The Steam Summer Sale 2016 Has Started

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Valve started its 2016 Steam Summer Sale with discounts on games such as Doom, Grand Theft Auto V, Fallout 4, and Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Thanks to a leak of the sale dates on Reddit, gamers have been looking forward to this year's Steam Summer Sale for a while now. The wait is finally over, as Steam's yearly summer sales kicked off at 1 p.m ET yesterday and will end on July 4 at 1 p.m ET. What's more to the big deals is that gamers will have a chance on earning Steam trading card themed around the sale and new set of badges.

Valve has named this year's promotion the Steam Summer Picnic Sale and the design is similar to how Steam ran its autumn and winter sales in 2015. Games that are on sale today will keep their current price for the duration of the sale. There are no Flash Sales or Daily Deals like in last year's summer sale.

As an alternative, Steam will feature a new round of deals daily on its front page. The highlighted deals for yesterday were This War of Mine for $4.99, (75%) Darkest Dungeon for $14.99 (40%) and Stardew Valley for $11.99. (20%) Just like in past years, some great deals on all franchises are also available. Sales currently running on Steam are for games from the Arma, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed and Lego series, among others.

On the sale page, a FAQ is provided as a guide on how to earn 10 trading cards this year. Cards can be obtained through crafting badges, exploring the discovery queue or by buying games. As usual, gamers may trade cards with other users or buy them from the community market.

Last fall, when the current sale format took over, there was a speculation that Valve stopped running its flash sales and daily deals due to the Steam refund policy it enacted in 2015. Now that gamers are able to make a refund request on almost every game for a duration of time after purchasing, requests for refund would likely bombard valve every time a new game went on a flash sale.



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