
Click here to view the cards, badges, emoticons and backgrounds on Steam Card Exchange (will you get the level 12500 badge? lol xD)
Other topics about the sales and awards
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