Steam is very addicting!

So yeah, I'm not only having a blast with Steam, and I know I'm very late joining this service, but at least I'm there finally. People I've known have been trying to get me on there for awhile now, and now that I've joined and have been playing with it I don't know why I was so hesitant. Guess it was just me refusing to come around to digital ownership of games instead of having the actual box and manual, and even those are kinda worthless now. The boxes don't even have manuals most the time, or at least not what they used to be.

I got started on the first day of the holiday sale and gifts event because it sounded like fun to try and win some free games and hopes of winning the grand prize of every game on Steam, unlikely but why not try! Well actually I suppose it started the day I got Skyrim, since you had to use Steam to play before the non-steam patch was released. Thats when I found out games had achievements, and I love trying to earn those.

Fast forward to the holiday sales and I bought Dungeons of Dredmor, cause it too had achievements that sounded fun to earn. I already had it from torrents, heck everything I now own I already had from torrents, but none of them had achievements since they were not owned through Steam. Imagine that...I'm actually paying for my games again, after nearly a decade of shady playing. Having a job with money to spend helps for sure.


The first gift I received was a DOTA 2 Hardware Survey, and I had no idea what it was, but a little digging around and I found out that the DOTA community are pinning for access to the beta and they're offering up to $60 for beta access to a game that'll be F2P upon release sometime next year. After much advertising and talking with dozens of members and seeing what they'd offer me for trade, someone finally offered me a great deal, and bought the top 6 games from my wishlist ~ about $22.50 worth:

• Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
  
• Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters
  
• Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods
  
• Gundemonium Collection {Gundemonium Recollection, Hitogata Happa, GundeadliGne}
  

I've also bought Plants vs. Zombies, Avadon: The Black Fortress and the most recent Humble Bundle for $10 and got 12 games total from that. {gave all the money to the developers, they deserve it most instead of charities!}

Next up for sale today, that I'm thinking about getting, is the King's Bounty trilogy for $8.74. Yep, I'm addicted and probably have more games already than I have time to play and still want more, but all told, I've only spent less than $15 thus far.
And there are still 5 days of holiday sales, yet to come....ROFL!

ROFL...this is too much fun!

So yeah, I realized this morning that there was a gift pile achievement for "And Yet it Moves" that I got in the indie bundle, so I played for a bit to earn that unlock and get a gift! And you wouldn't believe this ~ I got another DOTA 2 beta invite thingie...

So once again I made a post on the forums, asking for several games from my wishlist totaling around $25! After about 20min I got a response offering to buy the top 7 games on my list:

• King's Bounty: Platinum Edition
  
• Orcs Must Die!
  
• Cthulhu Saves the World & Breath of Death VII Double Pack
  
• Rock of Ages
  
• Capsized
  
• A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda
  

Actually ended up being 9 titles since two are bundles... {^guess I don't have to buy King's Bounty after all^}


I'm really liking this holiday event, and people with too much money and no patience~! I do believe I've got plenty of games now! Guess I should get to unlocking more gift pile achievements and see if I can't find another DOTA 2 thingie! heheheheh

just don't do what my wife did and rack up 500 dollar bill on steam that was a fun month let me tell u

I see, well I've still only spent a grand total of $15 at this point and have almost every game I wanted. There are still several that I'd like to have but considering the library I have now, they can wait. Although I am planning to purchase 2 more games here shortly:

• AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
  
• Sequence
  

Since they're very cheap today ~ $3.73 total, and both have gift pile achievements. It'd be too awesome to get one more DOTA 2 thingie and have someone buy another handful of "wishlist" games. Still have 4 days remaining, so it could happen, and there may be a few more titles I may buy for achievements or just because they're really cheap and possibly fun! I think the maximum where I should cut myself off at is $37...before this is all over, so that leaves me with $22 yet to spend!

I think I'm doing a pretty damn good job so far...hehe

Went ahead and bought Terraria also since its on sale today for $2.49. Been wanting to try it. Then I decided to total up what I've spent in the last week on Steam, and I'm up to $18.71 now, with $18.21 remaining of the $37 I'm cutting myself off at.

In total now, I've gotten 34 games since Dec 19th. This is probably more than enough, but we'll see if there are any more good deals in the 4 remaining days of the holiday sales!

Also I unlocked 3 more gift pile achievements today, sadly all 3 were coal rewards....lame. The one from AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome took me over 3 hrs to unlock. Very fun game, but it was really difficult to earn, and here I thought my coordination was great. This game is a great challenge!

Sequence is $1.24 today and I highly recommend ya get it. Its like DDR for your fingers, but with 3 different screens you have to manually switch between for offense, defense and mana refill which is required to cast spells. Plus they're all in sync to the music, so if ya time it right you'll still be with the same beat as you jump from screen to screen. Very very cool, and the music is really good too! Its like an RPG, with an interesting story, including crafting and the like!

Anyway...have a few more achievements to work on while I await this sleeping pill to kick in.{been having trouble falling asleep the past few days...} and the new deals should be posted soon too.

Oh and lastly, I have 7 coal now and can change it into a gift, but I dunno if I should risk getting a crappy coupon. I kinda dunno if I care about the drawing for all the games on Steam anymore, especially when there are many users showing off they have several hundred pieces of coal. It like do I even have a chance at those odds...

What do ya think...risk it, or wait for drawing!?

Well damn, 4 pieces of coal in a row! I think my free game acquisition may have come to a close...

...though I suppose, hoping for a 3rd DOTA 2 thingie is pushing it!

If I ever say I'm bored and have nothing to play during 2012, smack me ~ smack me really hard. I just bought the Magicka Collection and the Hoard Collection being on sale today. That puts me up to about $28 I've spent so far.

Oh and btw, unless you're nuts or incredible skilled and lucky, the gift pile achievements for Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac are damn near impossible to earn. Some have but most havn't and there are major complaints on the forums. I can't get past the incredibly difficult 1st of 5 stages in SMB, and I've spent over 14hrs playing BoI and still havn't run into the boss you need but once, when I was too weak and didn't stand a chance...le sigh

Anyway...the Hoard and Magicka achievements look much easier so lets hope I get something other than coal, which is all I've gotten recently, on both my accounts!