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[Vuze]

I don't often give away games I don't own, but when I do I make sure they're good ones. Have fun, and have a good weekend dudes.

Very generous! Guess I will look into this game after I finished valiant heart.

 

[mannerbot]

I don't often give away games I don't own, but when I do I make sure they're good ones. Have fun, and have a good weekend dudes.

I've always thought your avatar was the cutest. n_n

 

[Kaleinc]

Really hope SFIV goes up as a flash next. I can't get the free XBL one right now, so it's the next best option (since even though I have the PS+ one, PSN is just terrible.)

After transition to steam PC version is almost unplayable.

 

[Doomedfool]

check your badges page and see if they show up there. i had that happen to me once. they'll eventually appear in your inventory.

Yep. Showing up on the badges page. Didn't think to look there. Thank you.

 

[theMrCravens]

I don't often give away games I don't own, but when I do I make sure they're good ones. Have fun, and have a good weekend dudes.

You sir, are the man !
(only if I win )
Thanks.

 

[Rhaknar]

yo dat Shovel Knight soundtrack

 

[Turfster]

I don't often give away games I don't own, but when I do I make sure they're good ones. Have fun, and have a good weekend dudes.

Nice giveaway.
(Or so I hear, not my cup of tea... uh... shovelful of diamonds?

 

[inky]

I don't often give away games I don't own, but when I do I make sure they're good ones. Have fun, and have a good weekend dudes.

Cool stuff =D

 

[jblank83]

*goes to play Shovel Knight, realises he never redeemed the giveaway

broke my own rule of not leaving unclaimed gifts in inventories ;(

Why would you even ever do that ever?

 

[Skyzard]

Before you picked up that chandelier that finally tied your room together?

I would mention my own gold gilded chandelier and we could laugh about our other similarities until a friendship blossomed and we decided to become chandelier blood brothers...but that would be a lie. I have no chandelier, just a creaky ceiling fan desperately trying to keep the sweat from my brow as it creaks and creaks away, like a couple of hobos wrastlin' with the ghost of railway security man on top of the tin roof of a poorly made shed.

Wow, haha

And it's from ikea!

This is early Star Citizen? Well damn... Time to upgrade everything. Looks gorgeous.

It does look amazing! Can't wait for more to explore though.

 

[MadGear]

jeeez, just tried the first FEAR - feel like i'm having a mental breakdown

So do the jump scares still work on you?
I guess i played FEAR way too often back in the day and subconsciously still remember it too well for the jump scares to have the desired effect on me. But thats great, FEAR is still one of my most favorite Shooters and mixed with a pinch of true fear it becomes even better

 

[rrs]

1/1 for M&M bucks, got Empire Earth (again, got a disk copy) and The Last Remnant. Going to use later day stuff to get some more gifts to give away

 

[Rhaknar]

After transition to steam PC version is almost unplayable.

nabs is playing it right now.

he's probably so shit that he doesnt even notice the steamworks lag tho

 

[Hugstable]

Just want to give a shout out to, and thank Phoenix296 & m0t0k1 for the gifts.

Dat IdolGAF love Heaper got me LLTQ earlier too! Thanks again! Didn't get as far the second time

 

[JoduanER2]

I hope they lower wolfestein a bit more

 

[Smash88]

This is my first time posting a giveaway like this, so hope I didn't mess up. I really love this game, so thought I'd share the joy!

Awesome giveaway choice. Thanks for doing this.

I don't often give away games I don't own, but when I do I make sure they're good ones. Have fun, and have a good weekend dudes.

Damn GAF you gettin' crazy now with these giveaways.

 

[jblank83]

I hope they lower wolfestein a bit more

Hoping for things is nice.

 

[the_firewithin]

that aerosmith in the opening of SR4 lol

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Find it funny a game that is on a flash sale now is one of the choices for the next flash sale.....

 

[Grief.exe]

Lets just say I put $25 steam bucks into my account, and I have $17 left. So yeah, kind of disappointing. I was hoping to grab Child of Light and maybe Transistor, but 25% off doesn't excite me. Seems like most of the deep discounts this sale have come up in previous ones, and most new discounts don't seem to be much lower than 50% off. I won a couple games I wanted in giveaways here though, so I'm pretty happy about that. I think I'll just save my remaining steam bucks until winter sale...

You cannot expect games that were just released to have a drastic discount.

 

[Caerith]

I don't often give away games I don't own, but when I do I make sure they're good ones. Have fun, and have a good weekend dudes.

Nice giveaway!

Spoiler

Weren't you still a junior just a few days ago? If so, congrats!

 

[Rhaknar]

"I just want to ask stuff" cracks me up everytime

 

[LuuKyK]

You cannot expect games that were just released to have a drastic discount.

Grief I added you on Steam, but you never accepted it.

 

[Sendou]

You cannot expect games that were just released to have a drastic discount.

I think it would be bad news for everyone if games like Child of Light and Transistor received deep discounts mere months after release. At least Transistor is well worth the price they are asking for. I do understand why people want it on cheaper but it's not unreasonable price to ask at this point in time for such a high quality product.

 

[Sera O]

Again for the new page.

