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.

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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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    June 16, 2016 6:53 AM

    Daniel Perez posted a new article, Steam Summer Sale 2016 date leaked via PayPal promotion

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      June 16, 2016 8:16 AM

      Why wallet clamp and lack of funds is ready!

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      June 16, 2016 8:18 AM

      Yes!!!! I have a gift card ready to go

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      June 16, 2016 8:22 AM

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        June 16, 2016 8:25 AM

        Sadly, this is true.

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        June 16, 2016 8:36 AM

        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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        June 16, 2016 8:55 AM

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        June 16, 2016 3:15 PM

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        June 16, 2016 4:42 PM

        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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      June 16, 2016 8:23 AM

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        June 16, 2016 9:43 AM

        1006 - nice!! 41 straight days. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

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      June 16, 2016 8:26 AM

      Let's do this shack. Post your shame.

      http://steamleft.com/

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      June 16, 2016 8:27 AM

      June 23. Thought we already knew this a month ago.

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      June 16, 2016 8:29 AM

      Secondary Shame Thread

      https://steamdb.info/calculator/

      Let's use this for average price per hour this time around.

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        June 16, 2016 8:30 AM

        $5.53 per hour

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        June 16, 2016 8:34 AM

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          June 16, 2016 12:20 PM

          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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        June 16, 2016 8:46 AM

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        June 16, 2016 8:56 AM

        $11.89 per hour. $7317 "account value".

        236 (47%) unplayed.

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        June 16, 2016 8:59 AM

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        June 16, 2016 9:22 AM

        $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.

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        June 16, 2016 9:25 AM

        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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        June 16, 2016 9:35 AM

        $8.18. Thank you Dota and CS

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        June 16, 2016 9:47 AM

        $8.57/h. Thank you 202 hours of TF2.

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        June 16, 2016 9:55 AM

        $10.97 average price per hour.

        Account value $29 959 CAD.

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          June 16, 2016 10:09 AM

          Saving your hours to smack everyone around once their measly numbers are in?

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        June 16, 2016 9:59 AM

        $8.70 Average price per hour
        5,953h Hours on record
        24.9h Average playtime
        54% Games not played

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        June 16, 2016 10:29 AM

        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.)

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          June 16, 2016 10:40 AM

          Steam used to be really bad at registering play time, time spent playing before, I want to say, 2010 was quite rocky.

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        June 16, 2016 10:38 AM

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        June 16, 2016 10:42 AM

        $7631
        Current account value

        $2253
        Total cost with sales

        43
        Steam level

        $14.11
        Average price

        $10.67
        Average price per hour

        627
        Games owned

        5,453h
        Hours on record

        24.8h
        Average playtime

        407
        Games not played

        65%
        Games not played

        my shame
        100%

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        June 16, 2016 10:59 AM

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        June 16, 2016 11:13 AM

        $8.53 for me

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        June 16, 2016 11:58 AM

        $8.99
        Average price per hour

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        June 16, 2016 12:09 PM

        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.

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        June 16, 2016 2:11 PM

        $4320
        Current account value
        $1261
        Total cost with sales
        24
        Steam level
        $15.37
        Average price
        $7.22
        Average price per hour
        346
        Games owned
        3,631h
        Hours on record
        15.4h
        Average playtime
        111
        Games not played
        32%
        Games not played

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        June 16, 2016 2:23 PM

        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.

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        June 16, 2016 2:25 PM



        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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        June 16, 2016 2:43 PM

        $10.82 per hour.

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        June 16, 2016 2:50 PM

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        June 16, 2016 3:06 PM

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        June 16, 2016 3:29 PM

        This profile is private, unable to retrieve owned games.


        das it

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        June 16, 2016 3:35 PM

        $7.83 but I think they didn't always track hours played. My numbers don't seem right.

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      June 16, 2016 8:34 AM

      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.

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      June 16, 2016 9:18 AM

      TLDR: June 23

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      June 16, 2016 9:44 AM

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      June 16, 2016 9:46 AM

      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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      June 16, 2016 12:34 PM

      I think we should start having articles about gog sales as well. It feels strange when people go bonkers during a steam sale when gog has a sale and there's nary a peep

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      June 16, 2016 4:59 PM

      3749 continuous hours
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