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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months
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Arrogant? Huh?
You really think the sale is still over a month away? I hope not.
The sale is almost definitely going to take place during the dates listed.
Valve has kinda always been like this, whether it's VAC, Steam, sales, or HL3 news. If it happens you know it then, but predicting it is difficult.
Man I just got my pc this week and was looking to throw lots of money at valve
TF2
Krappadizzle
Member
Dammit. I hated my wallet and was trying to get rid of it. It better happen or I'll keep complaining. 4 p.m. Believe!!!
So is the Warhammer series a good idea for someone who hasn't really played a lot of real-time strategy games?
Should I buy the Dawn of War series as well or stick with Dawn of War 2 complete edition? There doesn't seem to be a complete edition for Dawn of War. There's a platinum edition but Soulstorm isn't in it.
Should I buy the Dawn of War series as well or stick with Dawn of War 2 complete edition? There doesn't seem to be a complete edition for Dawn of War. There's a platinum edition but Soulstorm isn't in it.
legacyzero
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Jive Turkey
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Summer sale in August confirmed!
Yep, that's how I feel about a company that doesn't speak to it's customers.
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooook. Doesn't sound even close to arrogant at all.
Delusibeta
Banned
I think it's going to happen before. The dates fits in with the July 11th => July 18th post a developer made in the Steam forums.
Yep, that's how I feel about a company that doesn't speak to it's customers.
They aren't going to cannibalize possible sales now by telling people when the sale is happening. Makes no damn sense.
The silence is probably because they don't have much staff working on Steam itself, let alone PR.Yep, that's how I feel about a company that doesn't speak to it's customers.
Eh, coming from Valve I see it as more playful than anything (but still annoying). If it were EA doing this, I'd be pissed.
EA it would be like some condescending asshole who you've never gotten along with pulling the chair out from under you and laughing as you hit the ground. With Valve, it's like a long-time friend playfully messing with you. You know they're going to come through in the end. They always do.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
DoW1 is a traditional RTS (and shares a lot of gameplay elements with Company of Hereos).
DoW1 and Winter Assault have narrative driven 'special case' story modes for the singleplayer, which if you like WH40K you'll enjoy.
Dark Crusade and
DoW2 (and expansions) is basically three games in one. Competitive multiplayer is basically a streamlined version of DoW1 but removing the base building parts.
Cooperative multiplayer is basically a horde mode with levelling, and is surprisingly fun.
Singleplayer is not an RTS, but is closer to a squad based action RPG (like Diablo) with a fixed narrative campaign that leads the same units from DoW2 into Chaos Rising (you can import your save, but you lose a bunch of loot), and Retribution is sort of back to the Risk style map that DoW1s later expansions used.
If you're worried about missing out on storyline by not getting DoW1, don't sweat it; there are some recurring characters in the series, but you don't really lose much.
If you're primarily looking to play multiplayer, you don't need to pick up anything except Retribution; when it moved to steamworks it unlocked all the species that were locked into the first DoW2 and its expansion.
Personally, I think all of the games are great and worth the money, but if you need to be choosy you can skip a lot of them; if you want the 'complete' version of each and aren't fussed about the narrative / singleplayer campaign, getting just Dark Crusade and Retribution covers most everything.
EDIT:
Yeah, they're pretty forgiving; there's very little micro management required, and the emphasis is on combat rather than collecting resources.
Soulstorm is crap. You can skip it and miss nothing.
SteveWinwood
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I'm not sure you know what arrogant means.Yep, that's how I feel about a company that doesn't speak to it's customers.
Horsemama1956
Member
Since no sale how about 1 free Super Meat Boy Steam key ?
First to quote will get it
Key [ /email]
Wow finally got one of these! Thanks duder.
Since no sale how about 1 free Super Meat Boy Steam key ?
First to quote will get it
Key
You didnt use the tags properly :/
Enjoy!
JetBlackPanda
Member
while I agree this only applies to the colonies.
iSurvivedTheOutage
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Sony.