Another giveaway! I'm using the weekly rule to help those who never win stuff , for you are my people. You're free to enter for any/all but you can only win one.

Once Binary Domain is claimed, I'll PM the winner a code for the Dan Marshall pack DLC.

Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 8 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below that corresponds to the key you want (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering).

Rules for this Giveaway:
- If you are a lurker you are not eligible for this giveaway. You need five or more posts in either the current Steam thread or the previous one to be eligible
- This is a free for all! You can enter for multiple games on the list below. Send an individual PM for each game you'd like to win.
- If you won a game from ModBot in the last week, you are not eligible for this giveaway.
- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 3 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:


Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition -- MB-D5B17B96F19A6439 - Taken by LanceVance. 34 entrants total.
Mark of the Ninja -- MB-55DD266B32D440BC - Taken by onionfrog. 14 entrants total.
The Last Remnant -- MB-B9AE0B846413A4E1 - Taken by LGom09. 43 entrants total.
Binary Domain -- MB-1C5EA6E471E3C8E9 - Taken by MadGear. 16 entrants total.
The Typing of The Dead: Overkill -- MB-FF51FD59A2D3EF0B - Taken by Nabs. 50 entrants total.
Reus -- MB-54A3544237A4BAC7 - Taken by C4rter. 9 entrants total.
Toki Tori 2 Plus -- MB-76F42CE0CE5AEEE5 - Taken by Vecks. 6 entrants total.
Cave Story Plus -- MB-707839B1CFB9394E - Taken by City 17. 8 entrants total.

 

[Beeblebrox]

that aerosmith in the opening of SR4 lol

Just you wait, it's gonna get crazier. A lot crazier.

 

[Anteater]

time to sell some cards in prepare for the last day

 

[celsowmbr]

great giveaways today !

 

[jshackles]

Once again, SteamGAF is BestGAF.

Spoiler

Thanks man!

 

[Acccent]

It is a direct quote from a panel discussion with Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, who specifically stated that with a huge price reduction of 75% off, their gross revenue didn't stay the same, it "increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40." He then goes on through the potential reasons for that, ending with "Twenty-five percent, 50 percent and 75 percent very reliably generate different increases in gross revenue."

This negates the entire premise of your supposition, "it's definitely a possibility that Valve is currently trying to fix the ecosystem they partially damaged with the sales – we all know there's a problem with people never even considering games until they're on sale." and of course this, "maybe they're experimenting with ways to dampen the problem by making sales somewhat less 'dramatic', and maybe to make it more of an event focused on the metagame rather than the discount themselves." and this, "I think that's definitely the kind of thing we might see in the future, things less focused on 'lower prices' but still incentivising sales, to both keep the cash flowing and try to counter the phenomenon where Steam users get 'trained' to wait for sales before buying anything."

The cash is already flowing. From his comments there and in other interviews/comments, it is flowing more than it does when the games are not on sale. In the example he gave he stated that gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. It isn't time-shifting the revenue, and the increased sales continue AFTER the sale ends. I myself am quite willing to wait a game down years until it reaches a price that I find worthwhile. Your stated dislike of people demanding larger sales isn't the norm, it isn't hurting Valve or the industry at large, and it apparently is viewed as a positive thing by Valve because of the huge rise in revenue. The gaming audience is more effective than traditional promotional tools and drives sales when the games are drastically reduced.

Guys, please. Of course the games on sale make more money than when they're at full price... Did you need Gabe to share the result of a study they did to confirm that? Again, I'm not saying they'll stop the sale, and I'm not saying they should either.

What's happening, and that's an undeniable issue (but I guess you have to admit to taking part in it to even acknowledge it) is that the huge success that the Steam sales have been enjoying, that success has led to a slow but steady change in consumption and buying habits; that's not something this interview disproves. It's a larger issue, something that can't be measured by looking at isolated games – of course a single game will generate tons more revenue with a sale, but in doing so it also influences the users' expectation with regards to future offerings. The interview you linked says Game X, sold at, say, $20, generated 40 times more revenue when discounted by 75% (the sale being advertised); for it to be relevant, it'd have to also detail how the sequel, Game Y, released a year later also at $20, and Game Z, again a year at the same price, fare outside of sales: the argument here is that people are trained to expect certain things and it becomes harder and harder for developers to sell a game at the price they deem right. You can see it in this thread... -25% discounts are considered shitty and even almost somewhat of a treason. That behavior didn't exist before Steam's heyday – yes, sales did exist, but not the kind of sales that Valve has been organising over the years on Steam.

I'm not the only one saying this. I mean, it's so obvious you'd have to lack even the slightest distance, and be 100% involved in the practice, to deny it (and, unsurprisingly, the mechanics that Valve puts into place during sales specifically aim to get users to be 100% involved and to lose any distance on the event's implications). But, while I'm annoyed by people who declare the world's end imminent when a game is on sale for the second time, I'm not actually arguing that there's a right or wrong in the sales' influence, because I recognise that I lack that kind of distance; but there's definitely a 'before' and an 'after' the democratisation of Steam sales. Plenty of developers have been complaining about this... you can argue that developers are by definition anti-consumer, but of course it's, like I said before, a very complex issue and not one that I would be able to summarise. But what matters though isn't what's right or wrong, it's that the complaints do exist. That's why I said that it might be possible that Valve's trying to progressively transition their sales towards a kind of event that's less focused on aggressive discounts, and more on the metagame that always accompany them.

