hello and welcome to low budget gaming and welcome to my guide for the steam
summer sale 2018 so in this video I'll share some tips tricks some best
practices some things to avoid during the sales I also share with you some
tools some websites that you can use to make your decisions about the games etc
so the first thing obviously is the money so my advice would be to set a
budget right now now this may seem very obvious but a lot of people don't seem
to do this set a budget now decide how much you're going to spend on this $50-$100
whatever you want and once you do that I want you to split your budget
into two and a few days before the sales like a day or two before put half of it
in the steam wallet now the reason why I say this is if you put all of it as soon
as the sales start you will blow all of it in a few hours and then you'll find
other games that you are interested in and then you'll put more money in and
then you'll have no money for food leftover so don't do that
put half see how the sales are if you finish that half quickly then you can
put the rest in and pace yourself basically that is useful and it will
save you a bit of money next step again regarding money is sell all your trading
cards now if you have a lot of games like me you will probably have a lot of
trading cards lying around I just put them on sale so okay they may not go for
much like a few cents here and there but if you have say like 200 cards sitting
around that'll be an extra few dollars at the end of the day some of them might
go for good money if you specially if you have some foil cards or something
PUBG crates have actually made several videos on that so if you have PUBG and
if you play PUBG play a bit try to see if you can get two
three crates every week for the next two or three weeks until the summer
season starts on the 21st and that still crates that sell for good money so
let's see what is selling well the Raider crate is still selling well so if you
go into PUBG now these prices are Indian rupees but I'll convert them for you the
Raider crate is at eighty one rupee so about one dollar twenty-five I would say
Militia crate is 49 so this would be about 60 cents the wanderer crate is 21 so
up just under 30 and the biker is at 25 rupees so about 37-38 cents roughly in
my opinion so at least these three four crates will sell well the locked ones the
ones with a key those are not worth anything so those will that will depend
on your not basically even if you get say one of militia crate and one of
biker crate that's still almost $1 there roughly so yeah you can say up another
three four dollars even if you get the crappy ones if you get the raidar crates it's
like one every week you're making quite easily $4-$5 so use that when
the sales start steam also has a like a badge for the summer sales so they have
their own trading cards and badges and you can craft badges obviously with that
and all you need to do is basically browse the discovery queue basically and
you will get those cards and you also get cards for like doing one or two
things like voting for the best game stuff like that so I think you get about
three cards daily and before long you'll be able to craft at least level one
badge quite easily I would say sell those badges sell those trading cards
and you can go get good money for that as well because people are looking to
complete those badges they sell well at the start of the sale and at the end of
the sale when people are desperate to craft those badges in the middle they
are a bit cheaper so sell them at the start buy a bit in the middle and craft
your badge and then sell the rest during the end of the sale so you can get a few
more cents here and there with that so that is the money part done hopefully
that was useful now on to the games you have to manage your wishlist properly so
what I would say is add the games that you are interested in to your wishlist
so I've got my wishlist here let me open mine
I've got more than 300 games here and what you need to do is obviously you can
filter the type so you can rank them according to price that's what I do
or lowest to highest first and then put the discount on sale filter on so you
can see all the while it's not ready here my internet is a bit slow so these
are the games on sale right now so you can do that when the sale starts so you
can get the cheapest ones and ones with the biggest discounts also select that
and yeah so basically add the games that you are interested in right now
and also remove the games that you probably won't buy because sometimes we
look at games and they look interesting and we add them your wish list but we
never get into the mood of playing them so just manage your list wish list
clear out stuff that you're not going to buy and add the stuff you're going to
buy and have a good number like if you have too many you might struggle find
the number that's comfortable for you maybe 50 60 maybe 100 200 or if you can
manage the hundreds you can do that as well so do that and if you need some
inspiration I did I made a lot of videos during the winter sale but different
games that were on sale at that time so I made like a best RPGs the cheapest RPG
is the best games under $5 and the $10 and a $1 best platformers best indie
games best walking simulators all sorts of things so I'll put a link to that
here on the right hand side with the card and watch those videos if you want
you get an idea of what to expect in terms of prices and sales because it
should be similar if not better and you can also get some ideas and some games
to add to your wishlist because I made I think 22 videos in total so there'll be
hundreds of games there that I've covered that go on sale so you'll know
that okay this game has been for $5 before so it will go at least to that or
more so if you see it for a bit more don't buy it if you see it lower than
that then its probably a new low so yeah you can go through that if you want
links here in the right hand side and I'll also put it in the description
so that is the first part done the next part is I'll give you some tools some
websites that will help you in deciding and doing a bit more research basically
the first up the site that I use is SteamDB.info so this is a database
for steam and what I use this primarily for is looking at the prices for games
in different regions so for example let's see they have got these post
played games trending insects etc so let's pick Just Cause 3 I've just added
the expansion for this one so they've got stuff here about the game things
like that we are interested in the prices according to different regions
yeah so here it is so as you can see it's got the prices listed in a lot of
different regions so cheapest here is Vietnamese Dong current price I don't know
they haven't added it here but lowest recorded is 6n so it's probably not the
cheapest India is probably cheaper still $5.99 is like the base price which
converts to $8.95 and the lowest it has been is 89 which was I think just at
this weekend so $1.33 if you look at the base a value in u.s. dollars $29.99
