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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months

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zkylon said:
Yeah, Ahab finally nailed his harpoon on VTMB and we got it for like ten bucks. The Last Remnant was another game that never got discounted, but I think it was 7.50 last week. I don't know if there's anything left...
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Pretty sure on Steam, TLR was 10$ last summer. I would know because I bought it and still haven't played it.
 
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zkylon said:
Yeah, Ahab finally nailed his harpoon on VTMB and we got it for like ten bucks. The Last Remnant was another game that never got discounted, but I think it was 7.50 last week. I don't know if there's anything left...
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Actually, the story behind VTMB is even more hilarious than that. It finally went on sale, though for only 33% off (13.39 or something). Pretty much everyone just bit, because the last time it was on sale was, like, 2 years before that.

I think it was less than a week later that it became a weekend deal for $5. Valve trolled the shit out of SteamGAF with that one!
 
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DyslexicAlucard said:
Actually, the story behind VTMB is even more hilarious than that. It finally went on sale, though for only 33% off (13.39 or something). Pretty much everyone just bit, because the last time it was on sale was, like, 2 years before that.

I think it was less than a week later that it became a weekend deal for $5. Valve trolled the shit out of SteamGAF with that one!
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Yeah, I still remember that (I bought it 33% off). It'd be easier to blame it on Activision but we all know Valve are the master trolls.
 
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Fredescu said:
And if this is true, I think that's an indication that the rumoured sale of Steam to EA has been completed. No more sales!
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Actually Nintendo bought them. EA's just letting some nutjob voice his opinions while the rest of the company actually tries to be competitive.
 
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JaseC

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DyslexicAlucard said:
Actually, the story behind VTMB is even more hilarious than that. It finally went on sale, though for only 33% off (13.39 or something). Pretty much everyone just bit, because the last time it was on sale was, like, 2 years before that.

I think it was less than a week later that it became a weekend deal for $5. Valve trolled the shit out of SteamGAF with that one!
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Yeah, the general sale discount was 33%, and when it didn't show up as a daily, everybody bought it on the final day of the sale. A little over two weeks later, it was a Weekend Deal with a discount of 75%.
 
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JaseC said:
Yeah, the general sale discount was 33%, and when it didn't show up as a daily, everybody bought it on the final day of the sale. A little over two weeks later, it was a Weekend Deal with a discount of 75%.
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yeah Valve are real assholes sometimes
 
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graywolf323 said:
yeah Valve are real assholes sometimes
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Part of it (a lot of it?) is with the publishers though. See SE raising the price of Last Remnant in time for an SE sale (then coming to their senses and bringing it down to $30 when it was $40 before the price hike).
 
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Eusis said:
Part of it (a lot of it?) is with the publishers though. See SE raising the price of Last Remnant in time for an SE sale (then coming to their senses and bringing it down to $30 when it was $40 before the price hike).
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Yeah, raising the regular price before a sale to make a discount seem more significant is some dirty shit, man.
 
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So if the summer sale does start today it'll probably be at 6pm GMT (about 8 hours), right? Thats the normal time they refresh the daily deals if i remember correctly
 
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XANDER CAGE

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Bradach said:
So if the summer sale does start today it'll probably be at 6pm GMT (about 8 hours), right? Thats the normal time they refresh the daily deals if i remember correctly
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10AM PST, I think, so whatever that is in GMT~ too tired to work that one out right this second
 
iNvid02

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kamspy said:
From the Ghost Recon OT
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ugh that sucks.

the recent games i've bought, and been thinking about buying all seem to be lazy, half assed ports. ripping off your customers like that only works once, then they know not to buy from you ever again.

la noire was on sale for what it was worth, hope these other 2 bomba

la noire - horrible port with fps capped at 30 to hide the horrific performance and lack of optimization

spec ops line - just read in several places that SLI just doesnt work despite there being a profile for it, plus a lot of people have reported serious lag

ghost recon future soldier - what kampsy said
 
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I wasn't pleased to discover that L.A. Noire's framerate for me was largely in the single digits, even on poor settings. I know my PC is quite old, but given its graphical appearance relative to other games that run fine, it really should be performing much, much better.
 
