On the Download: Steam Holiday Sale

Yesterday when I turned on my computer after work, I was greeted to nice surprise.  Steam launched and I saw that Valve started their huge Holiday Sale.  So for the a special edition of On the Download, I would like to talk about the Steam Holiday Sale, which goes until New Year's Day, January 1st.

If you are a regular user of Steam much like myself, you have become accustom to the humongous sales that take place in the summer, fall and winter.  So accustomed in fact that you hold off on buying certain games until those sales.  The Steam Holiday Sale started yesterday and the majority of the Steam catalog has been discounted with others added each day.  Each day there will also be a plethora of daily deals on a certain bunch of games.  Yesterday saw 75% off Fable III, Metro 2033, Amnesia and Portal 2 to just name a few.  Today, games like Duke Nukem Forever, Costume Quest, The Witcher and all the Half-Life games have been discounted 75% as part of the daily deals.  Along with those deals, there are deals on game packs and publisher catalogs.  So there should be a deal for you somewhere in this massive sale.

As a part of the sale, there is something called the Great Gift Pile.  It is special little game of sorts.  Each day, Valve will reveal a set of six objectives that you complete by playing certain games.  Once you complete an objective, you will receive either a game, a coupon to use after the sale or an entry for their Epic Holiday Giveaway, which will take place on January 2nd and features 1151 prizes including the Grand Prize being Every Single Game on Steam (crazy isn't it?).  The prizes you get from completing objectives can be traded with any of your friends on Steam though Steam's trading service.  So you got some great incentive to stay at home, buy and play some games this holiday season.  All thanks to our friends at Valve.