I did buy a few titles but dunno when I'll play them. Dishonored for example.
It's the last day of summer sale on Steam and they've put the "most popular" titles again. So let's see which ones those are:
http://store.steampowered.com/
- Dishonored, $10 - as said bought it since I trust JDR's suggestion as he knows what I like/dislike
- Borderlands2, $10 - I really don't want to buy a game with neverending DLC milk scheme
- Civilization5, $7.5 - don't we all own this baby? If someone doesn't have it, I can only recommend buying it ASAP
- Chivalry, $6 - bah, not only I dunno what this game is about, can't remember anyone recommended it on this forum ever
- Torchlight2, $5 - another one we all probably have, for that price it would be a shame someone didn't grab it
- Kerbal, $14 - another one god only knows what is it about and based on what it's again on sale
- Tomb Raider, $12.5 - Square Enix thinks EA's way is the only correct way to do business, thus I'm not buying
- The Walking Dead, $6 - some say it's fun, some say only intro is fun, I say it ain't storydriven RPG so shove off
- Skyrim legendary edition, $36 - means it's cheaper than if you buy (no, I din't mean "bought") the core game and then all DLC, IMO a rude joke on all fans
- Bioshock3, $30 - the movie Titanic in the world of games, made to please the masses and earn even more with the latest milking fraud called "season pass", I may buy every single game in Steam catalog, but this one I'll never buy
But the story is not over.
Steam introduced some new feature called "trading cards". How does it work?
During this soonending event for every $10 (IIRC) you get a random event card. If you collect 10 different cards, you craft a badge, get some "XP" and your steam level goes up. Steam level, currently, means practically nothing.
Also in many games, you can collect cards linked specifically to those games. Just by playing them. In fact, cards drop based how much time games are running, so you start them, ALT+TAB, and then go spam here for an hour - you'll get three cards for sure. In any case, when you collect all different cards from a game, you may craft a badge, up your steam level, and get in the end - nothing.
What's good? You don't have to craft badges, you may sell cards instead. No, you can't buy a house with it, but eventually you can get enough for some cheap good old game.
What's bad? Every card trade "wins" a percentage for Steam. So if you sell for example a card for $0.09, buyer will pay $1.10 of which $0.02 goes to taxes (riiiiiight). A new level of microtransactions is born.
Don't hate Steam. This is just a testing phase since Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (one can only adore Merkel!) made a legal action against Steam's policy on reselling games (which is disallowed, once you buy a game on Steam, you can't sell it to another person and that ain't "compatible" with european laws).