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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|

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mAcOdIn

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Dice said:
Unofficial gambling on matches confirmed.

That or "Fill my steam wallet for Christmas plz"
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I suppose the wording just was amusing, there is definitely a use for gifting money or trading money for a game both of which could fall under the "trading of real world currency."
 
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Chronoja

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mAcOdIn said:
Lol, this is getting a little silly for a game client.
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It makes perfect sense. For example, the way game multi packs currently work, unless I'm mistaken, is that 1 person buys the pack and everyone else relays their money via other networks such as paypal to obtain their copy of the game from the pack.

Allowing for monetary transactions integrated via steam, transactions are easier and less unscrupulous. I'd also wager this would aid in reducing scams. Valve can keep tabs on who trades what for when so if problems arise they can look into it.

Valve means to make Steam a service as they've said time and time again, thinking of it as "just a game client" would be understating their intentions.

Streamlining and putting key functionality up front and center so people don't have to go digging around for extraneous and potentially hazardous methods is a very sensible strategy and it keeps us consumers, computer savvy or not, safer in the long run.
 
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mAcOdIn

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Aye, with my second reply I mention how I do think the ability to send money does make sense it just sounds funny when you say "trade money," that brings more to mind the idea of someone trading Euros for US Dollars or something.
 
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wutwutwut

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Wow, trading games for money, basically legitimising international purchases and gifting. Never thought I'd see the day Steam would allow that. Keep on rocking, Valve.
 
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Salsa

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wutwutwut said:
Wow, trading games for money, basically legitimising international purchases and gifting. Never thought I'd see the day Steam would allow that. Keep on rocking, Valve.
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they always allowed it, now they're just allowing you to do it internally, its the next logical step

the reason people are surprised is because they forget that Valve is a logical company.
 
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DTKT

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SalsaShark said:
they always allowed it, now they're just allowing you to do it internally, its the next logical step

the reason people are surprised is because they forget that Valve is a logical company.
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If the traded money goes into your Steam wallet account, then, it's still Virtual money. You can't cash out.

Valve is so devious!
 
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Phife Dawg

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mAcOdIn said:
Lol, this is getting a little silly for a game client.
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I'm looking forward to it, I don't use paypal so international gifting over GAF wasn't really feasible for me. With steam wallet and the actual trading process being handled by Steam I say screw you awful regional pricing :).
 
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wilflare

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Phife Dawg said:
I'm looking forward to it, I don't use paypal so international gifting over GAF wasn't really feasible for me. With steam wallet and the actual trading process being handled by Steam I say screw you awful regional pricing :).
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looking forward to it :D
now everyone can really enjoy "equal distribution"
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Yeah, this is just going to facilitate people buying 4 packs. Now I won't have to deal with going through paypal or anything. I've been waiting on this since I hosted a Left 4 Dead 2 4-pack.
 
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mAcOdIn

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wutwutwut said:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2101253 is not "one wrong thing".
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To be fair, a lot of those are common, Steam overlay issues, second monitor, SLI, some of them won't be bugs but just be stuff they may not put in, like recognizing all the keys on a mouse or FOV changing and once those are taken out it's no more or less buggy then anything else on the PC sadly.

That said, I don't think the game is very good.
 
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SmokyDave

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Joe Molotov said:
Only Techland has the balls to map noclip to a key press. Truly a hero among PC developers; haters should be ashamed.
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I'm deadly serious when I say that I'm far more tempted to buy this game now than I was before I heard about this.
 
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Man, I'm really glad I didn't buy that Borderlands DLC package when it was on sale. Just started the game up and instantly remembered how shitty it was. Also can't believe the game doesn't change the button prompts to the controller buttons when the 360 controller is plugged in. I mean, it's a console port ffs. This be the first and last time you burned me, Gearbox!
 
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weekendCONFIRMED

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Glass Rebel said:
Man, I'm really glad I didn't buy that Borderlands DLC package when it was on sale. Just started the game up and instantly remembered how shitty it was. Also can't believe the game doesn't change the button prompts to the controller buttons when the 360 controller is plugged in. I mean, it's a console port ffs. This be the first and last time you burned me, Gearbox!
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Yeah I hate when the prompts don't adapt to your CURRENT control scheme. Pretty sure Gatling Gears does that too (uses keyboard prompts when I'm playing with controller).

What makes it worse is that Borderlands is 100x more playable on PC with controller plugged in. The menus are a pain in the ass with keyboard/mouse. Mouse wheel doesn't scroll quest dialogue? wtf...
 
