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[The_Monk]

This is why:


Same reason why we lock pre-conference E3 threads before we unlock the E3 conference threads. People need a valve to vent some steam and we'd prefer that not be by spewing diarrhea everywhere over GAF

Lol I'm dying here.

 

[SteveWinwood]

Here's an idea:

1) Sticky and lock the OT Steam sale thread now on top of the gaming forum
2) Lock this thread when (if) the sale starts
3) Wait to update OT of sale thread
4) Unlock OT when updated

So we can... Look at it? What does that get us?

We can live a couple minutes without a steam thread jeez.

 

[feel]

This is why:


Same reason why we lock pre-conference E3 threads before we unlock the E3 conference threads. People need a valve to vent some steam and we'd prefer that not be by spewing diarrhea everywhere over GAF

Fair enough!

Because people will alternate between threads with different questions, better to leave it all in one thread to have everything contained there.

Yeah I agree, I was referring to why there will be a very short period when there will be no Steam thread available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTHqoqmYG_w&feature=related

That's what's gonna happen to me.

holy shit haha

 

[ekim]

So we can... Look at it? What does that get us?

We can live a couple minutes without a steam thread jeez.

To prevent other people from opening threads about the sale.

 

[Interfectum]

We can live a couple minutes without a steam thread

 

[Salsa]

Here's an idea:

1) Sticky and lock the OT Steam sale thread now on top of the gaming forum
2) Lock this thread when (if) the sale starts
3) Wait to update OT of sale thread
4) Unlock OT when updated

And spoil the surprise? Never.

 

[sazzy]

So we can... Look at it? What does that get us?

We can live a couple minutes without a steam thread jeez.

To prevent other people from opening threads about the sale.

^

 

[Salsa]

To prevent other people from opening threads about the sale.

People know I'll roundhouse kick whoever does that

 

[Mr. Poolman]

so there'll be a brief period with no active steam thread.

People will go insane, and you will enjoy every second of it.
You monster.

 

[BY2K]

Wait...

Is the Summer Sales actually starting today?

 

[SteveWinwood]

It'll be like 5 minutes. Anyone who would make a thread that quick I would think would hang around here. If they've been in here, they know what's up as it's been explained a bunch the last couple pages.

 

[Toma]

Wait...

Is the Summer Sales actually starting today?

Very likely, yeah.

 

[sazzy]

Wait...

Is the Summer Sales actually starting today?

All signs point to 'ask again later'

 

[Wazzim]

Wait...

Is the Summer Sales actually starting today?

Hope so.

 

[Twinduct]

If you watch this movie on youtube, by the time it's done the sale will start!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBHGDpEla_k&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1

 

[chiablo]

Very likely, yeah.

I predict a huge troll by the valve admins. If I were them, I'd bring the site completely down for 30 minutes, then bring it back up with a pointless daily deal and advertising a new F2P game as a banner ad.

 

[jgminto]

Behold my shitty paint skills!

 

[BioHazard]

 

[DyTonic]

TBH all I want is a capcom bundle

 

[sazzy]

If anyone wants more entertainment than this thread is providing, here's the link to the steam forums giant thread on the summer sale

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2791710

 

[jgminto]

If anyone wants more entertainment than this thread is providing, here's the link to the steam forums giant thread on the summer sale

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2791710

Eww, steam forums? No thanks...

 

[CaptainSchwann]

I'm still very curious as to how much those daily indie bundles will be. I'm just starting to build up my library, so I'll probably end up buying most of them if the price is low enough.

 

[Jzero]

TBH all I want is a capcom bundle

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[Kelegacy]

Friend at Valve told me Gabe called out sick today with the flu. So...

I have my wishlist stocked. You know what I hate about the Steam store? Not being able to right click on games and open them in a new tab. I have to open each individually and then hit my back button which resets where I was on the list of games I was looking at (takes you back to the first page). I am a multi-tabber so it really becomes time consuming. Otherwise I would have more games in my wishlist. I just had to give up.

 

[nextgeneration]

Friend at Valve told me Gabe called out sick today with the flu. So...

I have my wishlist stocked. You know what I hate about the Steam store? Not being able to right click on games and open them in a new tab. I have to open each individually and then hit my back button which resets where I was on the list of games I was looking at (takes you back to the first page). I am a multi-tabber so it really becomes time consuming. Otherwise I would have more games in my wishlist. I just had to give up.

Yes! I hope they fix this someday!

 

[sazzy]

Question:

If I buy a pack/bundle as a gift, do all games show up individually in my inventory?

asked before didn't get any replies

 

[Jzero]

Friend at Valve told me Gabe called out sick today with the flu. So...

I have my wishlist stocked. You know what I hate about the Steam store? Not being able to right click on games and open them in a new tab. I have to open each individually and then hit my back button which resets where I was on the list of games I was looking at (takes you back to the first page). I am a multi-tabber so it really becomes time consuming. Otherwise I would have more games in my wishlist. I just had to give up.

