It's been really great so far. Great game design where it appeals to all ages.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months
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It's been really great so far. Great game design where it appeals to all ages.
EternalGamer
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Except that game had a shit ton of issues on PC when it was released. I think it was mostly fixed now but on launch Direct X 11 was totally broken and people's saves were being deleted etc.
Madrugador
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DAT BEARD
SourCinnamon
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Am I the only one with a new update of L4D2? Maybe sale-related?
Whats this mean? He is going to make a shitty game like Peter Jackson did with King Kong?
Really, I'm hoping Sega Genesis Classics Collection gets down to less than $9 in the upcoming Steam Sale. The Amazon retail disk is that price and both have a number of games that Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection lack.
Besides, I'd like to have a collection of Genesis games for my PC.
Besides, I'd like to have a collection of Genesis games for my PC.
AngryChinchilla
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Napoleon: Total War's regular price has been slashed.
Joe Molotov
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You can revoke activations, but I think it has to be done manually and there is no tool for it (you have to write a .bat iirc)
Robin and Nightwing challenge maps are sweet, new characters plus new challenge levels. The Funhouse and Iceberg Lounge are great because they are endless style brawls (the lounge is, the funhouse is more of a timed score attack).
Harley Quinn I haven't played and I am hoping it goes maybe 50% off because everyone is saying it's not worth the 10$ for the ~2 hours of gameplay.
I think my budget for this sale is going to be $50. This is my fourth year of sales, so I have learned to be a lot more selective. Looking for good Deals on the following:
- A steeper discount on Heroes of Might and Magic VI (sorry Ubi, not paying $25+)
- The Ys games
- Legend of Grimlock (I know about the GOG sale, but I am holding out in case there is a better discount)
- Some cheap Spiderweb games
- Prototype for $5
- Warlock
- Alan Wake for 75% off
- A steeper discount on Heroes of Might and Magic VI (sorry Ubi, not paying $25+)
- The Ys games
- Legend of Grimlock (I know about the GOG sale, but I am holding out in case there is a better discount)
- Some cheap Spiderweb games
- Prototype for $5
- Warlock
- Alan Wake for 75% off
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
opticalmace
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I'll probably spend less than $8.
Usually works that way.
Usually works that way.
toastyToast
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I don't really want anything from this sale. Amazon got me covered with Binary Domain, got Alan Wake from GMG for $10 not long ago and also grabbed Max Payne 3
I've got everything I could ever want and it fills me with sadness
I've got everything I could ever want and it fills me with sadness
Don't worry, just send the rest of your money my way and I can spend it for you for free.
I would pay $100 for a Grimlock game. For HoMM VI they are releasing an expansion on July 12 so might as well wait for a combo deal in the winter sale if you still haven't picked it up.
EternalGamer
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I think it's funny that Steam sales are so crazy good that it has become a popular trend to implicitly brag about how little you spend.
DeadFalling
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I just finished the first one so I'm hoping for Witcher 2 for $5-10. I've only got $20 to spend this time! D:
PixelHorror
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Doubt it will go that low. I think 20 - 25 bucks is the safe bet.
I'm on deployment right now and Arkham City is region locked. If I get my wife back home to buy the Batman Pack coming up in the sale for me on my account back in the states, will it register on my Steam Account here as playable. AND does GFWL prevent you from playing the game offline? I'm only able to come back on the main base once in a while and even then the internet doesn't hold up for very long.
It blew my mind when I discovered that the artistic Valve sign in the background was achieved by laser cutting icons seen in Valve games:
benjipwns
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Krappadizzle
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The sale is so close. Can you feel the electricity in the air?!
Eek, I was unaware of the GOG sale.
I definitely want to pickup Legend of Grimrock, but I too think I will hold out for a potential Steam sale.
Do we have any information on whether they're going to run some sort of achievement hunting competition this time around?
I had so much fun with that last sale. It had me playing a whole heap of games from my backlog, some that I probably wouldn't have touched for ages or never at all.
I also won 3 games including the Witcher 2 so that helped my enjoyment.
I had so much fun with that last sale. It had me playing a whole heap of games from my backlog, some that I probably wouldn't have touched for ages or never at all.
I also won 3 games including the Witcher 2 so that helped my enjoyment.
No concrete information but their past large sales events have all had them so I'd be surprised if they don't have an event.Do we have any information on whether they're going to run some sort of achievement hunting competition this time around?
