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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|
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Spectacular Dr Dawg
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I just bought Avadon and The binding of isaac. I think I'll wait for a sale on psychonauts.
Now I'll just have to find the time to play them.
Now I'll just have to find the time to play them.
And the other 100+ games in my backlog 
Maybe because I just started it, but I think Fear 3 is excellent. While the AI doesn't feel quite at the same level of the original Fear, the gunplay is still great, and the cover works well. The mini-achievements are also a nice touch. Worth at least $20 to me.jim-jam bongs said:
So, I'll try my luck and get The Witcher 2 on one of these sites. I will be using it on Steam with my european (italian) account.shagg_187 said:
Can anyone suggest the safest of the lot? Anything else I should know (like, ""buy in dollars because it's even cheaper", or "you're forced to buy in euros if you want to add it to an european account" and stuff).
It's so cheap I really can't resist, even if I'll feel a bit dirty...
thefil said:
You won't get an account ban. Even when Valve (stupidly) cracked down on those who purchased Orange Box keys internationally, an account ban was not the decided form of punishment.
Tomodachi said:So, I'll try my luck and get The Witcher 2 on one of these sites. I will be using it on Steam with my european (italian) account.
Can anyone suggest the safest of the lot? Anything else I should know (like, ""buy in dollars because it's even cheaper", or "you're forced to buy in euros if you want to add it to an european account" and stuff).
It's so cheap I really can't resist, even if I'll feel a bit dirty...
Most of my CD key reseller dealings have been with IntKeys and they've been reliable and prompt.
SteveWinwood
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I missed a discussion about gal civ 2? Oh no! One of my favorite games of all time. Every month I say to myself I'm going to make a gal civ 2 thread about how awesome it is. I might make that today now... if you see it pick it up. I'm pretty sure the ultimate ( or whatever they call it, the base game + dark avatar + twilight ) can be found for pretty cheap. I've turned so many people on to those games. Every time I play its super satisfying. When I play civ 5 all the ai seems mentally handicapped in comparison
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Yes. Deus Ex: HR.thefil said:
Red Blaster
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Dice said:
Mike is a douche no matter what the response is.
arts&crafts
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So i bought Dungeons of Dreadmor and Binding of Isaac this weekend and love both of them. Are there any other similar games for steam? Mainly looking for rpg elements and minimal graphics (playing on old laptop). Humor is good too.
RoaringHawk
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What if I get the Witcher 2 from intkeys? Will it be in russian or english?
jaundicejuice
Member
Publishers will probably start region locking PC games if these key resellers start to seriously impact their sales.
Maybe, or maybe that not many people buy PC games at full price since Steam pretty much made it so sales dominated so hard that the mentality is now Day 1 or sale price, depending on your preferences. Even GMG practically owns the preorder arena seeing as they take 15% off them and then sometimes hands out coupons to stack ontop of it, bringing a 50$ game to 33$.jaundicejuice said:
If you look at the top sellers board on Steam during a quiet week or something, it rarely changes unless suddenly, a really big daily/weekly/weekend deal/new release shows up that gets everyone's attention because there is probably so little volume moving around to shake up the list. When a gangbusters sale shows up that same list jumps around alot.
Dog Problems
Banned
Tycoon 3 is tempting but I'm going to hold out on GOG getting it.
QuantumBro
Banned
Holy crap, I been playing through the first one again thanks to gog. Steam must have known.Tomodachi said:Daily deal is Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinium, 10 (so like, 13-14$?).
How is it?
Edit: metacritic score is pretty high, but it's a bit pricey for a compulsive buy
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Holy crap RT3P!
Damn though, just when I'm out of cash =/
Damn though, just when I'm out of cash =/
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Its excellent. If you get past the 8 year old polygonal graphics its probably the best of the RCT games mechanically. One of the last truly great Sim/Tycoon games.Tomodachi said:Daily deal is Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinium, 10 (so like, 13-14$?).
How is it?
Edit: metacritic score is pretty high, but it's a bit pricey for a compulsive buy
jaundicejuice
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I'm not making any qualitative judgements about these key re-sellers or the use of them, I'm just saying that there's going to be some consequences down the road once this has a larger impact. And it will. I'm seeing key re-sellers being mentioned in greater frequency by more and more people, once this thing hits critical mass and there's mainstream awareness and use of these websites, publishers will finally catch wind of this and do something about it because it's (real or perceived) adversely impacting them financially. It could be region locking to shut down these key sellers, more invasive DRM or the answer may simply be fewer (possibly no) PC sku's in general because they're making less money (again, real or perceived).
You're buying a legit Russian copy of the game through a key re-seller and saving 30$. Thomas Tippl, or anyone in a similar position in one of the publishers, will see that as you knee capping them out of 30$ by buying a Russian copy instead a copy from your region for your region's price through a mainstream digital distributor like Steam, Direct 2 Drive, etc. I'm not saying anyone should feel badly for saving a buck, feel sorry for the executive or the monolithic corporation they works for. I'm simply saying that's how someone in a position like Thomas Tippl will likely see it and they will do something about it.
