Ghosts of Ascalon Recap

I've went to Austria on wintersport vacation. It so came to that I had the time to finish reading Ghosts of Ascalon. I have to say that the book kinda disappointed me. I liked the way the writer wrote the book, easy to understand and reads pretty quick.

However. The book has a pretty amazing start, detailed and rich in all it's glory. I liked how the group came about and how their journey progressed. I read more and more of the book, only to result in wanting to read more. In the times between the reads, I would think of what would happen or try to imagine the scenes as they were described by the book to give it a place in the game.

All and all, the book is very paced and balanced. Yet the ending is so disappointing. After I was done, it seemed like the whole book was a build-up, to result in an ending that was stuffed into the last 50 pages or so. In my next post I will tell something about the next book im currently reading and almost through with. The Sea of Sorrows.

Anyway, Ghosts of Ascalon is a nice read. I'm not a die hard reader, enjoyed it, but did expect more from the ending. The book really deserved a better ending than it did. As I read through the book I had a gut feeling from about halfway through that the ending was going to be rushed. Turned out, to my disappointment that I was right.

Steam | Crazy sales

Valve always knows a way into people's wallet during the holidays. I've bought serveral games under wich the following list:

• The Stanley Parable
• How to Survive
• Brothers - A tale of two sons
• UnEpic
• Ducktales: Remastered

Not only games were on my list this year. I also bought a few software packages that had discount on them. My reason for this post is just a thank-you to Valve and all the developers that make this possible. We, as consumers are able to buy games and software for a steal-price and get to gift some away aswell. It's pretty epic when Steam enters sales; when web services like the community, inventory and badges get so spammed by people that you just know a few million people are taking advantage of their Steam deals.

Now, I've noticed something. It was the following. We also double checked this to see if it wasn't some kind of delay or refresh type of deal. We both had different deals. My boyfriend had a lower discount percentage as me. I was able to buy Skyrim, along with most of the other daily deals against 75% while he could buy them against 50%.

We just checked again, 5 minutes after writing this and seems like things are the same on both deals. False alarm. It made me thing for a moment though, as all of this could be true. It could be that Steam will play deals on the kind of behaviour you and me have as customer in their CDN.

You don't hear me complaining. Not at all. To me it seems like Steam knows more about their customers than the average Joe and their customers themselves. Is this some kind of scheme to make me buy more deals? Is this a reward for a well-returning customer? Is this related to your Steam level? Who knows.

If somebody knows where this came from, then please leave a comment on this post down here.

Now, enough about the deals. My download is done and I wanna play some games! I've had some good steals and maby some more to come in the following few days. Leave a comment on what you bought! At what discount, and how long you've wanted the game for!

~ Rob