Steam Summer Sale 2016 date leaked via PayPal promotion
Once again, you should be setting your sights on June 23 for the start of the Steam Summer Sale.
We previously reported June 23 would be the day all of our wallets mysteriously go missing as Valve plans on launching this year’s Steam Summer Sale on that day. Today, that date has been re-confirmed, this time by PayPal.
As is customary each year prior to the launch of a Steam Sale, PayPal has unknowingly given all of us a heads up as to when the Steam Summer Sale will launch. According to a promotional image that has made the rounds overnight, PayPal wants us to brace ourselves as this year’s Summer sale is starting on June 23.
This isn’t the first time PayPal has leaked the start of one of Steam’s upcoming sales. PayPal has outed the 2015 dates of the Steam Winter Sale and Steam Summer Sale, giving more credibility to the leaked June 23 date.
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Daniel Perez posted a new article, Steam Summer Sale 2016 date leaked via PayPal promotion
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Let's do this shack. Post your shame.
http://steamleft.com/-
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haha I just noticed the "in this time you could:" at the bottom.
IN THIS TIME YOU COULD...
Complete 7,416 New York Times Crossword Puzzles
Fly from New York to London 1,059 times on a Concorde jet
Climb to the top of the Empire State Building 3,708 times
Watch every Superman movie 288 times
Sail to Hawaii from LA 22 times -
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Secondary Shame Thread
https://steamdb.info/calculator/
Let's use this for average price per hour this time around.-
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$5302
Current account value
$1228
Total cost with sales
$14.53
Average price
$11.67
Average price per hour
400
Games owned
1,828h
Hours on record
21.8h
Average playtime
316
Games not played
79%
Man, I really havent played over 3/4 of the games I have? wow. To be fair though I have a LOT of games from crap bundles a friend trolled me with when we did the steam roulette. Still though. -
C$1608 - Current account value
C$414 - Total cost with sales
C$20.10 - Average price
C$12.39 - Average price per hour
86 Games owned
887.8h Hours on record
25.4h Average playtime
51 Games not played
59% Games not played
So what does "Average price per hour" mean? Looks like it's "average price" divided by "average playtime", which seems like it would disproportionately weight games you only play for a small amount of time and/or paid a lot of money for, and discounts games you've played a ton and/or got for cheap.
Seems like a better measure would be total sale cost divided by total playtime, that would give you an idea of the value your Steam library has provided you. I've played 888 hours and spent $414 so that means I've spent $0.47/hour. Even if you use the account value excluding sales (almost all my games have been bought on sale) you get $1.81/hr.
Also this doesn't count my Witcher time since I don't have the Steam version. I paid $30CAD for it plus another $20 for the expansion pass, currently have ~480hrs in game for a cost of $0.10/hr! -
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Everything about this list seems completely wrong. According to this, I've never played Half Life 2, Portal, etc, and lots of free games/demos that are in my account are listed with prices ($29.99 for Descent Underground? That was just a free beta.)
That said, I'm pretty sure I have the lowest account value on the Shack at $555 ($150 with sales, whatever that means.) -
Between hundreds of missing hours, steam sales, and a good number of freebies, I'm pretty sure mine is somewhere around $3/hr in actuality.
At full price and only recorded hours it's $10.53.
As for played to satisfaction, I'm probably down to only 60% but for a while I had nearly 80%, but that's counting pre-Steam play time. Many I repurchased just so that I never have to deal with the CDs, patches, or ancient archives of discs. Can't say that I play the older games a large amount but it's comforting to know I can easily play them should the mood strike, and I sure didn't pay much for them. -
https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197963554593/?cc=us
$6.83/hr
But I'm pretty confident that the total cost with sales is actually an excessive estimation. -
https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197967012608/?cc=us
$18865
Current account value
$5432
Total cost with sales
33
Steam level
$13.62
Average price
$12.31
Average price per hour
1,671
Games owned
3,292h
Hours on record
9.1h
Average playtime
1,309
Games not played
78%
Games not played
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Last year's shame
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=33589395
I proudly shaved around a day and a half off my backlog over the course of a year. -
There are actually a half dozen or so major games along with a few indies from last year that I never bought. I will probably never play them, unless we count it as playing the steam shame game, but heck, that's what steam sales are for. May as well stock up on games. Free money for valve and developers.
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