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The Steam Holiday Sale is on now through Sunday, January 1, 2012. In addition to huge savings throughout the store, the sale features two special promotions that allow you to win like never before.
The Great Gift Pile challenges gamers to complete up to six objectives each day. Completion of each objective grants the chance to win a free game or discount coupons for select games available on Steam. If you don't win, no worries, you'll be given a piece of coal. But hold onto that coal! Coal is the ticket to enter the Epic Holiday Giveaway. It's called Epic because the top prize is every game on Steam. The more coal you have, the better your chance of winning. Players may alternatively choose to magically mix their coal into something shiny and new by "crafting" seven pieces into a gift from the Great Gift Pile. So this year receiving coal is a good thing.Didn't get what you want? Steam allows you to trade coal and prizes with your friends. So head over to Steam now to get a hold of some bargains!
The Steam Holiday Sale begins!
#1 Posted 19 December 2011 - 06:39 PM
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#2 Posted 19 December 2011 - 06:57 PM
#3 Posted 19 December 2011 - 06:58 PM
Lol, before it went down Dead island was only £5 which seemed way to low!
#7 Posted 19 December 2011 - 10:49 PM
God they still haven't got everything working properly!
#8 Posted 20 December 2011 - 01:23 AM
Give me all your coal. I'm going to get the Grand Prize: every game on Steam.
Since you can craft one gift from 7 lumps of coal, I wish you could break a gift down to 7 lumps of coal...
Since you can craft one gift from 7 lumps of coal, I wish you could break a gift down to 7 lumps of coal...
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Xbox Live: Hasan i Sabbah PSN: DyingTickles
Steam: solidus2084 Steam Display Name: DyingTickles
Origin: DyingTickles
#10 Posted 20 December 2011 - 10:07 AM
Dear Valve: a coupon is not a gift.
I'm getting rather tired of the formula these sales use.
High pressure limited-time sales, with zynga-like metagames for coal, or potatoes, or whatever they come up with next, just so you spend more money on steam, and work for a completely unobtainable grand prize, like every lottery ever.
But hey, social engineering works, you just keep on throwing money at Steam. I've got enough games for now.
I'm getting rather tired of the formula these sales use.
High pressure limited-time sales, with zynga-like metagames for coal, or potatoes, or whatever they come up with next, just so you spend more money on steam, and work for a completely unobtainable grand prize, like every lottery ever.
But hey, social engineering works, you just keep on throwing money at Steam. I've got enough games for now.
A Vvaardenfell sunset
#12 Posted 20 December 2011 - 06:11 PM
I think we should all group our coal together and hand out the games you get to them. Probably most of the games will be rubbish but I think its worth a shot!
#13 Posted 20 December 2011 - 07:19 PM
Just bought Portal 2 for £4.99, I knew waiting until christmas would pay off.
#14 Posted 20 December 2011 - 08:05 PM
Monkeh, on 20 December 2011 - 08:08 AM, said:
How do you know this? 
http://steamtreasure...ives#Objectives (spoilers if you LOVE contests!)