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Avalanche of Deals Hit Steam; Daily Promotions and Publisher Bundles Included
Xav de Matos
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If holiday sales were rated by impact, Steam just delivered the equivalent of two, knockout-caliber black eyes. Hundreds of games are on sale right now from the popular digital distribution platform, beginning today and running until January 2.

While ongoing sales will pepper the general sale items throughout the period, a number of daily deals are available to help users pad their digital gaming library or give the gift of completely green video game giving. Steam is also offering a new "Holiday Bonus" deal per day, which will further discount a select title if users meet a specific criteria.

Today's bonus offer is an additional 10% off Portal (it's already discounted by 75% as part of today's daily deals) for users who already own Half-Life 2 on their Steam account. That's 85% off! Too bad 97.3% of you already own it.

The daily deals for the first day of Steam's Holiday Sale are:

Those who prefer to buy in bulk can grab publisher library bundle packs, including sets from 2K Games, THQ, Epic Games, Bethesda Softworks, Rockstar Games, Valve Software, and Square Enix/Eidos.

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • [deleted] 92559685 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    December 20, 2010 2:02 PM

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    • your_muther legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 20, 2010 2:28 PM

      meh bollocks to them, steams awesome, and i dare someone to provide me with a good reason why its obviously not. I mean.... Just look at it. Sales are awesome, interface is good, the service is undeniably good as a whole.

      Win Win at the moment. For both retailers and consumers.

      • [deleted] 92559685 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        December 20, 2010 2:29 PM

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      • wytefang legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        December 20, 2010 3:48 PM

        STEAM is great but also not without its issues. Slow downloads (at times, not always), inability to save games where you'd like to save them (should be a basic feature), slow patching process (and at times, poor communication about the patching process, too)...and the (at times) poorly functioning Offline mode. :(

        Nope, still not perfect. Good sales though!

        • ROCKETR legacy 10 years
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          December 20, 2010 4:31 PM

          "inability to save games where you'd like to save them (should be a basic feature)"

          How is that a Steam flaw? What game lets you do that?

          • FreshwaterAU legacy 10 years
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            December 21, 2010 5:18 AM

            yeah that's not steam, if anything the steam cloud is allowing developers to push that feature, i.e. Torchlight. It's not Steam's fault that I can't save whereever in Batman A:A (which would take away from Batman IMO).

            • Benoit Stordeur legacy 10 years
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              December 21, 2010 8:12 AM

              I think he meant installing games outside the steam folder (on a different drive for instance), which as far as I know still isn't possible, and quite unfortunate.
              But still, Steam ♥♥♥

              • wytefang legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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                December 22, 2010 2:27 PM

                Yes, Benoit has it right. That's precisely what I meant. Impulse, which is a far newer, far smaller support-base system, allows this (to use one example).

        • passingstranger legacy 10 years
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          December 20, 2010 4:36 PM

          Slow downloads are a problem I basically never experience with steam. The speeds typically range from 1.5 Mb/s to 4 Mb/s.

          • wytefang legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            December 22, 2010 2:28 PM

            They're not too bad with less newer games but if you're using STEAM to buy new games...:::pausing to chuckle:::....good luck. It can be pretty awful. It's one of the main reasons that I still prefer to buy newer games at a physical store. :(

    • SlingBlaze legacy 10 years
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      December 20, 2010 3:20 PM

      We favourite it because its the best. Even I know that and I'm usually one to fight against it. Its not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it provides us with awesome deals.

    • sasquatchxing legacy 10 years
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      December 21, 2010 4:05 AM

      Yep almost as fast as the Not on Steam Do Not Want whining when other distributer have a sale. ;)

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