It would be interesting to see what impact these key sellers actually have. If they're attracting new customers who wouldn't otherwise buy the game until it was significantly decreased in price, if these key re-sellers are simply drawing existing consumers away and less money is being made overall, if more games are actually being sold because of the pricing decrease and if that makes more or less money. But I don't think most publishers would look at this as some market signal to explore, they will likely just lash out and fight back.
You're buying a legit Russian copy of the game through a key re-seller and saving 30$. Thomas Tippl, or anyone in a similar position in one of the publishers, will see that as you knee capping them out of 30$ by buying a Russian copy instead a copy from your region for your region's price through a mainstream digital distributor like Steam, Direct 2 Drive, etc. I'm not saying anyone should feel badly for saving a buck, feel sorry for the executive or the monolithic corporation they works for. I'm simply saying that's how someone in a position like Thomas Tippl will likely see it and they will do something about it.
It would be interesting to see what impact these key sellers actually have. If they're attracting new customers who wouldn't otherwise buy the game until it was significantly decreased in price, if these key re-sellers are simply drawing existing consumers away and less money is being made overall, if more games are actually being sold because of the pricing decrease and if that makes more or less money. But I don't think most publishers would look at this as some market signal to explore, they will likely just lash out and fight back.
I'm using the Asus G74SX-BBK7, I downloaded the BioShock demo off Steam, and despite my system playing Amnesia and TF2 with all settings on High without any issues, the BioShock demo won't even get past the black screen after I exit the desktop upon boot-up; instead I have to ctrl+alt+delete and then force-quit the non-responding demo via task manager. When I'm accessing task manager, the screen resolution is also different during this time. I downloaded the latest driver at NVidia's site for GTX560M to see if it would help, but the problem remains. I really want to see the supposed improvement in BioShock's performance over the console versions... Any help? Please? Being a part of the "master race" is way too much work to be fun so far. :-\
QuantumBro
Banned
I have a 560M and the full game ran fine for me so that strange. Have you tried redownloading the demo?Neiteio said:
jaundicejuice
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Neiteio said:
Have you tried looking on the Steam user forums for Bioshock, generally that's the first place I look to when I'm having an issue with a game. Generally there will be topics with solutions, like this handy one...
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1133842
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I liked it. Fear 3 is one of the few FPSs with a good cover system. The AI isn't bad either. They can actually put up a decent fight at the higher difficulty settings.GuiltybyAssociation said:
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Deleted member 10571
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This is bad? Yeah well "§%)= YOU I MADE IT! Holy damn that boss! Those bullets! This music! Really guys, get that game for the music alone! I could listen to the Title Theme, Level 3 and 4 themes all day. Great game!
edit: YES I USED CONTINUES D: Oh god all those bullets. I'm no good with shmups
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
After Shogun 2 demo I realized I enjoy it but would rather have the Empire/Napoleon pack. I feel bad about passing it up for something else I ended up not liking for the summer sale, and then I was lacking funds for the Sega sale. Now I realize I could use the 25% off plus $5 referral to get it for $17.50 at GMG... hmmmmm...
jim-jam bongs
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Thar be lolis in my Steam ;_;
Huevos de Oro
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Just grabbed Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum. Installing right now. I loved RCT2 so much, and yet I never managed to play the third one.
I loved RCT2 so much, and yet I never managed to play the third one.
DiscoJer
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Yeah, but when a game goes on sale for steam, even though the publisher isn't as getting as much of the money, he's still getting the bulk of the money. Like if they sell a $50 for $30 they are getting 70% of that $30
Cd-key resellers are basically taking most of the profit. Publishers are actually trying to be nice and price games according to the market in Eastern Europe. But resellers are buying the game at $10 and reselling it for $30. So basically the publisher is getting $10 (or a cut of $10, rather) and the reseller getting the $20.
PC gamers are really shooting themselves in the foot by doing this by giving the money to the wrong people. You want to reward the people making the games in the first place, not the resellers...otherwise you're going to see publishers stop pricing games cheap in regions and/or region lock. Or even just stop making PC games.
So great, you save a few bucks in the short term, but screw your own hobby in the long term.
LocoMrPollock
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Neiteio said:
Not sure, maybe the demo doesn't support dx10.
The BioShock demo has an option for DX10 in its Graphics settings -- but both On and Off were greyed out and not selectable. Also, did I disable DX9 when I went into the settings and typed in -DX9? Sure, it got the demo to run, but I would prefer the demo run with all settings on high. My computer's powerful enough to do so, I just don't know why having DX9 on causes the demo to not run...LocoMrPollock said:
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