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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 3 -
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20% off voucher: GMG20-1FYLZ-EDG8R
Rawket Lawnchair
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Will the Spec Ops deal on GMG stay for the whole day or does it expire?
Will do. Thanks for the suggestion!
Have you played the Blackwell games? They're pretty nice in that regard too.
Glass Rebel
Member
I'd totally get it if I hadn't promised myself I wouldn't buy another game this month.
And I kinda accepted that I'll lose the bet against Glass Rebel, the man's a sniping machine
hohoho
I'm third on my friend leaderboard
I've heard great things about Spec Ops but I'm in no hurry to play it. Not like I expect it to be removed from Steam, unlike Darksiders II.
For $6 I went ahead and got it anyway. meh
These were stealth added last night btw. I wist CoJ: BiB was a steam key ;_;
Still no word on Blops + MW2 deal yet, but I'm not holding my breath for it anymore
SteveWinwood
Member
Spec ops is really good.
As long as you go in with the right mindset.
As long as you go in with the right mindset.
Interfectum
Member
Spec Ops is excellent. It's a shame it didn't do better.
It really is great, definitely one of my favourite games of the year. Though given the year we've had in gaming, that's not saying all that much I guess.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Damn. They're apparently out of keys at the moment (or listed as "out of stock," if there's a difference). Hopefully they get some more in later.
Edit: Confirmed via Twitter:
You are correct. After reading further, it seems like its mostly my fault.
Partial problem lies with Steams wording, though. They dont tell you that downloading the cloud saves will delete your local saves and the timestamps they give you for the saves arent exact. it just said "save last updated: Today" for both local and cloud so I had no way of knowing which were current.
Very annoying but at least it was only a few hours instead of days. Im over it
d00d3n
Member
Has steam finally cracked down on vpn services? Overplay.net no longer tricks steam that I am in the united states. Really lame and unnecessary to put so much effort into decreasing the value of the service for people like me who always buy in local currency with taxes paid and all that, but who would like to escape the ridiculous wait times for european customers. Good job, valve! You have rectified the illegal and immoral situation where european customers were able to play the games they paid full price for before pirates. This will teach us a lesson!
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It sucks and everything but in the future you have the option of asking someone on GAF to buy and gift to you and paying them the USD amount.
I believe Spotflux still works. Try that.
With the Gamersgate 4 pack you can go as low as $8,99/person if the buyer had the permanent IGN discount + G2PO code (-5%)
Like2Drive
Banned
Why do I have "WW" next to my Hitman game?
derExperte
Member
They changed something, a few weeks ago I suddenly couldn't use VPN + my credit card anymore, whatever I tried.
Also boooo @ no more Spec Ops keys, 4,99€ even without voucher was awesome.
WorldWide version instead of let's say RU for russia.
Hmm. Hotline Miami for $6 is pretty solid. I can't see it dropping below $5 in the Steam sale, although $6.66 is more likely.
spindoctor
Member
New Indieroyale bundle just went live
http://www.indieroyale.com/
The Dream Machine: Chapters 1-3 (Steam)
Puzzle Agent 2 (Steam)
Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition (Steam)
Anomaly: Warzone Earth (Steam)
Adventure Apes and the Mayan Mystery (Desura)
http://www.indieroyale.com/
The Dream Machine: Chapters 1-3 (Steam)
Puzzle Agent 2 (Steam)
Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition (Steam)
Anomaly: Warzone Earth (Steam)
Adventure Apes and the Mayan Mystery (Desura)
Wow, talk about nice timing. I was just browsing the adventure games section on Steam trying to remember the name of this game that has claymation-like graphics. Looks like Children of the Nile includes Hinterland as well.
Bleh, only interested in Dream Machine.
I have done it, it's fine, you get a Steam Key so Valve must be fine with it I assume. I got BL2 at launch week for about £21 via them.
I wouldn't expect the Steam Sale to be any better. If the autumn sale has daily deals, I guess there is a chance that Torchlight 2 will get discounted to 50%, but the game is still selling well. I doubt they are going to repeat the $5 Torchlight deal from 2009.
I might take advantage of this since I do have the IGN Discount. Anyone interested in splitting on the 4-pack?
GMG is an actual retailer, not a Russian key re-seller. It is as safe as buying cheap games off of Amazon. I would imagine they are just taking a huge hit to their profit margin in favor of volume on these pre-orders and recent releases.
They are as legit as Amazon or any other online retailer that gets keys directly from publishers. As to their low prices, one theory is that they take less off the top than others. They are nothing at all like Russian key re-sellers (which, btw, are also perfectly safe in most cases, but have had a few mishaps and thus been banned on GAF).
d00d3n
Member
Spotflux does not seem to work unfortunately.
I really hate this. Actually, I usually don't even have the time to play during the us exclusive release window, but the possibility to try a game out and be in on the initial discussions was nice. Before I was convinced that Valve was on the side of the user, providing the geographical restrictions as lip service to the retail chains with no serious technical enforcement of the rules. This makes me question my assumptions. I doubt that "play early through vpn scene" is large enough to be of interest for the retail chaines. Why would they insist on increased security? Seems to be no monetary gain in it for them. My guess would that some programmer at Valve is really proud of himself for making the service "more secure" and "preventing abuse" and so on, totally ignoring the badwill this will cause among european hardcore customers.
YianGaruga
Banned
Same. Still bought it. #YOLO
derExperte
Member
I'll take one T2 if you're going for the 4-pack.
I am. Paypal?
I'd be down.
Glass Rebel
Member
Does it count as a game purchase or school material if Heart of Darkness is on my reading list and I buy Spec Ops?
Hmm... Does SpaceChem count as a chemistry lesson? If so, then yes!
I'll PM you my Paypal. Give me 5-10 mins.
To everyone else, my TL2 group is filled pending payments.
Glass Rebel
Member
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
List updated. <-- Full list of ongoing Amazon sale games which give Steam keys.
According to this thread the following two should be Steamworks titles, so added but still need confirmation:
There may be more I missed.
According to this thread the following two should be Steamworks titles, so added but still need confirmation:
There may be more I missed.
Nahkarankaisja
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AngryChinchilla
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I love this time of year.
SteveWinwood
Member
Eggnog is at target, the 24/7 christmas music radio station started up...
We're in it people! It's practically the holiday sale already!
Glass Rebel
Member
counts!
The novel is pretty short, just read it.
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