About the valve percent off coupons - Word of advice

Well said, I was thinking this was probably the case. But do you have proof? People like proof :)

Firsthand proof even!

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9035/161a5a1a0a52456a97d139a.png

They can only be used though Jan 2nd - March 1st, so you can save them for CS:GO

On another note, that was my first gift, unless I misunderstood, I'm supposed to get another one for looking at this one? I haven't.

Have to admit I thought it was a pretty lame gift (33% off Valve title) - worse than the current 50% off, can't use it until Jan 2, can't use it on games released after Jan 2, what's the point?

Wait for 75% discount on any game

Use 33% coupon

Buy game for 107% discount

WIN BIG

Then CS:GO releases on January 3rd

25% off any one title on Steam listed with Valve as the publisher.
Excludes titles released after January 2nd, 2012.

(Valid January 2nd, 2012 through March 1st, 2012)

-Gives away coupons 50% or less on all valve games as one of the awards you can get.

-All Valve games are already 50% off or more for Christmas sale.

-Can't use coupons to go with discounted games as they are only valid after Jan. 2 to March 1.

-Any new game coming out after for Valve would be CS:GO (probably)

-BUT WAIT... the coupon does not affect any Valve games coming out after Jan. 2.

Summary: WTF STEAM?

Edit: Apparently "Golden" coupons can be used during the Christmas sale, but I haven't heard of a single person who's been lucky enough to get one.

lol i got a 50% off strategy first coupon, never heard of them before.

haha got also halflife 2 episode 1

what Im wondering is if you can combine the coupons and maybe get things for free?

50% stalker clear skies

The coupons are just Gaben trolling the internet again.

25% off of games that are already 50-75% of, you can´t use them during the sale and you can´t use them on games that are released after the sale. Meaning that the only way to use them is find a game you want, NOT buy it with 75% off, wait until next month, and then buy it with 25% off.

Trolololo.

You could save the coupon for another sale, though the sale won't be as big as this one.

Anyone want to give me $5 to Steam Wallet/whatever I can do to make TF2 account premium for a 50% off Valve Coupon?

They think that I will wait till 2 Jan for use a 33% coupon and pay more. That's how Valve's logic works.

Kinda hoped I'd win something useful for a change, but got two 25% coupons for Valve games. Whatever...

NOT ENOUGH COUPONS

To be honest I prefer the "pick and choose your own stuff" approach they had with golden tickets during the Summer sale.

coupons = crates

actually it's worse, since crates don't take "drop slots" in TF2, but coupons do take "gift slots" in this event