STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them

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_tetsuo_ said:
If you want wow factor though, Most Wanted looks incredible. Like, really good. Hard Reset actually runs badly on my PC as well. I just gave up on it.
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I guess I'll consider it, last racing game I played more than a few mins was Grid and Trackmania 2 if that counts (forgot to list the maniaplanet games, got those too, not exactly impressive).

Also don't want X3 before someone mentions those too.
 
Anyone ever used a VPN to activate a key, or know if Steam cares about it at all? Bought Dead Island from Amazon and it's restricted to US only.
 
Ikuu said:
Anyone ever used a VPN to activate a key, or know if Steam cares about it at all? Bought Dead Island from Amazon and it's restricted to US only.
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They dont care at all. Nearly every person on steam used VPN at least once. For getting a game earlier or to activate a Steam key.
 
I knew about using a VPN to activate games, but I wasn't too sure about using one to redeem them. Guess they only care about people using a VPN to actually buy games,
 
Borderlands 2 sale is tempting. Might as well grab it...playing Bioshock Infinite has rekindled my interest in first-person shooters.
 
Valve needs another community event to make their sales feel more 'special' than the competition. Those were the hooks back in the golden days of 2011.
 
Archie said:
Valve needs another community event to make their sales feel more 'special' than the competition. Those were the hooks back in the golden days of 2011.
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Totally agree. Even if the rewards are just hats. I ended up playing a load of games and some I really enjoyed that otherwise would have been in the shadow of my backlog. I'm sure a lot of Indie guys would welcome this approach back as well. Don't know if the Christmas Gift Pile and coal farmers have killed off the meta game though.
 
The reason they no longer do Steam achievements for sales is that it's all reliant on trying to get developers to join in and create the mini games inside their own game which can take time.

I think this was mentioned by a Valve employee on reddit.
 
dark_inferno said:
They dont care at all. Nearly every person on steam used VPN at least once. For getting a game earlier or to activate a Steam key.
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Yeah, I got my account locked temporarily two times for buying a game through VPN directly in Steam but I think that was mainly because the fraud protection system jumped in. Activating keys or unlocking games earlier? I don't know a single person that ever saw the banhammer.
 
_tetsuo_ said:
Just Cause 2
Total War: Shogun 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Complete
Max Payne 3
Shattered Horizon
Need For Speed Most Wanted (this game is EXTREMELY underrated graphically)
The Witcher 2
Battlefield 3

Those are some lookers.
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Especially Shattered Horizon. I picked it up during one of the sales last year, and it's a shame nobody plays it online anymore.
 
MRORANGE said:
The reason they no longer do Steam achievements for sales is that it's all reliant on trying to get developers to join in and create the mini games inside their own game which can take time.

I think this was mentioned by a Valve employee on reddit.
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I think that and people abusing the heck out of it. There are reasons why we can't have nice things.

Making me buy and play games I never would have tried otherwise was amazing though. Running it through Gaf as Toma was kind enough to do was a nice compromise.
 
Yay new topic. Subscribed.

Also, Borderlands 2 and its Season Pass are the Deal of the Day in amazon, activates on steam and all that.
 
I'm still at the starting battles of Last Remnant (right after Dillmoor when the quests open) and it's confusing in the way that I think I know what I'm doing but I don't feel like I am, if that makes any sense. During the bite-sized tutorials the characters will explain things in about two sentences and I'm left like "ok but??". Basic things like Combat Arts (apparently) being more appropriate for single enemies and Mystic Arts for groups isn't even implied, the game's explanation is just "one works better on certain enemies than the other *shrug*". I wish the game had a help section in the menu with pictures and stuff.

Guess I'll have to resort to the internets for the explanations I want. It feels like it will be a fun game after I'm through this initial barrier. I'm liking it already, I just want to play and feel like I'm making the right decisions instead of slowly screwing myself.

Also dat tearing. Weird overlook that there's no in-game v-sync option but thankfully d3doverrider did the trick as usual.
 
MRORANGE said:
The reason they no longer do Steam achievements for sales is that it's all reliant on trying to get developers to join in and create the mini games inside their own game which can take time.

I think this was mentioned by a Valve employee on reddit.
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Well, you don't have to create something new altogether. Adding achievements is a comparably trivial thing.
 
Archie said:
Valve needs another community event to make their sales feel more 'special' than the competition. Those were the hooks back in the golden days of 2011.
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Agreed. They made me buy games I was on the fence with.

Looking back, it looks like I bought nothing during the 2012 sale on Steam. And I've only done a few purchases on Steam since 2011 Winter Sale.
 
New GMG code works on preorders/recent releases
http://blog.playfire.com/2013/04/25-voucher-on-select-games.html

GMG25-S0FSG-R7Z9B

Gets $60 games down to $45 (Metro LL, COH2 etc)

Works on the bioshock infinite season pass, but not available in NA
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/shooter/bioshock-infinite-season-pass/

Dead Island Riptide $30
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/dead-island-riptide/

Grid 2 $33
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/racing/grid-2/

Cities in Motion 2 $15
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/simulation/cities-motion-2/
 
X05 said:
Yay new topic. Subscribed.

