Wasn't there supposed to be a spring sale on steam?

its the perfect thing to go into a sale with.
my backlog is insane and i do use it as a reason to say i dont need to buy a game. When you push people to complete the games they own to clear out before a big sale you will sell more than without it

no, there were some discounts, but it wasn't "spring sale" (tm)

The thing is you don't need to play games to complete tasks, just launch them so it would register on the account that you did.

what is it for you guys

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I mean I remembered that I owned Fez and played that.

So glad I didn't pay for that.

of course lots of people will do this but any push to clean out a back log some people will do it. they will be more likely to purchase new games, games in the series, and DLC of any game in the back log. doesnt matter what some people will do the fact that this event was also done last year its clear it worked

FF7

Half-Life 2

>Launch Blue Revolver
>Play one run
>Remember I suck at Blue Revolver
>Close Blue Revolver
T-thanks Gabe

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I don't understand the "excluding" line, I don't think I added that game early on.

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On a second thought, it might help push sales for those several games that are in "free to play this weekend" box. Nobody ever uses that, so they decided to tie it with steam activities in hopes people would actually try games

Bioshock

Half like 2 death match specifically

Oh actually I think it's saying I played that game for a similar task last year, or something. That's nice of Steam to remember, I guess.

zoomers begone

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its an automated message that doesnt know what your actual oldest game is but sees what you have and that game is excluded from event is my guess

>15 year old account
>First game added is everything related to Half-life and Counter-Strike
feels pretty good

Wasn't able to do Ricochet again so I did HL2DM.

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I don't know what's the point of this sale, I'm not gonna start playing a bunch of games when I'm already playing a bunch of games just because some promo prompted me to

...

Who the fuck cares
When are they gonna make new video games

>not wanting a new pointless shiny badge on you account and a handful of steam emojis
what it's like not having a goal in your life

is this supposed to be filled with things i dont own or dont play. i think sins is the only one i have because it was free or humble or something

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Apparently only 2.0% of the playerbase has this achievement. Do you have it?

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ayy, i have that failed pc gamer app too

there is a summer sale in june, I don't know what the point of this is, but that summer sale has already been confirmed.

Spring sale and summer sale are always only one month apart. I don't get it too, but that's how it usually goes

>I don't know what the point of this is
"Play your fucking games you assholes"

you get rid of games you already played so you can buy them again

get on my level

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its excluding the old game you did for last years spring cleaning.

>tfw

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mine reminded me that i hadn't talked to a person in years

I enjoy solitude.

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to clarify i meant the person that had recommended a game to me
anyway i can't play the game now due to guilt

I'll add you as a friend so you can get the points for that. Just don't be all gay about it.

>miss the first day of last year's spring cleaning event
>end up ONE point shy of the gold badge, due to how they set it up
Fucking troll event designed to annoy.

I'm glad I didn't miss the first day again.

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To be frank, lots of people complain about having bought too many games that they haven't played or even installed yet. So I guess this is a nice little push for getting back to that backlog.

Agreed. It's weird to see a Steam event that isn't a sale, but I think it's fun. Intentionally or not, it's a cute response to the "hundreds of Steam games and nothing to play" meme.

No thanks. I don't want to lose my virgin powers, incel.

Stfu sonyfag.

Counter-Strike Condition Zero

valve making games days are over user

>get common emoji with first badge
>it's badass

the rare ones are probably shit

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Portal. I still really like the first one.

I feel like with all the bullshit epic is doing, this might end up causing valve to make some games. Well highly unlikely but still one can hope.

all I do is download the games. start it then uninstall

same

epic is going to honestly kill itself at this point.
The store spends insane amount of money, their business decisions are so incompetent that they fuck over the one thing they claim they are better for (put games on sale without permission)

It only exists because of fortnite which cant last forever and has mostly calmed down from the public panic about it. unless EGS builds enough of a base and devs dont abandon it because of sales (metro seems to be going tragically)

Tim doesnt even want to do this any more, even tried getting steam to lower its rates so he could jump ship while claiming he changed the industry for the better.

Would starting one of the free games permanently cause its badge progress to appear on my profile?
Im ocd as fuck about things like this and having a badge progress for a game I dont even own or intent to ever play stuck forever would bother the shit out of me

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L4D

I have no idea.

god I hate myself

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"Oh you finished all your games? Guess you need some new ones! Here's a steam sale!"

AMD had a thing where you could get this and Half-Life 2: Death Match for free, it was around the time that Portal was being given away to promote the first MAC compatible game on Steam.

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i literally do not care about this
i'm not going to waste time installing a game i uninstalled last fucking week, not going to wait 2 hours on 20mb/s connection to play 1 round of l4d2
nor am i going to waste any of my time sitting around waiting for something else to finish
did they not think about how so much of steam is populated by retards with terrible internet? mine's not the best but there's niggers with like 2mb/s out there

That is why I use SAM.

>tfw live in gulag country but have cheap and fast internet

If your first game isnt a released half life or accompanying deathmatch/countrstrike title, you don't belong here.

>Install Half-Life 2
>Edit steam_appid.txt in the Half-Life 2 folder to desired game's appid
>Launch Half-Life 2
>Task complete

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20 megabit? Lmao nigger.

