i picked up a few games for myself! 
do i need to setup a community steam ID in order to buy a game as a gift for a friend??..
mlon
During checkout you can choose to buy the item as gift and send it either directly to a person on your friendslist or to a mail address of your choice. If your friend does not have Steam installed, he/she should create his/her own account. The gift mail contains a link, which he/she can use then to redeem the gift.
thanks beatslaughter!
i think i made a friend happy!
mlon
The biggest sale on Steam has started today. It will last 2 weeks and offer each day a new selection of games as “daily deal” with extra high discounts. Additionally nearly the whole shop has discounts applied too. Usual buying strategy is to only grab the daily offers if something is tempting and wait for the rest until the very last day and buy then. This will avoid frustration, if the game is offered at an even higher discount on a daily.
It started a bit later here but I can see the sale now.
I’m thinking of getting portal 2 and there’s a 75% sale on it… do you think they might have an even better deal like 90% later on in the sale?
I’m also waiting for the dungeon defenders DLC to be in sale. I’m hoping for the best.
Waa! Thanks for the tip! I think I’m going to get the 1&2 combo. Never played either one, but loved the HL2-games, and have been hearing nothing but praise for these. And having seen a couple of these sales, I doubt the price will drop… But you never know. It’s frustrating. 75% is enough for me, though. Hey! Since when was Super Meat Boy available for mac!? 75% on that one too. I liked VVVVV very much, so I think I’ll grab that one too. Damn, so many great titles!
EDIT: Got 'em. Now, let’s see. How to translate “I got me some games for christmas” into wifean?
Portal 2 is a daily deal, so no, this won’t get a better price.
Basically anything shown on the frontpage in that grid view and probably the games shown in the list of objectives for that gift pile thingie should be safe instant buys. For the rest i would wait till last day with purchasing.
I’m waiting for left 4 dead 2 to be in the daily sales… if it doesn’t get a -75% deal I guess I’ll get it at 50%.
However, I only need 2 copies. Anyone would be interested in sharing this deal? at 75% it would be 3.75$ usd for each copies of the game.
today you can get a free item:
Steam
Join the 2011 Holiday Group - Years from now, you can look back and say “I was there. . .” with a wistful glint in your eye. Go to the Steam Community to see who’s already had too much eggnog.
i only got coal out of it though.
Still waiting for Plants vs Zombies and Revenge of the Titans to go 75% or higher off. 
Indie games are all I play (except for BF:BC2)
For indies:
I really liked LIMBO, which has a deal today. Nice 2D puzzle platformer.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/48000/
Also playing Magicka with a friend in coop and it’s really fun.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/42910/
Also worth a look may be Capsized, which is another little platformer, focussed more on action though. Has great music and pretty neat graphcs.
Got Limbo today 'cos it looked cool and at that price.
Also the Alien Breed games are on 75% off. I completed 1 and 2 on the Amiga back in the day so should bring back some memories and three games for less than a fiver. Long live Team17!
Oh, and as to my username. It’s kazakore, same as pretty much everywhere I have a virtual presence (or DJ etc)
crytek, i’ts on sale today with 33% off.
http://www.steamprices.com/ i just found this site for everyone to view the price different of games depending where you are.
we get so ripped off here in australia, for example skyrim is usaully $90 and in the US it’s $60 and that’s without discounts on either. AUD and USD exchange rates are almost the same btw.
Daily deals history
http://www.reddit.co…_is_here_links/
http://www.reddit.co…_recettear_red/
http://www.reddit.co…ale_2011_day_3/
http://www.reddit.co…ale_2011_day_4/
http://www.reddit.co…ale_2011_day_5/
http://www.reddit.co…ale_2011_day_6/
http://www.reddit.co…ale_2011_day_7/
http://www.reddit.co…ale_2011_day_8/
http://www.reddit.co…ale_2011_day_9/
http://www.reddit.co…le_2011_day_10/
http://www.reddit.co…_day_11_useful/
http://www.reddit.co…le_2011_day_12/
http://www.reddit.co…le_2011_day_13/
Objectives
http://steamtreasure…nter_Objectives
http://videogameholi…ievement-guide/
http://videogameholi…nt-guide-part-2
if nodody wants their items i’ll have them. username: pat2k209
I shall be joining this shiz when I logon to steam later.
I have a copy of Sanctum to trade for some other cheap game if you want. (Or any other person interested in a trade maybe.) Don’t fancy any tower defense games, just not my thing.
Impressive amount of games horded. You literally meant it, that Steam is gettng all your money. 
I have added a small Steam trading area to the Renoise group as experiment. Anyone can post a comment there with offers. I know a few of us have games they don’t need and this might be a way to trade them for other things.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/renoise/announcements/detail/1406479454025685513
I have a horrific amount of games. I think I’ve played 50% of them… maybe!
btw i’m updating the links for each day in my post above. some reddit people are making a nice list each day.
It’s the last day of the sales today.