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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition
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Uhm is anyone following the origin or eadm sales for a longer time? I get the feeling that you can only benefit from origin discounts if you live in the US. All the discounts I see, seem to be for the US only (at least I tried getting DS2 today for a test and it wouldnt accept the discount code). And in the past I almost remember no sales for europe either. Along with no gifting possible this sucks a lot.
Sgt.Pepper
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Kinda like Impulse. I swear there are only 5 games available in my region.SalsaShark said:
Sgt.Pepper
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June 24 to July 4. So either next week or the week after.Mr Nash said:
(Just assuming)
desu said:
Most of the more popular deals are EA insider deals, which are US only (I think partly because they also are good on console versions of games which they ship so therefore restrict it to US). I believe they also sometimes have store deals, which tend not to be quite as great, but are in multiple regions. These are like 10% off all preorders, etc. I can't recall any recent ones though, so may be mistaken.
LovingSteam said:
I picked up Bulletstorm today. Was pretty excited about it from the demo and impressions. I actually planned on paying $20 for it and kept missing the $20 sales so I'm very happy. I have yet to have any problems with GFWL, hope my luck continues. I already DS2, although if I didn't I certainly would have been happy with the $12 price point, I got that one for $20 about a month ago. Fortunately I have already played it and really enjoyed, so I'm not too upset about paying more. If I hadn't touched it yet I'd be more annoyed.
RumblingRosco
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So, Left for Dead 2 is available as today's daily deal for $6.80. Anyone expect it to be cheaper during the Summer Sale? I'd not be surprised to see it at $5.00, so for the $1.80 difference I'm thinking of just getting it now.
EDIT: Thanks StuBurns!
EDIT: Thanks StuBurns!
Dead Prince
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it be on the US store.StuBurns said:
Sanic
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I'll trade the following TF2 items for the Variety Indie bundle, if anyone is interested (as far as my research has turned up, this should be worth a bit more than the indie bundle, correct me if i'm wrong)
-Genuine Brain Bucket (hat)
-Genuine Dead Cone (hat)
-Dueling minigame (item)
-Darwin's Danger Shield (item)
-Crusader's Crossbow (item)
-Deagreaser (item)
-Holy Mackerel (item)
-Genuine Brain Bucket (hat)
-Genuine Dead Cone (hat)
-Dueling minigame (item)
-Darwin's Danger Shield (item)
-Crusader's Crossbow (item)
-Deagreaser (item)
-Holy Mackerel (item)
Sgt.Pepper
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I think you might be luckier in SPUF or other TF2 trading board.Pandoracell said:
jaundicejuice
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I'm pretty sure twig, at this very moment, is hunting Pandoracell down to make a cloak out of his/her flesh.
LiquidMetal14
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How the heck do I use a pad in L4D2? I can move but do I have to manually map all the keys?
LocoMrPollock
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LiquidMetal14 said:
Pretty sure you just have to enable it in the options menu.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I did but I can't shoot. Only move around. Is there a config file somewhere or something?LocoMrPollock said:
LocoMrPollock
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LiquidMetal14 said:
Not that I'm aware of. Is it a 360 pad?
ChoklitReign
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Is there ANY AAA game that isn't overpriced in Australia? Just curious.
Syphon Filter
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Does Half life 1 work fine on windows 7?
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I broke down and installed the Steam client. Purchased and downloaded the first Red Faction game and it seems to work surprisingly well on this low end netbook I'm using. Looking forward to using Steam more often.
BTW, any recommendations for good games that will run on a very low end netbook would be welcome.
BTW, any recommendations for good games that will run on a very low end netbook would be welcome.
Sgt.Pepper
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My recommendations are Jamestown, Machinarium, Plants vs. Zombies, Super Meat Boy, Revenge of The Titans, Civilization IV, VVVVVV, Samorost 2, Magic: The Gathering 2012.Darkmakaimura said:
I assume Terraria as well, but I don't own it. Source games (HL2, Portal, etc.) aren't too demanding as far as I can see, except for Left 4 Dead 2, that one runs terrible in my low-end machine.
GhostWriter24
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Broke down? Good lord, what the hell have you been playing on PC the past five+ years?Darkmakaimura said:
MacGurcules
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Deus Ex runs like gangbusters on mine.Darkmakaimura said:
Sgt.Pepper
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Oh yeah, this one too.MacGurcules said:
Talking about Deus Ex...which mods work in the Steam version?
MacGurcules
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I was running Shifter last time. Didn't really mess with any others.Sgt.Pepper said:
ChoklitReign said:
For the most part it's easy to avoid overpriced games on Steam due to alot of games being Steamworks, the exception being EA games.
EA price gouge us on Steam
EA price gouge us on their own store
EA IP blocks us on Direct2Drive
EA IP blocks us on Impulse
EA IP blocks us on Gamersgate
EP IP blocks us from Gamestops store.
For MW3 i know it being Activision it will be like 90USD, so i can go to Gametap or retail and buy it and register it on Steam. Activision only ever rips us off on COD games, their other games are the same regular price as the US.
All new THQ/2KGames/Sega/Bethesda games are basically Steamworks so i can avoid Steam whenever price gouging occurs and buy from somewhere else. Just EA are the bloody problem.
LaserBuddha
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RoaringHawk said:
I'd like to see some info on this too.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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It's $6.80.
XANDER CAGE
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Sgt.Pepper said:
I know there's a mod that forces the game to render in DirectX10, which adds some nice effects. http://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Yes.LocoMrPollock said:
Marsipolami
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So that's why it showed up on New Releases.Nabs said:
That's bad, since it encourages developers to not include a Mac version at the original release and instead release that version later to have the game have more, free ad-space.
Visualante
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Thank god you're joking! You really had me going there Blizzard.Blizzard said:
I guess it could be tied to uptime yeah, but considering the software is designed to be run 24/7.. and we're getting a more restart free operating system by the day. It is a flaw that needs to be fixed. I've got 260mb at the moment, with a couple of chat windows open. Opening a few other windows makes it jump to 300mb.drizzle said:He's not wrong, Steam baloons up with time:
That's on a 23 hours uptime.
I very rarely have any sort of sluggishness from the Steam interface. And when I do, it quickly gets solved after the storefront fist loads up.
:I yes I know a lot of people don't have this problem, and I never had it until like last year. It becomes more frequent all the time.3chopl0x said:Huh
But it's also not really fair that developers with limited resources should be punished by not having their second SKU advertised as well as the first.Marsipolami said:
It's never ideal to release different versions at different times, a catch all marketing campaign is far more effective.
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