STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months
- Thread starter MRORANGE
- Start date
- Status
You need to think of an achievement system. Like the ones those help groups use. Badges in the First post based on how many days they endured. New color/bigger size for each new day without buying something. It will help you to stay strong!
I think you're onto something here. Also, we will play GAMES WE ALREADY BOUGHT (I know, but we will... try).
Deus Ex Missing Link- 108mb
Skyrim- 7.8mb with 2 files missing
Witcher 2- 148.8mb with 160 files missing
So I don't know if this has to do with the summer sale or I'm somehow just missing chunks of files that never affected my games. Maybe it has to do with that steam cleaner tool I ran.
The bad part about that idea is that you will talk about good experiences with GAMES YOU ALREADY BOUGHT, convincing people of the quality and fun of those games in a thread where those people might not actually own it yet. And then want to buy it. And then. And. A.
Like smoking in a "We want to stop smoking" community meeting.
My DE:HR download is no longer shown as I restarted Steam, and I haven't updated Skyrim yet, but my Witcher 2 update was exactly the same.
Oh shit. I will think about this.
You could put up some F2P highscore contest with flash games. Every day a new challenge/game with an overall GAF leaderboard for pass time during the steam sale. You need to FIGHT ACHIEVEMENTS WITH HIGHSCORES. Or get people to learn Dwarf Fortress to pass the time. Something along those lines.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Got my Dota invite last night.
Gaben has temporarily quelled my summer sale needs.
Gaben has temporarily quelled my summer sale needs.
Truth be told, I'm mostly looking forward to the achievement hunt this year, if there is one. It's reached the stage where there's a good chance I'll have all or at least most of the games each achievement has each day, so it's a good time to do a whistlestop tour of games I don't play so often to get some experience.
This year, in particular, I should finish off Fez this weekend (at least approximately!), so I'll actually be between games; a fine time to go for a bit of variety in my play for a fortnight or so.
Wondering on the chances of a DOTA invite for significant performance!
Also you get points for not buying a daily deal you really wanted. Extra points if it's on your wishlist.
My body is Gaben
Gaben is watching you..
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
hahahah you guys think there's gonna be a sale. No, I'm not talking about tomorrow, I meant this year. 
manly is not limited to humans :3
manly is not limited to humans :3
I can confirm if you used that tikione steam cleaner tool and use the verify cache thing on steam it just redownloads the junk files. I ran the cleaner just now and it was all the games I had just used verify on.
So if there are updates for certain games like in that list then I just haven't gotten them yet.
So if there are updates for certain games like in that list then I just haven't gotten them yet.
Frozen Synapse? SpaceChem? Galactic Civilizations 2? Legend of Grimrock? Chime? Dungeons of Dredmor? Lone Survivor? The city builder games?
Just a few games smaller I highly recommend to look at if they werent on your radar.
Thought I'd ask here because Steam support is... well...
All of my Source and 1.6 games give me the error message 'This game is currently unavailable' - I've deleted the client registry, validated and defragged game films etc but still the same error across every single one.
Anyone got any ideas?
All of my Source and 1.6 games give me the error message 'This game is currently unavailable' - I've deleted the client registry, validated and defragged game films etc but still the same error across every single one.
Anyone got any ideas?
Glass Rebel
Member
All you heathens with your disfigured Steam clients.
Mine is the same way our Lord Gaben bestowed it upon me.
Mine is the same way our Lord Gaben bestowed it upon me.
No idea if this would work and I expect verifying cache would have had the same end effect anyway, but did you try choosing "don't update" and then switching back to automatic updates, to see if that starts any downloads?
Edit: Wait, some games (e.g. Stacking) don't have redist files, and in cases where verifying/updating did re-download the redists, according to my figures they don't account for the entire download size (e.g. Xotic's update was 288.5MB, with the redists being 133MB of that).
That doesnt work.
Cue an ARG, with "The Steam Summer Sale will begin the Thursday after the ARG is completed!"
Kelegacy
XBOX - RECORD ME LOVING DOWN MY WOMAN GOOD
I fear the riots should the sale not take place. Imagine putting an ordinary daily deal in my cart and pushing it towards checkout and being beaten up by a gang of angry heathens and bricks smashed on my head. Game pages will be shattered and looted and servers set on fire. Innocent shoppers having their Steam Wallets mugged.
I am afraid of what no sale today will do to Steam and this country.
I am afraid of what no sale today will do to Steam and this country.
snoopeasystreet
Member
Yep. Those who splice their client deserve no place in the summer sale.
Damn these Steam sales.
I've got nearly 200 games in my library. I've got about 70 installed. And I stare at the list, trying to decide what to play. And I never seem to be in the mood to actually play any.
Yet I'm still like a kid at Christmas at the possibility of a Steam sale.
I've got nearly 200 games in my library. I've got about 70 installed. And I stare at the list, trying to decide what to play. And I never seem to be in the mood to actually play any.
Yet I'm still like a kid at Christmas at the possibility of a Steam sale.
This is exactly how I am. A lot of the time I don't actually want to play games. I'm starting to think I've changed from a gamer to a games collector.
spindoctor
Member
It does. Verifying the cache after using that tool will redownload all the directx redist files etc. that were removed.
Damn end of page posting.
The games I had to verify in order to update downloaded more than just the redists.
Something strange seems to be going on.
Edit: Edge update: 149.8MB; 102MB of redists
DE:HR update: 11.4MB; no redists
Stacking update: 207.2MB; no redists
Team Fortress 2 update: N/A (I don't think it updated when Pyromania went live, so it's not worth factoring in.)
Portal 2 update: 50.8MB; no redists
Xotic update: 288.5MB; 133MB of redists
The Witcher 2 update: 148.8MB; 151MB of redists (I strongly doubt it downloaded anything else.)
Marsipolami
Member
THIS is the way it's supposed to look. (nevermind Dota 2 in the background)
Thank you. I have limited myself to 1 (one) game. Together we are legion.
delete the .blob files from Steam's installation folder.
Try again.
Wait until servers are not overwhelmed.
The sale will come at one point. Dont worry.
i swear i came in here to type those exact four words. GOD THIS IS GETTING UNBEARABLE. CURSE.YOU.STEAM
Delusibeta
Banned
A little over 70 minutes until switchover, ladies and gentlemen. If a new daily deal doesn't start at 6pm BST, then it has begun. The small fact that they're getting today's releases out of the way already (Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Spec Ops: The Line is out now for UK folk) suggests to me that something's up.
Baconsaurus Rex
Member
This is what Steam's supposed to look like.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Where are you, Gabe?
Glass Rebel
Member
Please... guys.
The wait is already painful enough, don't show us your butt-ugly Steam skins or Gabe might cancel this sale for reals.
The wait is already painful enough, don't show us your butt-ugly Steam skins or Gabe might cancel this sale for reals.
Emperor Bohe
Member
What time does the store update? Is it 12 pm est?
I just double click on Library
... but yes, it's a bit odd.
edit: wait.. maybe im confusing myself, Im not sure that actually works. lol
- Status