Crazy Steam Winter 2015 Sale Brings Deals, Crushes Servers

The industry observer also added that as with the previous Steam Fall Sale, gamers and interested buyers should not expect daily deals and flash sales happening during the event period. Because of its popularity, the Steam Store will either experience heavy loads or could crash. So patience may be needed for any downtime Vault may have.

Individual titles like Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Killing Floor 2, Gone Home, STALKER, and many more. To take advantage of the Steam Winter 2015 sale all gamers need is a Steam account and a Mac, Windows PC or Linux to play their new games on. If you want something truly detrimental to your holiday social life, Skyrim is only $4.99. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is $44.99. The “Pillars of Eternity – Royal Edition” includes There are some fun quirks to be found in the sale, such as “Quake” getting a “132 percent discount” from $29.99 to $9.61 or the wildly popular “Undertale” getting a minimal discount of $2 to $7.99. With The Witcher 3 having 50% off this is a good saving, and as it features in many people’s game of the year list this is a steal.

Meanwhile, although Valve still has to confirm the December 22 start date for the Steam Winter Sale, this week’s timeframe is an ideal one to start a major discount event.

There’s 60-75% off The Elder Scrolls games and 45-75% off titles from the the Sid Meier’s Civilisation canon. Civilization Beyond Earth is $15.99.

This sale will likely not follow in the footsteps of Steam sales of the past. The site crawls the Steam Store and highlights all the current sales and user rating.