If you’re sick of notE3 taunting you with games you may see however not play, shock! Here come Valve with an enormous sale on so very, very many video games so that you can play as we speak. The 2020 Steam Summer Sale simply launched and… many, many games are discounted till July ninth. Steam has has additionally opened a Points Shops, the place factors you earn by shopping for common Steam stuff might be swapped for emoticons, profile backgrounds, animated stickers, avatar frames, and different vainness bits. And as is Steam sale custom, the servers are actually stumbling.
The Steam Summer Sale will finish at 6pm (10am Pacific) on July ninth. Until then, hell, go to Steam and take a look. I hope you’ve been sitting on a wishlist as a result of it is a bit too giant to casually browse. The RPS Steam Curator page does have numerous games we’ve preferred and, whereas it’s now a bit old-fashioned, we do plan to revive that with recent scorching picks.
Maybe we’ll be again at you with extra explicit suggestions tomorrow. My earlier go-to is off the desk, as Deadly Premonition is as soon as once more not included within the sale. It was rather a lot simpler again after I might say “Look, it crashes and the combat sucks, but for £2 go try this game I hope you will adore as much as I do.”
If you’re extra serious about making your profile fairly, head on over to the Points Shop. Along with new specially-created bits and items for Steam profiles and Steam Chat, it shares objects beforehand restricted to buying and selling card badges. Perhaps I’ll lastly full my assortment of Deadly Premonition emoticons.
Each £1 you spend on Steam will get you 124 factors. Then you’re taking a look at possibly 100 for a Steam emoticon, 1000 for an animated sticker for Steam chat, 2000 for an animated profile background, 3000 for an animated avatar… that’s some huge cash to get one thing mainly pointless, however you get Points anyway, and it’s mainly pointless anyway. See this page for extra on the way it all works, and hit the shop to see what’s in there.
I’m shocked to search out I have already got 1000’s of Points, presumably from previous purchases? I simply spent 2000 Points on a retrofuturistic pink neon body for my Steam avatar as a result of, idk, I had them and what else was I going to make use of them for. Still received 1000’s left. 2000 factors to make the Steam profile I by no means have a look at have a swirly ink background? Sure!
Please, please, please don’t spend cash on Steam simply to get extra factors for vainness bits.
Disclosure: I’ve some buddies at Valve, who do… issues?
