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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Yes!!!! I have a gift card ready to go
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Sadly, this is true.
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Pretty much. They're still a good value, but not OMFG like the early days. Every digital distributor is having some kind of "sale" every weekend. So, it's not really an event anymore--just everday business.
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its tough when you have everything already and a backlog with literally years worth of gaming.
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There is a chance that their dwindling popularity and disparaging comments from the public will necessitate a decent sale to revive their reputation.
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Let's do this shack. Post your shame.
http://steamleft.com/-
1787 Hours = 74 days, 11 hours, 54 minutes
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3685 continuous hours = 153 days,13 hours,57 minutes
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2261 fuuuuu
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Let's see if Rice-Rocketeer posts. He was the hands down winner last year.
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585 hours
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shit.. 3121 continuous hours = 130 days,1 hour,21 minutes
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3708 continuous hours
154 days,12 hours,3 minutes
Not as bad as I thought. Now I just need for my wife to be cool while I take this next year or 2 and knock this out. -
3208 continuous hours - 133 days,16 hours,32 minutes
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It would take you...
8460 continuous hours
352 days,12 hours,51 minutes
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3071 continuous hours
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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-
You can sell those to your wife as things she can do while you knock out your backlog.
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Haha great idea! Hey honey who wants to do crossword puzzles!!!!
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3746 hours = 156 days,2 hours,23 minutes SHITE
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Jaysus.
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1141 hours = 47 days,13 hours,20 minutes
But in reality, I suck at games so we should double...eh, triple that -
838, not as bad as I feared.
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4428 continuous hours
184 days,12 hours,12 minutes
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1505 hours = 62 days, 17 hours, 9 minutes. Ouch.
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3288 continuous hours
137 days,11 minutes
hahaha
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That a serious library there.
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2731 hours. Goddamn.
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So, who's up for the challenge of finishing every game they own?
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The article covers that fact and this is just a confirmation of the date.
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Secondary Shame Thread
https://steamdb.info/calculator/
Let's use this for average price per hour this time around.-
$5.53 per hour
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52 games not played, 31% not played
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Yeah I don't like this stat a ton because it counts some mods, sdks, betas and other junk thrown in your account you may not have bought.
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Yeah, it reports the number of hours it thinks you have played, and I can't get any of the numbers to line up.
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$3340 account value
$9.13 per hour. This is actually pretty high when you consider I have so many hours in Dota, which I have probably only spent less than 60 bucks on tournament tickets on.
187 games owned 62 games not played 33% games not played.
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DOTA 2 finally overtook BC2 as my most played game on Steam this year.
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I have 1300 hours listed, I would bet I am at around 1k actual playtime too. It makes my 500 MMR really depressing.
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My last two ranked matches the carries threw rapiers while I played support. I agree, there is nothing I can do about that.
I mean I was sorta proud that we still had a chance to win this one with a 3-22 Pudge and me forced to play support as a Luna.
Trench DOTA is weird DOTA.
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$11.89 per hour. $7317 "account value".
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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. -
$9.56 per hour. $4949 "account value". 114 (33%) unplayed.
To my credit though, of those unplayed I likely played the majority already on another client or system and either got them free or wanted them for PC as well. -
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! -
$8.18. Thank you Dota and CS
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$8.57/h. Thank you 202 hours of TF2.
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$10.97 average price per hour.
Account value $29 959 CAD.-
Saving your hours to smack everyone around once their measly numbers are in?
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$8.70 Average price per hour
5,953h Hours on record
24.9h Average playtime
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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.)
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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
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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-
Time to start playing some games.
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This profile is private, unable to retrieve owned games.
das it
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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.-
I only added 7 hours!
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TLDR: June 23
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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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Nice try GOG Ceo
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They have been having great deals too
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I bought all the classic D&D games like Eye of the Beholder and Pool of Radiance. Really looking forward to getting back into those. Also got some indie rpgs that I heard good things about, Age of Decadence and Serpent in the Staglands
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♩ Are you ready for a miracle? ♬READY AS I CAN BE!
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