>did they not think about how so much of steam is populated by retards with terrible internet?
They just shouldn't play video games :^)

I didn't even think of doing this because I have no data cap. I'm just downloading gigabytes of shit just to run it for one second and then uninstall.

I'm a waste of amazing technology right now.

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Steam can do whatever they want and you're powerless to stop it. Want HL3? Too bad, fuck you, but you're still forced to use Steam for the majority of PC games.
Want innovative hardware for PC gaming? Good luck with Steam Machines, Steam Link, or a 1k$ VR kit.
Like flash sales and seasonal sales? At this point, it isnt even in Steams interest to hold sales due to such a large market hold.

>multiple 30GB game downloads
>only 1 day to play them

What the fuck. What fucking retard though this was a good idea. Not everyone has Fiber. Fuck Valve.

hell yeah

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>Want HL3? Too bad, fuck you
Why would anyone even care enough about HL3 to be hurt by this? HL1 and HL2 were fun games but the stories weren't even that great so you shouldn't be so fixated on a sequel that you obsess over HL3 instead of just playing any other half-decent shooter.
>you're still forced to use Steam for the majority of PC games.
There's always piracy, if it bothers you so much. In fact, you're not forced to play those games in the first place, if it bothers you so much.
>Want innovative hardware for PC gaming?
Sure, but Steam is a digital distribution site, so I'll let someone else make innovative hardware. Not everyone needs to buy hardware with a Steam logo on it.
>Like flash sales and seasonal sales? At this point, it isn't even in Steams interest to hold sales due to such a large market hold.
Steam still has seasonal sales on the usual schedule, and they continued having flash sales during those seasonal sales long after they became the dominant PC game store. So what the fuck are you even talking about?

You're trying too hard you just look stupid

>Event encourages you to play your backlog

Aw shit.

Speam doesn't make money when you play games, they make money when you buy games.

nigger.

HIV SEX!

>get btfo completely
>"y-you're stupid"
lmao

I never did finish it either.

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Elsword.

If only I were so lucky.
>tfw Gabe *blocks your spring badge*

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So you gotta play all the games it reccomends you to get the medal?

The fucking Penny Arcade RPG, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1. Not a bad game at all.

No, just one from each category and you don't don't really have to play them, just running them is enough.

They want to have fun events, but there's no point if they're not willing to bring back the reward system of tickets and coal. Nothing will match those sales events.

I did Trap Shrine for that task.

last years was Terraria
this year is Killing Floor

Well i'm playing them for like 5 minutes but nothing is happening.

Sims 3. I'm ashamed.

I just want Valve to make a TF2.5 on Source 2, with complete compatibility with backpacks from TF2.

Portal

Anyone who doesn't have a Half-Life game as their first Steam game is underage

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I'm 27, and I didn't get steam until TF2 went free to play. I'm sorry.

You missed out on one of the best gaming experiences ever (pre-f2p TF2), I'm sorry for you user.

i was against DRM for a long time until I finally bit the bullet and bought skyrim a few months after it came out, when it was still riding a massive wave of hype and its all people talked about
it was my first steam game. shame i cant buy dlc for my version anymore since i was procrastinating buying them until they went 75% off each (not 66% off, fuck off kike)

>Half Life (but 2, not 1)
hello zoomer

>Not just using SAM
get good

HL2 but i have played that one already.
So....

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you can, they just hid the page
or you can just pirate the dlcs
they're basically just mods you drop in your data files anyway

>trusted friends
>HMM, LOOKS LIKE THERE'S NOTHING HERE THAT QUALIFIES.

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i dont have "the lab™" in my library

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Holy shit, twinsies.

Want to be friends?

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>45 dollars for the dlcs
yeah im ok with pirating them

Assassin's Creed 2 (formerly Portal)

Is it free? Steam acts weird about free games, it treats them as sort of in your library even if you've never seen them before.

It just shows me a bunch of free-to-play games

How do you know when the day resets? Fucking volvo can't get anything right. If you are going to make a timed event at least put a countdown timer there you amateurs.

Probably when the store updates, which is usually 6pm GMT.

Are you sure? It's free, so if you ever downloaded it, Steam probably treats it as being in your library.

I logged into my wife's account, and that account hasn't made an actual purchase in years, so the "CAN'T WAIT" section ("Play a game you purchased within the last 6 months") was full of games shared from my library via Family Sharing. I'm not sure what would have happened if I weren't sharing my games with that other account. Maybe it would have just said "fuck you, buy a game to unlock this one".

clicking on view on my library show ARMA 2

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HL2 Lost coast and HL2 MP
was a deal with an old GPU, iirc

>playing video games for a fucking steam badge
no

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The top of the event page says that the event goes from May 24 10 AM PDT to May 28 10 AM PDT, so I think it's safe to assume that each day of the event resets at 10 AM PDT.

For non-Americans, PDT is Pacific Daylight Time, which is the time zone used in California during daylight savings time. It's UTC - 7.

timeanddate.com/time/zones/pdt

yeah fuck playing video games why would anyone do that

>there was some tie-in between participating in the cleaning event and the summer sale but i don't remember what it was
Some saliens items you could get in advance for the saliens game, I think. This time they advertise two rare items for the last tier of rewards, so who knows what they are.

We don't need a spring event to tell us that there will be a summer sale. There's always a summer sale at the end of June.

The Orange Box.

Audiosurf fuck yeah

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