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Napoleon: Total War is the weekend deal @ 50% off/$9.99: http://store.steampowered.com/app/901162/
Cities XL 2012 is also on sale @ 75% off/$10.00: http://store.steampowered.com/app/201760/
Sol Exodus is the daily @ 50% off/$4.99: http://store.steampowered.com/app/200410/

 

[Nabs]

Cities 2012 is 75% off ($10).

 

[Htown]

I might pick up the "Revolution" and "Cultural Diffusion" mods, because those sound fucking badass.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Daily is Sol Survivor (50% off - 5 bucks)

Speak of the devil, Cities XL 2012 got sale.

But then it's pretty much a huge mistake, since it's buggy.

 

[PaulLFC]

Napoleon is only 50% off? Thought it'd be 75% considering it's not the newest entry in the series any more. Plus none of the bundles / DLC are on sale.

I think Steam has spoiled me.

 

[Balehead]

The Click here for Total War does nothing for me when I try to install it, might take a while to become active.

Try restarting and checking your library.

This helped, I can now install it. Thanks!

 

[Nabs]

The Click here for Total War does nothing for me when I try to install it, might take a while to become active.

Try restarting and checking your library.

 

[The Grim Heaper]

Not sure how many of you care, but Steam Workshop is now available for Civilization V.

 

[Kelegacy]

I don't understand the Stardock quote. They said they lost sales by using Steamworks and not going retail but why couldn't they have shipped some to retail too? Other than the money involved anyway. Games like Darkness 2 are at retail and still use Steamworks. I think having a Steamworks title in stores would be redundant, but not a terrible idea.

 

[Stumpokapow]

I don't understand the Stardock quote. They said they lost sales by using Steamworks and not going retail but why couldn't they have shipped some to retail too? Other than the money involved anyway. Games like Darkness 2 are at retail and still use Steamworks. I think having a Steamworks title in stores would be redundant, but not a terrible idea.

I don't think that's what he was saying.

I think he was saying:
- Steamworks is a tradeoff
- Not putting in retail is a tradeoff

Rather than:
- Steamworks is a tradeoff that involves not putting it in retail.

 

[Wok]

I was expecting a Magicka DLC to be released today. Strange.

 

[BioHazard]

Hmmm, I guess no Codemasters sale this weekend like we'd thought.

 

[plc268]

SSD prices are constantly dropping, but this is what I need before I'll jump in. Call me lazy, but it's not worth the hassle to me. I won't be making the leap until it can be done in client.

Suit yourself... steam mover is just a single exe, and is a one-click process (after you initially set up the directory to move the games to) to transfer games over.

 

[DagsJT]

Suit yourself... steam mover is just a single exe, and is a one-click process (after you initially set up the directory to move the games to) to transfer games over.

Yep, not a hassle in the slightest. I use Steam Move in Gamesave Manager and it's just so easy. You basically select the game you want to move and click to move it. Then click the "OK" prompt and you're done. Couldn't really be any more simple.

 

[Dog Problems]

That new Royale Bundle is pretty good. I'm glad more people will play PixelJunk Eden.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Gah, I'm giving up tweaking Cities XL 2012. And the official forums seem to be dead too (they have sql errors or something).

 

[SteveWinwood]

Was cities xl 2012 the one that ran like shit and crashed or did they replace that one with the new version?

 

[MRORANGE]

I thought all cities xl ran like shit, don't they just hire a new team for each year to make a game before getting rid of them?

 

[Boss Doggie]

I thought all cities xl ran like shit, don't they just hire a new team for each year to make a game before getting rid of them?

Actually 2011 runs fine, at least for me.

2012 doesn't enable anti-alias, somehow the graphics would load poorly, and the resolution doesn't work.

 

[Kelegacy]

This will be the second day i have gone without a steam purchase. Withdrawals kicking in. Since a daily sale can be around $5 maybe I should put that money together and pick up Rune instead.

Did anyone ever verify if the directx thing worked?

 

[louiedog]

I just caught Indie Game: The Movie trying to download a 3+ GB update which must have been the main movie mp4. I imagine it was probably something like a subtitle update since it doesn't use external files for those. I thought I'd turned off updates, and when I went to the properties it showed as "Do not automatically update this game." It's shit like this that puts me within a couple of GB of my cap every month. Just a heads up for people in a similar situation who don't want to download 3+ GB every time a language gets added.

edit: And of course now it won't play until I finish updating that huge file. Great! At least I watched it last night and won't be doing so again for awhile. I'll have to watch the extras by opening the individual files instead of using the menu though.

 

[Berto]

I just caught Indie Game: The Movie trying to download a 3+ GB update which must have been the main movie mp4. I imagine it was probably something like a subtitle update since it doesn't use external files for those. I thought I'd turned off updates, and when I went to the properties it showed as "Do not automatically update this game." It's shit like this that puts me within a couple of GB of my cap every month. Just a heads up for people in a similar situation who don't want to download 3+ GB every time a language gets added.

edit: And of course now it won't play until I finish updating that huge file. Great! At least I watched it last night and won't be doing so again for awhile.

That's dumb... =/

 

[Saty]

Apt future gif for anything Valve related:

 

[Cramoss]

Apt future gif for anything Valve related:

wat

 

[Fantastical]

Apt future gif for anything Valve related:

The only thing I got from this: are those glasses for real?