cheapest on sale for $4.49 85% off it shows you when it was at its cheapest 31st May
2018 so just two days ago so yeah and you can see it's got all
these countries here so we got Turkish lira Mexican Peso U.A.E Dirham
Norwegian krone New Zealand Dollar Philippine Peso etc etc so most
expensive it seems to be in the Japanese region Southeast Asia surprisingly is a
bit too expensive normally it's the euro and the pounds that's at the bottom but
for some reason just cause is more expensive in these regions now there is
regional pricing for most games but some publishers don't do that they just
convert it directly so for example Bethesda the game might be more
expensive in India actually so anyway so I use this primarily for this one but
you can also go into say the sales section here so on the sales page it
shows you the games that are on sale right now and if you link your account
it will show you the games that are in your library so these first three games
are in my library you can tell that by the slight green color here and if you
look on this side here the percentage discounts the green means it's at its
historic low its equal to its lowest price so it's been at this price before
and it's at this price right now the lowest blue means it's a new low new
highest discount as it says here so this can also help you quickly decide what
games are the best value right now very useful if you check it out you can also
get some more information about your account if you click on your profile
icon at the top it shows you like your level how long you been playing how many
games you own your account value in today's in dollars based on the lowest
price and the today's prices and things like how many hours you play it average
playtime etc how many games you've played more than 12 hours etc etc so a
useful little thing I guess next up is steam charts now I use this primarily
to see how many people are still playing the game so you may be interested in a
game and if you come here and see how many people are playing you'll get an
idea whether it's worth buying or not because if it turns out they're only
twenty people playing then it's probably not worth it so here you have like the
top games by current players obviously PUBG is at the top now if I remember
correctly when I checked this for but I made this video for the winter
sale just less than six months ago this was about 2.7 million so it's only down
is down by quite a lot more than one and a half million down so surprising dota 2
was about the same I think 800,000 counter-strike is third about 400,000
anything last time Rainbow six siege probably about the same Path of Exile
seems to have a lot more this time around theft auto 63 warframe 48,000
football manager ARK evolved is still quite popular so these are the most
popular place now once again if you want to sort something let's search already
had a look at these games let's search for Absolver because I saw it on sale
recently I don't know how many people are playing it right now
oh that doesn't look good
ninety-one playing ten minutes ago 132 is a 24-hour peak that is not
good September there was 1600 about 1700
people and it's actually gained a bit in the last 30 days and it's still only
just average is 125 roughly so that's not looking good so anyway so point is
if I was interested in this probably not right now so you can do use that as a
further research tool onto the next one so another handy little site that I use
occasionally is how long to beat now this is a site where they survey people
who have played a certain game and finished it to get an idea of how long
it is to beat the game and this could be useful if you say you see an expensive
game like I'll add on a new game $60 game with a campaign and you wonder how
long the campaign is so you can see if it's like four hours long or if it's
actually something there so let's see God Of War because it's popular right
now so main story nineteen hours main story plus extras is thirty and a
half completionist at about fifty just under fifty so it shows you that as not
bad fifty hours for complete completionist I would be somewhere
probably between main story and extras because I don't usually do all the
extras so I would say about 20-25 hours it seems like a good value also
if you see the numbers in blue that means they have surveyed at least a
good number of people and they have good data if you see this number in red they
don't really have a lot of people surveyed for this polled basically so that
they won't be accurate so blue means this this is reliable and so yeah 50
hours for completionists on God of War not bad
finally some general advice I would recommend buying games if they are 75%
or more on sale for older games if they are two to three years old at least if
they are more than three years old I would say 75% or more is what I would
recommend for newer games depending on how new it is if it just came out say
last month or something two months maybe you can go for a lot
less maybe 25% but generally I tend to not pick up games if they are less than
40% off another tip important tip is don't rush in at the start like when the
sales hit the servers will be busy prices don't get updated sometimes
because of the heavy traffic they experience so just ease off for at
least five six hours and then it sort of calms down a bit people have rushed in
both the games then you can just simply go through and browse take your time of
course there are other sales as well so if you miss out on something this time
don't worry steam has sales throughout the year and these days they tend to put
a lot of games on sale throughout their different sales they have the autumn
sale they'll have the Halloween sales and have the winter sale so these are
the bigger sales they tend to put all of their catalog on sale so if you
miss out or if it seems expensive just wait it should be fine
and finally one more tip side tip if you will try to buy the game of the Year
editions now in my experience about a year year and a half to two years is the
sweet spot for buying a game in my opinion because the game has been passed
they have released all the DLCs and they of course have a game of the Year
Edition out which puts everything together so instead of having like
multiple DLCs and skins and guns and expansions separate you have everything
nicely contained in one bundle or one edition and it tends to be on a good
discount as well about 70-80 percent for some companies at least and they've also
fixed any problems with the games as well so anything that came out 2015-2016
this would be the best time to buy games from that period because they would have
matured nicely let's say hopefully this was useful I'll be making a few
more videos related to this before the sales start and when the sales start as
you know from the last time I'll be making those videos about 10 RPGs on
sale or other open world games etc etc and yeah good luck with the sales set
your budgets and we shall see what we get this time thank you for watching see
you in the next one