Jibber Hack
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Got my first "you already own this game," response from Steam today. Totally forgot I bought it already.
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STEAM - Announcements & Updates 2010
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blackMamba1187
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bee said:
Dang it! Why doesn't Eidos have a US store?
Joe Molotov
Member
Picked up Empire at War today. I hope two of the next days are Republic Commando and the Jedi Knight pack.
blackMamba1187
Member
It gives this error when I click buy on the site:
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We´re sorry. Our Systems indicate you are outside the territory authorized for distribution of this title.
No real biggie, though. I'm sure, eventually, it will be available for cheap on steam.
Hopefully tomorrow and Friday bring deals on Battlefront 2 and Republic Commando. I already have the games that have been on sale so far.
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We´re sorry. Our Systems indicate you are outside the territory authorized for distribution of this title.
No real biggie, though. I'm sure, eventually, it will be available for cheap on steam.
Hopefully tomorrow and Friday bring deals on Battlefront 2 and Republic Commando. I already have the games that have been on sale so far.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Ok, so here is a retarded question:
If you have a Main Gaming Rig, and a Laptop that can do decent gaming on the go - And for the Laptop you wanna play some multiplayer games, games that are good for Lan when your all sitting with your laptops, smaller games like braid and audiosurf to play in breaks or when your at downtime, while your main rig is used for the big heavy games that require lots of power...
Do you guys think... That it would ever be a good idea to have two seperate steam accounts? Like, one for main PC, and one for gaming laptop?
If you have a Main Gaming Rig, and a Laptop that can do decent gaming on the go - And for the Laptop you wanna play some multiplayer games, games that are good for Lan when your all sitting with your laptops, smaller games like braid and audiosurf to play in breaks or when your at downtime, while your main rig is used for the big heavy games that require lots of power...
Do you guys think... That it would ever be a good idea to have two seperate steam accounts? Like, one for main PC, and one for gaming laptop?
Stallion Free
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No. Set the laptop to offline mode when necessary.Vigilant Walrus said:
crimsonheadGCN
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Left 4 Dead 2 had a price drop it seems and is now $19.99.
IrishNinja
Member
crimsonheadGCN said:
...shit. still sad i missed like $10 around the 4th, any chance we might see that again for halloween/xmas?
IrishNinja said:
If you're willing to wait that long, I'd say it's almost a certainty. Valve games go on sale pretty regularly during the big holidays and/or during updates for the games in question. Wouldn't necessarily hold my breath for Halloween, though. It's possible, but not likely unless they do it to celebrate the end of the online comic or the release of L4D1's expansion.
graywolf323
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IrishNinja said:
wouldn't shock me if we saw something around Halloween or when the next DLC releases (whichever happens first)
ohhthegore
Member
crimsonheadGCN said:
Yeah looks like the Left 4 Dead bundle is only $29.99 now too, I may have to bite at that price
Stallion Free
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Well duh it auto logs off, I mean he can have someone gaming on his laptop at the same time he plays on his rig.itxaka said:
So now Steam supports updating your AMD graphics card drivers. That's interesting, and will probably make some people happy.
What I -really- wish Steam would do is two things:
1. Make the startup time shorter...I haven't done a full defrag lately, but I don't THINK it's so bad that Steam should take like 1-2 minutes to start up when I boot my system? I don't think it's other stuff in the system slowing it down either, it just seems like it's grinding the hard disk to check all the games. Maybe I just plain have too many installed. It's a 7200 rpm SATA hard disk too, so it should be okay.
2. I wish they would, if they're going to have a long startup time, take the extra 2 seconds to load/cache all the icons in the small icon view. Otherwise, when I go to my games list and try to scroll down, it's slow and jerky for like 1.5 seconds while it grinds my hard disk to LOAD TINY LEETLE ICON. :lol
So hopefully the driver update thing goes smoothly and doesn't lead to more client bloat.
*edit* Thanks for the Star Wars screenshot, Stallion. That looks nice enough that I think I will give it a try despite my distaste for RTS games.
