{"id":29737,"date":"2011-12-20T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29737"},"modified":"2011-12-20T13:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:07:19","slug":"steams-holiday-sale-2011-discounts-all-the-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29737-steams-holiday-sale-2011-discounts-all-the-things","title":{"rendered":"Steam&#8217;s Holiday Sale 2011 discounts ALL THE THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve wants to wish you a merry Christmas, wish you a merry Christmas, wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re doing it the way they do it best &#8211; by offering pretty much everything in the Steam catalogue at festively low, low prices.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, it&#8217;s the season of giving, but a 75% discount is probably close enough; besides, 15% goes to the elves, so that&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s deals feature Orcs Must Die, Fable III, Metro 2033, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and more.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/promotion\/holiday_publishers\">publisher-specific compilation packs<\/a> available until the sale ends in January, including 2K, Square, Valve, Warner Bros, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and others, as well as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sale\/holiday2011_packs\">Holiday Pack<\/a>&#8221; promo deals bundling games at ridiculous prices.<\/p>\n<p>Also, from now until 1 January, completing the daily objectives listed over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/holidaysale\">Great Gift Pile<\/a> page will put you in line to win presents or bits of coal which you can save up and exchange for presents, swap with friends, or enter into the Epic Holiday Giveaway happening on 2 January.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about all of that on the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/holidaysale\/details\">Holiday Sale Instructions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\">Steam<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradoxically save loads of cash by spending on loads of games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":29741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[21,85,697],"class_list":["post-29737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29738,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29737\/revisions\/29738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}