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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months
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Weird. I bought Portal 2 months ago from G2play and got banned from Steam cause of that. I wasn't aware that was not allowed and nearly lost my whole account cause of it. They gave it back after begging a lot and finally just removing the Portal 2 game.
Bought it again on Steam a few weeks ago, booted up just now and my save files are still there. Figured Steam Cloud would have removed those as well but eh, guess not. Back to puzzle solving!
Bought it again on Steam a few weeks ago, booted up just now and my save files are still there. Figured Steam Cloud would have removed those as well but eh, guess not. Back to puzzle solving!
dragonlife
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No idea what G2play is. Why isn't it allowed?
That's scary. Before wasn't it specific games that were banned, not an entire Steam account. I think it was MW2.Weird. I bought Portal 2 months ago from G2play and got banned from Steam cause of that. I wasn't aware that was not allowed and nearly lost my whole account cause of it. They gave it back after begging a lot and finally just removing the Portal 2 game.
Bought it again on Steam a few weeks ago, booted up just now and my save files are still there. Figured Steam Cloud would have removed those as well but eh, guess not. Back to puzzle solving!
Banned website by both Valve and Neogaf. Typing the word G2Play on the Steam forums is censored. It's basically a grey market CD key seller that might or might not deal in stolen credit cards and games. Evilore put his foot down on the situation about a year back.
It's a 'retailer' that sold keys for cheap. What I did not know was that most of them were stolen. Or well, something along those lines. So I bought one and then some poor guy wanted to activate his (also) legit bought game but probably could not do that causes I had his key in use.
It sucked cause I had no idea they do business like that and felt a bit terrible about it. I only buy from Steam itself and Gamersgate now.
Took me 2 weeks to get it back. Losing 300 games cause you made one mistake you weren't even aware of would have been quite cruel.
e: Beaten. A lot. I see there is also a thread about it up so yeah, avoid at all costs.
No idea, I looked into it myself.. seems like a random Square Enix sale with no other advertising on the site. Why not use paypal?
can you feel it
My wallet is so not ready. Had to buy a new bike and computer this month. How will I do this
Though this will the be the third or fourth time I will take part. Not much left to buy for me I guess! Already at almost 300 games haha. And... 95% of those were from deals.
I am. Only think on my PayPal right now is that card. I'm sure it'll still be on sale tomorrow, so I'm not worried about it.
I'm not sure if that's how paypal works. Doesn't the money get sent to paypal first then to the seller? So the bank wouldn't even know if the money ends up outside of the country.
Correct me if I'm wrong though.
That's how I thought it worked, which is why I thought it was odd that it'd get rejected..
No idea, honestly. The last time I had this problem was trying to order a washing machine part from Canada. I'll have to wait the few days to get my bank account confirmed since my card's not working.
Ditto
If you're afraid the game won't be on sale by the time you get things working, I'm sure someone could help you out.
Rule 34?
can you feel it
Hoping it starts on Friday, pay day plus Steam sales.
Sure! I appreciate it.
So Bioshock and Bioshock 2 retail can be apparently activated on Steam : https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-wusf-3601
Yet when I try inputting my CD keys for both, I get invalid error. Anybody try this?
EDIT: NVM, apparently my retail key won't work - certain copies have the correct ones only.
Yet when I try inputting my CD keys for both, I get invalid error. Anybody try this?
EDIT: NVM, apparently my retail key won't work - certain copies have the correct ones only.
Can I get some more info on this please?
Not sure why it does that. There isn't always a wait period when I make purchases.
spindoctor
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Yea I picked up the Last Remnant for 6.38$ after the IGN discount, but this is the first time in many purchases that I had to wait for the key. It doesn't really matter of course but I can't think of any reason for them to do this.
Visualante2
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Artofwar420
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If I'm not mistaken it deletes redistributable installers that almost all games use, but once they install what they need to do they stay there. The installers that is; they stay in your hard drive occupying space.
It deletes files that are used to download the games but not actually needed for them to run. If you have a lot of games, it can clear a ton of space.
toddhunter
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Nice saved 5GB
dragonlife
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I remember my first Steam sale two years ago. It's going to be a blast!
Checked the OP right after posting, thanks though!
toddhunter
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I will always remember my first big steam sale. After a few years of console gaming, I had finally built myself a new gaming PC.
After about a day of stuffing around with screw-drivers and cables I finally got it to boot. After doing the usual set-up I decided to install steam to see what I could buy to put my new rig to the test.
Up popped a sale.... damage was done, but sometimes, it is just meant to be.
Mr. Luchador
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That first sale gorge!
BUY ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL THE GAMES!
BUY ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL THE GAMES!
Krappadizzle
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
The PC version is an improved version of TLR right?
toddhunter
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Yup much better than the 360 version in a lot of ways.
Mr. Luchador
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In which ways? I have the 360 version, but I don't think I ever played it after I did the first chain.
Texture resolution
Screen Resolution
Loading Times
Choice of Japanese OR English voices (I believe Xbox only had English!? But don't quote me on that)
Basically the whole game feels smooth - unlike the turgid mess it was on the 360.
Having a similar experience right now with Alan Wake.. Console res videos are annoying, but otherwise loving it.. compared to when I played it on the console it feels like night and day.
No limit amount on generals, can speed up combat, and better options for configing groups.
And got rid of 17GB for me, not bad.
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