Steam Winter Sales and the Steam Awards 2016 [ended]

So... I'll blindly vote games that I don't even play?
I mean.... really?

Well, I sort of already know for what I'm gonna vote in each category... cos in many I've only played one of those.
Let's hope there's at least a few good deals, but I have this feeling that other sites are going to be cheaper.

Nothing ridiculous or even remotelly funny about those nominations ... m3h

I guess they will force us to vote if we want to get the trading cards for free >.<

I wanted more obscure games to be nominated, oh well :P
Also lately I don't buy that many games but I am interested in the steam event itself, I hope it's good

Thanks for the info. Sigh at the nominations

Seriously hoping we don't get only 1 card per day..

So, int the test of time category, we have three games released this decade, one game almost being 10 years old, and one game that is actually an old one (with a 2013 re-release).
Not surprised though; I would have been more surprised if Skyrim isn't there. I don't expect the Bethesda crowd to be intelligent enough to put Morrowind in there, which could be a great nominee.

I have a fleeting feeling though that those are not the most-voted games in that category, Valve just chose those that weren't nominated yet and games which at least were more than 4 years old.

By the way, wasn't Harvest Moon PC Edition already pretty popular upon its initial Steam launch? it is the only thing that looks strange in that category.

For those people asking about the "Game that deserves a sequel award" I think a reason why that probably wasn't an option since most people (including me) that did it chose HL2 and or HL2EP2 and there would be only 1-2 choices for that award and they would basically be the same game?

A thing I noticed that I'm not a big fan of is that there is a few games that are nominated for multible awards: GTAV, DOOM, Terraria and maybe others and what I think would have probably been better if a different game would have took there second or even third spot.

How come did the "I'm Dying From All the Cute Girls" category not appear?

Oh neaaat!

If Blood and Bacon doesn't win Best Use of a Farm Animal, i will be incredibly disappointed.

Is somebody here from Norway and Canada?

Well, this just shows that letting the masses vote without any form of control is just a bad idea. Most of these are just popular AAA games with a ton of fans and don't have anything (or very little) to do with the category (test of time being a very good example).

But there are some good ones, like Life is Strange in I’m Not Crying, There’s Something In My Eye.

Also: what farm animals are there in ARK? Isn't that game about dinosaurs?

EDIT:

Sit Back and Relax
Cities Skylines

Wait, what? The game is amazing, I'll give you that, but relaxing? Same for Mini Metro btw. Great game, but requires way too much attention to be relaxing...

For game inside a game I voted for Day of the Tentacle!
Because you can play the entire Maniac Mansion on a PC on this game!
How amazing is to be able to play the predecessor inside the continuation? And if I tell the version of Maniac Mansion is also remastered? Damn, 2 remastered games! It was unfair for it not being nominated!

Everything I voted for isn't on the list: check.
Eyes glazing over while reading the list: check.

The hell is Tabletop Simulator doing Game Within a Game? Its not... quite a game. More of a platform to play games on.

My wallet is more than ready. Come on Steam, don't disappoint me again!

Looks like none of my nominations made it... Still... I like the award voting!

where the feck are the sales? i only see full prices on my highlights

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Will it drop cards for going through recommended list?

One day my store will hopefully load.

maybe you wanna add this link to the post for people wondering how the new badges look like and what lvl to craft^^

Those mysterious cards changed and all became untradable?

So this time I´m able to sell the cards and won´t have to turn them to gems (15 day trade lock as no Steam Authenticator, and I don´t want it... too annoying to approve every 5-cent-transaction). At least one improvement ;)