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SmokyDave

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On the subject of this pad control tomfoolery, I've been finding this list of Xinput enabled games useful lately. It's not perfect (not all these games will have the correct button labelling), but it's a quick and handy way of checking for 360 pad support.

I just had to download a 'button label' mod for Shift 2: Unleashed, perhaps there is one for Borderlands too?
 
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Glass Rebel

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SmokyDave said:
On the subject of this pad control tomfoolery, I've been finding this list of Xinput enabled games useful lately. It's not perfect (not all these games will have the correct button labelling), but it's a quick and handy way of checking for 360 pad support.

I just had to download a 'button label' mod for Shift 2: Unleashed, perhaps there is one for Borderlands too?
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Thanks for this list and I found a thread on the steam user forums. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1679063
Apparently you have to modify an .ini file. No biggie but this should be there from the beginning.
 
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Nelo Ice

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weekendCONFIRMED said:
Yeah I hate when the prompts don't adapt to your CURRENT control scheme. Pretty sure Gatling Gears does that too (uses keyboard prompts when I'm playing with controller).

What makes it worse is that Borderlands is 100x more playable on PC with controller plugged in. The menus are a pain in the ass with keyboard/mouse. Mouse wheel doesn't scroll quest dialogue? wtf...
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http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1085076
 
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R1CHO

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Glass Rebel said:
Man, I'm really glad I didn't buy that Borderlands DLC package when it was on sale. Just started the game up and instantly remembered how shitty it was. Also can't believe the game doesn't change the button prompts to the controller buttons when the 360 controller is plugged in. I mean, it's a console port ffs. This be the first and last time you burned me, Gearbox!
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Use this for the 360 controller ui

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=30520989&postcount=11665

SmokyDave said:
On the subject of this pad control tomfoolery, I've been finding this list of Xinput enabled games useful lately. It's not perfect (not all these games will have the correct button labelling), but it's a quick and handy way of checking for 360 pad support.

I just had to download a 'button label' mod for Shift 2: Unleashed, perhaps there is one for Borderlands too?
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No need to mod for borderlands, the options are already in the game, but gearbox were a bit incompetent with these... so you have to enable it.

weekendCONFIRMED said:
Yeah I hate when the prompts don't adapt to your CURRENT control scheme. Pretty sure Gatling Gears does that too (uses keyboard prompts when I'm playing with controller).

What makes it worse is that Borderlands is 100x more playable on PC with controller plugged in. The menus are a pain in the ass with keyboard/mouse. Mouse wheel doesn't scroll quest dialogue? wtf...
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Gatling gears works fine for me using the wireless controller.
 
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weekendCONFIRMED

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R1CHO said:
Use this for the 360 controller ui

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=30520989&postcount=11665



No need to mod for borderlands, the options are already in the game, but gearbox were a bit incompetent with these... so you have to enable it.



Gatling gears works fine for me using the wireless controller.
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Whoa, thanks! You may have just made me go reinstall.

I'll probably switch to controller and just use that config fix.

EDIT: And yeah I play Gatling Gears with the 360 controller, but I coulda swore the prompts still showed the keyboard button. Maybe I'm thinking of The Baconing. Playing both game concurrently right now.
 
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Sanjay

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morningbus said:
Yeah, this is just going to facilitate people buying 4 packs. Now I won't have to deal with going through paypal or anything. I've been waiting on this since I hosted a Left 4 Dead 2 4-pack.
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Could you buy Skyrim for me, I will paypal you.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Anilusion said:
Does this mean that I can put $5 in my steam wallet, give out $0.50 to 10 accounts and get 10 premium TF2 accounts for $5?

Neat!
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was a minimum amount of money required to trade. How little money can you currently put into your Steam wallet?
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Sanjay said:
Could you buy Skyrim for me, I will paypal you.
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I can't wait until you go offline on Steam so I can de-friend you and passive-aggressively avoid this.
 
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Blizzard

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Anilusion said:
Makes me wonder if they will use € = $ for real-world currency trading. That would be freaking retarded if they did.
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At some point I wonder if they could get in trouble ala Paypal for allowing money-increasing shenanigans due to exchange rates, and/or violating gambling/banking laws due to keeping an internal balance of money. I am by no means a lawyer though.
 
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confused

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Hitman collection and Kane and Lynch are the midweek deal at 66% off.

There's also a pack containing hitman collection and Kane and Lynch 1 & 2 at 75% off.

And Cloning Clyde is the daily at 67% off.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Stallion Free said:
Hmm Cloning Clyde looks incredibly rough graphically, but it has 25 Steam achievements.

CONUNDRUM!
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If only it increased an arbitrary number!

GFWL wins again.
 
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