 

[MakeshiftChef]

You cannot expect games that were just released to have a drastic discount.

Can't be said enough. Base your purchasing decisions on what you value a game for, not how much it has been discounted.

 

[sqwarlock]

After transition to steam PC version is almost unplayable.

Seriously? Well fuck, that's disappointing.

 

[BruteUA]

Please keep all civil debates to two lines or less.

Thank you,
Not-Management.

 

[Gangxxter]

I hope they lower wolfestein a bit more

Why? It's worth every single penny. Seriously, it's that good. Like... really good. Half-Life 2 level good.

 

[MakeshiftChef]

Nice giveaway!

Spoiler

Weren't you still a junior just a few days ago? If so, congrats!

Spoiler

I was, thanks. I guess taking a few months break from posting kept me in junior status longer than I needed to be, lol.

 

[Vazra]

Browsing gaf and steam on this old laptop while the baby gets fixed is depressing. At least I can play some games on my mother´s pc.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Apparently played the Tropico 4 demo for 2 hours. Time flies.

Guess I have a new game.

 

[Ozium]

Been playing Rogue Legacy and getting destroyed.. Anyone have suggestions on what to upgrade first?

 

[Gangxxter]

Wtf, what happened to Team Pink? I was just playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 for two hours and suddenly they are in the lead.

 

[khaaan]

This might be the wrong place to ask but tomorrow I'm building my very first rig and I wanted to know some prolific PC games to take advantage of the newer oomph. For reference I have a PS3 but it was primarily for exclusives and Japanese games. Same with Wii. If I take out the indies and oldies, I'm basically left with:

Alan Wake
Amnesia
Left4Dead 2
Legend of Grimrock
Saints Row the 3rd
The Witcher

Anybody have some recommendations? Based off of what is sale right this instance I'm thinking of grabbing FEAR and Deus Ex. Do I need to have played KOTR1 to fully enjoy KOTR2?

 

[thebloo]

Been playing Rogue Legacy and getting destroyed.. Anyone have suggestions on what to upgrade first?

Health, afaik.

 

[Volimar]

Holy shit!

I actually won the giveaway for the Blue Team yesterday. Got Dead Rising 3 and Wolfenstein for free.

I've been weirdly lucky lately...

 

[Sendou]

Once again, SteamGAF is BestGAF.

Spoiler

Thanks man!

Hey I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask but does ES support highlighting games one specific friend of your owns? If not then is this just something that's not really feasible? I think it could be useful with shared libraries. In any case great work with it and all. Truly improves my day to day experience with Steam.

 

[GuardianE]

"I just want to ask stuff" cracks me up everytime

It's really great. I love it every time it's posted.

 

[Ruruja]

Wtf, what happened to Team Pink? I was just playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 for two hours and suddenly they are in the lead.

I don't know but I'm getting my CS:GO badge crafted sharpish.

 

[Divius]

This might be the wrong place to ask but tomorrow I'm building my very first rig and I wanted to know some prolific PC games to take advantage of the newer oomph.

Witcher 2

 

[FiveElementNinja]

Bad Rats Roulette: Prepare to Die Edition

Alright, you know drill. One of these is Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition and the rest are Bad Rats.

Choose wisely...

I am giving away 6 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below that corresponds to the key you want (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering).

Rules for this Giveaway:
- If you are a lurker you are not eligible for this giveaway. You need five or more posts in either the current Steam thread or the previous one to be eligible
- I really appreciate thank you messages, but please send them to me (FiveElementNinja, not ModBot!) via PM instead of in thread.
- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 3 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.
- This giveaway has a manual blocklist. The giver has identified members who abuse giveaways and restricted them from participating.
- Do not trade keys you win off-site to enrich yourself. Don't try to claim games you have no interest in collecting or playing. Don't claim games to give them to friends off-site.
- If the key is already taken you will not receive a reply. Replies may take a minute or two:


Mystery Game #3 -- MB-B844BCE1BA059821
Mystery Game #2 -- MB-883DF61359FFAA1C
Mystery Game #1 -- MB-CBDD593183A447CE - Taken by FtHTiny
Mystery Game #6 -- MB-D06620FCE8D8E167 - Taken by xptoxyz
Mystery Game #5 -- MB-8460A5AF3437F2B8
Mystery Game #4 -- MB-2D06F391B229D5C8

 

[Rising_Hei]

I've been thinking on getting Dishonored's DLC, is it any good?
Its metascore is rather average

 

[sotodefonk]

Transistor looks so good, I think im gonna bite the 25% sale...

Wanted shovel knight but since is new I doubt it will be on sale. That OST

 

[MrTeachwell]

Any Aussies keen on wolfenstein check out ozgameshop. They have a email code section and you can get it for $40 if you use the code balls.
I guess anyone could Get it there but I'm not sure if 40 is a deal outside of Australia (79 normally)