Oh, I see. Not buying then.
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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates: 6, GFWL: 0 | Number of hours played bugged
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Oh, I see. Not buying then.
jediyoshi
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FUD wins the day.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It's great to see it finally biting Microsoft, I have to admit.
Shorty11857
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Sold a foil trading card for over 5 euro today, why would anyone pay that?
After some more thought this is where I've settled, I think - There's really nothing inherently worse about trackpads than analog sticks aside from the lack of feedback and centering. The raised circular areas will help with that, and there won't be issues of drift and deadzone management, so that's a positive, Just have to remember to re-centre your fingers for games that are designed for analog sticks (I guess it could auto-centre when your finger was off the pad?) I'm interested in trying that out, especially with the greater fidelity to common sticks.
I'm still not entirely down with that button layout, but the built-into-Steam software customizability will help out with that. The touch screen in the middle won't fully replace a d-pad with the lack of tactile feedback (not really into looking at my controllers while I'm using them), but the customization seems more useful for the breadth of modern games.
As a jack of all trades thing, I've come around on the design, especially given what it's designed to do in the context it's to be used in. Curious about the price tag.
I'm still not entirely down with that button layout, but the built-into-Steam software customizability will help out with that. The touch screen in the middle won't fully replace a d-pad with the lack of tactile feedback (not really into looking at my controllers while I'm using them), but the customization seems more useful for the breadth of modern games.
As a jack of all trades thing, I've come around on the design, especially given what it's designed to do in the context it's to be used in. Curious about the price tag.
Ultra Street Fighter IV, which is coming out later this year (I think) won't have GFWL, so yeah
derExperte
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The Inner World, a supposedly very nice German p'n'c adventure, is now on Steam (and GOG): http://store.steampowered.com/app/251430 The price is great, was much more until now.
Too good to be true
People should be discouraged from buying any GFWL game until we know exactly what is going to happen to each game after GFWL is gone. Anything else is scamming people out of their money; and that includes Valve putting Dark Souls up on sale, unless they know more than we do.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yeah, seeing them mention ETS2 made me smile with delight, lol. Now I have to play it for a few hours tonight.
As for the controller, it's an interesting and innovative concept. Hopefully it works much better than it looks. The good news is that no one will be forced to use it, good old fashioned keyboards and mice will work just fine as always. If it works as well as they are claiming it does then color me very impressed.
derExperte
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I remember there were some G2 copies traded very cheap a while ago. Don't know where they came from.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Couldn't the trackpads of the controller be programmed to accept quick taps to specific areas to emulate digital movement?
I could see them doing that for both sides, with the other trackpad emulating four buttons.
I could see them doing that for both sides, with the other trackpad emulating four buttons.
I don't listen to someone who killed me
(Joke)Where did you read about it?
Here is the trade offer
I can't find any scam information about this guy. But the account is one month old, kinda suspicious
Eanan
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Yup, I certainly remember the whole thread jumping at my neck!
If it matters to you Deques, I still have Grid 2 tied to my account and playable so seems to have been legit in my case. *touch wood*
I don't listen to someone who killed me
I got scammed a couple of weeks ago and I don't want the same thing to happen to someone here
jediyoshi
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Both those trailers are great, could go for some adventuring right about now.
There are much simpler ways that don't involve flat out lying
I like to think we can come to our own conclusions based on listed facts in worse case scenarios.Yes, outside of the seasonal sales threads that happen.
Eanan
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The guy who trade me Grid 2 was turkish also...I don't listen to someone who killed me
Where did you read about it?
Here is the trade offer
I can't find any scam information about this guy. But the account is one month old, kinda suspicious
Perhaps there was a promotion/scam over there for lots of Grid 2 keys?
Sad to hear you're not enjoying the game. When I first tried the demo at a friend's, a few years ago, I also thought it was boring. It looked like any other run-of-the-mill brawler, and I was never a fan of superheroes. But when I finally got it on Steam and played it early this year, I fell in love with it.YES!no
Ditto.
I started Arkham Asylum yesterday and just played some more of it. I saw you praising it earlier but I'm pretty underwhelmed with it frankly
Oh and that controller is.....different. Colour me curious.
I think the fighting mechanics are great, and I really liked the metroidvania progression style.
I also got scammed... three times. Not gonna get scammed a fourth time. Now he wants to do it outside the subreddit. Which makes it even more suspicious
I would like to know if there was some leakage of keys recently. I haven't heard anything about GRID2
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Yeah, I agree. I just had this thought too. That would make a ton of games immediately compatible with alternate control schemes evolving over time.
