I'm happy with my haul
Dungeon Defenders
Bejeweled 3
Trials 2
Demolition Inc
4 Element
all for £18

I keep forgetting I'm broke x_x

I've picked up the Oddworld pack ($3.50), Chronicles of Riddick ($5), and Civ V goty ($17). Not a bad haul.

I agree more with Robert Boyd's comment than the article TBH but yea I have brought a lot of game in steam sales that I haven't even bothered to download yet, it's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a current gen console yet I have more good games on PC than i have time to play them, first world problems lol.

Robert Boyd's comment, if you haven't read it

Hi, this is Robert Boyd from Zeboyd Games here (Cthulhu Saves the World). Our games have been successful (100k+ on Steam at $3 in about 4 months) but we’re not rich or anything like that. A few comments.

I think people are looking at the past with rose tinted glasses. Sure, all the indies sold their games for $10-20 back in the day, but how many of them were actually successful at those prices? I daresay the percentage wasn’t any better back then than it is now. If anything, I imagine it was probably much worse. You never heard about indie developers making millions 10 years ago but that’s not unheard of these days.

There are what, hundreds of new indie games coming out EVERY single day when you count the PC, smartphones, and consoles. There’s no way that anyone can keep up with that kind of volume, so of necessity, some games are going to get a lot more attention than others. It’s disappointing when a good indie game gets overlooked, but that’s just the nature of the business (and it happens for many good retail games as well).

One of the great advantages to Steam is that there is a gatekeeper. When you have 3-6 new indie games coming out every week, they can afford to give good publicity to each one. If they had 300-700 new indie games coming out every week, they couldn’t and individual sales would suffer.

You can still sell your games for $10-$20 and be successful, assuming you have a high quality game, good publicity, and get on a major distribution service. Some recent examples of huge hits include Orcs Must Die ($15), Dungeon Defenders ($15), and Terraria ($10). These all sold six digit figures at a relatively high price tag over a very short period of time. And of course, there’s always Minecraft.

The fact of the matter is that these days, the indie game field is drastically more competitive than it was 10 years ago. The tools are better (and often free), the marketplaces are better (Steam, XBLA, the App Store, etc.), and customers are used to the idea of buying indie games online now. The downside is that with the increased competition, you need to do more to be successful. You need to make a high quality game that stands out from the crowd, but just as importantly, you need to promote it effectively. I think promotion is one area that most indie developers fail at. They make a good game and think that’s enough. It really isn’t with so many games out there.

Oh and Indie Royale got like a hundred submission in the first week. If they say, “Interesting game, we might get back to you next year.” they’re not just giving you a polite rejection email – they’re swamped and they’re trying to work their way through all of the good games that have already been submitted.

Oh and I just started Bastion it's pretty damn good so far, really like it. I don't think I will be buying anything else there are a couple things that tempt me but they will probably be cheaper or in bundles in the xmas sale. Speaking of which is there going to be a VGChartz Steam secret Santa this year? I can't remember who organised it last year.

I picked The Witcher, Portal 2 and Limbo. Damn right.

Anyone else pick up Mtg? I need peoples to play ;_;

Mtg?

Orcs Must Die and Demolition Inc are brilliant!

Also finally got my hands on Eschalon Book II, been wanting it since launch, the first one was terrific!

I bough Civ 5.

Even though I'm already at a loss for gaming tiem right now, playing WWE12, Skyrim and DCU online.

Have you played Civ 3 and 4? If so, you might experience what I did; disappointment. One welcome addition though, is the no stacking feature for units. Twenty Barbarian stacked in one tile, about to attack your cities was not cool...

Not only have i played 3 and 4, I played 1 on the SNES, and Civ 2 might beat TF2 as far as "Most hours put into a game"  Even when including all CPU battle simming partly for items.  (2881 hours of TF2).  To the point of where i bought it twice, the second time to get the "Fantasy expansions" and such.  I must of played that game for at least an hour for 2-3 years straight.  Be it a regular campaign, usually on the Earth map, the WW2 game as the plucky, suddenly not so "Nuetrals" or as the Turks betraying the Nazis.  Or in the crazy "All these tiny countries like Iraq somehow took over the US" scenario.

Also the Alpha Cenatri series, which I own but have in storage so am considering buying it on GOG, or at least I would if it came with the Alien Crossfire expansion.

Me, I can't really be disapointed because i expect to be disapointed.   Each new game I like less then the last, but offers some feature that makes it impossible for me to go back.

Be it Political boundries in 3, or how the resources system was revamped in 4.

Five will no doubt be the no unit stacking since now it will require a lot more strategy then "Hey just mass 30 units and sent them against a city".  Granted the order you attacked mattered, but massing units was just too broken.

The only thing they probably don't have but should is a relieve command.  AKA the ability for two units to swap places. So you can remove a weakened swordsman unit from the frontline to bring in a fresh spearman unit without breaking your front line.