Surviving the Steam Holiday Sale - Day Six

The Steam Sales are something that we all anticipate with equal amounts of excitement and fear. How many awesome games will be reduced? How many of them will I have already paid full price for a few days before? Will I end up spending my life savings on games I never looked twice at before? We’ve all been there, and the Holiday Sale is no exception.

With a name like Holiday Sale, you almost feel compelled to buy stuff, you know, it’s the holidays, you deserve it, right? Of course you damn well do, you made it through the year! Only problem is, you’re already in debt from all the presents you had to buy for family and friends, and the random people you drew in your work’s Secret Santa that you spoke to once that time by the coffee machine. So seeing all these great deals come up becomes a bit of a balancing act. It’s almost like an equation really.

Where X = happiness:

X = (Game you really want + Great deal) > Amount of debt you can afford to bury yourself in.

Sometimes though, you have to draw the line, and for me, this is one of those times. I have well and truly tightened my purse strings, about to attempt something that may not even be possible: surviving the Steam Holiday Sale without one purchase. Every day, as I browse the sale, I will do so with the goal that I cannot buy anything, because I simply cannot afford to. The best part is, you guys will get to watch me squirm as I let the games slip through my fingers. So whether you want to support or mock, come join me on my tortuous journey!

Day Six:

At first glance, today's offerings in the Steam Holiday Sale seemed pretty okay. As in, I wasn't really fussed about any of them. Don't get me wrong, there's some huge games up today with a nice chunk knocked off the price; F1 2013, Rocksmith 2014 and of course, Call of Duty: Ghosts are all big releases from the past couple of months, and the discount makes them even more appealing. To be honest though, they aren't particularly games that I'm overly interested in playing.

The Sims 3 is always a good buy, but I already own that, so wasn't fussed about that either, despite being a huge fan of the franchise. Then I did some further investigation and discovered ALL THE EXPANSION PACKS with around 60% off. I already own many of them but collecting The Sims games in the past has become somewhat of a drain on my bank account, with many of the larger packs starting at around £30 and about £10 for the stuff packs. So this would have been the absolute ideal opportunity to stock up on the ones that I hadn't had a chance to buy.

The only other game that is vaguely intriguing is Total War: Rome II. For £14.99 I would have definitely snapped that up under different circumstances having not had the chance to play this yet. 

Oh and if you haven't already got Dishonored, you should be buying that right now, because at £3.74 it's a huge bargain.