JetBlackPanda
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If Amazon can get some good deals they can snake some money from Steam.
people will spend $$ if its cheap enough and everyone is just waiting to spend it anyways.
Fonz72
Member
It works pretty seamlessly and the xbox cheevos are nice
Yep, that's how I feel about a company that doesn't speak to it's customers.
Summer sale just being an assumption on our part, I don't really see your point. Valve didn't hint at anything.
Is there no possibility of the sale starting later in the day? I know normally 10 am Pacific is when the sales cycle, but I noticed LA Noire's sale expiring at 4 pm Pacific. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but, perhaps a sign we can expect something then? Probably just being overly hopeful, though...
CheesecakeRecipe
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That's how I view the monday sale of Revelations 2012 and today's sale of Analog: A Hate Story as, a little wink wink nudge nudge from Valve. Perhaps there were some hurdles in the way this year that forced them to delay it a week or so. We may never know though, I don't think they've ever talked about the summer sale until it suddenly happened. Any discussion Valve would give on it would occur after the fact.
Koroviev
Member
That's standard for Midweek Madness.
I would literally bet several thousand dollars that I don't have that the sale is going to happen. They know we're expecting it and they haven't communicated any change of plans.
It's not a question of if, but when.
I see. Too bad, then...
Grimm Fandango
Member
Hmm well since the sale didn't start today, my money is on Monday.
Gah. GABE:
SEE WHAT YOU'VE DRIVEN ME TO?
And if you don't come through in a fortnight, I'll install it.
And if you don't come through a fortnight after that, I'll actually run it.
And if you don't come through a fortnight after that, I'll browse.
And if you don't come through a fortnight after that... I'll probably just wait for the Christmas sale.
SEE WHAT YOU'VE DRIVEN ME TO?
And if you don't come through in a fortnight, I'll install it.
And if you don't come through a fortnight after that, I'll actually run it.
And if you don't come through a fortnight after that, I'll browse.
And if you don't come through a fortnight after that... I'll probably just wait for the Christmas sale.
What is this?No sale got you down ?
How about 1 Steam key for Indie Game The Movie ?
First to quote will get it.
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No sale got you down ?
How about 1 Steam key for Indie Game The Movie ?
First to quote will get it.
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me
fluffydelusions
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Welp, change the thread title?
Of course. But what I meant is that Valve don't owe anyone any explanation for sales not happening today. They don't even owe anyone the real date. WE got our hopes up. They didn't try to mislead us. Thrakier's reaction was uncalled for. Arrogant? For what? Running their business as usual? Come on.
MrNyarlathotep
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EA already has an asshole public relations image, Valve doesn't, and we know that's mostly because their PR is pretty much non-existent, which makes people create their own interpretations.
They make cool stuff and heavy discounts, so people assume they're nice people. I'm not saying they're not, it's just that they admit sometimes they don't even know what they're doing exactly, and even when they do fuck things up, people quickly forget about it (Portal 2 ARG, for instance).
I like Valve and I like Steam, but it'd be wonderful to see someone pushing them to be better at it, and I'm not saying this because the sales didn't begin already, all I'm saying is that Valve, contrary to popular belief, is not always in touch with consumers and their expectations. Also, this shows that people shouldn't rely so heavily on Steam, because competition is a good thing and Amazon has been doing a better job at sales recently (their Winter sale was better IMO), plus they have an infinitely superior customer support. Hell, they even post on GAF, Cheapassgamer and other message boards about their DD sales.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Look at the coupon again. The dates listed are June 19th-August 1st. Unless the summer sale makes us go back in time it'll probably happen during the time the coupon is valid.
They're going to have max payne 3 (with a steam key if you want it) and spec ops for 50% off among many others, and spec ops just came out on tuesday. Sale starts on Sunday.
Delusibeta
Banned
Oh. Right. Ahem. I shall now retreat to the Corner of Shame, since I evidently can't read.
Lol, nah. The sale will end right before the coupons can be used ;p
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