Also, Borderlands 2 and its Season Pass are the Deal of the Day in amazon, activates on steam and all that.
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That's not a bad deal for anyone who has played Borderlands 2 yet. I personally got burned out on the game when I was playing it on the 360, but it's an enjoyable game
 
jediyoshi said:
New GMG code works on preorders/recent releases
http://blog.playfire.com/2013/04/25-voucher-on-select-games.html

GMG25-S0FSG-R7Z9B

Gets $60 games down to $45 (Metro LL, COH2 etc)

Works on the bioshock infinite season pass, but not available in NA
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/shooter/bioshock-infinite-season-pass/

Dead Island Riptide $30
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/dead-island-riptide/

Grid 2 $33
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/racing/grid-2/

Cities in Motion 2 $15
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/simulation/cities-motion-2/
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Can we only use the code once?
 
omg_mjd said:
Borderlands 2 sale is tempting. Might as well grab it...playing Bioshock Infinite has rekindled my interest in first-person shooters.
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After Bioshock Infinite, I kind of don't want to play other first person shooters. Heck, I don't even want to play games. I'm still busy sinking it all in...
 
Those achievement hunts were what led to a pretty sizeable category of games I have zero desire to play so I'm grateful they don't do it in a way.
 
jediyoshi said:
New GMG code works on preorders/recent releases
http://blog.playfire.com/2013/04/25-voucher-on-select-games.html

GMG25-S0FSG-R7Z9B

Gets $60 games down to $45 (Metro LL, COH2 etc)

Works on the bioshock infinite season pass, but not available in NA
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/shooter/bioshock-infinite-season-pass/

Dead Island Riptide $30
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/dead-island-riptide/

Grid 2 $33
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/racing/grid-2/

Cities in Motion 2 $15
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/simulation/cities-motion-2/
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Doesn't work on $45 BI :(
 
Is anyone else having a problem loading Jamestown?

I keep getting a dialog box saying "uh oh there's an error" and then the game won't load. I'm wondering if it's because I changed graphics cards. That's the only thing that's changed.

Emailed their support but didn't get any answers so I thought I'd ask GAF just in case.
 
Ledsen said:
Doesn't work on $45 BI :(
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Only works on these games
  • Battlefield 4
  • BioShock Infinite Season Pass
  • Cities in Motion 2
  • Company of Heroes 2
  • Dead Island: Riptide
  • Defiance
  • Defiance Digital Deluxe Edition
  • GRID 2
  • Lords of Football
  • Metro: Last Light
  • Sacred Citadel
  • Speedball 2 Evolution
  • StarDrive
  • Star Trek

Source
 
Archie said:
Valve needs another community event to make their sales feel more 'special' than the competition. Those were the hooks back in the golden days of 2011.
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Even without a game of some kind they can do themselves a favor by actually having good sales for a change. Amazon and GMG are running laps around them.
 
jediyoshi said:
New GMG code works on preorders/recent releases
http://blog.playfire.com/2013/04/25-voucher-on-select-games.html

GMG25-S0FSG-R7Z9B

Gets $60 games down to $45 (Metro LL, COH2 etc)

Works on the bioshock infinite season pass, but not available in NA
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/shooter/bioshock-infinite-season-pass/

Dead Island Riptide $30
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/dead-island-riptide/

Grid 2 $33
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/racing/grid-2/

Cities in Motion 2 $15
https://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/simulation/cities-motion-2/
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Metro LL is $37.50 for me with the code.
 
Derrick01 said:
Even without a game of some kind they can do themselves a favor by actually having good sales for a change. Amazon and GMG are running laps around them.
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Laps for scraps.

-Amazon is fucking terrible about awareness. I wouldn't know about 99% of their sales if people didn't repost stuff from CAG. They send me emails about videogame deals. Did I get one about Borderlands 2 today? Nope.
-I would never heard of GMG if it wasn't for GAF. They have zero advertising power.
 
Just bought Borderlands 2 from Amazon. So glad I waited.

Sacred Citadel looks interesting. Added to my wishlist.

Really looking forward to La-Mulana. That's a day 1 purchase.
 
Stallion Free said:
Laps for scraps.

-Amazon is fucking terrible about awareness. I wouldn't know about 99% of their sales if people didn't repost stuff from CAG. They send me emails about videogame deals. Did I get one about Borderlands 2 today? Nope.
-I would never heard of GMG if it wasn't for GAF. They have zero advertising power.
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They don't need it. Their superior discounts drive word-of-mouth.
 
Stallion Free said:
Laps for scraps.

-Amazon is fucking terrible about awareness. I wouldn't know about 99% of their sales if people didn't repost stuff from CAG. They send me emails about videogame deals. Did I get one about Borderlands 2 today? Nope.
-I would never heard of GMG if it wasn't for GAF. They have zero advertising power.
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Pretty much. Unless you're somewhat invested in online communities, neither offers the visibility Steam does.
 
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