Koroviev

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Kabouter said:
I wasn't pleased to discover that L.A. Noire's framerate for me was largely in the single digits, even on poor settings. I know my PC is quite old, but given its graphical appearance relative to other games that run fine, it really should be performing much, much better.
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GTA IV has made me wary of any Rockstar-published games on PC. Inexcusably bad performance given the graphical quality.
 
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Kabouter said:
I wasn't pleased to discover that L.A. Noire's framerate for me was largely in the single digits, even on poor settings. I know my PC is quite old, but given its graphical appearance relative to other games that run fine, it really should be performing much, much better.
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It was an extremely bad port job. At this point anything Rockstar brings to the PC will be second-rate. I think the game is locked at 30fps anyways, due to the facial animations. Increasing it will cause issues.

See: GTA IV. Still to this day top of the line machines with SLI struggle to get decent/good framerates.

Nothing you can do.


Krappadizzle said:
Silence Blasphemer!!! Your wallet will receive no reprieve!!!
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I like you.
 
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JaseC

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Koroviev said:
GTA IV has made me wary of any Rockstar-published games on PC. Inexcusably bad performance given the graphical quality.
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Disregarding the game itself, R* did a fine job of developing Max Payne 3 for the PC. Although it's rather volatile (pre-patch, at least), it scales very well and performs excellently even on modest hardware.
 
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Smash88 said:
It was an extremely bad port job. At this point anything Rockstar brings to the PC will be second-rate. I think the game is locked at 30fps anyways, due to the facial animations. Increasing it will cause issues.

See: GTA IV. Still to this day top of the line machines with SLI struggle to get decent/good framerates.

Nothing you can do.




I like you.
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MP3 was a great port so hopefully that is future indication with the direction they are going with the PC.
 
Koroviev

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JaseC said:
Disregarding the game itself, R* did a fine job of developing Max Payne 3 for the PC. Although it's rather volatile (pre-patch, at least), it scales very well and performs excellently even on modest hardware.
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Hopefully that level effort is reflected in future releases, as I'm not terribly interested in MP3 :(
 
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JaseC

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Koroviev said:
Hopefully that level effort is reflected in future releases, as I'm not terribly interested in MP3 :(
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Yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic about GTAV's PC release
(and RDR PC /foreverhopeful)
. I'm not expecting it to be as slick as Max Payne 3 given the game is open-world, but at the very least it should be better than post-patch GTAIV/EfLC... which isn't setting the bar all that high. :p
 
Koroviev

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JaseC said:
Yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic about GTAV's PC release
(and RDR PC /foreverhopeful)
. I'm not expecting it to be as slick as Max Payne 3 given the game is open-world, but at the very least it should be better than post-patch GTAIV/EfLC... which isn't setting the bar all that high. :p
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Yeah, that would be nice. I spent all of $5 on GTA IV, and I still feel ripped-off :(
 
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Alex

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Max Payne 3 should have been Bully 2. I'm still sour that R* Vancouver never got to make that.

Hopefully some day!
 
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I still can't download the last 50 meg of Tribes Ascend. I have tried all day. Whats the point of Steam megasales when Steam doesn't work for 2 months a year?

-Validated files
-Tried downloading from different regions
-deleted clientregistry.blog

Nothing fixes it. It's forever stuck on suspended.
 
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JaseC

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Alex said:
Max Payne 3 should have been Bully 2. I'm still sour that R* Vancouver never got to make that.

Hopefully some day!
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I wouldn't say "never":

GameSpot said:
Houser also spoke specifically to why the publisher did not go into a sequel following the original's release. "So we knew that we didn't want to start doing the Bully sequel instantly at that second with those guys--even though it is a property that, like Max, we adore and might come back to in the future," said Houser. "There was just no impetus to do that then. So we said, 'You can do Max, and then we will see what we can do with Bully.'"
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Kelegacy

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One guy on the Penny Arcade forums said he can safely say today is not the sale. I don't know if he's a developer or something, but today wouldn't be it. The comment was posted on the Steam forums and people seemed to trust him. Ga'h!

I'm starting to lose hope. Oh well. I'm on vacation all next week so it sorta sucks it won't happen until AFTER my vacation ends. Which means buying games via my phone while busy at work. Grrr. Or maybe a lunch break on my PC since I live a few minutes away.
 
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