This years sale regarding "Valve Quality"

Blame the russians

But how much did you spend? That is whats important.

I think the sale is just fine and well done. It pales in comparison to the other sales, sure, but I spend more time looking at things to buy than I do getting achievements so they sucked more out of me and I don't get 6 free games this time (like I did on the holiday sale). I think they were smart.

Well I kinda miss the archievments for games like last summer event. At least there are these badges with some steam challenges.
But I have to agree it's not as good as the winter sale or the last summer one.
I'm a bit disappointed though too. Just a bit.

This was my first summer sale, so I can't really say much except that I loved it.

I agree with you, I LOVED all the previous years' sales. This Summer Sale was meh.

Youère right , I loved the christmas sale!

For this sale i installed +100Gb worth of games in case of an achievement hunt. I remember how the Steam servers couldn't process my download request...

Maybe that's because they weren't planning to and were kinda pressured into doing on? But then again, they then should have alerted the Internet months before.

The repeats..just disgusting. Saints Row 3 I think was like 4 times on the front page.

If you're not as overwhelmed with the excitement of the sales this time as you were with previous sales, that will come out in Valve's numbers. They'll see they didn't do as good a job as they have previously, and next time they'll come up with something better.

I will say: we still don't know what use badges have. Some people think they're for show. I think Valve is holding out until a day after the sale ends to present us with something special so no one can possibly manipulate or exploit the system.

Well, last summer, I was playing games to get achievements, last christmas, I was playing games and selling coals and this summer sale, I am finally spending money on games :D

This was my favorite sale in the 2 years I've been on Steam, and do you know why? At some point or another, almost every notable game on Steam got a big sale. Furthermore, things were on sale multiple times, so I had a chance to get things I missed. The community choice thing is clearly a test for Greenlight, which gets me excited for the future of indie games on Steam.

Oh, and for the people saying "WE NEED SOMETHING FUN LIKE SELLING COAL OR ACHIEVEMENT HUNTING", the fun this year didn't come from the gimmicky Steam treasure hunting coal nabbing stuff, it came from playing all the games you got. I've had more fun playing Far Cry and Fallout and Saints Row than I did trading coal, that's for sure.

maybe they're working on Episode 3?

i agree!!!!

oh mighty gabe, there is actually a short space of time in valve...

It was my favorite of the sales. My first was last year's summer, it was fun I guess, but I bought some games just so I could get achievements. I only bought Skyrim during the Winter Sale and there was a lot of coal farming, so I don't blame them. I've had more fun this year actually playing my games, not for achievements or coal, but for fun :D.

This one was one of the best ones, but you would actually get games until of just play the games you had or bought the games that earned coal

TOMORROWS THE NIGHT

It'll never happen. I keep telling myself tomorrow they'll give away free stuff. It never came.

Many people seem to be upset because they wernt given the chance for free games, well boo freaking hoo. I think the sale was just that, a large sale ment to draw more attention to games sold on steam. Many many games went on deep discount and I had to struggle deeply with what I would or would not buy just like every year. Was it as expansive, acheivment riddled, or free stuff giving as the last two sales? No, but it was still a good sale.

While it was nice to win free games, I would have been content with completing game-related achievements that allowed us to earn a new badge. I was looking forward to some kind of multiple game challenge that would have tested my wits, bandwith, and wallet. Also, it is a bit disheartening to see flash deals become daily deals, which end up becoming community choice deals. Ah well, I still snagged a few games for cheap prices.

I wonder if they'll do anything special tomorrow, since there probably won't be an encore day, since most things have already gone on sale multiple times.

Fact: the Winter Sale was a failure

While this sale was somewhat disappointing compared to the others, it kind of makes sense, what with this year being pretty busy for them. They have the CS:GO Beta, Dota 2 Beta, the Meet The Pyro ARG/update, Linux support, Source Filmmaker, Greenlight announcement, the big-screen thing that they were talking about, and the Summer Sale (as well as the Winter sale, but that's an end-of-the-year-every-year-thing so I guess it doesn't really count). Overall though I think this sale was pretty good, though it did have some disappointing points.

This sales saved me a ton of money. So many recycled sales and bad games on sale that I barely bought anything. Spent a ton more during winter sales.