What I -really- wish Steam would do is two things:
1. Make the startup time shorter...I haven't done a full defrag lately, but I don't THINK it's so bad that Steam should take like 1-2 minutes to start up when I boot my system? I don't think it's other stuff in the system slowing it down either, it just seems like it's grinding the hard disk to check all the games. Maybe I just plain have too many installed. It's a 7200 rpm SATA hard disk too, so it should be okay.
2. I wish they would, if they're going to have a long startup time, take the extra 2 seconds to load/cache all the icons in the small icon view. Otherwise, when I go to my games list and try to scroll down, it's slow and jerky for like 1.5 seconds while it grinds my hard disk to LOAD TINY LEETLE ICON. :lol
So hopefully the driver update thing goes smoothly and doesn't lead to more client bloat.
*edit* Thanks for the Star Wars screenshot, Stallion. That looks nice enough that I think I will give it a try despite my distaste for RTS games.
Stallion Free
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Steam should not take 1-2 minutes to start. It take 30 seconds or less and I have it installed on a huge drive with all my games that is 7200 rpm.
IrishNinja
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ohhthegore said:
that's not bad. have the 2 of them been cheaper at any point?
*shrugs* i got like 1/10th of the average GAFer's steam games, but 1-2 minute startup sounds kind of long, to me.
edit goddammit stallion
edit 2 i didn't mean that, you're a fucking champ with the emulators
Joe Molotov
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IrishNinja said:
L4D2 has been $10 once and L4D1 has been down to $7.50 or maybe $5.
Stallion Free
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lmao I wasn't offended don't worry.IrishNinja said:edit goddammit stallion
edit 2 i didn't mean that, you're a fucking champ with the emulators
graywolf323
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Blizzard said:
I have a 7200 RPM drive and it was recently almost 30% fragmented...
down to 2% now after a full defrag
ohhthegore
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ohhthegore said:
shit tried to buy it but my credit card got declined, I'm pretty sure I'm no where near my credit card limit. How long does Valve usually take to resolve these issues?
Salacious Crumb
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ohhthegore said:
If you send them a support ticket usually a day, but as always ymmv.
Stallion Free
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Yeah, the campaigns are great.Sblargh said:
Joe Molotov
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ohhthegore said:
Ya, I've had Steam decline my credit card for basically no reason whatsoever in the past. I usually just wait a day or two and try again, or it's an emergency (last day of a sale!) I've used Paypal and Click2Buy.
ohhthegore
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Joe Molotov said:
thanks, this helps ease my mind and not thing this is a big deal or anything
First one is worth playing. Not only because of the way different special infected and melee weapons change gameplay, they also have different ways of scoring. With the first L4D you have to have at least 2-3 survivors survive to the end for a good survivor score multiplier plus you get a health bonus based on your remaining health and unused medkits(you have to be very careful with using health items). If everyone dies before they reach the saferoom the score becomes shit. With L4D2 score is based on distance traveled with a 25 points survivor bonus, this is more forgiving as you can still get a good score despite dying just as long as you traveled a good distance, I have a team where our tactics basically come down to rush as fast as you can and even though 1-2 of us sometimes get killed we still rack up a lot of distance points and we end up winning most of our games.Sblargh said:
A word of warning, if you're going to play public versus games prepare yourself for one of the most rank online communities ever. I find all the rage really funny.
Dead Prince
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so i just got the pop up to install the amd driver. please god don't break any games.
EDIT: great. it doesn't want to install :lol
EDIT: great. it doesn't want to install :lol
Schmattakopf
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My guess is that it will be.Forkball said:
Visualante
Member
Crashed for me here, don't care who's fault it is. I'm not using it again. I'll do it myself.
Wouldn't let me quit, so I had to end the process manually.
Wouldn't let me quit, so I had to end the process manually.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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How are there still people that haven't played either Left 4 Dead? I swear, my own mother has played it.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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That means you've played it.wmat said:
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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So is Empire at War worth getting? Seems like no one has even mentioned it.
graywolf323
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Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
it's a good not great RTS game with pretty sweet space combat but the land combat is mediocre
edit: I'd say if you're a Star Wars fan it's easily worth $5
that's how much I bought it for the last time it went on sale (and then traded away my retail copy on Goozex)
LocoMrPollock
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Volcynika said:
Nice.
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