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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 4 - winter seal is coming
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Glass Rebel
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Can't wait to trade in Rogue Warrior.
bigmit3737
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Hey guys, I have a few questions regarding "gifting" games.
I was thinking of buying a game for a friend in Japan for Christmas.
Would my friend be able to use the code for his Steam account in Japan?
I'm a US resident and he's a Japanese resident. Would the code still unlock on his account?
Secondly, are Japanese versions of games available in the US?
I saw someone playing a Japanese version of Alan Wake (both voice and text), and don't know if this is a special Japanese version or these language options are available in every version.
Thirdly, I'm assuming there is some sort of "gift" option that I have to use, in order to get the game cd-key/code, as opposed to directly purchasing the game, for the purposes of gifting.
I hope my questions are clear; Thank you for answering them!
I was thinking of buying a game for a friend in Japan for Christmas.
Would my friend be able to use the code for his Steam account in Japan?
I'm a US resident and he's a Japanese resident. Would the code still unlock on his account?
Secondly, are Japanese versions of games available in the US?
I saw someone playing a Japanese version of Alan Wake (both voice and text), and don't know if this is a special Japanese version or these language options are available in every version.
Thirdly, I'm assuming there is some sort of "gift" option that I have to use, in order to get the game cd-key/code, as opposed to directly purchasing the game, for the purposes of gifting.
I hope my questions are clear; Thank you for answering them!
Trying out a new steam skin (Savvy UI) and I'm liking it so far.
Too bad they don't sell the original Arkham Asylum anymore so you can complete the collection
Too bad they don't sell the original Arkham Asylum anymore so you can complete the collection
fluffydelusions
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is street fighter x tekken worth a buy @ $12.50? how active is the online pc community?
If the SSA update is indeed foreshadowing the ability to trade in games, I wonder how those who recently had Steam Support remove several crappy games from their account will feel?
Come to think of it, in the absence of offline messaging, a PM feature on Steam would be nice.
Comes to $5.62 when using GMG25-CZPYL-D5MQ6.
Edit: And bought. I regret nothing!
It's another entry in the library? Does that mean more activations?
Glass Rebel
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I'm not sure I get your question. When you gift someone a game through Steam you don't sent them a key they have to enter but the actual game directly through the client.
As for the languages you'll have to look on the store page on the right hand side. Alan Wake has Japanese language support but others might not have.
You have an option to buy a game as gift and send it to a friend before entering payment details. Select buy as gift.
There are few games that are region restricted, so look for more information of the game you want to buy to your Japanese friend
If your Best Buy is anything like mine, they'll be on the PC half of the store. And the PC game aisle is the aisle up against the back wall of the store.
They're considered separate products, yes.
He's in the US and I can't say I'm aware of any products on Steam US that are region-locked. Thus far the subs you need to be careful of are those intended for Eastern Europe. Of course, there are other region-locked keys sold outside of Steam (e.g. Amazon's Inversion keys are region-locked to the US, requiring a VPN to activate), but that's irrelevant in this case.
Could be region locked in Japan. Who knows? If I recall correctly Dead Island is censored in USA. But that's totally different topic
Valve should kick their entire frontend developers and hire a new team to make a better interface
Even if there is a JP-specific sub for the game on Steam, his friend could redeem the gift just fine as long as the sub itself isn't region-locked (
Trade with other people? I'd rather just "trade" it back to Steam and get these 150+ games out of my library. My trade in category is more than twice as long as any of my other categories.
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The Harley Quinn dlc is pretty good if you can get it for cheap. It's a neat bit of story.
Fixed that for you.
Added to my wishlist. I'll buy when it's 75 off.
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I'd feel good recommending it at 2.50$ for sure.
Another bundle. Meh.
Seems Worms Reloaded is the only Steam game included; the rest are DRM-free.
Yup. Actually quite interested in Space Colony HD. Too bad it's not PWYW.
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Meh is an understatement. I can't even find one compelling game on that list let alone 5.
It's not even cheap.
I used Savvy for a bit and really liked it. The design changes I really liked, but it felt a little odd that it kept the original layout.
