Surviving the Steam Holiday Sale - Day Nine

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 Nine: 

Ahhh, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, how you tempt me with your piratey ways. Whilst I have played the rest of the series on my console (hush now I can enjoy both), this is definitely something I'd like to pick up for my pc; if only for the super sexy graphics! 25% for a very recent AAA game is a really great deal, but it's still a high enough price for me to easily justify not buying it. I can wait... semi-patiently. 

On the other hand, Don't Starve I have waited patiently for, and passed over a fair few times due to other purchases being more "urgent" and "important"; food, mortgages, that sort of thing. But I have wanted to try it for freaking ages now, and for £4.07 it's with a heavy heart I click the "x" on my Steam app, hiding away it's beckoning icon. 

I'm not really interested in the other games. I'm of the opinion that all LEGO games are much better played cooperatively on a console, for worlds of fun, but not so much on the PC! However I did notice something today that make me squeak with both glee and devastation simultaneously...

Starbound, the game that everyone seems to be obsessed with... it's icon is A PENGUIN! I MUST HAVE ALL THE PENGUINS! I am honestly shocked that this has managed to elude me thus far and even more so that it has not been pointed out to me by one of my friends. I mean, for goodness sake, my name is EmseyPENGUIN! Honestly, this little penguintastic icon has made an already appealing game ten times more so!

Oh well, at least that's another day down, and still no games purchased!