Steam Summer sale

[Apex]

Risk of Rain is a blast! FFL and I both have it, I've beaten it several times. The three of us should play some time.

I got Shadowrun Returns, Lone Survivor, Pixel Piracy, Papers Please!, and Unepic so far.

[Dr. Ace]

Got gifted X-Com, Walking Dead Season 2 and ORION: Dino Horde. Bought Storm of Vengeance and Wolf Among Us for myself. So far bought more than I expected. Seen a bunch of games in my wishlist on sale but didn't go into the temptation of buying them all.

[DragonBlaze]

I haven't been too impressed this far. Then again, I went crazy the last two sales Steam had, so there weren't many games on sale that I wanted and didn't already have.

I did end up buying the X superbox (X: Beyond the Frontier, X-Tension, X2: The Threat, X3: Albion Prelude, X3: Reunion, and X3: Terran Conflict) and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. Everyone says the Witcher is a great series, so I figured I might as well give it a shot.

[Apex]

None of the games on my wishlist have gone up yet (I don't have that many honestly.) but here's to hoping.

I wish I could get more games than I have already, but my situation is a bit wonky. My Steam account is American, and the card I use to buy things on Steam is American as well, however I do not earn US dollars at my job, I earn Japanese Yen. It's very difficult and pricey to put those Yen onto my American card as USD. I have yet to find a cheap and efficient way to do it unfortunately. So, whatever money I had left over on there from before I moved here, is what I have to spend until I have wire money back to that account, or physically exchange JPY to USD and deposit it when I visit America next time. Poop.

[Archem]

Are Steam cards not a thing over there? I've never thought about that as a possibility before. I suppose there's always the option of finding a surrogate to buy games for you as gifts, though that would require someone trustworthy.

[Dr. Ace]

None of the games on my wishlist have gone up yet (I don't have that many honestly.) but here's to hoping.

I wish I could get more games than I have already, but my situation is a bit wonky. My Steam account is American, and the card I use to buy things on Steam is American as well, however I do not earn US dollars at my job, I earn Japanese Yen. It's very difficult and pricey to put those Yen onto my American card as USD. I have yet to find a cheap and efficient way to do it unfortunately. So, whatever money I had left over on there from before I moved here, is what I have to spend until I have wire money back to that account, or physically exchange JPY to USD and deposit it when I visit America next time. Poop.

What about Paypal?

[Archem]

That sounds like a good idea. I'm not certain how Paypal handles exchange rates, but at the very least it could help limit the extra work/cost on your end.

[Apex]

My bank here doesn't offer any kind of debit/credit card system. They do not sell Steam gift cards over here, and even if they did, just as Amazon gift cards over here, they wouldn't be redeemable on the American servers. Japanese games often cost significantly more. That being said, supposedly Paypal charges a rather large currency exchange rate, but unfortunately it might be the best alternative. Before I can do that though, I need to change banks over here.

[Prpl_Mage]

So what, they can't convert the currency for you? Everything is listed in euro on steam over here, but euro ain't the currency of Sweden. Still works.

[Apex]

I use an American card on the American store.