This is the main issue, people can like different skins, but my god I just wish the Steam client itself would get a massive overhaul. I do think it's coming to make it more in line with BPM, since the two are so drastically different.
I've grown to love Apparition2, love the aesthetics and the transparent nature, plus the rounded edges definitely smooth things out.
That's the problem I have with GetGamesGo's bundles thus far -- there aren't enough enticing games to justify the purchase. I haven't bought a single one.
Well, the goal is to enhance the steam skin and to make it more uniform with the store. I keep coming back to it after trying pixel, metro and other skins for some reason.
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I haven't purchased any kind of bundle in a long ass time. I just don't want anymore indie games except for those hand selected for me by my indie tastemaker.
Slightly Live
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I've been locked out of my stolen Steam account since early saturday morning. Steam support still hasn't even bothered to respond to my support ticket even once.
I've provided ample evidence to be able to recover my account and at this point the wait is getting silly.
Is there really nothing else I can other than sit on my ass and pray to Garry that one of his support staff will bless me with their time and attention?
I really, really expected better than this. Three years ago my account was stolen around the same time of the year and the situation was remedied quicker than this. They seem to be getting worse on this front. =/
Is this huge wait time normal or am I just, very, very unlucky?
I've provided ample evidence to be able to recover my account and at this point the wait is getting silly.
Is there really nothing else I can other than sit on my ass and pray to Garry that one of his support staff will bless me with their time and attention?
I really, really expected better than this. Three years ago my account was stolen around the same time of the year and the situation was remedied quicker than this. They seem to be getting worse on this front. =/
Is this huge wait time normal or am I just, very, very unlucky?
balladofwindfishes
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Valve hasn't really done a good job scaling their support staff size with the size of their userbase. They seem to be running small levels of support staff for a company that serves way, way more people than it ever did before.
Sadly, it's normal. Your eally should use 2step verification only for this very reason: Valve support has always been slow.
However, I have to ask this. Are you sure you posted the support ticket? When that happened to me, it took me 2 days to realize I had to confirm the support ticket and escalate it to a human operator myself. Otherwise, it would just sit on my support queue and redirect me to some useless links.
memecomplex
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Velvet Assassin crashes on boot. Apparently this game has tons of issues. AVOID!!!
Did you not have Steam Guard enabled?
It can definitely be a bit of a pain, but so worth it ...... especially when you have serious money invested.
Slightly Live
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I used Steam guard, but my email was compromised - only for 10 minutes mind, but enough time for the account to be hijacked. I might have had time to try to stop the thief but I was busy securing my email first.
And yes, the ticket is indeed open and waiting for someone one their end. Have a ticket number and everything that matches up with how the procedure worked in the past.
Funny thing is, I found the scumbag that stole it, or another scumbag he sold it to, trying to sell the account on some shady parts of the internet. Further proof really, that it was stolen.
Have a mountain of evidence on hand, and posted a few solid cases on the ticket, with plenty more to provide if they ask, to prove it's my account.
Just want to play my games. =/
bigmit3737
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MMBosstones86
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If the SSA update is indeed foreshadowing the ability to trade in games, I wonder how those who recently had Steam Support remove several crappy games from their account will feel?
Come to think of it, in the absence of offline messaging, a PM feature on Steam would be nice.
Comes to $5.62 when using GMG25-CZPYL-D5MQ6.
Edit: And bought. I regret nothing!
using WINTR-SRVEY-42012 brings it to $4.87, btw. good until the 14th. edit : code is single use!
That sucks, sons of bitches!
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Yeah but $1.25 for another title on my list that I don't play is tempting.
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How did they manage to get both your Steam and email password?
It's worth nothing that the survey code is single-use.
MMBosstones86
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edited. thanks
Slightly Live
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I suspect a key logger found it's way onto my home network and my machine.
Ran a malwarebytes scan after the attack and it detected some keylogging stuff in my steam directory.
I've been using my fiance's brother's USB device, which is where I think it got in. It's the only foreign device on my computer/network in the past few weeks.
You just made me start scanning my entire C drive with malwarebytes now.
Xdrive05
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Stuff of nightmares for me.... sorry bro.
If you use gmail, you get an authenticator app for your phone, and you can set how and when it requires it.
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