I imagine it will know where your finger is on the trackpad and by holding your finger 10% away from the center it will move in that direction at 10% of max movement speed.
I do hope it works well because I'm ready for the reign of uncomfortable thumbsticks to be over.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
There are much simpler ways that don't involve flat out lying
Here are the facts:
1. GFWL is being sunsetted
2. When GFWL servers are turned off, the impact on a per-game basis will vary wildly; it might involve discontinuing multiplayer matchmaking, it might involve discontinuing the ability to activate new installs. It might involve save file death. It might involve being unable to login. Each game will differ.
3. Regardless of which functions die, GFWL games will be pulled from sale if functionality is crippled. As a result, any hypothetical community will dwindle inexorably, as with any service that is closed to new entrants.
4. Individuals judge the value of a game in part due to its future playability, and knowledge about a game being shut down later can but does not necessarily impact purchase decisions.
5. Dark Souls has not currently been announced to be being patched.
6. Dark Souls II is releasing in 2014.
Here are the relatively safe assumptions:
1. Some GFWL games will not be patched.
2. Until a developer says they will patch a game, there is no logical reason to believe that the game has a better-than-even likelihood of being patched.
3. The sunset date is on or around July 1, 2014 (Support: AoE:O page; confirmation from devs that sunsetting is occurring, Halo 2 multiplayer situation)
If an individual combines this information and decides that they'd rather hold off on Dark Souls, I don't view that as FUD.
PixyJunket
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I'll buy a Steam Controller if get a badge out of it.
Joe Molotov
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Ubisoft trying to steal that shitty discount crown from Activision.
I am hoping that the developers will patch out GFWL from their games.
It'll go on sale in a year when 2015 launches. And then the online will be dead at that point.
I'm still waiting for 09 and 13 to be put on a price-drop so I can grab those.
You can create a giveaway with ModBot. Just give a warning that the keys can used. Everyone here are forgiving you if you warn us
To be fair, Ubisoft's game is only a few months old, instead of up to 10 years.
Better than a chance of getting Bad Rats!
jediyoshi
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The game in question was Street Fighter X Tekken.
The DLC is tied to Steam so that's ostensibly fine. What would be at question is purchasing and activating, which would go kaputz after GFWL goes offline. Assuming someone was interested in picking it up within the current sale though, there's still a window of time to get to it.
Judging by the actual exchange that occurred, I can't get behind someone equivocating the game whole hog not being available anymore with a game's online features/multiplayer getting the shaft. It's rather FUD-y.
Blacklist has only been out a month, that discount seems very fair.
Ok, incoming then.
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Sportbilly
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jadedcynic
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Thank God for that. What a boring, miserable tosser he was. Kind of like the anti-The_Monk.
Banned
Thank God for that. What a boring, miserable tosser he was. Kind of like the anti-The_Monk.
Sanic
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I can't seem to get the Rising Storm free weekend download to start.
Clicking on the link within the client and on steampowered.com does nothing. I've done a restart of my computer and client, and made sure the actual link Valve has up is correct. Any other tips? Riptide works fine.
Clicking on the link within the client and on steampowered.com does nothing. I've done a restart of my computer and client, and made sure the actual link Valve has up is correct. Any other tips? Riptide works fine.
MMBosstones86
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Lived up to his name. Went down in a blaze of glory,
Yay, good luck with your giveaway
Not gonna take anythingWho was this guy?
I still need to finish Septerra Core. I remember seeing previews of it and thinking it would be awesome, but I never managed to find it in stores. Years later, it showed up on GOG and I bought it instantly. I played a few hours into it, and enjoyed what I played quite a bit, but got distracted with some other things (mostly Fallout 3, IIRC) and never got around to picking it up again.
Shogo is still a favorite of mine, even though I'll be the first to admit the visuals haven't aged well at all. The gameplay was a lot of fun, and the story and voice acting really captured that sort of mid-to-late-80's, Robotech-esque anime dub feel for me. I'd still love to see a sequel, though I've pretty much given up hope. : /
You're a publisher's dream customer; you don't mind if core features are simply disabled a short while after you've bought a game? What if those features are actually what the customer is primarily interested in; they shouldn't be warned because it's "FUD-y"?
Thanks for Beep. I'm still not sure what it is, but I'm a sucker for anti-gravity device games.
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