Amen. While I like the discovery queue as a concept I would love it (and actually use it) if it learned or gave me some options. It amazes me that my queues are at least half F2P games (which I have no interest in finding out about through Steam since the good ones get brought up elsewhere) even after saying I’m not interested to every single one that pops up.
There are some oddities regarding “All games being on sale at once”. For example, if you watch the total number of games on sale it generally creeps up, and some games (Like the Might and Magic games) are showing a shorter timer than others for the holiday sale. http://store.steampowered.com/app/321960/
I agree here. Things will hit 75% off eventually- it just might take longer. I can wait, especially since I will still buy a few new games/year at full price. I just impulse buy less now.
It does annoy me that they don’t do something intelligent with bundle pricing. I was vaguely considering Watch_Dogs. The components of the bundle are all 50% off and it says at the bottom of the bundle page “Price of individual products: $43.45 Bundle cost: $49.99”
It does try to learn. Have you played anything like them recently?
There were a bunch of horror titles in mine. My most played game in the last month was Resident Evil Revelations 2.
If anyone is interested in that the first episode is on sale for a dollar. It’s also free on some consoles. EP1 has around 10 hours of fun if you enjoy raid mode.
I am thinking of purchasing Hand of Fate and/or Ironcast. I have plenty to play on my back log so not in a rush. I probably am leaning more towards Ironcast at the moment. But then I hear good things about the Puzzle Quest/Magic the Gathering iOS hybrid so I cannot make up my mind.
The Origin store is having a sale, too. I picked up the GOTY editions of DA:I ($30) and Mass Effect 3 ($15). That’s a fair chunk of good rpg’ing :)
As for Steam, they should at least remove the stuff you already own from the front-page store display. It just reminds me that my backlog remains, er… I’ll go with ‘robust.’
Hm, that’s good to know and I suspect all my hours in FFXIV are driving it. I suppose what I was looking for though was a system that learned based on your input on queue items offered – I’ve got one MMO that I’m heavily invested in and it isn’t F2P; there’s no way I could have time for another one and especially if it’s low quality (as most F2P tends to be).
Really this is mostly an issue with me hating how much F2P content is on Steam now and having it constantly thrown in my face.
Edit: Speaking of Origin, the entire Titanfall experience is currently on Amazon for 5 bucks.
My queue was surprisingly not filled with F2P/anime-art-style/survival games–well, there was one anime one, but apart from that one and “Aviary Attorney” they were all at least something I’d think about (including ED Horizons, which for some reason Steam still labels as “Early Access”).
I’m considering getting the GOTY edition of DA:I myself. I have the base game, but buying the GOTY edition is cheaper than buying all the DLC I’m missing. Also, I got my base version of DA:I for free in a Gamersgate giveaway, so I suppose I wouldn’t be technically buying it twice anyway. :)
I am probably going to do the same thing. It pisses me off that they rip you off like that for all of the DLC, but i still want to have it when i play through the game so maybe i’ll break down.