 

[MRORANGE]

I just caught Indie Game: The Movie trying to download a 3+ GB update which must have been the main movie mp4. I imagine it was probably something like a subtitle update since it doesn't use external files for those. I thought I'd turned off updates, and when I went to the properties it showed as "Do not automatically update this game." It's shit like this that puts me within a couple of GB of my cap every month. Just a heads up for people in a similar situation who don't want to download 3+ GB every time a language gets added.

edit: And of course now it won't play until I finish updating that huge file. Great! At least I watched it last night and won't be doing so again for awhile. I'll have to watch the extras by opening the individual files instead of using the menu though.

They had to do some minor changes:

UPDATE!!!

Tweeted IGTM yesterday to this thread, no reply but guess what?! 3gb update on Steam!


I knew what the change was already:

Original:

New Update:

Hilarious!

Gotta love indie devs,

 

[Wok]

They had to do some minor changes:
Gotta love indie devs,

I am a bit disappointed there is no streaming option. I would not have watched Kooky with the previous HIB if it had not been streamed. Valve could do it.

 

[Joe Molotov]

Haha, the original makes it seem like he showed up at the set and Phil Fish was like "Fuck you, get out of here bitch!"

The new one's kinda like *forever_alone.jpg*

 

[Wok]

Haha, the original makes it seem like he showed up at the set and Phil Fish was like "Fuck you, get out of here bitch!"

The new one's kinda like *forever_alone.jpg*

I did not get this meaning in the original, since it was:

"Phil Fish's ex-business partner asked not to participate in this film."

and not:

"Phil Fish's ex-business partner was asked not to participate in this film: would you kindly not participate?"

 

[BobJustBob]

Civ 5 update just came out, with Steam workshop integration.

some of the mods look pretty cool

Even more importantly, you can now tell it to skip the intro cutscene.

 

[Joe Molotov]

Whoops, I misread the first one, I thought it said "was asked not to participate". Anyway, it still seems pretty passive-aggressive.

 

[SteveWinwood]

Even more importantly, you can now tell it to skip the intro cutscene.

OH THANK GOD

 

[Wok]

Whoops, I misread the first one, I thought it said "was asked not to participate". Anyway, it still seems pretty passive-aggressive.

Exactly. According to this GAFfer:

He asked to participate and was told his story was not needed. He then contacted the IGTM people asking for a line to be inserted into the movie stating that he was not asked to participate.

So, Phil Fish's ex-business partner asked to participate in this film.
Then he was kindly asked not to participate.
Finally he asked for a text line which shows he was ignored.

 

[MRORANGE]

Exactly. According to this GAFfer:



So, Phil Fish's ex-business partner asked to participate in this film.
Then he was kindly asked not to participate.
Finally he asked for a text line which shows he was ignored.

yup, that's the gist of it, also the "film" is now a "movie"

 

[Blizzard]

I just caught Indie Game: The Movie trying to download a 3+ GB update which must have been the main movie mp4. I imagine it was probably something like a subtitle update since it doesn't use external files for those. I thought I'd turned off updates, and when I went to the properties it showed as "Do not automatically update this game." It's shit like this that puts me within a couple of GB of my cap every month. Just a heads up for people in a similar situation who don't want to download 3+ GB every time a language gets added.

edit: And of course now it won't play until I finish updating that huge file. Great! At least I watched it last night and won't be doing so again for awhile. I'll have to watch the extras by opening the individual files instead of using the menu though.

If that behaves like a normal Steam application, then the automatic update setting won't do anything but (if it works right) prevent automatic updates from downloading in the background when you're not using it. For any Steam application ever, trying to launch it will force you to download all updates, unless you've been in offline mode since before the last update was available or something.

I wish they'd just add an option to let people play old versions of games, but I guess they're afraid people would get confused because of different client versions in multiplayer games.

 

[ShaneB]

Even more importantly, you can now tell it to skip the intro cutscene.

Well this is just terrific!

 

[Boss Doggie]

Hilariously enough you can pretty much skip the intro cutscene before by adding a code.

 

[HBroward]

Anyone who owns Nuclear Dawn on steam gets a free giftable copy when the June update hits. If anyone has one I'd be perfectly happy to take it off your hands when you get it.

 

[Buttonbasher]

Even more importantly, you can now tell it to skip the intro cutscene.

Oh man. It's the little things that excite me most.

 

[jediyoshi]

Anyone who owns Nuclear Dawn on steam gets a free giftable copy when the June update hits. If anyone has one I'd be perfectly happy to take it off your hands when you get it.

Nothing here yet. Kinda odd that going to your inventory, your Steam items aren't the first ones listed by default.

 

[HoosTrax]

Cities 2012 is 75% off ($10).

Any good? I have 100+ hours in both Anno 2070 and Tropico.

Is this thing even a game, or more of a sim/management type of deal that's too dry to really be considered a game?

 

[Planet_JASE]

Hello all. I have a steam code for Beat Hazard that needs a good home. Quote to blah blah blah.

Beat Hazard:

 

[Wok]

Hello all. I have a steam code for Beat Hazard that needs a good home. Quote to blah blah blah.

Beat Hazard:

It is already reddeemed, not by me.

 

[Zia]

Apparently Super Crate Box is coming to Steam.

 

[Nabs]

Apparently Super Crate Box is coming to Steam.

Nice!

 

[mannerbot]

Apparently Super Crate Box is coming to Steam.

Is that as part of a bundle or something? Odd for Steam to want to host freeware games.

 

[Glass Rebel]

Apparently Super Crate Box is coming to Steam.

But... it's free.

 

[SteveWinwood]

But... it's free.

It's 2 bucks on the itunes store.

 

[Planet_JASE]

It is already reddeemed, not by me.

You have to be quick, not polite, it seems

 

[Glass Rebel]

It's 2 bucks on the itunes store.

But... it's free on PC.

Spoiler

I already own it on iPhone