I have been a poor college student trying to graduate and get really good coding projects under my belt for the passed 5 years
I remember a certain time of year when all my colleagues would go crazy over steam sales.
Does steam typically follow a pattern for there sales? If so when is the best sale? I got my eye on farcry3 and the valve complete bundle mostly. Is it black friday? christmas? the summer sale? or some other one i dont know about
also, sometimes other sites will have even lower prices (ex: amazon or greenmangaming) during the holiday sales
Yeah. The Autumn sale will start up around Thanksgiving (November 27) and generally runs about a week. The Holiday sale will likely start sometime in mid-late December (sometime around the 19th/20th or so?) and generally runs a couple weeks. The Halloween sale just ended about a week ago.
In general, the Holiday sale and the Summer sale are the biggest. Those are usually the sales that they run their little meta games (treasure hunt, what-have-you), and usually have the biggest discounts, and the most items on sale. Like iusenoobytooby said though, other sites/services run sales around the same times as well. Amazon, GMG, GOG, D2D, GamersGate, Origin, Gamefly, etc. are good places to keep an eye on if you're looking for deals.