Totally agree.

Question:

If I buy a pack/bundle as a gift, do all games show up individually in my inventory?

asked before didn't get any replies

YES

 

[feel]

I just enter the store through Firefox when I want to use multiple tabs to add a bunch of stuff to my wishlist fast.

 

[BioHazard]

Friend at Valve told me Gabe called out sick today with the flu. So...

I have my wishlist stocked. You know what I hate about the Steam store? Not being able to right click on games and open them in a new tab. I have to open each individually and then hit my back button which resets where I was on the list of games I was looking at (takes you back to the first page). I am a multi-tabber so it really becomes time consuming. Otherwise I would have more games in my wishlist. I just had to give up.

Why not use the website? It's infinitely better. I do this all the time. Pretty much the only reason why I never shop using the client.

 

[sazzy]

Totally agree.



YES

Nice. So if I buy an indie pack as a gift, I can redeem the 3 games I want and trade/gift the other 2, right?

 

[1-D_FTW]

Question:

If I buy a pack/bundle as a gift, do all games show up individually in my inventory?

asked before didn't get any replies

Either I'm on your ignore list or you missed it. Because I answered it.

Totally agree.



YES

You're positive? They don't show up as a "pack" in your inventory?

 

[Kelegacy]

Why not use the website? It's infinitely better. I do this all the time. Pretty much the only reason why I never shop using the client.

Gah! I am so used to using the client I didn't realize the webpage was any different. Will have to start doing that from how on.

 

[sazzy]

Either I'm on your ignore list or you missed it. Because I answered it.

I don't use the ignore list at all. Sorry, must've missed it

 

[Grimm Fandango]

Nice. So if I buy an indie pack as a gift, I can redeem the 3 games I want and trade/gift the other 2, right?

No.

 

[sazzy]

No.

Now I'm confused :\

 

[Jzero]

Now I'm confused :\

ooops i misread the question lol if you're buying them as a gift then it'll show up as one in your inventory.

 

[1-D_FTW]

Now I'm confused :\

If they show up as a pack (as I suspect they would), then it's no (unless specifically stated). I suspect they show up as a pack for this very reason. Otherwise people would exploit this. And it doesn't seem like common knowledge, so I'm skeptical you actually can.

 

[kodt]

Now I'm confused :\

They don't show up in your inventory, they show up in your game library as separate games.

 

[sazzy]

you can't just trade anything in your games list they have to be in your inventory.

Oh I know that... but if I buy an indie pack/other bundle as a gift, will all the individual games show up separately in my inventory?

 

[Jzero]

Oh I know that... but if I buy an indie pack/other bundle as a gift, will all the individual games show up separately in my inventory?

sorry look at my post again.

 

[sazzy]

sorry look at my post again.

ah ok

 

[ekim]

I expect the sale beeing accompanied by some kind of meta-thing like the potato sack.
Maybe even a HL3 arg. \o/

 

[dave is ok]

I expect the sale beeing accompanied by some kind of meta-thing like the potato sack.
Maybe even a HL3 arg. \o/

I feel like we knew ahead of time what the achievements were for the 2011 Summer and Holiday sales. There either isn't any game this year like that, or they're just better at hiding it.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Amazon had them pretty cheap a while back (still? I don't know) in the paradox pack for 12$.

Yeah I saw, problem is that I own most of the games in the pack save for that :/

 

[Wok]

I feel like we knew ahead of time what the achievements were for the 2011 Summer and Holiday sales. There either isn't any game this year like that, or they're just better at hiding it.

I persist.

Dwarfs would not need a bug-fixing patch, so the patch is very likely to add a mini-game for the Summer contest.

 

[kswiston]

Sort of sucks that registering game bundles on Steam is all or nothing. If I buy an Amazon bundle, I get separate keys for everything. Never bought a bundle from another DD store so no idea how they work. Anyhow, There are a lot of bundles I would buy on Steam if I could gift/trade away the duplicated games.

 

[1-D_FTW]

I feel like we knew ahead of time what the achievements were for the 2011 Summer and Holiday sales. There either isn't any game this year like that, or they're just better at hiding it.

Part of me wonders if they just got tired of all the bitching and crying and decided to go with the "Click on this game's homepage" to enter technique.

Would be a shame if that happened, though. Seems like a lot of games get sales simply by being part of that day's achievehunt.

 

[Rawket Lawnchair]

I wanted to be here but the girlfriend wanted us to go shopping, so I'll miss the beginning.

Remember to resist buying anything during the first hour, if you want to avoid potential heart attacks.

 

[LuffyZoro]

I persist.

So we're gonna have an achievement hunt for one game?

 

[Wok]

So we're gonna have an achievement hunt for one game?

There would be a mini-game in this game. No achievement hunt for sure. But a meta-event.