I had so much fun with that last sale. It had me playing a whole heap of games from my backlog, some that I probably wouldn't have touched for ages or never at all.
I also won 3 games including the Witcher 2 so that helped my enjoyment.
Do we have any information on whether they're going to run some sort of achievement hunting competition this time around?
I had so much fun with that last sale. It had me playing a whole heap of games from my backlog, some that I probably wouldn't have touched for ages or never at all.
I also won 3 games including the Witcher 2 so that helped my enjoyment.
They probably will. It's an extremely effective way for them to get people to try and buy games they'd never otherwise think of trying.
Heh, yeah it works on me! >_<
toddhunter
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Napoleon: Total War's regular price has been slashed.
Agree, I would never have played the games I played at Christmas, even though I already owned them. Mind you I also have not tried them since... So I am not sure where that leaves us. I might be more inclined to buy a sequel from some distant memory of a game, but then again, I would buy the game anyway, because it was in a steam sale. Then I wouldn't play it.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
If Santa's getting slim I don't know what to believe...
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thepotatoman
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I hope they do a Lego Package. I hear those things are pretty fun and I have no lego games in my steam account so no overlap.
jaundicejuice
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I can't wait for the inevitable shift from complaining about the sale not starting to complaining about the daily deals and packages. What is on sale, what isn't on sale, why is this y% off instead of x% off, etc.
Unless people have been holding out on buying major releases for a year or two, I don't expect there will be many amazing deals. The last few sales just haven't been as epic as the first few ones with major games. There's more competition with other DD services throwing their hats in the ring, like the recent Amazon and Green Man Gaming sales.
I expect, at best, I'll be sampling a few different indie games and buying friends games I think they should own, just as I have with the previous two or three sales.
Unless people have been holding out on buying major releases for a year or two, I don't expect there will be many amazing deals. The last few sales just haven't been as epic as the first few ones with major games. There's more competition with other DD services throwing their hats in the ring, like the recent Amazon and Green Man Gaming sales.
I expect, at best, I'll be sampling a few different indie games and buying friends games I think they should own, just as I have with the previous two or three sales.
I don't understand all the hate for GFWL, I think it's not that bad, but I haven't used it that much to be honest.
Why all the hate?
benjipwns
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Ahh yeah, some games you can't. IIRC, Batman is one of the ones that does work. I accidentally wound up playing the first one through "offline" the entire time. Still logged all my achievements and stuff.
Dog Problems
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Save files have a tendency to get corrupted. I had no problems with it either until I played Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and somehow my save went bad. There are other issues but that's the only one that has effected me directly.
CecilRousso
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It has been explained over and over again:
*It´s a dead platform that never gets updated.
*The update process for it is often infuriating.
*It´s at best barely visible, but often a source of technical problems, with a very strange save file handling.
*It´s often paired with Securom and limited activations.
*The only thing it brings to the table is achievements XBOX style.
When Games for Windows Live "corrupts" your Arkham City save file due to the stupid way it handles Xbox Live achievements and you have to wait months for the developers to put out a fix to finally spend 30 minutes to finish the game you'll learn to hate it.
Yeah problems with save files seems to be te biggest problem with gfwl. Like how if you start playing on an offline profile, and then try to make an online profile, you can't play the same save, and somehow it can get erased in the process... Stuff like that. I think you can still back up saves so USE DAT GAMESAVE MANAGER GUYS!
As well as the general crapness and not having anything good to say about it. Running games off a different hard drive than Steam via Steam Mover sends the GFWL patch process berserk.
Of course no error messages or anything, just an endless loop of "there's a patch, install patch, relaunch game... ooh a patch!"
sazzy
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Glass Rebel
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Everything on GOG is 100% DRM free.
basic_text
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This year I'm going into the sale with absolutely no expectations and will just pick up random stuff throughout.
It certainly worked over Christmas as I picked up Capsized and Demolition INC for a few quid each and they were my highlights of the sale. Given that my pc is pretty dated nowadays I tend to only pick up 1 big game as it'd mean lower resolutions etc, instead I fill up on back catalogue stuff I may have missed over the years!
It certainly worked over Christmas as I picked up Capsized and Demolition INC for a few quid each and they were my highlights of the sale. Given that my pc is pretty dated nowadays I tend to only pick up 1 big game as it'd mean lower resolutions etc, instead I fill up on back catalogue stuff I may have missed over the years!
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